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Report: Apple, Google agreed not to poach each other's workers
News The two companies are said to have had an agreement not to actively recruit each other's employees--at least that is before Eric Schmidt stepped down from Apple's board.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Worker, Eric Schmidt, antitrust, hiring, Business Strategies & Functions, board, Apple Inc., Google Inc., agreement
Schmidt plans talks with Apple over board role
News Following Google's announcement of its Chrome OS project, CEO Eric Schmidt and Apple might have to consider his board service in a new light.
Tags: Operating systems, Personal Computers, Apple Inc., Conference, Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, operating system, Eric Schmidt, Apple iPhone
Report: HP mulls merging printer, PC units
News Tech giant is reportedly considering reuniting the units, which were combined and then separated in 2005 under two different chief executives.
Tags: Personal Computers, Peripherals, Printer, Computer, Mark Hurd, CEO, Personal Computers, Peripherals, Hewlett-Packard Co., Wall Street Journal
Willcox leaves Telstra board early
News Telstra director Peter Willcox has stood down from the Telstra board three months early due to his involvement in the James Hardie asbestos law suit.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business development/management, Telstra Corp., chairman, audit, telecommunications company, secretary, director, board, Business development/management
Netscape, Ning founder joins HP board
News Founder of Netscape, Ning and the Andreessen Horowitz VC firm was appointed to Hewlett-Packard's board of directors, effective immediately.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Hewlett-Packard Co., Marc Andreessen, Mark Hurd, social networking, entrepreneurial, Netscape Communications Corp., board
Microsoft gives shareholders 'say on pay'
News Company's board agrees to give shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation every three years.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Apple Inc., Compensation, Brad Smith, general counsel, shareholder, analyst, board of directors, board
Report: Apple board to discuss Schmidt replacement next week
News Directors will meet next week to talk about who can fill the role recently vacated by the Google CEO, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Apple Inc., chairman, CEO, Eric Schmidt, desktop operating system, Steve Jobs, board
Google ups director compensation awards
News Google directors who are not employees of the company will get a one-time stock grant, as well as yearly payments in cash and stock.
Tags: Leadership, Financial, Apple Inc., Paul Otellini, Compensation, Stock, Eric Schmidt, BusinessWeek, board of directors, Financial
Google CEO resigns from Apple board
News Eric Schmidt, who has been on Apple's board of directors since 2006, is stepping down because of a growing number of conflicts of interest.
Tags: Mac OS, Web browsers, Leadership, Apple Inc., Google Inc., FTC, Apple Safari, CEO, Apple OS, Eric Schmidt
On2 shareholders unhappy with Google offer
News Lawsuit challenges the acquisition of the video-compression software company on grounds that it undervalues the company.
Tags: Business applications, Web sites, Web browsers, Video, Stock, Class Action, New York Post, Delaware Chancery Court, shareholder, Web browsers
Nortel CEO steps down
News Bankrupt Canadian networking company is now without a chief executive, as Mike Zafirovski and most of board of directors have departed.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Business Strategies & Functions, Nortel Networks Corp., Bankruptcy, bankruptcy protection, Avaya Inc., CEO, networking company, network, asset
Former Joost CEO ousted as chairman
News Mike Volpi has been removed from the board by a shareholder vote and Joost is investigating his actions during his time as chairman and CEO, according to the company.
Tags: Leadership, Video, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., intellectual property, chairman, board of directors, Video, board, Leadership
Apple buys map service to compete with Google?
News Apparent purchase of PlaceBase may explain why Apple required Google Latitude to be a Web-based app and not a native iPhone app.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Google Inc., Apple Inc., mobile, PlaceBase, Google Latitude Episode, Business Strategies & Functions, Dell Latitude, Web Browser, Eric Schmidt
Google Apps users to get OpenID authentication
News Search giant extends single log-in for access to a variety of sites to millions of users of the business and educational versions of Google Apps.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Authentication, Google Inc., Environment, productivity suite, blog, Google Apps, Authentication and encryption, board
Final chapter coming in HP spying scandal
News Low-level investigator who helped HP spy on journalists is due to be sentenced for identity theft, but the planners of the espionage will apparently get off.
Tags: Security, Business security, Hewlett-Packard Co., Identity Theft, phone, Associated Press, New York Times Co., journalist, California, Business security
