Mark Shuttleworth is a South Africa born tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist who is perhaps best known in the rest of the world for being the second “space tourist” to spend time living and ...

Shuttleworth, who has funded the popular Linux company out of his own pocket since its founding in October 2004, said that while a final decision has not been made, "He's seriously thinking about ...

Ars Premier 2.0 is our new and improved subscriber program that offers some fantastic benefits for subscribers. So far we’ve had chats with Mac OS X reviewer John Siracusa, Ars cofounder Jon Stokes, ...

Update: Mark Shuttleworth has written an apology in his blog. Mark Shuttleworth, the wealthy patron of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, sent an e-mail to the OpenSUSE mailing list on Friday in an ...

The Ubuntu Developer Summit, starting today in Florida, is a gathering of Canonical employees, industry partners and Ubuntu community members to “define the focus and plans for [the] up-coming version ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover entrepreneurs, women, rising-stars & rich of African descent "According to Shuttleworth he emigrated in order to free up ...

Actually, the question most of us wanted him to answer is: "After IBM paid a cool $34-billion would he consider selling Canonical?" After all, Canonical is also a top Linux company with a arguably a ...

Mark Shuttleworth is the founder and former CEO of Canonical, the commercial company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Today he holds the position “Lead Product Design”, a role in which he shapes ...

approximately 2:27 a.m. EDT. The Soyuz will dock with the ISS’ Zarya module around 4 a.m. Saturday. Shuttleworth is due to return to Earth on May 4, after spending 8 days onboard the ISS. “We are very ...

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth gave a keynote at O’Reilly’s Open Source Convention in Portland on Tuesday, affirming that Linux is the platform for the future. On Monday, he gave a more laid-back ...

What a perfect day. I'm in London today, and went to the Arsenal vs. Bolton match with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu. Mark isn't a big football fan, but he indulged my Arsenal fixation and even ...