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Wanted: More Directors With Digital Savvy

Nearly every facet of corporate life has gone digital. But many public-company boards remain stuck in analog mode.

Accel Partners’ Jim Breyer Won’t Return to Dell’s Board

His third resignation from a high-profile board in recent days.
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Yahoo Chairman Fred Amoroso to Step Down in Late June

Former LiveOps CEO Maynard Webb will serve as interim chairman.
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Kleiner’s Doerr Joins Zynga Board of Directors

The legendary Valley VC will soon advise the struggling social gaming giant.
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Former Genentech Exec Susan Desmond-Hellmann Joins Facebook’s Board of Directors

Another woman joins the social giant’s board.
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HP’s Board Signals Closer Oversight of CEO

Hewlett-Packard Co.’s board is investigating the company’s flawed $11 billion acquisition of software firm Autonomy Corp., and has set up an informal committee to provide strategic advice to Chief Executive Meg Whitman.

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HP Moves to Head Off Investor Revolt

The board of Hewlett-Packard Co. is on the hot seat again.

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BlackBerry Expands Board, Adds Two Former Telecom Execs

BlackBerry added two seats to its board Thursday, naming a pair of longtime telecom execs as directors. Joining the company’s board: Richard Lynch, formerly an executive vice president at Verizon Communications, and Bert Nordberg, who once served as CEO of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. Their addition raises the number of directors to an even dozen, and follows calls last year for the company to shake up a board that some critics felt sat idly by while it ceded the smartphone market it helped pioneer to rivals like Google and Apple.

HP CEO Whitman Earned $15 Million in 2012, Filing Shows

Also, HP shareholders will vote to allow large shareholders to have access to the proxy statements they see in the future.
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An Update on Ralph Whitworth, the Activist Investor Already on HP’s Board

An agreement that prevents him from seeking an HP breakup has less than a year to go.
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