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New Yahoo CEO’s $27M Pay Package for 2012 = Lotsa Lettuce

Kara Swisher in News on January 6 at 2:43 pm PT

Newly installed Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has got to be hoping that the world is not ending in 2012!

James Murdoch Turns Down $6 Million Bonus, Citing PhoneGate

Peter Kafka in News on September 2, 2011 at 11:49 am PT

Rupert’s son will keep another $11 million-plus, though.

Hulu Plus Gets an Art House Upgrade With Criterion Collection

Peter Kafka in Media on February 15, 2011 at 4:29 am PT

Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman and other directors you can’t see in Imax join the video service’s catalog.

Intel Will Pay Nvidia $1.5 Billion to "Maintain Patent Peace"

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 10, 2011 at 1:36 pm PT

A cross-licensing agreement brings to an end what could have been an ugly and expensive trial.

U.S. Tech Job Growth Was Strongest in…Oklahoma City?

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on December 9, 2010 at 7:00 am PT

The TechAmerica Foundation’s annual Cybercities report covering the state of America’s local technology job markets for 2009 (the most recent data available) paints–as you might expect–a depressing picture in all but a few of the markets surveyed.

Spotify's Daniel Ek Splashes Down at D: Dive Into Mobile

Kara Swisher in News on December 2, 2010 at 1:58 pm PT

Next week, we’ll be putting on our first brand extension of the highly successful D: All Things Digital conference with D: Dive Into Mobile. And we’ve just added an exciting new speaker to the already top-drawer list: Daniel Ek, co-founder and CEO of Spotify. For those living under a rock, Ek leads one of the most exciting music services on the Web right now.

Yahoo Layoffs Coming December 13 (And Not This Week, Though It's Still Bad News)

Kara Swisher in News on November 30, 2010 at 3:16 pm PT

This will be short and–considering the topic–bittersweet. Despite a report in TechCrunch saying layoffs at Yahoo might be imminent, previously reported termination of employees in its product unit will not take place this week. Actually, according to sources familiar with the situation, they will take place in about two weeks, around December 13th.

HP Reverses Hurd-Era Pay Cuts, Unveils Benefits

Benjamin Pimentel, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on November 23, 2010 at 1:14 pm PT

After a rocky start, new Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker is trying to settle into his role with a Thanksgiving gift for his employees. During HP’s earnings call on Monday, Apotheker announced that the company was reversing pay cuts for a majority of the employees affected by a February 2009 salary-reduction plan under former CEO Mark Hurd.

Exclusive: Yahoo Courts Former News Corp. Digital Exec Ross Levinsohn as U.S. Head

Kara Swisher in News on October 26, 2010 at 12:11 pm PT

He’s baaaaaack. Former Fox Interactive Media President Ross Levinsohn, that is, who is the top candidate to replace Hilary Schneider as Yahoo’s U.S. head, according to several sources close to the situation. While the deal is not completely struck, sources said Levinsohn is very close to taking the job as the exec primarily in charge of Yahoo’s powerful media properties and giant advertising business.