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New Facebook details reveal Zuckerberg’s $500,000 salary and 45% bonus
thenextweb.com
New IPO information submitted by Facebook has revealed that founder Mark Zuckerberg will be paid half a million dollars this year, while is he eligible to receive two bonuses up to the value of 45 percent of this base salary, as The Sydney Morning Herald reports. The dual performance-based bonus set-up...
RIM brings in ex-Sony and Lightsquared execs as new COO and CMO
thenextweb.com
Attempting to get the company back on the right track, RIM has announced the appointment of former Sony Mobile Communications VP Kristian Tear as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Lightsquared executive Frank Boulben as Chief Marketing Officer. RIM, which has been derided for its recent marketing campaign that...
YetiZen Get-In-The-Game Pitch Competition
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This sponsored post is produced by YetiZen. In Town for GDC on March 8th? Got a mind blowing vision for a mobile, social or emerging platform game, gamification app or platform? Want to meet an audience of high level executives and investors from the game space? Compete in the YetiZen...
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins reportedly 'clearing house,' laying off numerous executives
www.engadget.com
With BlackBerry World only weeks away and RIM's earnings report merely hours away, it looks as if newly-appointed CEO Thorsten Heins will be leading it with quite the bang. While Heins has done a truly exceptional job of laying low (really low) during his first few months in the...
HP updating security intelligence, risk management platforms
www.zdnet.com
The HP Security Intelligence and Risk Management (SIRM) platform includes a solution for C-level executives that offers them a heat-map prioritized view of risks across the enterprise....
Square now processing $6 billion in payments annually, hires first CFO
www.theverge.com
Square, the upstart mobile payment processing system that's given pause to giants like VeriFone, is hiring its first chief financial officer to deal with a growing number of payments. According to TheNextWeb, the company now says it's processing $6 billion a year in payments for one million individuals and...
Clickable releases new dashboard tool to visualize Facebook, search campaign performance
www.insidefacebook.com
Facebook Ads API partner Clickable today introduces a dashboard to its ad platform that allows users to track campaigns across Facebook, Google and Bing. Clickable’s widget-based reporting dashboard is customizable so account managers, clients and C-level executives can have different views of data that is most relevant to them. The tool...
Square now processes $6b in payments annually, employs over 300 people; hires CFO
thenextweb.com
Jack Dorsey’s mobile payments venture, Square, has hired Sarah Friar away from Salesforce.com, where she served as SVP of Finance & Strategy. Friar will become Square’s first chief financial officer as the company continues to expand quickly: in the past year, it has grown from 80 employees to over 300....
Apple's Patent War Against Android May Lead to Settlements Under Tim Cook's Influence
www.macrumors.com
Bloomberg Businessweek publishes a cover story on the ongoing patent war between Apple and Android, outlining the history of the disputes between Apple and Android manufacturers such as HTC, Samsung and Motorola. The report notes that Apple has actually experienced only limited success in its legal efforts, suggesting that Steve...
Corporate Types Are iPad Crazy, Survey Finds
www.wired.com
22 percent of corporations are going to buy tablets next quarter, and most of them are looking at the iPad. (Photo: Flickr/Smokingapples.com) In the land of corporate tablets, Apple’s iPad is king. That’s what a recent survey of just over 1,600 business technology buyers concluded. The study, conducted by ChangeWave...
Square now processes $6b in payments annually, hires Salesforce SVP Sarah Friar as CFO
thenextweb.com
Jack Dorsey’s mobile payments venture, Square, has hired Sarah Friar away from Salesforce.com, where she served as SVP of Finance & Strategy. Friar will become Square’s first chief financial officer as the company continues to grow quickly (in the past year, Square has grown from 80 employees to over 300.)...
Facebook, Passwords, Employers and a Business Opportunity
www.readwriteweb.com
Some folks are getting riled up over employers asking job seekers for Facebook passwords, others think it might be OK. Me? I think there's a business opportunity being overlooked in catering to employers' concerns about social media. Monitoring social media is already a business, but that applies to public posts....
RIM says its share of US government market is increasing
www.theverge.com
Some US agencies may be shedding BlackBerry from their IT programs, but RIM executive Scott Totzke tells Bloomberg Businesweek that its share of the US government market "is probably increasing," and that it sold 400,000 devices to federal agencies in the past year — perhaps one of the lone...
Facebook Holds Secret Banker/Analyst Meeting To Kick Off IPO
www.businessinsider.com
Facebook is hosting a meeting with bankers, analysts, and lawyers today, Kayla Tausche at CNBC reports. This is usually a "kick-off meeting" to get the IPO started. Bankers can ask questions so they can go sell the Facebook IPO to investors. Tausche called it, "run of the mill". However,...
Here Come Those Cloud Jobs! GramercyOne Expands
www.betabeat.com
The Wolke 7 Cloud 9, a cloud computing-inspired spa concept. (http://elitechoice.org/) Yesterday we told you about how the nebulous (or is it cumulus?) cloud computing sector is bringing 60,000 new jobs to New York City, according to one study. Between its nominal shoutout to the neighborhood above the East Village,...
Bold, but inaccurate: RIM says it’s not pulling out of the consumer market
thenextweb.com
Following the announcement of dismal fourth-quarter financials, executive retirements and reports that the company was to withdraw from the consumer smartphone market, RIM has moved quickly to reassure BlackBerry fans that it will continue to push iPhone and Android competitors, despite plans to refocus on enterprise users. Patrick Spence, RIM’s...
Huddle raises another $24m to ‘really go for it’
gigaom.com
Cloud collaboration startup Huddle is gearing up for a significant push, thanks to a $24 million round of funding that CEO Alastair Mitchell says will allow the business to “really go for it.” The London-based company, which provides a range of online collaboration tools and services, announced on Thursday that...
RIM reportedly lays off multiple high-level executives under new CEO's direction
www.theverge.com
We were expecting some bad news to come out of RIM's earnings call today, and it looks like the removal of several high-ranking employees may be on the docket. The Globe and Mail reports that several "high level people" within the company were let go today, including multiple vice-presidents...
How apps transformed IT
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The shift from infrastructure to applications has wide-ranging implications for CIOs in companies large and small. By John Van Siclen, General Manager, contributor FORTUNE — With the term ‘apps’ now part of popular culture, it’s clear we live in an ‘application-centric’ world. In enterprise technology there’s an analogous trend just...
What's real and what's not in web security
www.computerworld.com
This is the third in a series of interviews with C-level executives responsible for cyber security and privacy in business and government, who also happen to be thought leaders. (Remember, as I mentioned previously, "C-level executive" and "thought leader" are not synonyms.)...
Three diseases of C-level executives
www.computerworld.com
Beware: Hubris, sycophantism and déformation professionnelle can spread from the corner office to IT....
Legal Nightmare Ends for Klarna Executives
www.pcworld.com
Two high-level executives of Swedish e-commerce startup Klarna are on their way home after the New York County district attorney agreed to dismiss charges of......
Apple, Samsung have 'communicated lately' about settlements
www.electronista.com
High-level executives from Apple and Samsung have "communicated lately about potential settlement options," according to Bloomberg Businessweek, citing sources familiar with the situation. The magazine has a new cover story called "Apple's War on Android," detailing the lawsuits the company has been pursuing against corporations like Samsung and Motorola. Bloomberg's...
RIM confirms departures of two top BlackBerry, BBM execs
www.engadget.com
Word of a big exec shakeup at RIM leaked out just ahead of the company's quarterly earnings late last month -- something that was then quickly confirmed in said earnings report. It looks like that wasn't the end of it though, as RIM has now also confirmed the departures...
Klarna Execs’ Alleged Rape Case Dismissed
techcrunch.com
Remember those two high-level executives from Swedish startup Klarna who were arrested earlier this month on rape charges? Their names are Jens Saltin and Niklas Adalberth, and they were arrested at the W Hotel in New York after allegedly molesting a 19-year-old tourist from Texas. Well after a little follow...
RIM Loses More Senior Executives
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A number of senior-level executives at BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion have left the company in recent days amid a broad review of the company's strategic options....
RIM to lay off at least 12% of workforce in restructuring effort, says Globe and Mail
www.theverge.com
According to The Globe and Mail, RIM is getting ready to axe at least 2,000 employees come June 1st. The move would see the struggling company's workforce drop to about 14,500, and it comes after it has seen multiple high-level executives leave, including former co-CEO Jim Balsille. RIM also...
With Oracle vs. Google trial about to begin, judge orders settlement talks
arstechnica.com
High-level executives at Google and Oracle were ordered to hold one last round of settlement talks, with the trial over Google's alleged use of Java technology in Android set to begin April 16. The suit began in August 2010 when Oracle sued Google for patent and copyright infringement over...
'Angry Birds Space' coming to Windows Phone after all, says Rovio CEO
www.theverge.com
Rovio's CEO Mikael Hed claims that Angry Birds Space is in fact being released on Windows Phone, contradicting an earlier report in which CMO Peter Vesterbacka said the company wasn't planning to bring the latest installment in the popular franchise to Microsoft's mobile OS. In a short statement to...
Research in Motion loses more senior executives
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Research in Motion has lost a number of senior-level executives in recent days amid a broad review of the company’s strategic options, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Alistair Mitchell, RIM’s vice president of the BlackBerry Messenger instant-messaging platform, is among several executives who have left the company according...
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