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Green Mountain Loses Founder Over Stock Sale Conflict (GMCR)

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 9:14 am

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) is seeing its situation go from bad to worse.  Now there is a management shuffle at the top due to inconsistent stock sales ...
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Corporate Governance Spreads To Yahoo!, Green Mountain, Chesapeake

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 6:27 am

Corporate governance, which is a subject often debated but usually in abstract, has moved to the front pages. Patti Hart, the Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) director who was in charge of ...
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Why Cisco’s Earnings Hold the Key to the Tech Sector (CSCO, ORCL, AAPL, HPQ, JNPR, ALU, NOK, RIMM, CTSH, IBM, INTC)

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 4:40 pm

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is set to report earnings on Wednesday after the closing bell.  While we usually cringe when analysts and media pundits say this about a single ...
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More Bed Bugs For Bedding Stocks (TPX, MFRM, SCSS, ZZ)

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 4:02 pm

If you only read about bed sales at the retail level and if you have watched recent IPOs up until recently, you might think that the sector was doing very ...
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Intel Joins DJIA Dividend Hike Brigade (INTC)

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 9:17 am

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has joined the brigade of Dow Jones Industrial Average to raise its dividend.  The semiconductor giant approved a 7 percent increase in its quarterly cash dividend ...
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The Two Candidates to Run Yahoo!: Board Member Thomas McInerney and EVP Ross Levinsohn

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 6:23 am

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) may have to quickly replace its CEO, Scott Thompson. Corporate governance questions have been raised because he lied about his education. Thompson also has lost some or nearly ...
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The Troubled Tenure of Sprint Chairman James H. Hance

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 6:23 am

When it comes to failures and strategic mistakes at Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S), the spotlight has focused mainly on CEO Dan Hesse. He has held the reins at the nation’s third ...
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Yahoo!’s Most Important Director: David W. Kenny

Posted: May 5, 2012 at 11:25 am

David W. Kenny is Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) most important director now. He serves on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. One of the charters of the committee is developing and recommending ...
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SIRIUS Wins Round Of Retaining Control (SIRI, LMCA)

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 4:06 pm

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) has been at the center of a process that would have fallen under the 'de facto control' pursuit by Liberty Media Corporation (NASDAQ: LMCA).  The ...
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How Fast Things Change: Yahoo!’s New CEO Becomes a Liar

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 6:33 am

Investors were skeptical when Scott Thompson became Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) new chief executive. He was nothing more than an e-commerce expert who had run eBay’s (NASDAQ: EBAY) PayPal unit. He had ...
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Dell’s All-Time $700 Billion In Sales: Total Success Or Total Failure? (DELL, AAPL, HPQ, IBM)

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 2:02 pm

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may have turned twenty-eight years old today but there is a figure that sounds massive and one which is being taken as not being a success ...
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Jana Already Taking Big Profits in Barnes & Noble (BKS, MSFT, LMCA)

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 10:19 am

Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) may be back in favor after the huge $600 million or so investment from Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT).  Jana Partners disclosed in April that ...
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Chesapeake Energy Board Scandal

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 6:53 am

The Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) board has gone so far as to strip CEO Aubrey K. McClendon of his role as chairman. Its members say they will change McClendon’s controversial compensation plan, which gives him a stake ...
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Chesapeake Board May Oust CEO McClendon

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 6:20 am

Aubrey K. McClendon, the CEO of Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK), was punished for transactions which allowed him to invest in every well the company drilled. The firm's board did not ...
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McClendon Out as Chairman at Chesapeake (CHK)

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 11:59 am

Aubrey McClendon, chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK), will relinquish his chairman’s role as soon as the company’s boards appoints a new non-executive chairman. The announcement said ...
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