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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, ...
Tags: conservative publishing, politics and business, World Ahead Publishing, Eric Jackson, PayPal
Videos 2007-10-11
Why Did Yahoo's Carol Bartz Use Shareholders' Money to Pay Taxes?
Bobbie Johnson of the Guardian wrote a balanced post on the topic of Carol Bartz's $10mm Year One signing bonus. I think the crux of it was the point he made about Bartz’ decision to use Yahoo YHOO shareholders’ money to pay her tax bill instead...
Tags: Internet, Eric Jackson, Yahoo! Inc.
External links 2009-09-12
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...
Tags: Internet, Eric Jackson, Yahoo! Inc.
External links 2009-09-11
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...
Tags: Internet, Eric Jackson, Yahoo! Inc.
External links 2009-09-09
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...
Tags: Hardware, Gadgets, Eric Jackson, Apple Inc.
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...
Tags: Financial, Eric Jackson, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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
Tags: Financial, Eric Jackson, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.
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
Tags: Financial, Eric Jackson, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.
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...
Tags: US Market, Eric Jackson
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...
Tags: Financial, Eric Jackson, Bank of America Corp.
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...
Tags: Internet, Eric Jackson, Yahoo! Inc.
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...
Tags: Financial, Eric Jackson, Barclays Plc., BlackRock Inc.
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...
Tags: Software, Eric Jackson, Microsoft Corp.
External links 2009-06-11
Microsoft, Alibaba.com Execs Join Yahoo in Noticeable Share Dumps
In recently criticizing Yahoo!'s YHOO insiders for dumping $233mm in stock over the last 2 years, when they've only bought $103k in shares, I would be remiss if I also didn't call out 2 other executives for big share dumps last week: Craig Mundie, head of research and strategy for...
Tags: Internet, Eric Jackson, Microsoft Corp.
External links 2009-09-15
Yahoo! CEO Bartz Has a Lot of Explaining to Do
Yahoo! YHOO CEO Carol Bartz didn't get the "boatloads of cash" for her shareholders from Microsoft MSFT as she vowed in May, but she'll take home a boatload of cash herself out of Yahoo! for her work in 2009.A review of her total compensation plan reveals that Bartz is on...
Tags: Internet, Eric Jackson, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.
External links 2009-09-18
Gregory Zuckerman's 'The Greatest Trade Ever' Teaches the Lessons of John Paulson
If it wasn't clear already that John Paulson had reached the zenith of his hedge fund profession, one only had to watch how fervently the media and blogosphere digested the news of Paulson & Co.'s quarterly holdings which was released last Friday.Market commentators immediately pounced on how the one-time housing...
Tags: US Market, Eric Jackson, Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
External links 2009-11-18
Two Important Yet Overlooked Exec Comp Factors
We read a lot about corporate governance and executive compensation these days, in the wake of last year's economic collapse. Many politicians are now jumping into the fray, saying we need to legislate certain governance requirements, such as splitting the roles of CEO and chairman or lowering CEO pay. Although...
Tags: US Market, Eric Jackson, Hewlett-Packard Co., Las Vegas Sands Corp.
External links 2009-11-17
Four Risks to Las Vegas Sands' Shareholders
With its stock price up over 800% since its March lows, Las Vegas Sands LVS plans to raise up to $3.3 billion in a Hong Kong IPO listing of its Asian assets later this month. While it has great potential upside from its properties in gambling territory Macau, there...
Tags: Retail, Eric Jackson, Las Vegas Sands Corp.
External links 2009-11-12
7 Steps Towards Real Free Market Capitalism
Market commentators and the White House have been quick to blame last year’s economic meltdown on a free market run amok. And they’ve used that false assumption to justify their unprecedented response of government intervention and increased regulation. But we’ve never really had free market capitalism in...
Tags: Financial, Eric Jackson, Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc.
External links 2009-11-11
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...
Tags: Internet, Eric Jackson, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.
External links 2009-10-28