Chief Executive

Will Microsoft’s CES keynote yield a ZunePhone? — Yes, the rumor is back again. And it will keep coming back until Microsoft eventually releases its own phone (which I think it will and should). The rumor today is that Microsoft could use chief executive Steve Ballmer’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote to unveil a device based on both its Zune portable music device and the Danger-made Sidekick device, Tech Trader Daily reports. This rumor comes compliments of Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry. While analysts typically have horrible reputations when it comes to predicting products, seeing as the CES keynote is less than a month away, it’s possible... [Tags: ces, ces keynote, chief executive, compliments, consumer electronics show]

Chris Dodd: GM Head Must Step Down Under Any Bailout Agreement — Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) said that Rick Wagoner should step down as chief executive of General Motors as part of any government-supported restructuring process. "I think he has to move on," Dodd said on CBS's "Face the Nation". Dodd has been working over the weekend to craft a roughly $15 billion auto bailout package that would carry the Big Three through March of next year. The automakers requested $34 billion from Congress last week. Dodd said the smaller, short-term package would give lawmakers more time to consider a government oversight board or an administrative process to oversee the restructuring of... [Tags: administrative process, automakers, bailout package, cbs, chief executive]

Peek at Cake Financial’s dwindling portfolios — Everyone knows the stock market is tanking, but how is that affecting individual investors? Social investing site Cake Financial released data today shedding some light on how its users are coping with the crumbling economy. The answer is pretty much what you’d expect: Not that well. At the end of November, individual investors are down 42.25 percent for the year, which is in the same neighborhood as many market indices. During that same period, the NASDAQ fell 42.7 percent, the Dow Jones fell 34.7 percent and the S&P 500 fell 40 percent. And not surprisingly, investment activity has slowed, with... [Tags: amazon, amp, chief executive, dow jones, ebay]

Glaser memo on Real cuts: no holiday party, either — RealNetworks Chief Executive Rob Glaser told employees the company is taking steps to help workers being laid-off in rough economic times, such as extending their Cobra medical coverage. The company's also doing other things to cut costs and won't be having a holiday party this year. The memo: Team -- I'm writing to share some important but not happy news. Today, we're implementing a reduction in force affecting about 130 employees, representing about 7.5 percent of the company's work force. This is a world-wide initiative: about one-third will be in Seattle, approximately another third in other U.S. locations, and the... [Tags: chief executive, cobra, consolidations, economic environment, economic times]

Facebook and Twitter - taking stock (or not) — From the NYT: Serious talks between the Facebook social network and the Twitter microblogging service started soon after Mr. Williams took over as chief executive on Oct. 16. Twitter reportedly rejected Facebook’s $500 million, mostly stock offer several weeks ago. “We explored it, as we should. We took it seriously,” Mr. Williams said. “It definitely made sense — the strategy we talked about with them — but it wasn’t the right time.” At $500 in $15bn valued stock....no definitely not the right time, because Facebook isn't likely to be worth much more than $3bn in our view, so thats $100bn... [Tags: chief executive, facebook, mr williams, nyt, real money]

Google: Not Even Pretending To Be An Engineer-Run Company Anymore — Google was never quite the engineer company its public relations and human resources teams made it out to be, but as Google gets serious about cutting costs, that myth of a decentralized company run by its engineers -- which was, in fact, more true at Google than most anywhere else -- grows ever fainter. For example, remember Google's 20% rule? The one that allowed engineers to spend a fifth of their time on any project of their choosing? Google CEO Eric Schimdt's not even pretending its real anymore. Here's the money quote from the Wall Street Journal's rehash of Google's... [Tags: bottom line, brilliant vision, chief executive, confusion, dark matter]

Roy Greenslade: Financial Times politely orders cost cuts — While most newspapers are hacking away at budgets with a broad sword, the Financial Times is going about its cost-cutting with a scalpel. Its announcement to staff, as revealed by Oliver Luft, is about as polite a way as possible of asking for restraint.Instead of demanding redundancies, the FT's chief executive, John Ridding, is instituting a pay freeze while offering the paper's journalists the chance to earn less by reducing their working week (and their pay, of course) and the chance, if they so wish, to apply for voluntary redundancy (though department heads may veto such applications).There will not even... [Tags: advertisers, budgets, chief executive, close watch, daily basis]

RIM: A Less-Than-Perfect Storm? — Research In Motion’s (RIM) downside guidance for the third quarter is playing hell with the company’s share price today. After market close Tuesday, RIM said revenues for the three months ended November will fall short of its earlier forecast. The BlackBerry maker expects to report Q3 sales of $2.75-2.85 billion, up 65 percent from a year earlier, but less than its earlier outlook of $2.95-3.10 billion. “Initial sales of new products have been very positive, and we believe we have the strongest smartphone portfolio in the industry by far,” RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie said in a statement. “However, product-launch... [Tags: blackberry, chief executive, deutsche bank, downside, economic conditions]

Yahoo shares climb on hopes for $30-billion takeover bid — SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc.'s stock rallied today on a report that AOL's former chief executive believes he can raise enough money in a worsening recession to buy the struggling Internet company for as much as $30 billion.... [Tags: aol, chief executive, enough money, internet company, recession]

Yahoo acquisition rumor buoys stock — Shares of Yahoo jumped 7 percent Tuesday following a report that former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller was interested in buying the struggling search company. Citing unidentified sources with knowledge of the situation, the Wall Street Journal reported...... [Tags: acquisition, chief executive, jonathan, jonathan miller, search company]

Yahoo’s Stock Jumps on Report of Buyout Interest — Investors bid up shares after reports that Jonathan Miller, AOL’s former chief executive, is attempting a private buyout of Yahoo.... [Tags: aol, chief executive, investors, jonathan, jonathan miller]

Yahoo acquisition rumor buoys stock — Shares of Yahoo jumped 7 percent Tuesday following a report that former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller was interested in buying the struggling search company. Citing unidentified sources with knowledge of the situation, the Wall Street Journal reported...... [Tags: acquisition, chief executive, jonathan, jonathan miller, search company]

Ex-AOL Boss Looking to Raise Cash for Yahoo Bid — Former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller is seeking as much as $30 billion from investors to buy all or part of Yahoo, reports The Wall Street Journal, boosting shares of Yahoo with the news of Miller's possible bid for the Web search engine. But raising so much money in the current market could be tough, with banks unwilling to lend. The former AOL chief executive reportedly wants to raise funds to buy Yahoo for $20 to $22 a share for the entire company. - NEW YORK (Reuters) Former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is seeking as much as $30 billion from... [Tags: aol, banks, boss, ceo, chief executive]

Someone Still Wants What Yahoo!'s Got — The company's shares have gotten goosed by a report that the former chief executive for AOL has been trying to raise money to buy it.... [Tags: aol, chief executive, money, yahoo]

Yahoo shares climb on news of possible buyout bid (AP) — AP - Yahoo's stock surged more than 6 percent Tuesday on a report that AOL's former chief executive is trying to raise enough money to buy all or part of the struggling Internet company.... [Tags: aol, buyout bid, chief executive, enough money, internet company]

Ex-AOL boss looking to raise cash for Yahoo bid (Reuters) — Reuters - The former chief executive of AOL Jonathan Miller is trying to raise money to buy part or all of Yahoo, according to the Wall Street Journal.... [Tags: aol, boss, chief executive, jonathan, jonathan miller]

US Chamber Of Commerce On The Inside Energy Policy Track — US General James Jones, retired Marine general, former Nato commander, and newly-appointed National Security Adviser to President Elect Obama. Don't expect "clean coal" to have a diminished importance in the next US Administration. Yesterday, it was announced, General James Jones (pictured) will be national security adviser to President-Elect, Barack Obama. Per the Wall Street Journal, Gen. Jones is the president and chief executive of the Insti...... [Tags: barack obama, chamber of commerce, chief executive, clean coal, energy policy]

Clearwire May Slow WiMax Build to Cut Funding Gap — Clearwire may build its high-speed WiMax wireless network more slowly than originally planned if credit markets do not improve by early 2010. Clearwire completed its venture deal with Sprint Nextel and other partners Nov. 28. - NEW YORK (Reuters) Clearwire Corp. may build its high-speed WiMax wireless network more slowly than originally planned if credit markets do not improve by early 2010, Chief Executive Benjamin Wolff said on Monday. Clearwire, whose shares rose 15 percent in Monday's trading, completed its ventur...... [Tags: chief executive, clearwire corp, credit markets, gap, high speed]

Ford CEO To Take $1 A Year Salary If Company Gets Bailed Out (POLL) — Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a trillion dollars in bailouts, Congress is finally starting to clamp down on executive pay as a condition for a bailout. AP reports, "Some members of Congress have urged the Big Three executives to take major pay cuts as part of the deal. Chrysler Chief Executive Robert Nardelli said he would work for $1 a year, and a similar commitment is expected from GM CEO Rick Wagoner. Ford plans to include a pay cut for Ford CEO Alan Mulally, although the size of the cut was not immediately available." Just... [Tags: automaker, bailout, chief executive, chrysler, corporate aircraft]

DeWolfe: 'Cautiously optimistic' about MySpace in recession — MySpace Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe said that he's "cautiously optimistic" about ad revenue for the News Corp.-owned social network in the face of a recession, Reuters reported Monday. Speaking at the outlet's Reuters Media Summit, DeWolfe said that MySpace's "revenue and profits are significant and they ...... [Tags: chief executive, chris dewolfe, media summit, myspace, news corp]