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Sarbox Lite or the end of Sarbanes-Oxley?
in Sox First, on November 25, 2009
...rom op-ed columnists, bloggers and disaffected lawyers, the law seems to have the support of most directors and executives. But as Rob Norton writes in Corporate Board Member magazine , the law can...
Joel Klein To Receive The 100 Women in Hedge Funds' Effecting Change Award
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 3, 2009
... 100 Women in Hedge Funds’ Board of Directors today announced that Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, will receive its 2009 Effecting Change Award at its New York ...
Sports Car Clubs Enjoy BC's Fabulous Sea to Sky Highway
in Classical Drives, on October 21, 2009
...inter Olympics events will be held; you may even catch glimpses of it on your flat screen if the TV directors covering the show are kind enough to pleasure us with a few heli shots showing how the hig...
Shared folders and more in Google Docs
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-14
...und
• Arthur Levinson Resigns from Google's Board of Directors
• HOW TO: Use Social Media in Your PR Pitch Plan
• Venture Funds Raise Only $1.6 Billion In Third Quarter. Most Of That Went To ...
Square-Enix: The Next Gaming Innovation Will Be Billing
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-26
• Square-Enix: The Next Gaming Innovation Will Be Billing
• South Korea to Allow iPhone Entry
• New Firefox 3.7 Design Suggestions Posted
• Microsoft To Open Cafe In Paris To Build Windows 7 Buzz
• Google 服务本月内出现两次大范围故障
• Help and learn from others as you browse the web: Google Sidewiki
...
New Scans Featuring Serah, from V-Jump
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-19
...• Blizzard incurs 'substantial loss' from BlizzCon
• The Witcher 2: Debut Trailer
• Aion preorders near 400,000
• Google Aims to Wrest Display Ads From Yahoo ...
GE cooks the books
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
...o do something substantive, she needs to go after the managers who commit accounting frauds and the directors who approve their tomfoolery. If she really wants to get their attention, and if she reall...
Google 出价 1.065 亿美元收购 On2
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-06
Google 表示 将斥资 1.065 亿美元收购数字视频压缩技术提供商 On2 Technologies。
根据协议规定，每股 On2 股票将转换为价值 0.60 美元的 Google 普通股。交易规模大约在1 .065 亿美元。整个交易预计将在今年第四季度完成。
Google 拥有广受欢迎的视频共享网站 YouTube。而 On2 是一家数字视频压缩技术提供商，在网络视频日益盛行的今天，数字视频压缩技术已成为一个重要法宝。
Google 产品管理副总裁 Sundar Pichai 在声明中表示，"现在视频已经是 Web 体验的一个重要组成部分，我们相信高品质的视频压...
Eric Schmidt 辞去 Apple 董事职务
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-04
... member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest. Therefore, we have mutually decided tha...
地狱少女雕刻项链 / じごくしょうじょ 雕刻项链
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-24
...nd Television Directors to Follow on Twitter
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Recession-fuelled crime wave
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
...to contract by 4.2%. In recession-stricken Britain, the Daily Mail reports that fraud by company directors is up 313%. Petty theft has risen massive 25%, shoplifting 10% and drug offences are up 6%...
Banks misused TARP funds
in Sox First, on July 20, 2009
...ed on banks and institutions are being met and enforced, they will be able to see whether boards of directors are being responsible with taxpayer dollars and how they're compensating their executi...
Open World Forum 2009 in Paris
in Das Open Source Weblog, on 17.07.09
...e in Bezug auf die verschiedenen Länder besprochen, in denen sie zum Einsatz kommt.
IT Directors/CIOs Summit
Hier wird die Frage erörtert, wie Leiter von IT-Abteilungen (sowohl aus dem öffentlichen...
Directors warned about greenwash
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
... I did a blog entry predicting that climate change would become a big corporate governance issue. Directors can get into all sorts of trouble for failing in their duty of care to shareholders. That...
The Man Who Might Have Saved General Motors
in carzz.org, on June 10, 2009
...ves willing to reveal his inner thoughts about the industry. You might think that GM's board of directors would disapprove but instead he was given his own blog site where everyday folk like you a...
Banks to face more stress tests
in Sox First, on June 9, 2009
...s testing and more rigorous oversight by regulators who would in effect become something like proxy directors....
CostPlus supply chain chief steps down
in Supplychainer, on May 15, 2009
... other members of the executive team.
The company has also announced that a member of its board of directors, Christopher Dodds, notified the company of his intention not to stand for re-election...
SOX and complacency
in Sox First, on May 5, 2009
... governance scandals had been addressed by assigning greater responsibilities to corporate board of directors. In fact, this is only partially the case as recent events have shown. It is not possible ...
Lost American Marques: Hupmobile
in Classical Drives, on May 1, 2009
...y of open and closed models, but Hupp himself left the company in 1911 following a dispute with the directors. 12,000 Hupps (as owners liked to call them) were made in 1913 and ten years later some 38...
Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...y will be forced to review the quality of their ratings and they will have at least two independent directors on their boards whose remuneration doesn't depend on the business performance of the r...
Cardboard coffins and green funerals
in Sox First, on April 22, 2009
...h means it's open to exploitation, says Phil Douma, executive director of the Michigan Funeral Directors Association . "Unfortunately, serious concerns have already been raised about at leas...
Oracle 出价 74 亿美元收购 Sun
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-21
Oracle 同意以 74 亿美元或每股 9.50 美元的价格收购 Sun ，预计该次并购于今年夏季完成。
Oracle 公司总裁 Safra Catz 称，预计该并购交易完成的第一财年，将促使 Oracle 公司依非国际公认会计原则（Non-GAAP）计算的每股盈利至少增加 15 美分。
Catz 指出，预计其收购 Sun 电子计算机公司的业务在并购第一财年将为 Oracle Non-GAAP 运营利润贡献 15 亿美元 ，第二财年贡献逾 20 亿美元。而并购 Sun 电子计算机公司第一财年将实现的每股收益要高于 Oracle 并购服务器软件供应商 BEA 系统公司的计划每股收益...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
...r, they look fine and well thought out, placing the supervision of the compensation in the hands of directors and requiring compensation to be adjusted for all types of risk including difficult to mea...
Hedge Fund Manager Joins Water Reclamation Company
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 12, 2009
...rsen has been appointed to The position of Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors at fresh water reclamation company, STW Resources, Inc.
Pedersen has over 20 years of mer...
Steve Jobs and board failure
in Sox First, on January 22, 2009
... it's a bit of a worry when you read the statement released earlier this month by Apple's directors. "As we have said before, if there ever comes a day when Steve wants to retire or for...
Satyam: do we need a global Sarbox
in Sox First, on January 21, 2009
...ndia is plagued by poor disclosure, lots of creative accounting and a shortage of truly independent directors. But the more important question is whether we need a global Sarbox. The world is already...
Jobs 要请个长假
in Wangtam, on 2009-01-16
...oard of directors fully supports this plan.
I look forward to seeing all of you this summer. ...
Former government officials in boardrooms
in Sox First, on January 15, 2009
... in, we can expect to see many more government officials moving in to the private sector as company directors. What can they offer? How good can they be? And are there any pitfalls. Some interesting ...
Steve Jobs 首次承认健康问题
in Wangtam, on 2009-01-06
...o step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple's CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put...
The relational company
in Sox First, on January 6, 2009
... now is that shareholders have the rights of ownership but none of the responsibilities. Similarly, directors share some of the reward but don't carry much risk. Under its model, the company'...
Are we all Keynesians now?
in Sox First, on December 30, 2008
With the United States government once more getting the taxpayers to bail out a hopeless business, this time announcing it would pump $6 billion into GMAC Financial Services, including $1 billion for General Motors, with the Troubled Relief Assets Program (TARP) turning into a giant slush fund...
JDA and i2 merger won't happen
in Supplychainer, on December 14, 2008
...ignificant cash balances," said Jackson L. Wilson Jr., executive chairman of i2's board of directors, in a statement, "And the company will not walk away empty-handed".
...
Fixing broken boards
in Sox First, on December 8, 2008
...ubin's self serving claim that Citigroup's woes had absolutely nothing to do with its board directors. Not their fault at all, he said, especially not his, despite his $115 million fee. Yeah r...
Corporate governance takes a back seat
in Sox First, on October 20, 2008
... Corporate governance experts have told MarketWatch that Treasury isn't replacing any of the directors on the boards of the banks it's investing in, or adding new directors to represent tax...
Twitter 高层人事变动
in Wangtam, on 2008-10-18
...hile the board of directors and the company have nothing but praise for where Jack has taken us, we also agree that the best way forward is for Jack to step into the role Chairman, and for me to becom...
Financial ethics and the meltdown
in Sox First, on October 15, 2008
...e investors? Should long-term investors have greater power than speculators? And who should appoint directors? Should it be just shareholders? Or should regulators appoint some? I am not giving any a...
Charlie Fine of MIT is appointed the member of the board in supply chain company
in Supplychainer, on October 10, 2008
...less industry, announced last week the appointment of Professor Charles Fine of MIT to its board of directors.
Professor Fine, a leading expert in supply chain management, currently teaches operatio...
Hedge Fund Manager Attempts Overhaul of Noront's Board of Directors
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 10, 2008
...sks Noront's shareholders to vote against the re-election of the Company's current Board of Directors and instead vote to elect a new slate of directors at the upcoming annual meeting of share...
Iceland close to collapse
in Sox First, on October 7, 2008
...from Forbes . The Government has taken over the country's second biggest bank and sacked its directors. And as the FT points out, it's not going to get better. Inflation there is running...
Tool gives bootstrappers board of directors of the big guys
in BootStrapMe, on September 29, 2008
... want as an entrepreneur, giving small startups the same type of board of advisors or even board of directors as the big guys and giving them a place to connect on line.
"Maybe you don't kno...
Best Buy 出价 1.21 亿美元收购 Napster
in Wangtam, on 2008-09-16
Best Buy 刚才宣布 ，将以每股 2.65 美元现金的价格收购数字音乐服务供应商 Napster Inc.。该收购价格包括 6700 万美元现金，以及 Best Buy 截至 6 月 30 日对 Napster 总计 1.21 亿美元的投资。
如果该项收购顺利完成，将使 Best Buy 拥有来自 Napster 的 70 万个在线音乐用户，并使其获得新的客户。Best Buy 连接数字解决方案部门执行副总裁 Dave Morrish 在一份声明中表示："我们能够预见到，Napster 作为一个平台将加快我们在数字娱乐这一新兴行业的成长。"
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CFO churn
in Sox First, on September 6, 2008
...ear less than in 2006. What's causing it? Obviously a more volatile market means you have more directors and shareholders jumping at shadows. Also, more CFOs are going for where the bucks are at ...
Lawyers take to boardrooms
in Sox First, on August 28, 2008
...ore lawyers in the boardroom, reports Law.com . Because of the increasingly litigious environment, directors are now seeking more legal advice. Which suggests we have headed into a boom time for att...
Siemens - a disaster waiting to happen
in Sox First, on August 19, 2008
...th conflicts of interest. The company now says it is cracking down on the graft and pursuing former directors for damages. But that's closing the gate after the horse has bolted. The big test is ...
The corporate governance "zoo"
in Sox First, on August 7, 2008
...most interesting is that corporate governance has now turned into a "zoo". When boards of directors now look at their shareholders, they see everything from private equity, venture capitalis...
Bootstrapping big deals
in BootStrapMe, on August 1, 2008
... next sale and bringing in more cash flow for expansion.
• Make your own choices. No board of directors, no bank presidents or loan officers. Only the bootstrapper decides on the direction of his or...
Hedge Fund Manager/Bank Transition
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 31, 2008
...is placed in the capability of our bank', commented Uto Baader, Chairman of the Baader Board of Directors.
The bank operates as an all-round service provider for asset managers and other institut...
Board witless
in Sox First, on July 21, 2008
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While heads have rolled in response to the financial crisis, boards of directors have remained relatively unscathed. As the Financial Times points out, there is a real shortage of director tale...
comScore Releases June 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings
in Wangtam, on 2008-07-20
...l
• LiquidID
This is an OpenID provider that distributes aliased information (such as email) to OpenID enabled sites instead of your actual information. You still receive all email (but not spam) a...
微软响应 Icahn 称愿与 Yahoo 新董事会进行收购谈判
in Wangtam, on 2008-07-08
激进投资者 Carl Icahn 周一在致 Yahoo 股东的公开信中，援引微软 CEO Steve Ballmer 的话称，如果 Yahoo 在8月份的股东大会上选出新董事会，微软将会重启全部或部分收购 Yahoo 的谈判。
伊坎在公开信中称，过去一周，他曾与鲍尔默多次沟通，鲍尔默仍有意全部收购 Yahoo 或仅收购 Yahoo "搜索业务"，但不会与 Yahoo 现任董事会谈判。
受微软有意继续全面收购 Yahoo 影响， Yahoo 股价开盘大涨 8.8％，报 23.32。微软股价开盘微涨 0.46％，报 26.10 美元。
以下是 Carl Icahn ...
Bootstrapping advantages
in BootStrapMe, on July 5, 2008
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• No need to make a phone call. While a better funded business is contacting the board of directors to discuss a trend, you'll already be exploiting it and moving on to the next.
• The best...
The GOOG->MSFT Exodus: Working at Google vs. Working at Microsoft
in Wangtam, on 2008-07-01
...ok's Board Of Directors
Rhapsody Agrees DRM Is Dead; Launches MP3 Store
MySurfPad
Defuddle - Answer stuff
FlyPaper: Easily Create &Share Flash Presentation
PostalMethods Web-to-Post ...
AC Milan pinged for dodgy accounting
in Sox First, on June 14, 2008
...just fine the clubs for false accounting that included inflating transfer fees. They also fined the directors. And remember, Milan has form in this area. Earlier this year, AC Milan and Inter Milan, ...
The audit cartel
in Sox First, on June 4, 2008
...go wrong, he says, the accountancy bodies and regulators individualize the problem, blaming company directors, corporate governance practices and slack accounting standards. This deflects attention aw...
Watch out Manchester United, here come Hull City!
in The Soccer Weblog, on May 25, 2008
...way from the reality.
Whilst the players and fans will be celebrating, Phil Brown and his board of directors will be looking to see how they can avoid 'doing a Derby'. How much money can they...
Tightening the rules for ethical investment
in Sox First, on May 21, 2008
...nadian legal academic Benjamin Richardson says what's needed is a mix of legislation, changing directors' fiduciary duties which forces them to invest in the best interests of their sharehold...
微软、Yahoo 将重回谈判桌
in Wangtam, on 2008-05-20
近日， Yahoo 收购案风波将再起 ，除了亿万富翁 Carl Icahn 搅和进来之外，微软、Yahoo 将重回谈判桌。今天微软出具了一份 官方的新闻稿 ，表明将重新进行对 Yahoo 的收购，但是与之前不同，此次的收购意向仅针对部分的 Yahoo 在线服务，如 Yahoo 的搜索引擎：
" in light of developments since the withdrawal of the Microsoft proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft announced that it is continuing to ex...
China One Call Providing Emergency Translation Services
in The Flyaway Weblog, on May 17, 2008
..., friends, doctors or nurses in the aftermath of Monday's earthquake. The company's British directors, currently in China, want to join the many thousands giving support by providing a languag...
Carl Icahn 将正式卷起新 Yahoo 收购风波
in Wangtam, on 2008-05-17
刚刚已经提及， 亿万富翁 Carl Icahn 上周谋得 Yahoo 董事席位，意欲发动代理权争夺战 。然后 Carl Icahn 在随后发给 Yahoo 的信中确认，他已经发动了旨在促成微软收购 Yahoo 的代理权争夺战。 Carl Icahn 已经提名了十位 Yahoo 董事候选人，希望用他们取代现有 Yahoo 董事会，以推动 Yahoo 接受微软每股 33 美元、总价值 475 亿美元的收购报价。 Carl Icahn 还在写给 Yahoo 董事会主席 Roy Bostock 的信中披露，他已经收购了 5900 万股 Yahoo 股票，并在寻求清除来自国美国联邦贸易委员会的反垄...
Law Professors as Presidents
in Bizinformer, on May 7, 2008
...y for nine years from 1990 to 1999. He is also a businessman. He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors for Gazprom , the world's largest gas company, since 2002. I had a chance to look at s...
Directors' pay heads north
in Sox First, on May 5, 2008
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Directors pay is going up, according to a new study from the Corporate Library . Directors' pay has gone up 12 per cent and the explanation given is that it's because of the increased wo...
微软宣布放弃收购 Yahoo
in M2 十字街口, on 2008-05-05
网谈消息 ，微软 CEO Steve Ballmer 今天向 Yahoo CEO 杨致远发出信函，宣布放弃收购。Steve Ballmer 也在信中证实，微软确实曾将收购报价提高到 33 美元/股，但 Yahoo 索要 37 美元/股。
Steve Ballmer 称，经过认真考虑后，他们认为 Yahoo 提出的要求是不合理的，因此收回了收购提议，这对微软股东、职员和其他股东都是最好的结果。他表示，虽然微软做出了最大努力，包括将报价提高了 50 亿美元，但 Yahoo 一直不肯接受。对此，Yahoo 尚未发表评论。
在信中，Steve Ballmer 也表达了对 Yahoo 和 G...
微软正式宣布撤回对 Yahoo 的邀购申请
in Wangtam, on 2008-05-05
在经历 3 个多月的波折之后，微软今天正式宣布，因价格未达成一致，正式放弃收购 Yahoo。从昨天到今天早些时候，Steve Ballmer 与 Yahoo 的两位联合创始人杨致远和 David Filo 在西雅图进行了会谈。Steve Ballmer 将收购价增至每股 33 美元，但杨致远表示，不会以低于每股 37 美元的报价出售。
微软 CEO Steve Ballmer 提到，自己在上周六致 Yahoo 的信中表示，愿意将收购报价提高至 475 亿美元，相当于每股 33 美元。可是，Yahoo 仍坚持至少 530 亿美元的报价，相当于每股 37 美元。微软 3 个月前提出的报价为...
Will say on pay cut it with investors?
in Sox First, on April 29, 2008
...s know that it will spill over into fights on other matters, including the re-election of incumbent directors.
...
More than full disclosure
in Sox First, on April 26, 2008
...aintained internally. (And one can only hope that this information is communicated to the boards of directors.) What is missing is some way to communicate such risk information externally." That...
Leonard Asset Management Chief Appointed to HFA
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 25, 2008
...fficer of hedge fund Leonard Asset Management (LAM), has been elected to serve on the 2008 Board of Directors for the Hedge Fund Association (HFA).
HFA is an international not-for-profit association ...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 30
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on April 24, 2008
...exactly who should take over if I should die tonight. Each of the three is much younger than I. The directors believe it's important that my successor have the prospect of a long tenure. Frankly, ...
Yahoo To Experiment With Google Ads
in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 14, 2008
...oogle ads for 3% of its searches.
An excerpt from Search Engine Journal
Yahoo!'s board of directors is exploring strategic alternatives to maximize stockholder value, including exploration o...
