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Chartered merger 'huge step' for Globalfoundries
News Proposed buyout of Singapore semiconductor player by key owner of Globalfoundries helps address "glaring weaknesses", says analyst.
Tags: Processors, Mobile processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., iSuppli Corp., Manufacturing, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Globalfoundries, shareholder, alliance, merger
Experts: Apple disclosure 'falls short'
News Apple's silence on reports that Steve Jobs had a liver transplant reflects a continuing failure to address the CEO's health issues, say governance specialists.
Tags: Business development/management, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, CEO, corporate governance, SEC, shareholder, Apple iPhone, health care, Steve Jobs
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
Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes
News At Microsoft's shareholder meeting, CEO says the OS has sold twice as fast in its early days as any prior version of Windows. He also takes a few shots at Apple.
Tags: Windows 7, Apple Inc., Steve Ballmer, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., CEO, Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, 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
Apple's Jobs to skip annual shareholder meeting
News CEO Steve Jobs' six-month medical leave of absence will keep him from attending Wednesday's annual meeting for the first time since he returned to Apple in 1997.
Tags: Business plans, Business ethics, Apple Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Absence, Cupertino, succession planning, CEO, corporate governance, job
Yahoo shareholders content to wait and see
News CEO Bartz promised to turn Yahoo around by focusing on content and organization in her first annual shareholder meeting.
Tags: Domain names, Business structures, Content management, Yahoo! Inc., online media, search engine company, content company, China, shareholder, board of directors
Yahoo's Microsoft tab totaled US$79 million
News Yahoo ran up a double-digit multimillion dollar tab last year, paying outside advisers US$79 million in its efforts to fend off Microsoft, according to an SEC filing.
Tags: Lawsuits, Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Autodesk Inc., Yahoo! Inc., antitrust, SEC, Jerry Yang, shareholder, advisor
Apple awards raises to key executives
News COO Tim Cook, CFO Peter Oppenheimer, and Mac hardware chief Bob Mansfield will have a little more spending money in 2009.
Tags: Stock options and grants, Apple Inc., CFO, healthcare reform, Hardware Engineering, Cupertino, Mansfield, Stock options and grants, News.com, SEC
US Justice Dept extends investigation into Oracle-Sun deal
News The Department of Justice wants more time to consider Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but Oracle is confident deal will still go through without problem.
Tags: Acquisitions, IBM Corp., U.S. Department Of Justice, Class Action, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp., SEC, shareholder, merger, Java
Interesting battle for dominance
Blogs It's surprising to see how Meralco, the biggest electric distributor in the Philippines, has become an unlikely setting ...
AMD extends deadline for Abu Dhabi spin-off vote
News After failing to get a quorum, Advanced Micro Devices extends the deadline to next week for shareholders to vote on the proposed spin-off of its manufacturing business.
Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Manufacturing, Chip Company, Abu Dhabi, Wall Street, U.A.E., revenue, shareholder
True Corp needs to raise more cash for 3G auction
News The company's chief executive says the company is intent on moving to a 3G network for its mobile subsidiary True Move.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, Business broadband, Personal broadband, 3G (Third Generation), Mobile, Cell Phone, Auction, 3G Network, 3G, allocation
Carl Icahn increases stake in Yahoo
News Activist investor--and member of company's board--buys up 7 million shares of Yahoo over the course of three days last week in the United States.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Domain names, Software, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Stock Market, Stock, Carl Icahn, Jerry Yang
Google readying microblog search?
News Google might soon add a way to search microblogging sites like Twitter, as the amount of content generated by those services explodes.
Tags: Search, Web services, Twitter, Google Inc., Search Result, Google Search, Search Technology, search tool, shareholder, Marissa Mayer
