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Apple: In Jobs we trust

Apple Computer filed its tardy quarterly and annual statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday and indicated that Steve Jobs was "aware or recommended" backdated options. However, Apples board has "complete confidence in Steve Jobs and the senior management team." In other words, anyone worried about Jobs standing amid...

Tags: Apple, General

Blog posts 2006-12-29

Apple threatened with NASDAQ delisting

Apple received a Staff Determination letter on Friday from the NASDAQ threatening that its stock could be delisted from the prestigious exchange because it is "not in compliance with the exchange's rules." According to CNet's Ina Fried: Apple is the best-known of dozens of companies that are...

Tags: stock option grant, Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2006-08-14

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The good news about WalMart

The magic of jiu jitsuYou praise what a company reviled by the left is doing. The right rises. Then you point to WalMart's support of true health reform, and pound them with it. How does this help the public option?I don't see it.So you are saying that because of some...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Benefits, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

Intel aims to reprice employee stock options; Otellini total comp tops $12.7M

Intel on Monday told employees that it would reprice its employee stock options.  In a regulatory filing, Intel detailed plans to reprice stock options at a lower price, similar to what Google did. In addition, Intel said that it would freeze salaries of senior executives in 2009....

Tags: Stock Option, Stock, Employee Stock Option, Intel Corp., Stock Options, Stock Options & Grants, Benefits, Investment, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Yahoo's Bartz to earn $1M plus bonuses, options

Carol Bartz, Yahoo's new CEO, will earn a base salary of $1 million, not counting bonuses, as well as stock options of 5 million shares, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Her offer letter, excerpted below, lays out details on bonuses and stock options, as well...

Tags: Compensation Committee, Stock Option, Compensation, Stock, Yahoo! Inc., Company, Benefits, Stock Options, Investment, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-15

VMware's R&D chief quits after 9 months

VMware said Tuesday that its executive vice president of research and development has resigned after nine months on the job. In a terse statement, VMware said that Richard Sarwal quit to go back to Oracle. Sarwal joined VMware in December 2007. VMware CEO Paul...

Tags: Stock Option, Security, Amount, R&D, Stock, Employment, Agreement, VMware Inc., Company, RSU, Control, Change, Cause, Person, Stock Options, Investment, Benefits, Human Resources, Stock Options & Grants, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Verisign names new CEO

Verisign said that CEO Stratton Sclavos has resigned. He will be replaced by William Roper Jr., who was on the board of directors. Roper had been on Verisign's board of directors since 2003. Previously, Roper was an executive vice president and CFO at Science Applications International Corp. In a statement...

Tags: General, Security, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-29

Options update: Former Apple CFO throws Steve Jobs under the bus

According to the Wall Street Journal subscription reqd former CFO and Apple board member Fred Anderson said that he "warned Chief Executive Steve Jobs about accounting implications associated with the backdating of stock-options grants."Anderson made the remarks about Jobs in a statement filed by his attorney today after agreeing to...

Tags: Legal

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Apple's former CFO lays blame on Jobs over options

The Securities and Exchange Commission is apparently taking legal action in the Apple options backdating probe against Apples former general counsel Nancy Heinen. Steve Jobs is supposedly in the clear, and Apples former CFO Fred Anderson has settled with the SEC, paying a modest fine and repaying option gains without...

Tags: Government, General, Apple

Blog posts 2007-04-24

Apple trying to avoid a train wreck

Apple trying to avoid a train wreckMakes You WonderAl Gore, running around the world telling everyone how we're all doomed to an environmental holocaust and when you read between the lines it is because of the Bush Administration's links to oil companies. Yet, the very same Al Gore who...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Financial accounting, Backdating, Microsoft Corp., job, Apple Inc., Al Gore, SEC

Discussion threads 2007-01-02

Apple trying to avoid a train wreck

Like many companies under the gun in the ongoing stock options trading scandal, Apple is playing a dangerous game with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. attorney corps. Many companies, which make a similar claim to Apples that executives involved with back-dating options (or it happened on their...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Computer Inc., Apple, General

Blog posts 2007-01-01

Options cloud hangs over Macworld Expo

The run up to Macworld Expo each January is unquestionably the most exciting time of the year for the Mac faithful. The rumor mill is working overtime with predictions about new products that could be announced and Apple consumers and journalists prepare for the annual pilgrimage to San Franciscos Moscone...

Tags: Finance, Macworld Expo, stock option, Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2006-12-29

Paper: Apple's Jobs surrendered unauthorized options

Paper: Apple's Jobs surrendered unauthorized optionsThe beef...From the page you linked to-[i]Apple's board gave Jobs 7.5 million stock options in 2001 without the approval of the company's board, and said the company later falsified documents that purportedly showed a full meeting of the board had taken place to approve the...

Tags: Corporate governance, Recruitment & Selection, job, Apple Inc., board, Balmer, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-12-28

Can Jobs remain unscathed by Apple options probe?

Can Jobs remain unscathed by Apple options probe?it served it's purposethey got the cash they needed at a time they needed it, and now with Apple doing well, they pay the fine "and be done with it"Until there is an indictment ...... this amounts to nothing more then idle speculation....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Investment, Regulations, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd, job

Discussion threads 2006-12-27

Can Jobs remain unscathed by Apple options probe?

The stock options backdating issue may be catching up to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. While most are focused on Apples retail sales, latest gadgets and Macworld, the companys stock option backdating probe--you know the one that has caused Apple to delay its annual report--remains a big issue. ...

Tags: Apple, General, Steve Jobs, Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2006-12-27

Google online auctions for employee stock options

GOOG is a powerful recruiting incentive for Google. Google is now embarking on an innovative online auction process enabling Googlers to sell vested stock options:Under the Transferable Stock Option program, employees will still be able to exercise their options, but will also be able to sell their options to financial...

Tags: Value at Risk, financial company, Google Inc., Google Software Applications, ecommerce, Google, Culture

Blog posts 2006-12-12

Apple announces fiscal Q4-2006 earnings

Apple yesterday announced preliminary financial results for its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter ended September 30, 2006. They also noted that the preliminary results may be subject to "significant adjustment" as a result of a likely restatement of historical results.The company posted revenue of $4.84 billion and net quarterly profit of...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., IPODS, stock option

Blog posts 2006-10-19

Why can't Google's second act be Rich Internet Applications?

Why can't Google's second act be Rich Internet Applications?And the fact that the world is becomming more connected?Why is it that in this article, the fact that the world is becomming more and more connected is completely ignored?More and more homes around the globe are connecting to the internet, and...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., rich Internet application, Googles strategy, Google Inc., Internet, Web browser

Discussion threads 2006-09-24

Intel cuts back options for stock

Intel cuts back options for stockMy thoughts, they could/should have expenced them.Granting stock to an employee is in my opinion a very good thing. The company does well, the employee does well, not so well and that is reflected in the value too. In other words it provides...

Tags: Investment, stock, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-12-16

Mercury Interactive: After the fall

I caught up with Mercury Interactive's Christopher Lochhead for an update on the situation that resulted in three top executives exiting the company due to apparent financial misdoings. As you would expect, Lochhead, the company's chief marketing officer, is upbeat about the fate of the company. The alleged misdeeds are...

Tags: Christopher Lochhead

Blog posts 2005-11-03