Leading Smart Grid solutions provider Silver Spring Networks announced today that it welcomed Rick Simonson, Head of Mobile Phones for Finland-based Nokia, to the list of its Board of Directors members. According to the company, Rick Simonson, who previously served as Chief Financial Officer at Nokia, will chair the ... |
4 November 2009
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Yahoo is still far from recovery and, despite a very important deal with Microsoft, it's beginning to look that it wasn't enough to sway the general opinion about the company's future. And that deal itself is looking worse and worse as time goes by, with many believing that Yahoo could have gotten ... |
24 October 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Board of Directors will be down to just nine members after James I. Cash Jr. steps down this year. The Redmond-based company announced that Cash had made the decision not to seek reelection in his current position come the annual shareholder’s meeting in 2009. James I. Cash Jr., Ph.D., emeritu... |
14 September 2009
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Apple is believed to have planned a directors’ meeting for next week to discuss possible replacements for the board seat recently vacated by Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing a person familiar with the matter. In a statement issued last week, Apple’s CEO re... |
14 August 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Google has decided to start paying non-employee members of its board of directors in cash after already granting them a sizable chunk of restricted stock. The company revealed in a regulatory SEC filing that the members would receive $75,000 per year in cash and $350,000 in restricted stock grants. In addition the no... |
10 August 2009
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Apple released its 2009 proxy statement yesterday. The document outlines the schedule for the company's annual meeting, as well as the board's recommendations for voting. Shareholders will vote on five items at the meeting, starting with the election to the Board from eight nominees. “Apple today anno... |
8 January 2009
02:47 GMT |
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Along with Steve Jobs' open letter to the Apple Community, the company's board of directors has issued its own stance, in writing. It doesn't add anything to Jobs' outburst (so to speak), in terms of divulging any successor plans. “It is widely recognized both inside and outside of Apple th... |
5 January 2009
10:33 GMT |
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Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday that its board of directors would welcome another member starting with January 2009, namely Raj Gupta, chairman and chief executive officer of Rohm and Haas Company. The total number of HP's board members will rise this way to eleven, ten of them being outside directors.&ld... |
25 September 2008
03:49 GMT |
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Considering the results of the recent elections, it seems like Yahoo!'s board of directors got more credit from the investors than everyone expected. Most of the current executives were voted by at least 80% of the stockholders, which gave them a sense of security, but now things are not as bright as they seemed... |
6 August 2008
03:32 GMT |
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The investors/directors' annual meeting at Yahoo! didn't bring any changes in the board of directors. Despite the fact that some of the officials who played an important role in the rejection of the Microsoft proposal were criticized by investors, they still got an average of 80% positive votes. This caught... |
5 August 2008
06:58 GMT |
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All of the 8 executives who signed up for a new commission in Yahoo!'s board of directors were reelected yesterday. Although this year's elections were regarded with great uncertainty, as stockholders could have chosen to dismiss the team that rejected a promising offer from Microsoft, everything turned out... |
2 August 2008
04:15 GMT |
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Not all is jolly and merry in the video games industry this time of the year as Midway's Kenneth D. Cron has resigned from the Company's Board of Directors having completed over 3 years of service. Mr. Cron joined Midway's Board of Directors in 2004, according to an official Midway report, and he was t... |
27 December 2007
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