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The Day Ahead: Value America board members throw cash into the pit
News Struggling e-tailer Value America would like you to believe that some of its board members gave the company a vote of confidence by forking over $30m (£19.9m) for convertible preferred shares. Actually, board members are just trying to recoup losses.
[May 11, 2000, 12:03]
Time to drop 'AOL'?
News Members of AOL Time Warner's board of directors may consider the issue when they meet in September. Board members last year were considering the drop in the hope of stripping away an association with its embattled Internet division.
[August 12, 2003, 11:40]
Jobs puts self, Ellison, Intuit CEO on board
News Two of the current board members, Duane Woolard and Derek Change, remain. Steve Jobs announced a new board for Apple Computer Inc.in his keynote at MacWorld. New members include: Jerry York, former CFO at Chrysler Corp.and IBM, Larry Ellison...
[August 6, 1997, 13:27]
Women leaders? Not in our boardroom
News The University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center has found that women account for less than one in five board members of the largest communications companies. Ntl and Adelphia Communications fared the worst, having no women board...
[August 28, 2002, 8:59]
Court questions independence of Oracle investigators
News A committee established by Oracle to investigate stock sales by its chief executive Larry Ellison and other members of the board was packed with people with close ties to the business software maker, according to a recent court opinion.
[June 18, 2003, 7:53]
HP still undecided on Dunn's fate
News HP's board of directors met for several hours on Sunday but adjourned without announcing a decision on the fate of chairman Patricia Dunn, who is facing calls to resign in the wake of a probe of board members and journalists that involved personal...
[September 11, 2006, 8:55]
Yahoo makes board decision as deadline looms
News Yahoo is close to appointing John Chapple and Frank Biondi Jr as its two additional board members, as it nears its Friday deadline to expand its board as part of a settlement agreement with activist investor Carl Icahn, according to sources.
[August 14, 2008, 9:30]
Open-source group broadens its reach
News The Eclipse development tools consortium gained momentum on Monday with the announcement of 13 members to its board of stewards and the introduction of three new open-source projects. New board members include heavyweights Hewlett-Packard, SAP and...
[December 16, 2002, 15:44]
Wyly's big day at CA falls flat
News Sam Wyly's "liberation day" for Computer Associates' shareholders failed to materialise on Wednesday as the company re-elected 10 incumbent board members. Based on CA's estimates, the company's current board members won 75 percent of the shares voted.
[August 29, 2001, 16:36]
Icahn joins Yahoo board
News Icahn, who had proposed his own slate of board members, had been agitating for Yahoo to reach a deal to sell all or part of the company to Microsoft. Eight members of Yahoo's current board of directors will stand for re-election at the scheduled...
[July 21, 2008, 14:23]
Control freaks caused HP mess, says ex-board member
News In a lunchtime speech at the VentureOne Outlook Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Perkins aired his side of the story in the HP spying scandal that led to the resignation of board members Dunn, Perkins and Jay Keyworth, as well as a lot of...
[February 28, 2007, 7:52]
Sun's a late riser on WS-I board
News Current board members Accenture, BEA Systems, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP will stay on. The Web Services Interoperability Organisation (WS-I) on Wednesday announced that Sun Microsystems and integration software...
[March 26, 2003, 17:06]
Largest software group sides with DoJ
News The Justice Department asked the Software and Information Industries Association to file a brief Monday in the final stage of the trial, and its board voted last week to do so despite its largest member's protests, two members said.
[February 1, 2000, 14:45]
The Universidad Politecnica de Aguascalientes Integrates Information, Improves Academic Processes
White Papers The Universidad Politecnica de Aguascalientes wanted to implement an IT infrastructure that is scalable, robust, and easy to replicate throughout the 33 polytechnic universities and create a robust, reliable database to integrate and centralize...
[August 28, 2009, 1:22]
Sun may join Web services body
News Sources say the proposal would most likely need unanimous approval by the WS-I's nine current board members, which include BEA Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Intel. A Sun representative on Friday said Sun will join the Web Services...
[May 7, 2002, 13:00]
Microsoft stands to gain from Icahn-Yahoo pact
News With its ally Icahn and two members of Icahn's former dissident proxy slate getting three seats on Yahoo's expanded 11-member board as part of the settlement, Microsoft may find a sympathetic ear on any future buyout or asset-acquisition proposals...
[July 22, 2008, 8:27]
ICM Registry counts cost of .XXX domain rejection
News Lawley, the chairman and president of ICM Registry, is now asking ICANN for an explanation for why nine out of the 14 board members voted against the proposed .XXX domain -- especially after the board approved the concept less than a year ago, in...
[May 15, 2006, 17:25]
Sun gets closer to Web services elite
News The WS-I requires companies to join as members before they can be considered for board positions. The board of directors of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), an organisation founded by IBM and Microsoft to promote Web services...
[June 20, 2002, 12:29]
Sun to step aboard Web services group
News The move is a reversal of the company's previous stance that it would join the group only as a board member so as to be on equal footing with IBM and Microsoft, the group's founding board members -- and Sun rivals.
[October 25, 2002, 7:48]
Report: US investigates Apple, Google board ties
News The board members in question are Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and former Genentech chief executive Art Levinson. Schmidt has said he recuses himself from Apple board meetings where the iPhone is discussed, but under Section 8 of the Clayton...
[May 5, 2009, 9:40]
