7 posts and columns on conflict of interest

With No-Yahoo-CEO Pledge, David Kenny Back in the Strategic Fray

in Media on November 8, 2011 at 12:42 pm PT

What will David Kenny do? Maybe get something cooking in the whole what-will-Yahoo-do stakes, now that one of Yahoo’s more active board members is back.
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Yahoo’s Activist Shareholder Loeb Now Targeting Jerry Yang and Wants Him Off the Board

in News on November 4, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

Third Point’s Daniel Loeb — the smack-tastic hedge fund manager who owns a big slug of Yahoo — thinks co-founder and director Jerry Yang now needs to go.
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CrunchFund? Unethical Ventures? Pig Pile Partners? No Matter What You Call It, It’s Business as Usual in Silicon Valley.

in Media on September 2, 2011 at 6:16 am PT

It’s a giant, filthy mud puddle of conflicts of interest in Silicon Valley, but everybody’s in the cesspool, it seems.
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Liveblogging Microsoft 3Q Earnings: Office-Tastic and Kinect-Able (But PC-Frown)

in News on April 28, 2011 at 2:48 pm PT

You’d think there would be a party in Redmond, Wash. today, as software giant Microsoft soundly beat Wall Street expectations in its third-quarter earnings released today. But there are shadows too, as results were dragged down by weaker revenues for its flagship Windows unit. The report comes as Microsoft’s stock continues to lag, declining 14 percent for the year. Buzz kill!

Godspeed on That Investing Thing, Yertle–But I Still Have Some Questions for Your Boss, Arianna

in News on April 28, 2011 at 10:19 am PT

Would it surprise you to know that BoomTown doesn’t really care anymore if TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sidelines as a blogger while he makes investments in tech companies his tech news site covers? Especially after reading his post yesterday that made a good argument about who he is and, frankly, who he has always been. But that does not mean his boss, AOL content head Arianna Huffington, doesn’t have some ‘splainin’ to do.

HP Scandal Sucks in New York Times Columnist Over Conflict of Interest

in News on October 12, 2010 at 4:40 pm PT

Another reputation smeared in the Hewlett-Packard/Oracle slag-fest. Turns out Joe Nocera–the New York Times business columnist who penned that scathing piece on former SAP chief and incoming HP CEO Léo Apotheker for his involvement in a lawsuit over intellectual property theft between SAP and Oracle–has a conflict of interest, disclosed today by the media company.

FTC to Google CEO, Apple: Nice Try

in News on August 3, 2009 at 7:42 pm PT

Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s resignation from Apple’s board this morning was a nice gesture, but it’s not going to end the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation of the ties between the Google and Apple boards. In a statement issued this afternoon, the FTC applauded the move, but said the two companies are foolish if they think it will simply abandon its inquiry as a result.
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