As Yahoo CEO Reaches Out to Top Staff, Board Meets to Weigh “Options” (I.E., Deciding Who Gets to Take the Borked Bio Blame)

On tonight’s Silicon Valley version of “Game of Thrones,” King Scott Thompson tries to assuage, while the board potentates sharpen their knives.
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Potential Windfalls Loom for Some Top Executives

For some Silicon Valley executives, 2012 is getting off to a rich start.

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HP to Limit Severance Payouts for Ousted Executives

Hewlett-Packard Co., still smarting from criticism over the exit packages it awarded to ousted chief executives Mark Hurd and Leo Apotheker, will limit severance payments it makes to senior executives who are pushed out.

Hasta La Vista, Stock Options: Here’s the Zynga SEC Filing

Read on about the deets of the doings at the social gaming site.
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Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Via a Cool IPO: The Delicious Irony of Myspace, Zynga and Owen Van Natta

How’s this for irony: It was less than a year and a half ago that Owen Van Natta was ousted from his job as CEO of Myspace. But last week — just as the failed social networking site sold for a paltry $35 million — Van Natta could have bought it himself for a fraction of his stake in Zynga, the social gaming phenom that just filed for its IPO and where he’s a top exec and shareholder.
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Exclusive: Skype Employees Were Briefed in Plain English — The Internal Equity Incentive Plan Deck

What did Skype employees know and when did they know it? A lot, if you’re reading this “Equity Incentive Plan” deck, which clearly outlines what happens to “good leaver” and bad leaver” execs.
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Exclusive: Nokia’s Stephen Elop Talks About How He Made His Big OS Decision

In an interview, Nokia’s chief executive talks about the factors that went into choosing among three possibilities for its high-end smartphone business–sticking with plans to develop around MeeGo, shifting to Android or adopting Microsoft’s Windows Phone.

ATT’s Chief Marketing Officer on How the Company Has Found (Android) Religion

Although the timing comes just as the carrier loses its iPhone exclusivity, Chief Marketing Officer David Christopher insists a big Android push has been in the works for more than a year and has more to do with having great devices to show off its faster networks than it does trying to fill the void created by no longer having Apple’s darling to itself.

Netflix Gets Social: "Extensive" Facebook Integration Is Coming

Netflix revealed it is in the process of implementing “an extensive Facebook integration” on Wednesday, marking a significant change from its previous absence from the social Web.

The Landscape Around Google's Hiring Binge