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Bumper share options package for new UK chip boss
News British microchip designer ARC International revealed on Tuesday that its new chief executive has been awarded an incentive package of 10 million share options. The decision to award the options to Michael Gulett is significant because, unusually...
[January 2, 2002, 16:35]
Logica threatens to quit UK over share options tax changes
News Logica, one of the most successful UK IT companies of the past decade, is reported to be angry about plans to force businesses to include share options in profit and loss accounts. Like many other technology companies and dot-coms, Logica uses...
[June 4, 2001, 10:24]
Juniper faces delisting after finance probe
News Juniper Networks faces being delisted from the Nasdaq share index after revealing the extent of irregularities around stock options at the company. By backdating stock options, a company could let an executive benefit from a lower share price and...
[August 11, 2006, 13:35]
Autodesk drawn into stock option 'scandal'
News Computer-aided design and manufacturing company Autodesk announced a 21 percent growth in revenue in its second financial quarter on Thursday, only to find its share price hit by the ongoing probes into tech stock options.
[August 18, 2006, 13:25]
Siebel offers employees cash for stock
News Stock options grant the holder the right to buy a share of stock at a specific price, called the strike price. Subject to certain restrictions, the deal calls for employees to get $1.85 in cash for every share on which they have an option.
[September 2, 2002, 14:35]
Budget to promote e-business
News Brown is expected to expand tax breaks on share options even beyond the package announced in November's pre-budget report. Share options have become a popular way for small, growing businesses with little turnover (as is the case with most high...
[March 21, 2000, 13:41]
Apple execs reaped 'millions' in unlawful profits, shareholders allege
News The lawsuits all claim that the company's chief executive, Steve Jobs, and other executives backdated their share options, and later cashed them in shortly before Apple's stock price fell. Under US law, if an executive cashes in options knowing...
[August 23, 2006, 17:25]
An engaging use for business information
Leader Look at the profusion of desktop stock tickers during buoyant periods in a company with share options. Given the chance, everyone in a company likes to know how well it's doing - provided only that they expect to share its success.
[September 28, 2005, 15:15]
Cisco CEO draws $1 salary
News The options he gave back, along with those he retains, range in strike price from $16 to $20.53 a share. Although Cisco shares have taken a beating over the past year, along with many other tech stocks, the networking giant's share price has...
[October 4, 2002, 13:53]
Amazon to expense options
News Siebel Systems, for instance, would have reported a loss of $467m (£300m), or $1.02 per share, last year instead of a profit of $255m, or 49 cent per share, if it had had to record stock options as an expense, Siebel said in its annual report.
[July 24, 2002, 7:48]
TrackMate
Downloads Create and Share Landmarks: The application also offers options to create flags(landmarks) which are your points of interest. You can share or unshare the flags within the group by setting it as public or private.
[February 27, 2009, 7:00]
How to effectively set up file and printer shares
News Share permissions: A share under Windows is any location that you've enabled users to access by setting options in the Sharing tab in a folder's Properties window. Share permissions offer these three options:
[June 27, 2003, 13:42]
SCO execs take personal profits
News As of July 1, 2003, we have issued and outstanding options to purchase up to 4,011,975 shares of common stock with exercise prices ranging from $0.66 to $59.00 per share. Since SCO launched its legal action against IBM, claiming that Big Blue had...
[July 29, 2003, 15:11]
Google's share giveaways may have been illegal
News The affected shares and options were issued between September 2001 and June 2004, at exercise prices ranging from 30 cents to $80 (£43.75) per share. In recent weeks, the company set the price range for its shares between $108 and $135 a share, of...
[August 5, 2004, 8:20]
Microsoft earnings deflated by AOL settlement
News That earnings projection includes an estimated 6 cents per share in charges related to Microsoft's decision to expense the cost of granting stock options to employees. Even excluding the settlement charge, Microsoft's earnings of 23 cents per share...
[July 18, 2003, 14:31]
Apple defends Jobs amid strong financial results
News Profit was up nearly 88 percent at $770m, or 87 cents per share, compared with profit of $410m, or 47 cents per share, last year. Wall Street analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had been expecting revenue of $5.17bn and earnings per share of 64...
[April 26, 2007, 9:49]
Vista revs up peer-to-peer engine
News Microsoft's new operating system, which won't arrive for consumers until early next year, has a new collaboration feature that allows laptops to share information with other nearby machines. The company has built one program based on it into Vista...
[May 31, 2006, 8:55]
Sun faces shareholder mutiny
News Such grants can result in substantial compensation for only modest gains in share price," the SEIU states in its proposal. Sun, whose stock underperformed compared to those of competitors such as Dell and key indexes such as the S&P 500, has been...
[September 22, 2005, 8:45]
Yahoo insiders take profits as shares hit high
News In January 2000, the company traded for more than $200 (£120) a share, but in the last year, it has dipped as low as $8.94. Now trading at $32 a share after four consecutive quarters of profits and new investor hope, Yahoo may be regaining some of...
[June 27, 2003, 9:14]
PowerPoint 2007 RTM review
Reviews Before you share a PowerPoint document, we recommend walking through the Prepare options from the Microsoft Office menu in the upper-left corner of the screen. Microsoft has taken steps to allow users of old and new editions of PowerPoint to share...
[November 29, 2006, 7:47]
