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All wired up: Professor explains how technology really helps the economy

Technology / Business

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Information technology is all around us — but how does it really change the way we do business? Erik Brynjolfsson, the Schussel Family Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, explores this question ...


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New US government website tracks IT spending

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created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

President Barack Obama's chief information officer unveiled a new website on Tuesday which tracks the more than 70 billion dollars in annual information technology (IT) spending by federal agencies.


Report: Worst may be over for US tech market

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created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- As bad as the technology market fared in the first quarter of this year, the worst may be over, at least in the United States, Forrester Research said in a report Tuesday.


Huge drop in clean-tech venture funding

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created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Investments in clean-tech startups plummeted in the first quarter of 2009 compared with recent quarters, according to a report issued this week by Ernst & Young.


Verizon shareholders to vote on executive pay

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created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A movement to give shareholders influence over compensation awarded to company executives gets an early test Thursday as Verizon Communications Inc. becomes the latest to hold a "say on pay" vote.


Kiran Karnik (2ndL), newly appointed chairman of Indian IT giant Satyam Computers

Satyam gets 'adequate bid response'

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created Mar 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The board of swindled Indian outsourcing giant Satyam said it has received an "adequate response" to its invitation for bids, as a newspaper said Saturday that IBM had joined the race.


Reducing CEOs' option-based compensation decreases risky investments

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created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Since the recent bailout on Wall Street, the public has started to heavily scrutinize firms' large executive pay packages. This week, John White, director of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Corporation ...