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Add Another Log to the Fire: HP Employees Grumble About Loss of Stock Grants
Executives at Hewlett-Packard are upset that a key stock-based benefit has evaporated before their very eyes. Even the man many blame, fired CEO Léo Apotheker, got hit.
New Yahoo CEO’s $27M Pay Package for 2012 = Lotsa Lettuce
Newly installed Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has got to be hoping that the world is not ending in 2012!
Casual Game Maker Big Fish Cuts Checks to Shareholders on Way to IPO
Seattle-based Big Fish doles out a hefty dividend to nearly all of its employees, as renewed rumors hint that an IPO could come as soon as next year.
What Will Léo Apotheker Walk Away With if He’s Fired?
Now that his job appears to be in jeopardy, it’s time to take a closer look at Léo Apotheker’s contract with Hewlett-Packard. How’s an easy $28 million sound?
James Murdoch Turns Down $6 Million Bonus, Citing PhoneGate
Rupert’s son will keep another $11 million-plus, though.
Apple Opposes Proposal on CEO Succession Planning
A few noteworthy nuggets from Apple’s 2011 Proxy Statement, filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The most interesting, a strongly worded rebuttal to a shareholder proposal calling on the company to adopt a written CEO-succession-planning policy.
Help! I'm Addicted to CityVille
Among the early adopter types I know in the tech industry, there’s a sense that casual gaming on Facebook serves an entirely different demographic from their own. The thinking is that games from Zynga and the like replace relatively mindless activities like soap opera watching. But as someone who has just reorganized her virtual retail shops to be surrounded by virtual trees so as to accumulate more virtual bonus points, I see how social gaming–especially as it gets more social–might appeal to the desire for mindless diversions in all of us.
Susan Wojcicki, Google SVP and Advertising Chief, Live at Dive Into Mobile
You’d have to search a long time to find someone who’s been closer to the evolution of Google than Susan Wojcicki. It was in her rented garage that Sergey Brin and Larry Page launched the company, which she joined in 1999. Now, as one of only eight senior vice presidents, she runs Google’s most important businesses units.
Yahoo CEO's "Over" Pay Puts Spotlight on Performance
Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz has been under pressure of late, due to everything from executive turmoil to flat revenue to a flaccid stock price. And, as of yesterday, you can add excessive pay to the pile.
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Ballmer's Bonus: Half Cash, Half Surplus Kins
Microsoft may have generated record sales in the fiscal year that ended in June, but it was a stretch during which consumer tech interest centered on mobile devices and tablets, and missteps in both those areas cost CEO Steve Ballmer half his maximum bonus. After the ill-fated venture that was the Kin phone and the slow response to Apple’s iPad juggernaut, Ballmer will collect only $670,000 in extra cash, according to an annual company filing. The bonus brought Ballmer’s total pay package to $1.34 million–up about six percent from the previous year.