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FT To Buyouts; Salary Freeze — The Pink One will pass out some pink slips, though more in form of buyouts than actual layoffs, reports Reuters, citing an internal memo sent out today by FT CEO John Ridding. The company has already done some redundancies in its library/research division in October. For those interested in a buyout, they have Dec 19th as the cutoff date. It also is freezing salaries for employees who earn more than $50K a year or the equivalent, which means most of the mid to senior journalists at the company. That freeze decision could be reviewed if conditions improve earlier. Also, FT... [Tags: advertisers, buyouts, ceo john, circulation, difficult times]

Is Microsoft trying to pull a SugarCRM? — I read this CNET interview with Microsoft CRM division general manager Brad Wilson, and it felt like I was reading an interview with SugarCRM CEO John Roberts. No, Roberts doesn't talk about lock-in, monopoly power, and such, but then, neither does Wilson. Instead, he discusses values that are core ...... [Tags: brad wilson, ceo john, john roberts, microsoft, microsoft crm]

Panasonic and Samsung Invest in SiBEAM — The complicated world of wireless HD delivery just got a little more interesting today, as Panasonic and Samsung both made strategic investments in chipmaker SiBEAM. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. The financial support of the two consumer electronics giants gives a boost not only to SiBEAM but to the WirelessHD standard, which uses the 60GHz spectrum to wirelessly beam HD video in the home. It’s just one of many wireless options vying to become the de facto HD transmission standard, including Wi-Fi, Ultra-wideband and WHDI. But consumer electronics companies are hedging their bets as the standards process... [Tags: 5 million, bets, ceo john, chip market, chips]

Mac Internet share hits record 8.82%; Windows drops below 90% — Apple’s (AAPL) slice of the Internet pie grew measurably in November as both the Mac and the iPhone hit record numbers in a Net Applications Web survey issued overnight Monday. At the same time, Microsoft’s (MSFT) Web presence crossed two psychological barriers, with Windows’ Internet share dropping below 90% for the first time and Internet Explorer’s market share retreating to less than 70%. The Mac’s share of Web hits, having lost ground in October, grew 7.43% in November to a record 8.82%, according to the Web metrics firm’s preliminary data. The iPhone’s gains were sharper: up 12.12% to 0.37%. (Linux... [Tags: aapl, ceo john, consistent methodology, internet explorer, internet pie]

Don’t Get Depressed, It’s Not 1929 [Voices] — By Daniel Gross, Moneybox Columnist, Slate It’s difficult to avoid the comparisons between the current sad state of financial affairs and the Great Depression. “This is not like 1987 or 1998 or 2001,” Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain said at a conference on Nov. 11. “We will in fact look back to the 1929 period to see the kind of slowdown we are seeing now.” Time depicted President-elect Barack Obama on its cover as Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And in Washington, the buzz is all about what the new team will do in its first 100 days. What’s next? Show trials... [Tags: arthur m schlesinger, arthur m schlesinger jr, barack obama, ceo john, daniel gross]

Alan Schram: Paulson Policy Failures — Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson made some disastrous decisions that had major unintended consequences. One of those was the decision to nationalize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Once the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, supposedly preemptively, shareholders of every other financial company that perhaps needed capital were left with no choice but to sell aggressively, fearing the government might decide to preemptively wipe them out also. This made it impossible for any company to raise the capital it needed or wanted. About a week later Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was forced to sell to Bank... [Tags: bank of america, capital infusions, capital providers, ceo john, counterparty risk]

Is RPX’s “Defensive Patent Aggregation” Simply Patent Extortion By Another Name? — Patent litigation is getting so bad that a new startup, RPX Corp. (aka, Rational Patent) is gearing up to help companies defend themselves specifically against patent trolls (organizations that buy up patent portfolios with the express intention of forcing other companies to license those patents or face a lawsuit). RPX markets itself as a “defensive patent aggregator.” It buys up its own patents, or strikes licensing deals on behalf of its members, and charges companies $35,000 to $4.9 million a year for perpetual licenses to those patents. In other words, pay up now and any patents in RPX’s portfolio... [Tags: 100 million, 12 months, acquisitions, amster, billions of dollars]

Twitter rebuffs a Facebook poke? — Maybe it wasn't just egregious Valley gossip-baiting when Federated Media CEO John Battelle asked Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month if his company was going to buy Twitter. Kara Swisher of AllThingsD reported early Monday morning that actual acquisition talks held between the two companies have fallen through. The deal would have been for $500 million in Facebook stock, Swisher wrote. Facebook's not big on acquisitions. The only sizable purchase the company has made was of a start-up called Parakey, and that was really just a way to bring on board founder Blake Ross. Twitter's a different story.... [Tags: acquisition talks, blake ross, business model, ceo john, degrees of separation]

Twitter rebuffs a Facebook poke? — Maybe it wasn't just egregious Valley gossip-baiting when Federated Media CEO John Battelle asked Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month if his company was going to buy Twitter. Kara Swisher of AllThingsD reported early Monday morning that actual acquisition talks held between the two companies have fallen through....... [Tags: acquisition talks, ceo john, early monday morning, facebook, federated]

Daniel Gross: Why All Those Great Depression Analogies Are Wrong — It's difficult to avoid the comparisons between the current sad state of financial affairs and the Great Depression. "This is not like 1987 or 1998 or 2001," Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain said at a conference on Nov. 11. "We will in fact look back to the 1929 period to see the kind of slowdown we are seeing now." Time depicted President-elect Barack Obama on its cover as Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And in Washington, the buzz is all about what the new team will do in its first 100 days. What's next? Show trials in Moscow? All this historically inaccurate... [Tags: analogies, arthur m schlesinger, arthur m schlesinger jr, barack obama, brother can you spare a dime]

Move Networks and PermissionTV in Link to Bring "Adaptive Streaming" to Smaller Publishers — Move Networks, the small Utah-based company which has created an impressive high quality, low bandwidth solution to streaming video for ABC, FOX, the and others, will now provide its technology to much smaller publishers through an association with Boston-based PermissionTV. Move's streaming technology is not Flash or Microsoft based, it is a technology it calls "adaptive streaming" -- a process which breaks up and sends along small packets which are assembed by the user depending on local bandwidth.  In July I interviewed Move CEO John Edwards who explains how the technology works. It involves a small web plug-in.PermissionTV is a... [Tags: abc, bandwidth solution, ceo john, curtains, demand performance]

Choose Yahoo's New CEO: Round 2 (Vote Here!) — We held a primary voting campaign for Yahoo's (YHOO) new CEO yesterday. Today, we've kept the top three leaders from yesterday's voting -- former AOL (TWX) boss Jon Miller, current News Corp. (NWS) COO Peter Chernin and Google's (GOOG) sales leader Tim Armstrong -- and added three more names we've seen suggested here and elsewhere: Yahoo director Maggie Wilderotter, former DoubleClick CEO David Rosenblatt and one of Carl Icahn's choices for Yahoo's board, former Nextel CEO John Chapple. Vote below. And remember, a choice in our poll below is also telling the board what kind of company Yahoo should be... [Tags: aol, carl icahn, ceo john, company yahoo, coo]

Symantec CEO packs it in for Hawaii — Doubts remain over JohnThompson's Veritas buy...Symantec CEO John Thompson is retiring, after leading the security vendor for the past decade.... [Tags: ceo john, decade, doubts, hawaii, john thompson]

Thompson retiring as Symantec's CEO — Symantec Chairman and CEO John W. Thompson, one of the highest ranking African American executives in Silicon Valley history, will retire from day-to-day duties at the end of the company's fiscal year, Symantec announced Monday. Thompson's departure comes as...... [Tags: african american executives, ceo john, fiscal year, john w thompson, silicon valley]

Symantec CEO John Thompson to Step Down Next Year — Symantec CEO John Thompson is stepping down as CEO next April. Thompson will be replaced by Symantec COO Enrique Salem. - After 10 years in the cockpit of Symantec, John W. Thompson is stepping down from his position as chief executive officer. Effective April 4, 2009, Thompson will be replaced by Enrique T. Salem, Symantecs chief operating officer. Thompson, 59, will remain chairman of the board of directors. “I ...... [Tags: 10 years, april 4, board of directors, ceo john, chairman of the board]

Symantec CEO John Thompson to Step Down — Symantec CEO John Thompson will retire on April 4, 2009. He will be replaced by COO Enrique Salem.... [Tags: april 4, ceo john, john thompson, symantec]

Symantec's John Thompson to retire as CEO — Will remain chairman of the board Symantec has announced that CEO John Thompson will retire in early April, at the end of the company's fiscal year.…... [Tags: ceo john, chairman of the board, fiscal year, john thompson, symantec]

Symantec names Salem new CEO — Symantec has named Enrique Salem, currently chief operating officer, as its new CEO effective April 4. Salem will replace current chairman and CEO John Thompson, who will retire at the end of Symantec’s fiscal year. Thompson will remain chairman as Salem takes over. Under Thompson’s leadership Symantec has broadened from being a consumer security software company to [...]... [Tags: april 4, ceo john, chief operating officer, consumer security, fiscal year]

Management is killer app for virtualization, says CA top exec — Management is the technology that will allow virtualization to achieve its full potential, said CA CEO John Swainson.... [Tags: ceo john, exec management, john swainson, killer app, virtualization]

Why Companies Fire People, Not Fancy Snacks — When Fast Company publisher Mansueto Ventures laid off 20 employees last month, CEO John Koten said: "I did not cut certain things like sodas and massages because I want to do everything possible to ensure that this is to remain a very special place to work." Probably those 20 laid-off employees would have been OK with a mere place to work, "very special" or not. Which is why it's tempting to urge CEOs facing cash crunches to cut the fancy office snacks and keep their employees instead. But is that a false choice? We did the math to see exacly... [Tags: amazon, anchor steam, cash crunches, ceo john, clif bars]