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- Tim Armstrong's fine risk-reward setup at AOL
- AOL's new soon-to-be CEO Tim Armstrong will be in for quite a sea change from his previous gig at Google. The lingering question: Why would you leave Google for AOL? It's an interesting question raised by Sam Diaz offline. For all the talk Techmeme about Armstrong's enthusiasm...
- Blog posts 2009-03-13
- Michael Capellas has landed
- Michael Capellas has landedCapellas always lands on somebodyIf Capellas does for First Data what he did for MCI, we can expect him to earn a hefty multi-million-dollar bonus for selling out the company and arranging for long-term employees to lose their jobs. Luckily, I'm not bitter.Michael ComesellusThis guy is good...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-10
- Michael Capellas has landed
- Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq and MCI formerly Worldcom, has landed at First Data Corp. First Data Corp. is an e-commerce payment company that you probably run into every day via services as the STAR ATM network, TeleCheck and various back-end commerce systems. The company is also being bought...
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
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- First Data Could Allow User Generated Financial Credit Reports
- At the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference I spoke with Michael Capellas, CEO of First Data, which processes about one-half of all US credit card transactions. He said that the company collects massive amounts of financial data and that this part of the business is just ten percent...
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- News to know: Best hard drives; Wi-Fi's dead end; Microsoft CRM Live
- Notable headlines:Robin Harris: Who makes the best hard drives?Ryan Naraine: Ex-Softies launch anti-malware start-up.George Ou: Why 2.4 GHz is a dead end for Wi-Fi.Ryan Naraine: Microsoft drops 6 bulletins, fixing 11 vulnerabilities. Microsoft bulletin.Command injection flaw found in IE--or is it Firefox? Richard Stiennon: Your DBA has his/her hand in...
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- CIO to CEO: It's not impossible
- Want to align business and technology interests? Turn your CIO into a CEO. Impossible? Not really. Baseline magazines Kim Nash has cooked up a list of 56 CIOs that have made the leap other top executive positions. Of course, some...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- At WCIT, a call for government to lead
- Technology can make positive contributions to the developing world, but in many cases government will have to take a more active role in putting to best use, speakers at the World Congress on Information Technology gathering in Austin, Texas, said. The 2,000 delegates to the Congress come from 80 countries...
- Blog posts 2006-05-04
- MCI chief's severance deal nears $40 million
- MCI chief's severance deal nears $40 millionAnother CEOThis guy should be thrown in jail! Run a company into the ground and get a bonus!Shareholders can sell a kidney.......to help pay for the high-priced talent.I worked at Compaq ..... for a few years in the late 90's. I remember...
- Discussion threads 2005-09-02
- MCI's Capellas: A Superman or a Clark Kent?
- MCI's Capellas: A Superman or a Clark Kent?So far, Capellas's record is one of ruination.He helped ruin Compaq (and in the process, the vestiges of Digital Equipment Corporation), and then went on to collaborate in the ruining of HP, and graduated to the overseeing of the selling-off of MCI. Why...
- Discussion threads 2005-02-15
- The new CEO of HP will be...?
- Now that Carly Fiorina is part of the HP legacy, who will be the next CEO? As Fiorina has experienced, running a complex, global tech company with 150,000 employees in 170 countries and $80 billion in revenue, and a soup to nuts product set ranging from consumer cameras to high-end...
- Blog posts 2005-02-09
- Verizon's sure to buy MCI. Here's why
- Verizon's sure to buy MCI. Here's whyRats eating each otherwhile the ship sinks. Telcos, ALL telcos will be belly up in the next few years. The WiMAX steamroller having squashed them all flat. Go ahead and do it Verizon, get REAL big so the steamroller has a bigger target!They're both...
- Discussion threads 2005-02-01
- Job cuts ahead as MCI posts $388 million loss
- Job cuts ahead as MCI posts $388 million lossMichael Capellas gets to ruin another company.He destroyed Compaq, and was rewarded by being annointedas CEO of WorldCom (admittedly, already a basket case).And now, he's doing what he does best: Destroying a companyin order to save it. Maybe after he's done wrecking...
- Discussion threads 2004-05-12
- MCI emerges from bankruptcy with renewed customer focus
- Capellas: 'New MCI' is technologically strongMCI chief executive Michael Capellas opens the NetWorld+Interop trade show in Las Vegas in his first keynote address since his company emerged from bankruptcy last month. He says MCI has a strong balance sheet and is committed to innovation.
- Videos 2004-05-11
- MCI vows to regain public trust after bankruptcy
- MCI vows to regain public trust after bankruptcyAt Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., MCI CEO Michael Capellas says winning back the public's trust will be a "top priority" when the company emerges from bankruptcy.
- Videos 2003-10-23
- WorldCom's future: Capellas at the helm
- WorldCom's future: Capellas at the helmAt the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2003 in San Diego, Gartner analysts ask Michael Capellas why he took on the role of saving beleaguered industry giant WorldCom.
- Videos 2003-03-27
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