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PeopleSoft extends refund programme
News Last week, PeopleSoft's legal counsel said that terms of the refund programme had already expired and indicated that the company's board of directors would decide whether to continue it in some form. On Monday, PeopleSoft changed some terms of the...
[November 20, 2003, 10:30]
Control freaks caused HP mess, says ex-board member
News In Perkins' view, HP's board was split between two types of directors: "guidance" directors like himself who wanted to spend board meetings concentrating on ways to beat Dell and IBM, and "compliance" directors who were obsessed with the Sarbanes...
[February 28, 2007, 7:52]
VMware boss leaves amid revenue worries
News The board thanks her for her considerable contributions to VMware and wishes her every success in the future," said Joe Tucci, chief executive of VMware's parent company, EMC, and chairman of VMware's board of directors.
[July 9, 2008, 12:56]
Will Yahoo's board also get a makeover?
News ISS has taken Yahoo's board of directors to task for the last two years for Semel's compensation package, asking that it be tied more closely to the company's performance. Yahoo's directors are subject to re-election each year and, under changes to...
[June 25, 2007, 15:42]
SEC to broaden HP inquiry
News In a regulatory filing, HP said it "recently has received" a request from the SEC's enforcement division asking for records and information relating to Perkins' resignation, two earlier SEC filings, as well as "investigations conducted by HP or...
[September 22, 2006, 17:20]
BlackBerry faces a Good contender
News Both Doerr and Dunlevie are on the board of directors at Handspring, and Doerr in the past has encouraged Kleiner-backed companies to work together as part of Kleiner's philosophy of "Keiretsu. John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins and Bruce Dunlevie...
[October 1, 2001, 15:25]
Email snooping code suffers 'unnecessary' delays
News The original draft of the Act required company directors to gain consent from users of their system and outsiders before monitoring electronic communications. There is no UK legislation requiring private companies to keep traffic data or content...
[May 2, 2001, 13:22]
Time Computers denies tales of woe
News Harris also admitted that one of the directors of Time, Dr Tariq Mohammad, had left the company. The email claimed that four directors, including Dr Mohammed, had left. An email claiming to detail a multitude of ills at Time Computers was dismissed...
[July 22, 2005, 10:55]
Ellison: We will prevail
News At that point, Oracle would then need to successfully win its lawsuit to remove a "poison pill" provision adopted by the targeted company's board of directors. However, Ellison cautioned that if Oracle lost that lawsuit, the company is willing to...
[July 10, 2003, 7:44]
Yahoo makes board decision as deadline looms
News The internet company had agreed to select two candidates from a pool that included Icahn's former slate of dissident directors. The Wall Street Journal, which first reported Chapple's position as a lead contender, noted that the company is in the...
[August 14, 2008, 9:30]
Marks and Sparks to sell online
News Jupiter analyst Noah Yasskin reckons M&S has struggled to convince its directors of the benefits of e-commerce. There would be worries about cannibalising its bricks and mortar business and they would have had to convince directors about the...
[November 8, 1999, 11:23]
Microsoft's next move in fight for Yahoo
News A tender offer solicits all the shareholders of the target company, asking them to tender their shares to the interested buyer for a certain price, while a proxy fight involves running a slate of opposition directors designed to replace some, or...
[February 12, 2008, 15:13]
Fiorina: The quest continues
News Despite HP's ongoing troubles, one of the company's directors recently explained why the board has taken a patience-is-a-virtue approach with Fiorina. In an apparent vote of confidence in her gambit, less than two weeks after the acquisition was...
[September 4, 2001, 9:38]
Apple defends Steve Jobs in options row
News The board of directors is confident that the company has corrected the problems that led to the restatement, and it has complete confidence in Steve Jobs and the senior management team. Earlier this year, one of Apple's former chief financial...
[December 29, 2006, 11:10]
BSA offers £10,000 bounty for software pirates
News Company directors and managers face stiff penalties if illegitimate software is found at their company. It is the responsibility of company owners and directors who are liable for unlimited fines and prison sentences of up to two years when their...
[November 3, 2000, 13:12]
It's Time for an inquiry
Leader But rarely do we witness such vitriol aimed at former directors as we have seen with the demise of UK PC maker Time Computers. Amongst all the anguish and frustration in our Talkback directed at the former directors of Time, Tiny and Granville...
[August 5, 2005, 15:35]
Motorola to spin off handset division
News Icahn has been trying to get four directors onto Motorola's board and is suing the company in an attempt to acquire documents relating to its handset business. Our decision to separate our Mobile Devices and Broadband & Mobility Solutions...
[March 26, 2008, 12:00]
HP faces crisis after mole hunt
News In a press release issued on 19 May, the company said that Perkins "resigned from its board of directors on May 18, 2006, with immediate effect. A private investigator hired by HP allegedly hired a data broker to gather information on telephone...
[September 6, 2006, 16:10]
Jobs spurns offer of iPod partnership
News Also at the meeting, Apple shareholders elected the company's slate of directors and ratified the company's choice of KPMG as auditor. The California Public Employees' Retirement System, an influential shareholder, had said earlier in the month...
[April 23, 2004, 10:50]
Symantec chief Thompson to retire
News Enrique T.Salem, Symantec's current chief operating officer, will replace Thompson at the helm from 4 April and will also join the board of directors. Thompson said he has been working with the Symantec board of directors on a succession plan for...
[November 18, 2008, 9:25]
