Investor Seeks Resignation of Vitesse Semiconductor Board Member
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By Bruce V. Bigelow, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Dec. 7--A Los Angeles hedge fund yesterday demanded the resignation of  San Diego venture capitalist James A.
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HSBC Holdings PLC is being targeted by a high-profile U.S. activist investor group that wants to force a shake-up at Europe's biggest bank.
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A Dow Jones board member who is also  part of the family that controls the company has launched a  last-ditch effort to block a takeover by Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News  Corp., the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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Freescale Semiconductor Chairman and CEO Michel Mayer will leave his posts as soon as a replacement is found, the company said Friday.&quot;The time is right for me and my family to take some time off before exploring new challenges. The company is well positioned to continue its transformation,&quot; Mayer said in a statement.Freescale officials didn&#39;t respond to requests for comment.Mayer led the company when it spun off from Motorola&#39;s semiconductor group and went public in 2004. He also played a role in Freescale&#39;s buyout by four private equity firms in 2006 for $17.6 billion. The equity firms included The Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, Permira Funds and Texas Pacific Group.However, the company has been struggling financially, posting a loss of $525 million on sales of $1.54 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007. For 2007, the company reported a loss of $1.6 billion on net sales of $5.7 billion. Freescale&#39;s sales totaled $6.36 billion in 2006.The company&#39;s key customer remains Motorola, to which it sells chips for wireless handsets, networking infrastructure and other devices such as set-top boxes. Motorola, which is struggling financially and saw a management shakeup in recent months, is considering spinning off its handset business. Ed Zander announced in December that he would step down as Motorola&#39;s CEO.
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A board member resigned, according to sources, because the computer giant tried to squelch leaks to the press.
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Warren E. Buffett said he was seeking a new candidate to become chief investment officer when he steps down.
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By Bruce V. Bigelow, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Feb. 2--A Dallas investment firm has urged the board of San Diego's  Kintera to oust founding chairman and chief executive Harry Gruber, saying it  is increasingly troubled by a pattern of losses and other failings.   In a Jan.
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The Deutsche Boerse wants to convince  London Stock Exchange management over the next two to four  weeks to back its offer to buy the business, a supervisory  board member told Reuters on Sunday.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc  faces a U.S. investor lawsuit claiming that Europe's biggest drugmaker misled shareholders about the safety of diabetes drug Avandia.
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CtW Investment Group, a pension fund  advisory group affiliated with seven labor unions, said it sent  a letter to the board of Countrywide Financial Corp ,  urging it to ask for the resignation of Chief Executive Angelo  Mozilo, The Wall Street Journal said.
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German publishing executive Dieter von Holtzbrinck has resigned as a director of Dow Jones & Co. to protest the boardâs endorsement of a deal to sell the company to Rupert Murdochâs News Corp.
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An institutional investor in MedImmune has sent a third letter to the firm's board pushing for a sale of the company, saying that negative Wall Street reaction to recent quarterly earnings "must be viewed as a total rejection of the management's strategy."
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The board of Societe Generale pored over the fate of its chairman on Wednesday, torn between political pressure to dump him over a trading scandal and the need to close ranks against potential predator BNP Paribas.
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Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Pink Sheets:VTSS) today announced  that Rich Yonker has been named its chief financial officer. As part of  the executive management team and an officer of the Company, Mr.
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Richard Lapthorne, chairman of Cable &amp; Wireless, faces an investor backlash over controversial pay proposals by the telecoms company last week.
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IntercontinentalExchange Inc.  on Thursday urged CBOT Holdings Inc.  shareholders and members to reject the proposed sale of the company to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc.
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said on   Thursday he is seeking approval from shareholders of ImClone   Systems Inc. IMCL.O to remove six directors from its board,   including the chairman and the interim chief executive, and   bring in one of his own nominees.