SUBMITTED TO: Sheetal Mam

SUBMITTED BY: Abhiraj Singh Class VII (A) Roll No - 7

As joint founder of the worlds biggest software company, Microsoft, Bill Gatess approach to technology and business was instrumental in making technology available to the masses. Gates stood down as chief executive of Microsoft in 2000 to focus on software development and on 16 June 2006, he announced that he would move to a part-time role with Microsoft in 2008 to focus on his philanthropic work.

Google's co-founders may not have the name recognition of say, Bill Gates, but give them time: Google hasn't been around nearly as long as Microsoft. Like all good genius start-up stories, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. in a friend's garage in Menlo Park, Calif. Since its incorporation on September 4, 1998, the company has grown to nearly 20,000 fulltime employees worldwide.

INNOVATOR WHO ENJOYED A SECOND BITE OF THE APPLE Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple Computer, topped the Computer Weekly 40th anniversary poll due to the devoted following he has generated through his pioneering work in personal computing and product design. On returning to Apple, Jobs drove the company ever deeper into the consumer electronics and computing market, launching the iMac and iPod.

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put off until tomorrow what you can postpone to the day after." This parody of the old proverb could very well be the motto of Yahoo! Inc. cofounders David Filo and Jerry Yang. By following such a philosophy of procrastination, they not only created the world's most popular (and most profitable) World Wide Web search engine; they also made themselves multimillionaires in the process.

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bloggers and Google all have one man to thank for their place in the 21st century world. In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee made the imaginative leap to combine the internet with the hypertext concept, and the worldwide web was born.

Sabeer Bhatia was the cofounder of Hotmail.com the worlds first webmail service. He has announced three more ventures Arzoo, Instacoll and Sabse Bol after Hotmail. Sabeer Bhatia and Yogesh Patel has started Jaxtr SMS which is a free messaging service that allows users to send text messages for free anywhere in the world.

Narayana Murthy is the Executive Chairman of Infosys Limited, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. He founded Infosys in 1981, served as the CEO during 1981 2002, as the Chairman and Chief Mentor during 1981 2011, and as the Chairman Emeritus during August 2011 May 2013. Under his leadership, Infosys was listed on NASDAQ in 1999.

 Vinod

Khosla was a cofounder of Daisy Systems and founding Chief Executive Officer of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC processors. Sun was funded by longtime friend and board member John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

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Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five cofounders of the social networking website Facebook. Zuckerberg donated 18 million Facebook shares, worth $500 million at the time, to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in December 2012 for education initiatives.

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the creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds has been a driving force behind the whole open source movement, which represents not only an ever increasing challenge to proprietary software, but is also the inspiration for the industry to move to open standards.