Bits: In Shake-Up, Apple’s Mobile Software and Retail Chiefs to Depart
Jeff Chiu/Associated Press Scott Forstall at an Apple event in September. 8:24 p.m. | Updated Apple fired the executives in charge of the company’s mobile software efforts and retail stores, in a...
View ArticleAt Microsoft, Sinofsky Seen as Smart but Abrasive
Less than three weeks later, Mr. Sinofsky — who, as the head of Windows, was arguably the second-most important leader at Microsoft — suddenly left the company. His abrasive style was a source of...
View ArticleExecutives Press European Antitrust Chief on Google
The letter, organized by one of the original complainants in the case, a British online shopping service called Foundem, asked the European competition commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, to take a hard...
View ArticleMedia Decoder Blog: Weather Channel’s Challenge: Predictable Programming for...
Eyebrows usually rise when the Weather Channel makes upfront presentations, sharing with marketers and agencies its programming plans for the coming television season. As one reader of this blog...
View ArticleEx-Bank Officials Named in Cyprus Inquiry
LONDON — Two of the most senior executives at Bank of Cyprus may have deleted crucial e-mail documents last year related to what proved to be a disastrous decision to invest heavily in Greek government...
View ArticleFair Game: Shareholders Can Slow the Executive-Pay Express
A more important question may be this: Do this year’s figures show any evidence of progress toward a new pay paradigm? You know, where the gap between the compensation of executives and workers...
View ArticleDealBook: Hunch About Bloomberg Brought Rivals Together
Hiroko Masuike for The New York TimesBloomberg’s TV studio in Manhattan. The news and financial data company has recently begun expanding into new businesses like stock and bond trading. Goldman Sachs...
View ArticleBuilding the Team: Nine Lessons We Learned From Andy Taylor
Building the Team Hiring, firing, and training in a new era. Last week, I wrote about why we set out to visit with Andrew C. Taylor, chairman and chief executive of Enterprise Holdings (“Maybe Someone...
View ArticleGlaxo Says Executives May Have Broken Chinese Law
The statement, released after three top Glaxo executives met with Chinese investigators, came amid signs that other drug makers could also come under scrutiny from the Chinese authorities. On Monday,...
View ArticleCoin of Realm in China Graft: Phony Receipts
“Receipts! Receipts!” calls out a woman in her 30s to passers-by as her two children play near the city’s south train station. “We sell all types of receipts.” Buyers use them to evade taxes and...
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