RIM Superstructure Needs Major Overhaul, Says Proxy Firm

Support for a proposal to split the chairman and CEO roles at RIM grows ahead of the company’s annual shareholder meeting.
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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.

Glass Lewis Half Empty

Differences of opinion make the financial markets go round. And it would appear that we have some strong ones among the proxy services advising Yahoo shareholders on how to vote at the upcoming election of Yahoo’s board members.

When Will Microsoft Bust A(nother) Move?

Is Microsoft about to make another move on Yahoo? Or perhaps on AOL? Or is it just getting ready to articulate strategic plans for getting serious about the online search business on its own at its financial analysts’ meeting tomorrow morning? Or perhaps–and this might be the best strategy for the moment–the software giant is actually managing to stifle itself and wait to return to the playing field when things settle down a little bit.

MicroHoo: The Likely Scenarios (Please Ignore the Poison-Pen Letters)

Listening to all the birds-on-a-wire chatter about what will happen in the latest round of the never-ending Microsoft-Yahoo saga, it’s still hard to know what to think, given the ever-increasing noise around the proceedings, which will continue until Yahoo’s Aug. 1 shareholder meeting. Yesterday, it got louder still as Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang sent out far and wide yet another stinkbomb letter, calling activist investor Carl Icahn a money-grubbing “corporate agitator.” Well, yes–not that there’s anything wrong with that!