Stock Options And Grants
34 Stories
Criminal charges filed against ex-Brocade CEO
News Criminal and civil charges against former top execs cover dodgy stock option moves at the data storage networking company.
Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Lawsuits, Stock options and grants, Regulations
Sun shareholders call for action
News Influential firm is advising Sun investors to vote for shareholder input on the use of any potential poison pills.
Tags: Mergers, Incentives and compensation
McAfee shakes up management, names interim CEO
News CEO George Samenuk resigns; President Kevin Weiss is fired; Dale Fuller is named interim chief and president.
Tags: Leadership
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
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
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
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
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
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
Can Intel invest its way out of its rut?
News The strategy worked before--but with the computer market slowing and the economic outlook bleak, those days may be over.
Tags: Investments, Intel Corp., Qualcomm Inc., Chip, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Stock, Sales, CEO, Reed Hundt, PC
Nasdaq puts Apple on notice
News Caught up in stock-option scandal, company postpones filing due to grants review and expected restatements.
Tags: Legal, Corporate law, Financial, Accounting, Audits
Apple, CA wrestle with stock option irregularities
News Internal probes at both companies reveal possible problems in past employee stock options policies.
Tags: Mac OS, Business applications, Lawsuits, Stock options and grants, Stock buybacks
RIM chairman quits over stock options
News Jim Balsillie loses his role as chairman in the wake of a US$250 million stock options scandal.
Tags: Investor relations, BlackBerry
Stock option accounting arrives at Sun
News Because of regulatory requirements, Sun will introduce the stock option accounting Nov. 1 when it reports results for its fiscal 2006 first quarter.
Tags: Accounting, Incentives and compensation
