News tagged with options
Facebook discloses details on bonuses
Facebook's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, are eligible for twice-a-year bonuses of up to 45 percent of their base salaries and other earnings, according to a Wednesday regulatory filing.
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Long-term study shows epilepsy surgery improves seizure control and quality of life
While epilepsy surgery is a safe and effective intervention for seizure control, medical therapy remains the more prominent treatment option for those with epilepsy. However, a new 26-year study reveals that following epilepsy ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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HP awards new CEO Whitman with $16.5M pay package
Hewlett-Packard Co. ushered in Meg Whitman as its CEO with a $16.5 million compensation package that hinges on the one-time politician's ability to lift the stumbling technology company's stock price during the next two years.
Feb 04, 2012 |
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In times of scandal, corporations are likely to use others' misconduct to justify their behavior
Among corporations involved in the 2006 stock-option backdating scandal, those implicated earlier were more likely to dismiss their top executives than those that surfaced later on, according to new research from Rice University ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Feb 01, 2012 |
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When the isolated lung runs out of air
A lung transplant is the only treatment option for patients faced with imminent pulmonary failure. But suitable donor organs are highly susceptible to damage in transit. A team of researchers based at LMU's Walther Straub ...
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Researchers visualize the development of Parkinson's cells
In the US alone, at least 500,000 people suffer from Parkinson's disease, a neurological disorder that affects a person's ability to control his or her movement. New technology from the University of Bonn in Germany lets ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Cyberknife radiation relieves stabbing pain of facial nerve condition
A technique that delivers highly focused beams of radiation, known as Cyberknife, can relieve the stabbing pain of the facial nerve condition trigeminal neuralgia, indicates a small study published online in the Journal of ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 27, 2012 |
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Apple CEO Tim Cook could top pay list in 2011
(AP) -- Tim Cook could well end up being the highest paid CEO in America in 2011, after Apple Inc. granted him a million restricted stock units last August for taking the reins shortly before co-founder Steve Jobs died.
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Sorafenib effective in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, but low survival rates reported
Sorafenib was effective in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and a KRAS mutation, but survival rates were reportedly "unsatisfactory," according to data presented at the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins ...
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Added benefit of linagliptin is not proven
Linagliptin (trade name: Trajenta) has been approved since August 2011 to improve blood glucose control ("glycaemic control") in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus whose elevated blood glucose levels are inadequately controlled ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Netflix CEO's stock options slashed after bad year
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will pay a $1.5 million penalty for blunders that alienated the video subscription service's customers and pulverized its stock.
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Breakthrough in treatment to prevent blindness
A UCSF study shows a popular treatment for a potentially blinding eye infection is just as effective if given every six months versus annually. This randomized study on trachoma, the leading cause of infection-caused ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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Free-to-pay? No way! Professor explores negative billing
During the festive season, online shoppers may think they're getting a bargain when they click on promotional discount boxes or sign up for free trials for such things as Christmas cards, exercise tips or even e-dating. But ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Dec 15, 2011 |
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Simple test to help diagnose bowel and pancreatic cancer could save thousands of lives
A simple online calculator could offer family GPs a powerful new tool in tackling two of the most deadly forms of cancer, say researchers.
Dec 14, 2011 |
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'PARP' drug sabotages DNA repair in pre-leukemic cells
Looking for ways to halt the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells, scientists at Johns Hopkins have found that a new class of drugs, called PARP inhibitors, may block the ability of pre-leukemic cells to repair broken bits ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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