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Projecting the charisma of a newly hired Chief Executive Officer often leads financial analysts to make crucial errors in forecasting the company's future performance, according to a new study in the current issue of Organization Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). http://www.physorg.com/news180101050.html Other Sciences Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:30:18 EST news180101050 (AP) -- The eBay executive who led the online auction site's efforts to gain a minority stake in Craigslist warned that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman had a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality, the CEO of Craigslist said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news180023065.html Technology Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:40:01 EST news180023065 (AP) -- Assurances that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman gave Craigslist's officials before eBay bought into the online classifieds company were never put in writing, the founder of Craigslist acknowledged Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news179764146.html Technology Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:50:07 EST news179764146 (AP) -- AOL resumed life as an independent Internet company Thursday as it completed its spinoff from Time Warner Inc. and closed the book on one of the most disastrous business combinations in history. http://www.physorg.com/news179646993.html Technology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:10:01 EST news179646993 Blink an eye, and the Microsoft Store could be mistaken for an Apple Store. http://www.physorg.com/news179134670.html Technology Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:40:02 EST news179134670 (AP) -- Facebook has created a dual-class stock structure designed to give founder Mark Zuckerberg and other existing shareholders control over the company. http://www.physorg.com/news178312283.html Technology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:12:13 EST news178312283 Although women have made strides in the business world, they still occupy less than two percent of CEO leadership positions in the Fortune 500. Not surprisingly therefore leaders still tend to be thought of as men and most industries are considered to be male-typed at management levels. http://www.physorg.com/news177595812.html Other Sciences Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:11:11 EST news177595812 (AP) -- Sales of Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 operating system have been "fantastic" in Japan since its launch last month, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news176636039.html Technology Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:34:40 EST news176636039 (AP) -- Health insurer Humana Inc. rode its strong government business in posting a 65 percent jump in third-quarter profit Monday, as bulging membership and premiums from Medicare Advantage overcame a lackluster commercial segment hampered by the weak economy. http://www.physorg.com/news176381587.html Technology Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:55:09 EST news176381587 (AP) -- Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is "thoroughly reviewing" published reports fingering former chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz as the AMD executive who gave confidential company information to a defendant in the Galleon Group insider trading case. http://www.physorg.com/news175929971.html Technology Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:40:03 EST news175929971 (AP) -- Although no one waits in long lines for a new edition of Windows software anymore, the debut of Microsoft's latest operating system is part of why buying a PC is starting to feel fun for the first time in years. http://www.physorg.com/news175363312.html Technology Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:10:01 EST news175363312 (AP) -- IBM Corp. has placed a top executive on leave after he was charged in an insider trading scandal for allegedly leaking secrets about IBM's earnings and financial dealings with corporate partners. http://www.physorg.com/news175176672.html Technology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:11:51 EST news175176672 (AP) -- Google Inc. said Monday that Arthur Levinson has resigned from the Internet search leader's board, averting a potential showdown with government regulators over his overlapping job as a director for computer and gadget maker Apple Inc. http://www.physorg.com/news174569152.html Technology Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:26:25 EST news174569152 When I think of Silicon Valley companies I admire, Cisco Systems is usually one of the first that comes to mind. http://www.physorg.com/news173558298.html Technology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:00:01 EST news173558298 (AP) -- The value of the compensation package granted to Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer fell about 6 percent in fiscal 2009, a year in which weak computer sales cut into the software maker's profits. http://www.physorg.com/news173516604.html Technology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:20:01 EST news173516604 (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. director Maggie Wilderotter plans to step down from the slumping Internet company's board at the end of this year. The resignation will leave Yahoo with 11 directors. http://www.physorg.com/news173123390.html Technology Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:00:01 EST news173123390 (AP) -- The billionaire founder of a popular search engine drew a big crowd Wednesday at Stanford University - and it wasn't one of the guys that started Google Inc. just a few miles from the campus they once attended. http://www.physorg.com/news172991996.html Technology Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:20:40 EST news172991996 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. raised CEO Steve Ballmer's salary by 4 percent at the start of fiscal 2009, a year in which the software maker's profit declined 17 percent as the economic meltdown decimated personal computer sales. http://www.physorg.com/news172562608.html Technology Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:05:30 EST news172562608 The same day Microsoft reported some of its worst financial results, a dozen buses left the Redmond campus. During rush hour, they headed toward Highway 520 as a phalanx of cops on motorcycles shut down the onramps ahead, clearing the path to the Pacific Science Center. http://www.physorg.com/news170614813.html Technology Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:00:03 EST news170614813 There was a time in Silicon Valley when the political game was practically sneered upon. http://www.physorg.com/news170014910.html Technology Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:30:01 EST news170014910 (PhysOrg.com) -- Companies with female board members fare worse on the stock market, despite performing as well on all other measures as those with all-male boards. This is the finding of a new study by the University of Exeter, published today (13 August 2009) in the British Journal of Management. http://www.physorg.com/news169378923.html Other Sciences Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:44:07 EST news169378923 As antitrust regulators continue to scrutinize the year's biggest tech deal, Oracle's planned $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, competitors in the high-end hardware business and open-source software market have wasted no time wooing and in some cases winning Sun's customers. http://www.physorg.com/news168849276.html Technology Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:10:02 EST news168849276 (AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. said earnings fell 46 percent in its latest quarter, but the profit beat Wall Street expectations, and the company said the quarter may have been the bottom of the recession-related downturn. http://www.physorg.com/news168713659.html Technology Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:54:51 EST news168713659 (AP) -- Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has resigned from Apple Inc.'s board because of the companies' conflicting interests as competition between the one-time allies heats up. http://www.physorg.com/news168526241.html Technology Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:20:02 EST news168526241 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer is trying to improve Yahoo Inc. investors' opinions of the companies' search-advertising partnership. http://www.physorg.com/news168180823.html Technology Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:10:02 EST news168180823 (AP) -- Intel Corp.'s second-quarter results bolster the company's position that the computer business is on the mend after its roughest patch in years. http://www.physorg.com/news166854184.html Technology Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:24:02 EST news166854184 (AP) -- The escalating tension between Google and Microsoft didn't prevent the companies' chairmen from sharing a moment of levity Thursday at an exclusive media conference in the Idaho mountains. http://www.physorg.com/news166377588.html Technology Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:00:23 EST news166377588 (AP) -- A new study says top CEOs should do a better job managing their presence online, on social sites like Twitter and Facebook and even Wikipedia. http://www.physorg.com/news165066322.html Technology Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:00:02 EST news165066322 (AP) -- Sprint's chief executive says the release of Palm's Pre smart phone represents a "coming out party" for Sprint. http://www.physorg.com/news163426624.html Technology Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:17:35 EST news163426624 (AP) -- One of the world's largest magazine publishers appears to be having second thoughts about giving away most of its articles on the Internet. http://www.physorg.com/news162821394.html Technology Fri, 29 May 2009 13:10:15 EST news162821394