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Silicon Valley’s Mouthwatering Tax Break

When outsiders visit Silicon Valley, the first thing they often notice is the food: Cafeterias brimming with free gourmet meals and snacks offered to employees of Google, Facebook and other technology firms.

Zynga Rejiggers Comp in a Bid to Retain Top Execs and Tie to Performance

Money makes the world go around, but can it turn around the online gaming giant?
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Gets a Million-Dollar Bonus After Six Months on the Job

With stock up since she arrived, it’s probably a bargain to investors.
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Netflix to Increase CEO Hastings’s Pay for 2013

Netflix Inc. raised Chief Executive Reed Hastings’s compensation package to $4 million for 2013, essentially doubling his pay this year.

The $56 Million Man: Yahoo Confirms Hiring of Google’s De Castro as COO

Yes, that’s a lot of dough for the multi-lingual sales exec.
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Mayer to Yahoos at Not-So-Radical Confab: Personalization, Mobile, Rule of 100 Million and — Most of All — the Four C’s!

It was big picture all the way from the new CEO at the employee gathering, with a lot of small details.
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Oracle CEO Ellison Got a Big Raise in 2012

It’s good to be Larry.
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Facebook 8-K: Zuckerberg Will Not Sell Any Shares for One Year (Filing)

Damage control at the social networking giant commences.
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Best Buy’s New CEO Gets Pay Package Worth up to $32 Million

Best Buy Co. awarded new Chief Executive Hubert Joly with a compensation package worth up to $32 million to lure him to the slumping electronics chain.

Reed Hastings’s Expensive Year