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Apple’s Cook Tops the List of Highest-Paid CEOs

Steve Jobs left big shoes. Apple Inc. is betting $378 million that Tim Cook is the right guy to fill them.

HP CEO Whitman Earned One Dollar Plus $16 Million in 2011

CEO Meg Whitman may have taken only a one-dollar salary upon taking the job. But her stock-based compensation totaled more than $16 million last year.
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How SuccessFactors Signaled It Was on the Block

Signs that SuccessFactors was looking to be acquired first showed up in company SEC filings in April.
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Our Market Share's Getting Smaller. … And Terry's Pay Package is Getting Laaaaarrrrrger.

Yahoo’s compensation committee certainly has an interesting formula for executive-salary calculations–one based on an inverse relationship between job performance and financial reward. How else to explain CEO Terry Semel’s pay package for 2006–$71 million, despite a 60% decline in Yahoo’s net income and 35% drop in stock price. $71 million. And for what? A year [...]

What's This 'Ed Whitacre Exit Package Recovery Fee' Doing Under Miscellaneous Charges?

Looks like Verizon Communications Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg’s brief turn as the emblem of America’s out-of-control CEO pay machine has ended. When AT&T CEO Edward “The-Internet-can’t-be-free” Whitacre retires later this spring, he will receive an exit package nearly eight times that of Seidenberg’s $20 million gilded parachute.