Kara Swisher in News on December 21, 2010 at 2:44 pm PT
Simply put: The five top Web 2.0 superstar companies have no women on their board of directors.
As in
zero.
John Paczkowski in News on October 5, 2010 at 2:08 pm PT
Well, look at that, Jack Welch just one-upped Larry Ellison in the HP-bashing game. The master manager unloaded on the company today during a series of interviews at the World Business Forum, slagging HP’s board for mishandling its CEOs and the company’s management succession plans.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 16, 2010 at 7:44 am PT
An interview with Ning’s new CEO makes it pretty clear that the company is about to change up its board of directors. What else is it up to?
John Paczkowski in News on October 12, 2009 at 6:30 am PT
Former Genentech chairman and CEO Art Levinson has resigned from Google’s board, where he has been a director since April 2004. No reason was given for his departure, though his membership on both the Google and Apple boards, and the Federal Trade Commission inquiry into into possible implications of such dual memberships, surely played a role.
John Paczkowski in Social on September 18, 2009 at 5:00 am PT
Silicon Valley luminary and Golden Geek cover model Marc Andreessen is adding another gig to his CV: Hewlett-Packard director. Andreessen, who sold his software company, Opsware, to HP two years ago for $1.6 billion, will begin serving on the board immediately, bringing its total number of directors to 11.
John Paczkowski 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.
John Paczkowski in News on July 8, 2009 at 9:09 am PT
What happened between Apple’s January 5 disclosure of Steve Jobs’s “hormonal imbalance” and the company’s January 14 announcement that the CEO would be taking a six-month leave of absence? That’s the focus of an ongoing Securities and Exchange Commission probe into Steve Jobs’s health, an investigation that seems to, well, be going nowhere.
