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Embattled Qwest Chief Executive Resigns
News During a board meeting late Sunday, Qwest directors reportedly named Richard Notebaert as the company's new chief executive. Qwest Communications' chief executive Joseph Nacchio has resigned at the request of the board, according to published reports.
[June 17, 2002, 9:08]
Internet Regulator Considers Anti-paedophile Powers
News A drawn-out board meeting on Thursday discussed whether the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) should take greater responsibility for illegal content on the Internet, by considering stronger action to address paedophile activity in Usenet newsgroups.
[November 21, 2001, 6:31]
Dunn Departs HP Over Media Leak Scandal
News HP chairman Patricia Dunn, who launched an investigation into media leaks that resulted in a firestorm of controversy, has agreed to resign her post following a meeting of the company's board of directors.
[September 12, 2006, 16:20]
IWF Defers Newsgroup Policy Decision
News The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) failed to reach a consensus of opinion on whether Internet service providers (ISPs) should have their self-regulatory approach towards dealing with unlawful newsgroups revoked, when a board member deliberately...
[April 27, 2001, 16:05]
LinkedIn About To Be Acquired?
Blog Several months after the last set of rumours died out, Eric Eldon and Matt Marshall at VentureBeat (http://venturebeat.com/2008/05/05/whats-happening-at-linkedin-is-it-getting-bought/) report that a board meeting overran last week and seemingly...
[May 13, 2008, 17:43]
IWF Says ISPs Must Drop Illegal Newsgroups
News After much heated discussion and opposition from cyber-liberty advocates, an IWF board meeting resolved that UK ISPs should be called to review their policies on newsgroups, and reduce the amount of groups that are shown to be regularly receiving...
[July 19, 2001, 10:10]
Angry O2 Workers Disrupt AGM
News According to The Guardian, one employee accused the O2 board of 'prostituting' its workforce, while one shareholder of pensionable age was carried out of the meeting by security guards after mounting the podium to call for the resignation of...
[July 28, 2005, 13:15]
Want A Top-level Domain? Be Patient
News It seems the only thing anyone can agree on at the ICANN board meeting is that more top-level domains are needed. At the meeting, one ICANN subgroup studying the issue on behalf of some trademark holders suggested that the board add six to 10 new...
[March 10, 2000, 9:27]
Will Yahoo's Board Also Get A Makeover?
News But given the negative sentiment on display at this year's shareholders' meeting, the board could remake itself before next year's meeting. If directors have more "against" and "withhold" votes than "for" votes, they are required to tender their...
[June 25, 2007, 15:42]
PeopleSoft Sets Stage For March Battle
News Oracle has nominated replacements for four PeopleSoft board members who are up for re-election at the meeting. The move is a critical step in its efforts to complete a hostile buyout of its software rival: PeopleSoft's board has twice rejected an...
[February 2, 2004, 9:05]
BEA Under Pressure To Get Financials In Order
News In the case of Icahn, observers say, he is seeking to use a shareholders meeting as another tool to prompt the board to sell itself to the highest bidder. If BEA does not have its financials current prior to the shareholders meeting, it cannot send...
[November 5, 2007, 10:08]
HP Faces Crisis After Mole Hunt
News Perkins was stunned to learn at a board meeting in May that Dunn went ahead with the investigation nonetheless. With his concerns mounting, Perkins asked that the minutes of the 18 May board meeting be reflected in the Securities and Exchange...
[September 6, 2006, 16:10]
ICANN Heads For 'substantive' Meeting
News The week of technology and policy events in Carthage, Tunisia -- which will be capped by a public meeting on Thursday and a closed-door board meeting on Friday -- comes at a time when interest in the arcana of Internet governance has sharply...
[October 28, 2003, 9:35]
Domain Group Revolts Against Icann
News Still, Icann is not expected to act on the ccTLD operators' demand at its board meeting on Monday, said Icann president M Stuart Lynn. They also called on Icann to create a separate supporting organisation that would provide the ccTLD operators...
[June 4, 2001, 9:22]
Icann: Let The Domain Games Commence
News It was all a precursor to what is likely be an explosive meeting Thursday, when the Icann board is expected to choose the winners from a pool of 44 applications. Icann has been meeting all week, but its board set aside Wednesday morning for...
[November 16, 2000, 9:52]
Reporters Tracked Before HP Story Ran
News News.com reporter Tom Krazit was also told by investigators that his personal phone records were accessed on 20 January, the same day he called HP spokesman Robert Sherbin for comment about the board meeting.
[September 20, 2006, 17:15]
PeopleSoft Sets Date For Shareholder Showdown
News If that fails, Oracle has signalled it will launch a proxy fight for control of PeopleSoft's board via a director election at the March meeting. A majority of PeopleSoft's shareholders have tentatively accepted the bid, but the board of directors...
[December 13, 2004, 8:45]
Dyson: Open ICANN Meeting Worked
News But ICANN board members said during the meeting that more basic work must be done before they can consider a proposal for taking policy input from individuals. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit manager...
[August 27, 1999, 8:56]
Oracle Reveals PeopleSoft Board Challengers
News We have notified the PeopleSoft board of our intention to run an alternative slate of directors at the 2005 annual meeting," Jeff Henley, Oracle's chairman, said in a statement. PeopleSoft faced the choice of either appointing a new director to...
[November 25, 2004, 8:05]
ICANN Derails Latest .xxx Plan
News The board does not believe these public-policy concerns can be credibly resolved with the mechanisms proposed by the applicant. Nonetheless, this time, the board was again somewhat divided on the issue.
[April 2, 2007, 11:47]
