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Yahoo shareholders seek to nix severance plans
News Yahoo shareholders are seeking to invalidate a controversial employee severance plan prior to the company's August 1 shareholders meeting.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Search, Plan, Yahoo! Inc., Compensation, Stock, Carl Icahn, Delaware Chancery Court, job
Motorola sues iPhone sales executive over trade secrets
News Michael Fenger, a former Motorola executive now working at Apple, has been sued by his former employer for allegedly revealing trade secrets to Apple.
Tags: Smart phones, Mac OS, Lawsuits, Legal, Apple Inc., Mobile, Motorola Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Europe, Stock
VMware profits up 28 percent on strong services business
News VMware cites strong sales of virtualization services for increases in revenue, profit during third quarter.
Tags: Virtualization, VMware Inc., Stock, earnings per share, stock price, Wall Street, net income, revenue, Income, Virtualization
McAfee seeks gag on exec ousted over options
News Former McAfee President Kevin Weiss wants to clear his name after being awarded damages over his firing, but McAfee wants the information to remain confidential.
Tags: Antivirus software, Stock, Dallas, McAfee Inc., arbitration, SEC, Texas, tax, president, stock option
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
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
Brocade to acquire Foundry Networks
News Brocade makes bid to be a leading enterprise storage and networking provider.
Tags: Storage, Mergers, Acquisitions, Security, Foundry Networks Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Stock, network, shareholder, data center
Apple escapes charges in US stock-options probe
News The U.S. Department of Justice will not file charges over stock-option backdating at Apple, as a two-year criminal probe is concluded.
Tags: Legal, Lawsuits, Apple Inc., Security, Backdating, Stock, general counsel, San Jose, shareholder, Wall Street Journal
Report: Apple's Jobs maintained stock-option ignorance
News Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the SEC in a 2008 deposition that he had no idea Apple lawyers had falsified documents nor did he understand the accounting implications of backdating.
Tags: Stock options and grants, Corporate law, Apple Inc., Backdating, CFO, stock-option backdating, Stock, Stock options and grants, job, SEC
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., Compensation, stock grant, Stock, Larry Page, stock compensation, Stock options and grants, Salary
Yahoo suspends employee pay raises
News Under financial pressure even before the recession, Yahoo has suspended pay increases for its employees.
Tags: Search, Layoffs, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Stock, stock price, CNBC, CEO, recession, Sunnyvale
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
Amazon's revenue jumps, beats Street forecast
News Despite the weak economy, the e-commerce giant reports an 18 percent increase in fourth-quarter revenues on strong holiday sales.
Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Sales/revenue, Web sites, E-business, Electronics, Stock, Sales, Jeff Bezos, e-commerce company, Amazon.com Inc.
Google hurdles over profit estimate
News Search ad giant reports net income is well above analyst estimates for the third quarter; revenue almost matches expectations.
Tags: Search, Advertising, Earning reports/forecasts, Sales/revenue, Advertiser, Google Inc., Stock, Advertisement, Eric Schmidt, revenue
Facebook stock for sale
News Top execs at the social network are selling shares--at prices far lower than the site's once-vaunted US$15 billion valuation.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Employee, Google Inc., Stock, venture capital, social networking, software, Facebook, valuation
