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- Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home page
- Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home pageStock Tip: Get out of Legg Mason fundsTime to put down the crack pipe Legg Mason."We would prefer that the company and Mr. Icahn reach a mutual agreement on the composition of the Board and end this disruptive...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Legg Mason Inc., Icahn, board, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home page
- Updated: Yahoo's argument that billionaire investor Carl Icahn is a short-timer with no clear plan to run the company has won over a key investor: Legg Mason. In addition, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is taking the company's campaign to its home page. In a broadcast to employees...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Legg Mason Inc., Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Yahoo may go nuclear vs. Microsoft: Close to Google ad deal
- Yahoo may go nuclear vs. Microsoft: Close to Google ad dealanything is better than being assimilated by M$M$ brings only waste, death and slavery to what it aquires!Google must step in and save the day.Fire at willNext shot is MS taking it to the streets.. watch.RE: Yahoo may go nuclear...
- Tags: advertisement, Yahoo shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Legg Mason Inc., shareholder
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Zillow raises $30 million in VC funding
- Zillow said Thursday that it raised $30 million in venture funding. The round was led by Legg Mason Capital Management. Zillow, which has been building out its platform, said the money will go toward expanding staff and accelerating features and products. Zillow said in a statement...
- Tags: Advertisement, Legg Mason Inc., Investor, Zillow, Real Estate, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Legg Mason Extends Data Storage and Management Systems
- Legg Mason, Inc. is a global financial services company with one product: Advice. Realizing the need for a cost-effective data-management solution capable of handling massive amounts of data, Legg Mason evaluated its needs. After deploying other potential solutions, Legg Mason decided to automate using Legato DiskXtender Dx and ApplicationXtender Ax...
- Tags: Data Storage, Legg Mason Inc., Data Management, Storage, Hardware
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- Mozilla's financials: 2007 strong; Portfolio takes 2008 lumps
- Mozilla's 2007 annual report reveals a foundation that's well funded--primarily by a Google search deal--and can weather a downturn. Nevertheless, 2008 is going to be a different story as Mozilla's portfolio has taken some big hits. In 2007, Mozilla had revenue of $75 million, up 12 percent...
- Tags: Mozilla Corp., Taxes, Financial Management, Mutual Funds, Investment, Free Trade, Retirement Plans, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Poll: Best personal finance software?
- A little while ago, before the massive recession threw everyone into the depths of their portfolios, I thought it would be prudent to graduate tracking my expenses from pen and paper to software. My parents have dabbled with Quicken, and I wasn't really impressed with Microsoft Money....
- Tags: Software, Quicken, Personal Finance, Mint, 401(k), Retirement Plans, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Benefits, Finance, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Reuters sues university over open-source citation extension
- Zotero, a Firefox plug-in, looks like an amazing tool for academic and legal writing, what with "automatic citation capture" from webpages, formatted citation export and integration with WordPress. Developed by George Mason University, the tool has already been adopted by 100 major institutions. So who doesn't like it?...
- Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Thomson Corp., GMU, Productivity, Open Source, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Can computers sort data like humans?
- Can computers sort data like humans?. . . and we're still guessing.Gotta like the field of AI. These people claim "we'll have human intelligence in 50 or so years." Yet we have a slight problem: We haven't the slightest idea how to objectively measure intelligence, much less recreate it. We...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, computer, John N. Warfield, OPMS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-30
- Network Neutrality & Google's Openness Before The FCC
- Google clearly wants the FCC to make sure that other private companies' networks are open equally to all Internet services. Now, it will be interesting to see if that applies to networks in which Google is involved. On Friday, the Commission takes up the question of whether...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Network, Comcast Corp., Clearwire Corp., Network Neutrality, Internet, Federal Government, Networking, Government, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Assessing winners and losers
- Updated below: Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have settled their looming proxy war. According to a statement Monday, Yahoo's board of directors will be expanded to 11 members and one of those seats will go to Icahn. The two remaining seats will be filled based on...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Another call for Yahoo-Icahn compromise
- Carl Icahn's push to get a new slate of directors on board at Yahoo took another hit late Sunday when another shareholder stepped up to call for a compromise. According to Reuters, Eric Jackson, manager of hedge fund Ironfire Capital and leader of shareholder group Yahoo Plan B, will announce...
- Tags: Slate, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?
- As expected, billionaire Carl Icahn launched his proxy war to turn over Yahoo's board of directors and one of his nominees is Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo and then took those funds to buy the Dallas Mavericks. Just for entertainment value I may buy a...
- Tags: Shareholder, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Chairman, Mr., Mark Cuban, Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Director, Yahoo Shareholder, Bebchuk, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- DHS to name new CIO
- The Department of Homeland Security said this week that it will name Richard Mangogna CIO. Mangogna comes to the DHS from Mason Harriman Group, where he was a senior advisory to the firm's agencies. He also was CIO at JP Morgan Chase, the division head of Business...
- Tags: CIO, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Leadership, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- I don't need GPS in my iPhone
- The current iPhone can't do true GPS – which is fine with me. Many people put the popular navigation technology at the top of their iPhone wishlist but I think that 3G networking is much more important. iPhone's Google Maps application does pseudo-GPS by approximating...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple iPhone, GPS, Garmin Ltd., Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- How to detect network vulnerabilities?
- Computer scientists at George Mason University GMU have developed a new software to identify complex cyber network attacks. This software is named CAULDRON (short for 'Combinatorial Analysis Utilizing Logical Dependencies Residing on Networks'). The developers claim that CAULDRON 'can reduce the impact of cyber attacks by identifying the possible vulnerability...
- Tags: Software, Network, Vulnerability, George Mason University, CAULDRON, Networking, Security, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- The iPhone impact on open source
- The iPhone impact on open sourceDo you know why truth about iPhone is not welcomed?Do you know why truth about iPhone is not welcomed?"Apparently, 12 percent or so of iPhone users just can’t get the hang of the device, calling it “tricky”, and soon after returning it."http://www.iphoneworld.ca/news/2008/02/06/one-in-eight-iphone-users-befuddled-by-their-iphone/"And surprisingly Apple has...
- Tags: open source, Apple iPhone, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- Using arsenic to detect cancers?
- An international team led by Texan researchers is using arsenic as a powerful tumor imaging agent. In fact, they are using a drug called bavituximab, 'an antibody that homes in on a specific molecular target on the blood vessels that feed tumors.' By linking this drug to very small doses...
- Tags: Rat, Combination, Technique, Imaging, Blood Vessel, Document Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- As Microhoo turns: In today's episode Google goes gunshy; News Corp plays ball
- These incremental Microsoft-Yahoo updates can get tiring. At least we're not killing trees with them. As a public service, here's a roundup of the latest chatter about Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. Google gets cold feet. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that has lost enthusiasm...
- Tags: Google Inc., TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! Inc., Asset Management, Outsourcing, Operational Planning, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
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- Legg Mason Inc.
- Legg Mason is a global asset management company. Acting through its subsidiaries, Co. provides investment management and related services to institutional and individual clients, company-sponsored...
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