Compensation
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Oracle CEO Ellison's salary drops to US$1
News Larry Ellison agrees to receive symbolic salary for fiscal 2010, putting hiim on same package as other tech chiefs. But world's fourth wealthiest person won't starve.
Tags: Business applications, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Databases, Apple Inc., Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Forbes, Compensation, Stock, Larry Page
Microsoft drops job axe on Philippine office
News It offers voluntary separation package, allowing staff of its Philippines operations up to May 15 to decide whether or not they wish to accept the offer.
Tags: Layoffs, Recruiting, Career, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Philippines, Compensation, Worker, job, severance package
Apple settles backdating lawsuit for US$14M
News Stock-option backdating troubles at Apple appear to be history following the settlement of a shareholder suit filed against company executives.
Tags: Legal, Lawsuits, Apple Inc., Backdating, Lawsuit, Compensation, Stock, Associated Press, SEC, shareholder
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
Facebook fights Virginia's demand for user data, photos
News The state of Virginia has abandoned its US$200-a-day-fine aimed at forcing Facebook to divulge the complete contents of a user's account to settle a dispute over workers' compensation, narrowly avoiding a high-profile privacy battle in federal court.
Tags: Web 2.0, Insurance Company, User Data, Virginia, attorney, Compensation, photograph, accident, Facebook, Web 2.0
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
Yahoo has escape clause in Microsoft search deal
News Yahoo has reserved the right to terminate its search deal with Microsoft, if it doesn't maintain an unspecified amount of revenue per search and query market share.
Tags: Web browsers, Web 2.0, Web services, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, Compensation, Associated Press, arbitration, ComScore Networks Inc.
Yahoo CEO Bartz to receive US$1M salary
News Yahoo's newly named CEO, Carol Bartz, will receive a base salary of US$1 million a year, along with a stock grant of 5 million shares.
Tags: Recruiting, HR policies and procedures, Stock options and grants, Processors, Handhelds, Notebooks and tablets, Desktops, Autodesk Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Compensation
Top Google execs: US$1 salary, no bonus, no options
News Maybe there is such a thing as enough money. Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page got no salary, bonus, stock grants, or stock options in 2008.
Tags: Stock options and grants, Sergey Brin, Google Inc., stock compensation, Compensation, stock grant, Stock, Larry Page, Stock options and grants, Salary
Yahoo's Bartz has a big brass ring
News The newly minted CEO had her options exercise price set Friday, but the stretch to reach the 5 million-stock-options mark is long.
Tags: Recruiting, Stock options and grants, Search, Option, Yahoo! Inc., Compensation, Stock, Stock options and grants, Carol Bartz, stock price
Sprint's CEO awarded US$2.6M bonus
News Even as Sprint continues to lose money and customers, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse rakes in a hefty compensation package that includes a US$2.6 billion bonus for 2008.
Tags: Benefits, Stock options and grants, Sprint Communications, Cell Phone, Compensation, Hesse, 401(k) plan, Stock options and grants, equity, CEO
EU fights cybercrime with 'remote search' strategy
News The European Union has adopted a cybercrime-fighting strategy that includes "cyber-patrols" and police searching suspect systems remotely.
Tags: Network security, Web sites, Government, Police, European Union, Compensation, data sharing, knowledge, European Commission, Microsoft Access
Report: U.S FTC to go after blogger freebies
News U.S. Federal Trade Commission plans to start keeping tabs both on bloggers accepting products for free and on companies giving them away, AP reports.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Blogger, Acer Inc., gift certificate, Compensation, Amazon MP3, FTC, Amazon.com Inc., Associated Press
UK govt outlines Facebook monitoring plans
News In a consultation launched on Monday, the U.K. Home Office described how it wants service providers to retain and process data about their users' activities on social networks and other third-party services.
Tags: Network security, Data mining & analysis, Web 2.0, Home Secretary, Database, IP Telephony, Compensation, communications service provider, Government, Facebook
Oracle sees solid growth for its fourth quarter
News Enterprise software maker reports revenue of US$7.24 billion, boosted by a strong performance in software licensing.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Business applications, Compensation, software license, software company, software, BEA Systems Inc., net income, Oracle Corp., revenue
