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Can Yahoo Escape the Valley of the Dulls? September 10, 2011 
When the end of her stint as Yahoo CEO came for Carol Bartz, it arrived via a phone call from the company's chairman. That's what she told employees in a profanity-free, company-wide email when she learned the news. Bartz was fired after nearly three years as Yahoo's chief executive, having failed to turn around the once-great Internet company.
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Yahoo: Out With the Old, in With the ??? September 07, 2011 
Yahoo on Wednesday announced a leadership reorganization that moves Carol Bartz out as CEO and replaces her in the interim with Timothy Morse, the company's chief financial officer. The board has also formed a new executive leadership council populated by key senior executives to support Morse in day-to-day operations until a permanent CEO is appointed.
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Groupon Steps Back From IPO Precipice September 07, 2011 
Online coupon retailer Groupon is reevaluating its plans to go forward with its IPO following a volatile summer market, according to a recent report. The daily discount company originally announced its plans to go public in June and was rumored to be counting on a valuation of around $20 billion, with some reports going as high as $25 billion.
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What Murdoch Can Teach Us About Corporate Governance September 01, 2011 
At this point, most of us are quite aware of the problems that Rupert Murdoch is having in Great Britain. There has been a seismic shift in the power that Murdoch has over politics and law enforcement in England. Up until a few short months ago, most people in power there were afraid to openly criticize Murdoch for fear of retribution in the press.
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Wall Street Eases Into the Cook Era August 31, 2011 
Ever since Apple Chairman and former CEO Steve Jobs' serious health problems became public knowledge years ago, shares of AAPL have been particularly volatile. Factors ranging from the announcement of another leave of absence to a false rumor regarding a heart attack have been known to trigger sell-offs, though they haven't prevented the stock's value from climbing significantly over the last couple of years.
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Tim Cook's Apple: Nothing Will Change or Ever Be the Same August 26, 2011 
In his first memo to employees as Apple's official CEO Thursday, new chief executive Tim Cook told them he wants them to be confident that Apple is not going to change now that the company's cofounder Steve Jobs has stepped out of the driver's seat. That's a promise that some Apple watchers believe Cook will keep in the coming months.
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Jobs to Apple's Board: 'That Day Has Come' August 25, 2011 
An era came to an end Wednesday as Steve Jobs announced his resignation as CEO of Apple, handing Tim Cook the reins of the company Jobs created and transformed into a leader of the tech industry. Jobs will remain on as chairman of Apple. In a brief letter of resignation, Jobs wrote that the day has come when he "could no longer meet my duties and expectations."
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The Apple Heat Wave July 27, 2011 
New products Apple released last week have sent the company's stock soaring. Shares closed at $403.31 Tuesday -- a record high. One of the products Apple unveiled was Mac OS X Lion. This eagerly awaited latest version of the Mac OS saw 1 million downloads within 24 hours, Apple boasted.
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It's a Brand New Day for CenturyLink July 14, 2011 
Now that CenturyLink has completed its merger with Qwest, what is next for the company and for the marketplace? The media, investors, competitors and others are starting to ask me on a regular basis whether this will be successful. So far, I think CenturyLink shows a healthy growth curve and is a strong company. That is the good part.
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Sony's Exec Changes Fail to Impress July 01, 2011 
Several weeks after the Sony PlayStation Network was brought to its knees by a massive security breach, the company has decided to clean house with an executive reshuffling.
Among the changes: Akira Sato, chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment, and Ken Kutaragi, honorary chairman, will retire, effective almost immediately.
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Who's Afraid of the Big Bad gTLD? June 15, 2011 
When a good name identity is super-glazed with a good trademark protection plan,
there is no reason why it would be hurt by ICANN's gTLD. However, when a name's alpha structure is too weak to be distinct -- diluted by hundreds of identical or similar names -- it hangs in limbo. Companies with such names can neither enforce their rights nor stop others from using the same name.
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Investment Firm Pres. Calls on Microsoft to Boot Ballmer May 26, 2011 
Time to move over, Ballmer. Greenlight Capital President David Einhorn has reportedly called for Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, to step down. Einhorn spoke on the subject Wednesday at the Ira Sohn Investment Conference in New York City. Einhorn showed support for Microsoft in general, recommending the company's stock as a "buy" because the company trades at what he called a remarkable discount.
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CEOs Gone Wild: You Can't Make This Stuff Up May 09, 2011 
This last few weeks has been kind of amazing as I've watched companies like Oracle and Cisco, which are well regarded for brilliant moves, seem to suddenly act as if they were naked and wanted to run with scissors. Then, when I was convinced that I'd seen the worst, Sony decided to piss off the open source crowd and now is likely looking at the death of the PS3 in the U.S.
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2011: The Year to Date, Part 3 May 04, 2011 
Google is facing growing and well-deserved criticism from the Humane Society, the ASPCA and animal rights activists who are outraged over an Android app called "Dog Wars." The video game, built by Kage Games, glorifies dog fighting and depicts a bloodied pit bull next to the game's logo on Kage's website. "Dog Wars" could be used as a virtual training ground for would-be dogfighters, said Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle.
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2011: The Year to Date, Part 2 May 03, 2011 
In contrast to Apple's stunning success, the first calendar quarter of 2011 was a revolving door for other Silicon Valley companies and executives. There were management shifts, shakeups and ousters at AMD, Google, HP and Microsoft. They were variously aimed at jump-starting product momentum (AMD, Microsoft), polishing a tarnished image and placating stockholders (HP) and providing an orderly transition of power (Google).
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2011: The Year to Date, Part 1 May 02, 2011 
The tone for 2011 in high technology was set in early January: fast, bold, aggressive action and sweeping management changes. In the first four months of the year, high-tech vendors moved quickly and decisively to seize opportunities in established sectors (smartphones, virtualization, data backup and disaster recovery) and emerging markets (cloud computing, tablet devices and unified storage management).
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Some iPhone to Watch Over Me April 23, 2011 
Let's talk about privacy. Is it a violation of your privacy if your phone knows where you are at all hours of the day and keeps detailed records without your telling it to? What if the phone never tells anyone else -- doesn't beam your location to Steve Jobs or Larry Page or the Pope or anyone at all? OK, maybe it will tell your computer where you've been, but only when you sync up.
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Google Investors' Motto: Don't Be Youthful April 16, 2011 
Investors met Google's earnings for the first quarter with a near universal sigh of disappointment. The next sound was the dumping of Google's shares, which fell by some 7 percent in the aftermath. The company reported an adjusted profit of $8.08 a share -- which missed analyst expectations of $8.11 a share.
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Why All the Nail-Biting Over Twitter? April 15, 2011 
Management troubles! Foolish business decisions! Still no monetization platform of note! All of this is old news about Twitter, but it seems as though reports about these issues have been proliferating lately, both in volume and in detail. The latest barrage started with an article describing the company's early tumultuous management days.
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Page Kicks Off New Google Era, Naming 6 Top Guns April 08, 2011
Larry Page took the wheel as Google's CEO this week, and he's already shaking things up. On Thursday, Page reportedly placed key executives in charge of individual business units, indicating he wanted to simplify product and engineering structures with one executive leading each functional group. The new SVPs will report directly to him.
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