CTO Brian Stevens is out at Red Hat, according to a curt press release issued by the company Wednesday evening.

The announcement comes after days of backlash.

All indicated that they liked working at Facebook, but want to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities.

The former Google executive replaces Scott Thompson, who resigned earlier this year.

Yang resigned frYahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has left the company, the latest dramatic change at the top of the embattled Internet company.om all his posts at Yahoo effective Tuesday.

Jobs will continue with the company as chairman of the board.

Intel appointed new leaders to run the McAfee subsidiary as David DeWalt resigned as the unit's president, the company said on Wednesday.

Acer President and CEO Gianfranco Lanci has resigned from the company, over differing views on the future development of the company, Acer said Thursday.

The head of Cisco Systems' consumer products business is leaving the company less than two years after he arrived with the acquisition of Flip camcorder maker Pure Digital Technologies.

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday said that Dirk Meyer has resigned from the post of CEO, and that the company is beginning to search for a new chief executive.

Protesting what it perceives as Oracle's undue control of Java, the Apache Software Foundation has resigned its seat from the Java SE/EE Executive Committee, the organization announced Wednesday.

Hewlett-Packard has named former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker to be its new president and chief executive, replacing Mark Hurd, who resigned abruptly last month in the midst of a scandal.

When Mark Hurd resigned unexpectedly from Hewlett-Packard last month he found an outspoken supporter in the form of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. It appears now that Hurd may end up working for Ellison, according to a report Saturday in the Wall Street Journal.

Analysts are developing a short list of possible candidates to replace former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd, who resigned Friday. But it's worth noting that Hurd's name didn't come up often, if at all, as a contender in 2005, when he was tapped for the HP job.

Mark Hurd is stepping down as CEO of Hewlett-Packard following an investigation into claims that he sexually harassed a former contractor to the company.

Leo Apotheker has resigned as CEO and executive board member of global software giant SAP after 20 years with the company.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), China's biggest chip maker, replaced its CEO on Tuesday, just one day after it settled an intellectual property lawsuit that was seen as a major blow to the company.

Alcatel-Lucent's CEO Patricia Russo plans to step down before the end of the year, and Chairman Serge Tchuruk will quit on Oct. 1. Russo will stay on until the board finds a replacement, the company said Tuesday.

The chairman and CEO of United Microelectronics (UMC), the second-largest contract chip maker in the world, announced his resignation on Wednesday, with the company immediately naming his replacements.

Avaya President and CEO Lou D'Ambrosio has stepped down for medical reasons, the telecommunications and networking company said.