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Tech is running out of options: Tech is running out of optionsOptions not an expense...I would like someone to explain to me how giving someone the right to buy stock from a general pool at a certain price is an expense for a company. Expenses are items that take away from gross revenues to produce the...; Tags: Stock options, Investment, Financial accounting, Benefits, stock, stock option, Financial Accounting Standards Board; Discussion threads 2004-07-23
House debates stock option bill: House debates stock option billMoney doesn't grow on trees'"The notion that stock options are an expense is absolutely absurd," said Rep. David Dreier, 'Major corps like Coke already expense options, are they absurd? 'Stock options "align the employee interest with the company interest, and that produces a motivated worker,".'The FASB...; Tags: Stock options, Financial accounting, Investment, Benefits, Asset management, stock option, net asset, stock, asset, Financial Accounting Standards Board, shareholder; Discussion threads 2004-07-20
House panel: Don't fiddle with stock options: House panel: Don't fiddle with stock optionsPolitically correct accountingThe concept of expensing stock options makes no sense. Stock options affect the value of the stock but NOT the financial results of the company.It appears that the Financial Accounting Standards Board is creating another accounting disaster which destroys the comparability...; Tags: Stock options, Investment, Benefits, Financial accounting, stock, stock option, accounting, Financial Accounting Standards Board, compensation package; Discussion threads 2004-06-15
Intel shareholders vote to expense options: Intel shareholders vote to expense optionsFASB has studied this for years"We believe this is a deeply flawed method of accounting that will diminish the accuracy and clarity of our financial reporting and could cause real economic harm to Intel, our stockholders, and our economy," How about you put it as...; Tags: Financial accounting, Stock options, Investment, Benefits, Financial Accounting Standards Board, stock, accounting, American Electronics Association, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Intel Corp., shareholder; Discussion threads 2004-05-19
Sage MIP Fund Accounting Helps College Foundation Thrive: In the 17 years since its inception, the assets of the Okaloosa-Walton College OWC Foundation in Niceville, Florida, have grown from $12,000 to more than $22 million. They needed a versatile, integrated accounting package that enables the tracking of individual scholarships and endowments, state matching funds, and earnings on individual...; Tags: Accounting, Sage Software, Financial Accounting Standards Board, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Financial Services, Finance, Financial Planning; Case studies

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Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email: Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...; Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Web 2.0 and the end of advertising: The idea that software on the Web is going to be largely funded by advertising is just so wrong-headed, I hardly know where to start. It had me spluttering in the latest BriefingsDirect Insights analyst podcast hosted by Dana Gardner — more on that in a moment. Let's move on...; Tags: Software, Web, Web 2.0, Advertisement, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA: Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...; Tags: Document, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-16
News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...; Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; Blog posts 2008-05-16
Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature: There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...; Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?: Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...; Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Collaboration 2.0...: For the last couple of years I've been in the trenches managing a sizeable collaboration space across three continents for a large multinational enterprise. The diplomacy, strategy, tactics and sheer hard work of managing, building and running this type of space can be all consuming, particularly with...; Tags: Strategy, Web, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand: Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...; Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking: Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...; Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Facebook: Google Friend Connect violates our privacy standards: The social networking ground war is well underway. Facebook said Thursday that it will block Google's Friend Connect services because it "redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without users' knowledge." Facebook's Charlie Cheever writes regarding Google Friend Connect: We're excited that our industry partners...; Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Standards, User Information, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China: Both the inkjet and laser multifunction peripherals enjoyed a healthy growth of 11% and 13% respectively in Q4 2007 in China, according to IDC. The demand from the public, education and financial sectors increased the sales of the SDM Serial Dot Matrix printer, resulting in a 16% increase in Q4...; Tags: Inkjet Printer, Laser, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals, NB; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Photos: Cracking open the Atari 2600: Check out the joystick ports, circuitry, and other parts that made the venerable game console tick.The Atari 2600 in all its cracked-open glory. I never owned one of these consoles--I was an Intellivision II man. (George Plimpton convinced me it was better.) Do you still play your Atari 2600?...; Tags: Joystick, Photograph, Atari Inc., CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-15
DIY phishing kits introducing new features: What are some of the main factors for the increase of phishing attacks, and their maturity from passive emails to blended threats attempting to not just steal personal information, but also infect with malware by embedding client-side vulnerabilities at the pages? It's all a matter of perspective, which in this...; Tags: Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-05-15
VIA reveals world's lowest-power x86 processor on world's smallest board: Since nothing gets Toybox readers going quite like processor wars -- I mean, hey, it's the Crusades of computing -- I thought I'd throw this little morsel into the ring. Arriving in the Toybox inbox this morning from Taipei is news that VIA Technologies has announced their...; Tags: Board, X86 Processor, Corporate Governance, Processors, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-05-15
The real question: Is Microsoft still interested in Yahoo?: I actually believed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when he said he was walking away from buying Yahoo. I wasn't among the crowd who thought Ballmer was just posturing, waiting for Yahoo stock prices to plummet and Yahoo shareholder lawsuits to mount before sweeping back in and getting Yahoo for a...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web Site Development, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-05-15