Shareholder activist to join Gateway board
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To avoid proxy battle with major investors, PC maker to add second mutually acceptable director, make elections annual.
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Heiress and former runway model Ivanka Trump is joining the board of the gaming company that bears her flamboyant father's name.
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Visa said on Monday it had named Joseph Saunders, previously president of card service at Washington Mutual Inc. , as executive chairman to help lead the company as it goes public.
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A group of Cyberonics shareholders led by Metropolitan Capital Advisors, says it will press for the election of three board nominees.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 13  /PRNewswire/ -- Treemo announced today continued momentum with the addition of Intermix/MySpace co-founder and AdKnowledge president, Brett Brewer, to its Board of Directors.
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Paul Otellini, a 30-year Intel Corp. veteran who oversaw the launch of the Pentium processor in the 1990s, will replace chief executive Craig Barrett when he steps down to become chairman in May, the semiconductor giant's board of directors announced Thursday. -AP
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David Edmondson, president and COO of the retailer, has been elected to the board of the chipmaker.
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MELBOURNE - Mining contractor Henry Walker Eltin has lined up Swiss-based commodities trader Glencore as an anchor investor to shore up the company&#39;s finances by backing aA$100 million ($107 million) issue of new shares.
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Business & money: Pressure mounts on government to nationalise bank after activist investor increases shareholding
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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's News Corp. , the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
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Yahoo&#39;s Chairman Roy Bostock is leading a group of the company&#39;s board members in favor of accepting&#160;Microsoft&#39;s unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid,&#160;according to a new report.The informal group headed by Bostock also includes other board members and billionaire investor Ron Burkle, according to the report in the New York Post, which quoted unnamed sources close to the situation. Board members Eric Hippeau, a managing partner at Softbank Capital, and Robert Kotick, CEO of Activision Publishing, are standing behind Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who does not want to accept Microsoft&#39;s offer.On Monday,&#160;Yahoo&#39;s board rejected Microsoft&#39;s offer,&#160;saying it undervalued the company.According to the Post, the discord revolves around Yang and his followers who are so opposed to selling the company to Microsoft that Bostock and his group fear they will act out of emotions rather than their fiduciary duty to Yahoo shareholders. Such an action could expose the board to lawsuits by shareholders.Yang sent a letter to shareholders&#160;Wednesday night, saying that Microsoft&#39;s bid substantially undervalues the company and that Yahoo is positioned to take advantage of growth in the online advertising market.Yahoo could not be reached for comment.Computerworld is an InfoWorld affililate.
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IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 13  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gateway, Inc.  today announced that Lazane Smith, 52, has been appointed senior vice president, human resources.
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Former Goldman Sachs banker E. Scott Mead is said to be joining the British private equity firm Apax Partners.
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NEW YORK, May 31  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On May 25, Ed Torres, Chief Executive Officer for Environmental Service Professionals, Inc.  (BULLETIN BOARD: EVSP)  updated the investment community in an exclusive interview with http://www.wallst.net/.
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Laura Cox, a top aide to U.S.  Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson,  will leave the regulatory agency to join PricewaterhouseCoopers  PWC.UL, a Big Four accounting firm, the SEC said on Tuesday.
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A new face in the boardroom heralds change for the troubled company.
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Argeris N. Karabelas, a Human Genome Sciences board member, will become chairman Oct. 17, the company said Monday.-TheWashington Post