The major Gulf of Mexico oil spill may be history today, but its effects are still taking a toll on the revenue of seafood business in that area. As a result, shrimpers and crabbers will receive substantial compensation meant to make them forget, at least to a certain extent, the devastating incident ever happened. ... |
1 December 2011 05:45 GMT |
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Redmond-based Microsoft's board has reportedly voted on Friday to enable shareholders to say more on the manner in which the company's executives are retributed. It seems that the board's plan was to have the firm's executive compensations voted every three years, though the vote would have only a... |
21 September 2009 06:23 GMT |
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The Cupertino, Calif.-based Mac maker is facing a lawsuit from one of its former employees, with the suit alleging that Apple has failed to pay proper wages for overtime work, AppleInsider reports. According to the filings, the company allegedly demanded its employees to work 40 extra hours per week and then failed t... |
7 August 2009 03:51 GMT |
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What you have is often not what you want. And this applies not only to human pairs. A new study made on several animal species found that when animals must mate with less-than-preferred partners, females and males apparently try to compensate that by increasing the chance of their offspring survival. The research sup... |
25 September 2007 06:00 GMT |
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The security company Symantec that caused a lot of problems for numerous Chinese users said that its compensation for the trouble was accepted by the users in the period granted for the registration process. If you didn't know, the security firm wrongly flagged some of vital files for the Windows operating syste... |
16 July 2007 08:49 GMT |
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After numerous angry users informed Symantec that one of its security solutions mistakenly flagged two Windows XP critical files as malware and quarantined them, the parent company decided to take attitude and offer compensation to the affected users. Back in May, a lot of Chinese users said that Symantec's Nort... |
26 June 2007 10:20 GMT |
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Terry Semel, Yahoo's chairman, received a $80 million compensation for his $1 salary after his stock options were highly increased at the end of the last year. Back in 2006, the Yahoo chairman reduced his salary to no more than $1, receiving more stock options that are now bringing a huge amount of money. Accord... |
1 May 2007 09:47 GMT |
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