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Technology sector to rev up IPO recovery
News IT firms and emerging markets including China, India and Brazil, will lead recovery of public listing activities, finds new survey on global investors.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business development/management, Survey, U.S., Business Strategies & Functions, India, Technology Sector, IPO, Investor, oil & gas
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, Compensation, Forbes, Stock, Larry Page
Skype founders pull out the stops
News The men who launched the Internet-calling service are redoubling their legal efforts after a failed last-minute bid to buy back the eBay unit.
Tags: VoIP, VoIP/IP telephony, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., networking company, financial, founder, Internet, VoIP/IP telephony
Will green energy wilt from lack of funds?
News The financial specialists that convert tax credits into capital to build new windmills and solar farms have all but disappeared.
Tags: Green IT, Budgeting/cost control, Earning reports/forecasts, Renewable Energy, tax equity, U.S. Senate, wind energy, Renewables Player, equity, tax credit
NBN could cost Aust taxpayers US$8.6B
News The Australian government will foot about a quarter of its A$43 billion (US$33.5 billion) National Broadband Network proposal, and adds implementation study will determine private sector investment.
Tags: Business broadband, Government, Study, NBN, U.S. Senate, equity, financial, network, asset, network infrastructure
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
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
A Dickensian view of clean-tech financing
News There's plenty of enthusiasm for funding the latest green-tech or alternative-fuel company. The problem is the economy stinks, and doesn't look like it will improve anytime soon.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, General Electric Co., IPO, Investor, Renewable Energy, Jefferies & Co., financing, Government Loan, New Energy Capital
E-media contest for Asean
Blogs SEACEM, ChangeFusion and Freevoice are now accepting applications for "ASEAN E-Media Startups Competition". The goal ...
London Stock Exchange recovers after outage
News Exchange is back to normal after a software problem halted trading for over seven hours Monday--effectively wiping a full day of buying and selling from the books.
Tags: Financial, London Stock Exchange Plc., software glitch, equity, London, Outage, software, Silicon.com, Financial, Thomson Reuters Corp.
Ex-MySpace CEO wants to gamble on social games
News In Chris DeWolfe's new venture, sources say, he'll attempt to snowball a bunch of social online games properties and pit himself against industry leader Mark Pincus of Zynga.
Tags: Games, Facebook, MySpace, Rupert Murdoch, CEO, Online Game, News Corp., entertainment, TechCrunch, private equity
Yahoo reportedly considers deleting Zimbra
News Web e-mail software company may not fit into a media-oriented Yahoo, and so Zimbra could be on the block just two years after being acquired.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Web servers, Zimbra, Interactive Advertising Bureau, chief marketing officer, Comcast Corp., e-mail company, media company, private equity
IBM bets on Brazilian innovation
News Big Blue's new initiative to stimulate development of Brazil's nascent tech industry is the latest sign of the country's rising power.
Tags: Hardware, Consumer Technology, IBM Corp., India, Training, Innovation, venture capital, entrepreneur, China, private equity
Cisco to buy mobile specialist Starent for US$2.9B
News Acquisition is designed to help Cisco keep a grip on the rapid growth of the mobile Internet due to the rising number of smartphones and other devices.
Tags: Mobile/Wireless, Mobile platforms/communications, Starent Networks Corp., network, mobile, 2.5G, Cisco Systems Inc., Video, EVDO, 3G
Targets for Google's merger machine
News What's next on Google's mergers and acquisitions list? Head of corporate development lists search, advertising and mobile services as "top priorities".
Tags: Search, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., David Lawee, JumpTap, advertisement, CEO, network, mobile, Search Result
