Gordon Moore retires from Intel board
Santa Clara (California): The Silicon Valley legend Gordon Moore has retired from the board of Intel Corporation. He will continue serving as chairman emeritus and director emeritus but will no longer hold any voting power.

Three years before co-founding Intel Corp in 1968, Gordon Moore predicted the number of transistors on a silicon chip would double every year. On Thursday, the Silicon Valley legend retired from the board of directors of Intel. Former federal communications commission Reed Hundt was elected to the company's board
Moore said he intends to remain at least as active in the company as he has been since giving up the chairmanship title in 1997.
Moore and Robert Noyce founded Intel on July 18, 1968, shortly after leaving Fairchild Semiconductor. Noyce died of a heart attack in 1990.
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Hind Lever to induct more non-executive directors
Mumbai: In order to comply with the corporate governance code Hindustan Lever Ltd, HLL, is planning to increase its board strength to include more non-executive directors.

The company has nine directors on board, of which five are company executives while the rest—Homi Khusrokhan, Deepak Parekh, CK Prahlad and V Narayan—are outside directors.

In a notice to shareholders, HLL says it wants to have a composition whereby the number of executive directors and non-executive directors are equal.

Khusrokhan, who has taken over as the managing director of Tata Tea, is expected to step down and HLL is expected to induct at least two more outside directors.
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