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- "PayPal Wars" Author Eric Jackson: Politics and Business
- Eric Jackson is the award-winning author of "The PayPal Wars," an account of his experiences as that company's senior marketing director. Now, as founder of conservative-leaning World Ahead Publishing, he has entered the culture wars. Here, Jackson talks about finding his niche, making the New York Times bestseller list, ...
- Videos 2007-10-11
- Apple Needs Outside Director
- Speculation has begun on who should fill Apple's AAPL open board seat, which opened up after Google's GOOG CEO Eric Schmidt decided to step down.Apple's Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who took over running the company while CEO Steve Jobs took time off earlier this year for health issues, has...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Goldman's Board Is Getting Too Cozy
- Financial journalists have focused a lot on Goldman Sachs GS over the past few weeks.Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone kicked over a hornet's nest by calling the firm a "vampire squid," pointing out a number of facts he suggested led to the conclusion that Goldman has received preferential treatment from...
- External links 2009-08-12
- Plea to Dismantle Broadridge Monopoly
- Last month, I wrote to Chairman Mary Schapiro of the SEC about dismantling the monopoly Broadridge BR enjoys counting electronic proxy votes for all US public companies.Wednesday, I wrote to Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL), who serves on the Senate Banking Committee, about the matter. by Eric Jackson
- External links 2009-08-06
- SEC Should Break Up Broadridge Monopoly
- From: Eric JacksonSent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:00 PMTo: 'chairmanoffice@sec.gov'Subject: Breaking Up the Broadridge BR MonopolyDear Chairman Schapiro: by Eric Jackson
- External links 2009-07-17
- Buffett's Buffet: Who's Really Paying for the Pricey Meal?
- Salida Capital, a small Canadian fund, will pay $1.68 million which goes to charity to dine with the Oracle in New York. But who picks up the tab?For months, some of the brightest financial minds in the world have been debating whether there is an imminent threat of inflation thanks...
- External links 2009-07-16
- When Will We See Real Change in BofA's Board?
- Last April, all eyes were on the Bank of America BAC shareholders meeting.Many expected CEO Ken Lewis to lose the title of chairman -- which he did. But others, including me, expected that such a result might be a precursor to Lewis losing his job entirely and to other changes...
- External links 2009-07-02
- Yahoo's Bartz on the Right Track
- Yahoo! YHOO holds its annual meeting Thursday and, unlike the previous two meetings, I'm not attending this year. It's not that I think the company is doing such a great job; it's that I sold all my shares in Yahoo! last September after being dismayed by the poor decisions being...
- External links 2009-06-25
- BlackRock's Power to Influence
- BlackRock'sBLK announcement last week that it would purchase Barclays Global Investors from U.K. bank BarclaysBCS for $13.5 billion confirmed that BlackRock would yield an enormous influence on corporate America.In fact, the combined firm will own $2.8 trillion in assets, twice the size of its nearest rivals State Street STT and...
- External links 2009-06-18
- What Exactly has Microsoft Delivered on Its Enormous R&D Investment?
- A couple of weeks ago at the D7 Conference in Carlsbad, Calif., Microsoft MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer boasted the software company could create a lot of new things by spending $9.5 billion annually on research and development expenses. That's right, Microsoft spends almost $10 billion each year on R&D. That's...
- External links 2009-06-11
- 4 Reasons Why Ackman Missed His Target
- When Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management attended Target's TGT annual meeting in suburban Milwaukee last Thursday, it was the culmination of a months-long proxy fight with the company's incumbent board. Although some observers, including me, predicted Ackman's slate would win one or two seats out of the five...
- External links 2009-06-03
- Ackman's Proxy Fight Is Right on Target
- The much-anticipated annual meeting of retailer Target TGT is Thursday and large shareholder Bill Ackman of Pershing Square has been in a long-running battle for the past several weeks to win five seats on the board.Ackman has spent $10 to $15 million of his own money on this campaign thus...
- External links 2009-05-28
- Yahoo! Insiders Should Be Shown the Door Out
- Does a leopard change its spots? Not at Yahoo! YHOO; every director and officer there seems to have a congenital affliction that is forcing them to withdraw as much compensation as they can from the shareholders like a personal ATM.The company's always had a laissez-faire approach to compensation. A techie...
- External links 2009-09-09
- Five Conclusions on What Carol Bartz Had to Say About Selling Shares
- Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo! YHOO, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning talking about their search deal with Microsoft, that she would've taken the MSFT buyout offer at $33 or $34 ("you think I'm stupid?"), their investment in Alibaba (ALBCF.PK), and the analysis I did last week which showed...
- External links 2009-09-11
- Icahn Should Give Up Running Other People's Money
- After a string of disastrous investments and his departure from Yahoo!'s YHOO board last Friday, it's time for Carl Icahn to hang it up running other people's money. Here's why. Icahn's decision to leave the Yahoo! board comes a year after mounting a costly and distracting proxy contest to get...
- External links 2009-10-28
- HP Employee Disgruntlement Runs Deep
- My post a few weeks ago on Mark Hurd's perks at HP HPQ has generated a lot of traffic and email comments -- especially from current or former HP/EDS employees.Here is a link from one ex-EDS'er in Germany upset at the way things have played out. by Eric Jackson
- External links 2009-10-09
- Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz's Continued Share Dumps Reflect Poorly on Leadership
- As predicted last month, when I first raised this issue, Yahoo! YHOO disclosed late Friday that Carol Bartz had sold another $1.3 million of Yahoo! stock at the end of September. This brings her total Yahoo! share sales for the year to $3.3 million.When I first brought up this...
- External links 2009-10-07
- While eBay Burned, Whitman Fiddled
- I've recently criticized Yahoo!'s YHOO Carol Bartz and Hewlett-Packard's HPQ Mark Hurd for excessive pay and perks, given their companies' performances. My focus on Silicon Valley gluttony would be incomplete without discussing the perks at eBay EBAY. by Eric Jackson
- External links 2009-10-01
- Shareholders Must Put an End to Decoupled Pay-for-Performance
- Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve criticized Yahoo!’s YHOO Carol Bartz and HP’s HPQ Mark Hurd for excessive pay and perks, given their companies’ recent performance. It’s been interesting to read the many emails I’ve received on the articles – mostly from employees of both companies. ...
- External links 2009-09-27
- HP's Executive Comp Is Troubling in a Year of Worker Pay Cuts
- Mark Hurd was brought in to take the helm at Hewlett-Packard HPQ in 2005. He's well regarded by Wall Street for turning the company from a bureaucratic has-been to a market leader again. In the first 2 1/2 years of Hurd's tenure as leader, HP's stock increased...
- External links 2009-09-24
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