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Company directors 'exposed' to computer crime
News Nearly a third of Britain's leading company directors remain unaware of the legal risk of computer crime, security firm Integralis revealed Monday. This, despite the fact that half the FTSE 1000 company directors questioned by Integralis admitted...
[July 17, 2000, 16:10]
Directors and Officers Liability for the Public Company: Managing and Minimizing the Risks
White Papers For more and more enterprises that are navigating the complexities of being a publicly-traded company, it's not a question of if it makes sense to take on Directors and officers Liability insurance (D&O), but exactly how to do so.
[May 16, 2009, 1:17]
IT staff can't be trusted, claim self-appointed software police
News FAST said that directors should be aware that their company's Internet activity could be being monitored by FAST itself, and any employee who downloads software illegally could make them personally liable for copyright infringement.
[April 29, 2005, 13:35]
HP's Hurd recalls few details under questioning
News When asked by Congress to supply more information about HP's spying campaign against journalists and company directors, chief executive Mark Hurd could recall few details, according to documents released by the company on Wednesday.
[November 2, 2006, 9:18]
Yahoo extends deadline for board nominations
News Yahoo has extended a deadline to nominate board directors, buying the company time to pursue alternatives to Microsoft's $41.7bn offer, while giving Yahoo room to negotiate a friendly deal with Microsoft.
[March 6, 2008, 8:43]
Tate quits Rambus amid stock options probe
News Geoff Tate, the former chief executive of Rambus, quit the company's board of directors on Tuesday as more details emerged of his role in the allocation of stock options. The Audit Committee of Rambus, which licenses technology to computer...
[August 16, 2006, 13:30]
Apple defends Jobs amid strong financial results
News Apple reported financial results far ahead of Wall Street's expectations on Wednesday, and the company's board of directors defended chief executive Steve Jobs' role in Apple's stock options backdating scandal.
[April 26, 2007, 9:49]
PeopleSoft: Oracle's bid is 'inadequate'
News PeopleSoft's board of directors has rejected Oracle's lowered bid to take over the company, calling the price "inadequate". The settlement also states that when it comes to deciding whether to award money to shareholders, any questions that arise...
[May 27, 2004, 9:25]
HP shareholders air frustrations at annual meeting
News HP shareholders approved two proposals related to executive pay and anti-takeover provisions, and vented some of their frustration with the company's board of directors at the company's annual meeting on Wednesday.
[March 15, 2007, 8:56]
HP announces new director to board
News Rajiv Gupta will join HP's board of directors beginning in January 2009, the company said on Wednesday. We look forward to welcoming his financial, operational and corporate governance expertise to the HP board of directors.
[September 25, 2008, 9:03]
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]
Administrators still baffled over Time ownership
Talkback If it was a Limited Company, Companies House has records of all Directors and all other companies that they are Directors of. If it wasn't a Limited Company, they only have to look at the accounts and they'll soon know who owns what by the amount...
[August 12, 2005, 13:46]
WorldCom chief quits
News The reported resignation arrived amid growing pressure from the company's outside directors, and concern over a wide-ranging investigation by regulators. Directors have grown increasingly agitated with Ebbers over the company's sinking stock price...
[April 30, 2002, 11:19]
SAP rules out a hosted future
News SAP directors noted the company overtook Siebel in CRM software sales during the second quarter of 2003 and now is the largest CRM vendor worldwide. He and other SAP directors noted that the same applies even if a small portion of a potential...
[April 15, 2005, 14:45]
Sun's a late riser on WS-I board
News The Web Services Interoperability Organisation (WS-I) on Wednesday announced that Sun Microsystems and integration software company WebMethods have been elected on its board of directors. Particularly significant in the voting results is the...
[March 26, 2003, 17:06]
Jobs, Apple directors face new stock-options lawsuit
News Current and former members of Apple, including chief executive Steve Jobs and several directors, are being sued again over their role in the company's stock-options backdating affair. Martin Vogel and Kenneth Mahoney, the plaintiffs, are charging...
[July 3, 2008, 9:41]
Music players 'cause trouble' for IT helpdesks
News The study, conducted by research company Vanson Bourne for software provider Touchpaper, questioned 100 IT directors and found that many IT service departments are under increasing pressure. IT directors have hit out against the use of digital...
[October 26, 2005, 16:20]
Ellison resigns from Apple board
News Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has resigned from Apple Computer's board of directors, saying he no longer has the time to devote to the company. When Jobs returned to the company in 1997, Ellison was named to the board of directors.
[September 20, 2002, 14:01]
Shareholders take stock of Apple
News One investor asked Jobs to respond to worries that his new position on Disney's board of directors, following that company's acquisition of Pixar Animation Studio, would detract from his attention to Apple.
[April 28, 2006, 11:20]
It's Time for an inquiry
Talkback As Granville was a "Limited Company" it's Directors have legal obligations, including the responsibility over the "iligitimate trading". Hopefully, the DTI will prosecute the Directors and seize assets as an example has to be made, in the UK, as...
[August 9, 2005, 12:43]
