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Juniper faces $900m charge in options scandal
News This practice of backdating — in which the grant date of an option is moved to coincide with a low point in the value of a company's shares — appears to have been widespread in the dot-com and technology sector.
[December 21, 2006, 12:05]
Apple defends Jobs amid strong financial results
News Anderson issued a press release saying he warned Jobs that selecting options grant dates other than the actual date the board of directors approved the grant could force Apple to record an expense. Apple restated earnings in December to correct...
[April 26, 2007, 9:49]
Apple's Jobs hit by ex-CFO stock options claims
News Backdating occurs when a company's officers assign a grant date for a stock option award that was earlier than the date it was actually awarded, generally to take advantage of a lower stock price on the earlier date.
[April 25, 2007, 8:35]
RIM execs to pay £50m in backdating settlement
News According to the settlement agreement, about 1,400 of RIM's 3,200 stock option grants were backdated (that is, assigned an issue date prior to the actual grant date) or re-priced (dated later than the actual grant).
[February 9, 2009, 13:34]
Stocks to watch: Compuware, Lucent Technologies and Motorola
News Lucent Technologies Lucent might move on some rather benign news that a federal judge will rule at a later date on whether to grant Newbridge Networks, now part of Alcatel, a new trial in a 1997 patent dispute brought by the network-equipment maker.
[July 10, 2000, 11:14]
Why Jobs has the backing of Apple's board
News Hundreds of companies — including CNET Networks — have become embroiled in the problem, in which companies preparing stock option awards occasionally cherry-pick a grant date when the stock price was low, rather than using the price on the date...
[February 2, 2007, 8:07]
Are You Protected by a Piece of Plastic and Two Screws?: Wiegand Had Its Day! Borer All-in-One Solution, Will Ensure Your Data Is Secure
White Papers The control panel will then validate the date received and grant/deny access. The majority of cards and biometric readers in access control systems use a Wiegand interface to transmit data read from a card to a control panel.
[February 29, 2008, 0:02]
Apple defends Steve Jobs in options row
News Almost 200 technology companies have been caught up in the options scandal, and have been forced to investigate whether stock grants were backdated — a practice where the grant date of an option is moved to coincide with a low point in the value...
[December 29, 2006, 11:10]
Former CFO quits Apple in stock options probe
News In stock-option backdating, a company selects a favourable grant date for the options when the company's stock price was relatively low. Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, in a few instances, was aware that favourable grant dates had been selected...
[October 5, 2006, 9:10]
BT delays ADSL again, Freeserve says it's a 'disgrace'
News Oftel is currently considering whether to grant an extension and will give its answer in the next few weeks. The original launch date of ADSL was "sometime in March". According to telecoms watchdog Oftel, BT has sent it a letter asking for an...
[March 3, 2000, 5:52]
Handheld makers get FCC wrist-slapping
News Franca said Handspring has asked that the grant be held until 15 October, although that date could be amended later. FCC approval, known as a grant of equipment authorization, is required of any wireless device that contains a transmitter, from...
[August 30, 2001, 8:58]
Expect more stock option cases, warn Feds
News Stock option backdating refers to the practice of retroactively changing the date of a stock option grant to make it appear it was granted on a date when its value was lower, thereby multiplying the payoff when the options are exercised.
[September 7, 2006, 9:55]
IT departments warned over ageism
News To this end Atsco wants the government to grant tax breaks for UK IT contractors for retraining purposes. Perhaps a more important driver that will help address ageism in IT is the looming skills crisis facing the UK but Swain warned that older IT...
[February 23, 2005, 10:05]
Administrators and bankers face losses over Time collapse
News A controversial but established legal option suggests that ex-employees of the company may be able to claim money directly out of the fees due to the administrators, Grant Thornton. The joint administrator of Granville, Martin Ellis from Grant...
[August 8, 2005, 18:05]
Google.org awards disease-prevention grants
News The Woods Hole Research Center received a $2m multi-year grant to support high-resolution satellite mapping of forests to enhance monitoring of forest loss and settlement expansion in tropical countries.
[October 22, 2008, 12:18]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Also Eddie Grant and Bernie Washington. This is called Today's the Day, and is largely based around events that happened on the date of broadcast. Our date is March 5, so I plug away gamely on the Internet, pulling down screeds of stuff from...
[January 16, 1998, 16:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Also Eddie Grant and Bernie Washington. This is called Today's the Day, and is largely based around events that happened on the date of broadcast. Our date is March 5, so I plug away gamely on the Internet, pulling down screeds of stuff from...
[January 16, 1998, 16:40]
SCO engineer: No smoking gun found in Linux
News Despite the vast disparity between SCO's public accusations and its actual evidence - or complete lack thereof - and the resulting temptation to grant IBM's motion, the court has determined that it would be premature to grant summary judgment...
[July 15, 2005, 9:10]
Russia tweaks laws to drive IT growth
News Although Fursenko declined to identify the fields where technology transfer would begin (or the exact terms of the grant), he said Russia's strengths lie in information technology, life sciences and alternative energy.
[January 30, 2004, 8:40]
US Government to fund open source bug hunt
News The Homeland Security Department grant will be paid over a three-year period, with $841,276 going to Stanford, $297,000 to Coverity and $100,000 to Symantec, according to San Francisco-based technology provider Coverity, which plans to announce...
[January 11, 2006, 9:05]
