Yahoo pays CEO $1.1M bonus for five months of work
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer received a $1.1 million bonus for her first five-and-half months running the Internet company.
View ArticleIBM pays CEO $15.4M in her first year on the job
IBM awarded CEO Virginia Rometty a compensation package valued at $15.4 million during her first year running one of the world's biggest technology companies.
View ArticleEBay CEO's 2012 compensation nearly doubles
EBay Inc. CEO John Donahoe's compensation nearly doubled to $29.7 million in 2012, a year that saw the e-commerce company's stock gain 68 percent thanks to growth in its namesake marketplaces business...
View ArticleIntel CEO gets $18.9M pay package in final year
The value of Intel CEO Paul Otellini's pay package rose 10 percent to $18.9 million last year as he prepared to retire. His departure next month follows a tough year during which Intel Corp. stumbled...
View ArticleGoogle pays CEO a buck, four other execs get $124M
Google CEO Larry Page and his longtime partner Sergey Brin limited their salaries to $1 apiece last year, while four other top executives received combined compensation packages totaling more than $124...
View ArticleYahoo! chief Mayer paid $36.6 mn for six months' work
Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer hauled in $36.6 million in pay, bonuses and stock last year after just six months at the helm of the Internet firm, with some of that time spent on maternity leave.
View ArticleDell trimmed CEO's pay by 14 pct amid PC slump
Dell Inc. trimmed CEO Michael Dell's pay by 14 percent to $13.9 million last year amid a slump that culminated in a proposed $24.4 billion deal that could end the personal computer maker's 25-year...
View ArticleZynga gives new CEO millions to leave Microsoft
Struggling Web game maker Zynga gave new CEO Don Mattrick a $5 million signing bonus and stock awards valued at $40 million to lure him away from his previous job overseeing Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox...
View ArticleOracle CEO Ellison's pay drops 18 pct to $78.4M
The value of Oracle founder and CEO Larry Ellison's pay package dropped 18 percent in fiscal 2013, to $78.4 million, after the company missed its internal financial targets and he declined his annual...
View ArticleSurvey reveals improving salary and employment picture for chemists
With the U.S. economy slowly trudging back from recession and uncertainties remaining about government sequestration, the employment and salary snapshot for chemists and chemical engineers in 2013...
View ArticleAre you ready to retire? Mathematical models estimate the value of pension plans
There comes a time in each of our lives when we consider starting a pension plan –either on the advice of a friend, a relative, or of our own volition. The plan of choice may depend on various factors,...
View ArticleNew BlackBerry leader's pay package released
New BlackBerry chairman and interim chief executive John Chen has a large pay package.
View ArticleHP raises CEO Whitman's salary to $1.5M from $1
Hewlett-Packard is giving CEO Meg Whitman a huge pay raise as she enters the third year of her attempt to turn around the slumping personal computer and printer maker.
View ArticleApple CEO's compensation rises slightly to $4.3M
Apple CEO Timothy Cook received a compensation package valued at nearly $4.3 million this year, up slightly from 2012.
View ArticleNetflix plans 50 pct pay hike for CEO Hastings
Netflix Chairman and CEO Reed Hastings is getting a 50 percent pay bump in 2014 after a year in which shares of the online video subscription company quadrupled to an all-time high.
View ArticleFacebook CEO reaps $3.3B gain from stock options (Update)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reaped a $3.3 billion gain last year by exercising stock options in the social networking company that he founded in a Harvard University dorm room.
View ArticleFacebook CEO Zuckerberg joins $1 salary club
Facebook CEO and cofounder Mark Zuckerberg's salary was down last year, but don't cry for him. He'll be OK.
View ArticleLinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner's compensation soars
LinkedIn CEO Jeffrey Weiner's compensation rose about 42-fold in 2013 amid big gains in the professional networking service's stock price.
View ArticleTwitter replaces chief financial officer
Twitter replaced its chief financial officer Tuesday with a former Goldman Sachs banker as the popular one-to-many messaging service reshuffled amid concerns about its ability to grow and prosper.
View ArticleStarting salaries largely stagnant; internship scene improves
The job market for new college graduates may be heating up fast, but starting salaries will see only modest growth, a Michigan State University economist says in a new study.
View ArticleIndia's TCS to pay $30 mn to settle US suit: reports
India's biggest software outsourcer TCS has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit filed by two former employees in the US relating to unpaid wages, media reports said Wednesday.
View ArticleGoogle, Apple settle high-tech workers' lawsuit (Update 2)
Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe Systems have settled a class-action lawsuit alleging they conspired to prevent their engineers and other highly sought technology workers from getting better job offers...
View ArticleStudy finds the demand for positions strongly influences medical residents'...
When medical-school graduates apply for their residencies, they use a centralized clearinghouse that matches applicants with jobs. This system has sometimes been challenged, such as in a lawsuit...
View ArticleNetflix CEO's pay rose 43 percent to $11.1 million last year
Netflix boosted CEO Reed Hastings' pay by 43 percent to $11.1 million last year as the Internet video service raised its prices and still added the most subscribers in its history.
View ArticleWageSpot app pulls back curtain on employee pay
A WageSpot smartphone application released in the United States on Tuesday dove into a historically taboo topic—how much people get paid.
View ArticleApple CEO Tim Cook gets $1 million pay raise
Apple CEO Tim Cook got a raise of more than $1 million last year, though he didn't make as much as his top lieutenants.
View ArticleEntrepreneurship not quite as risky as it may seem, study finds
Becoming an entrepreneur is a rational decision—and failing doesn't hurt as badly as one might think, according to a new study from the Berkeley-Haas School of Business.
View ArticleGeneral Motors cutting about 160 jobs at plant in Indiana
General Motors says about 160 jobs are being cut from a plant in Kokomo, Indiana, after the automaker announced it would stop producing semiconductors there by mid-2017.
View ArticleFord to cut jobs as sales level off, stock price lags
Ford is getting leaner as it faces an onslaught of challenges, from slowing U.S. sales to high-tech challengers to its own disgruntled shareholders.
View ArticleAre the world's highest paid football players overpaid? Big data says yes
Some professional European football players are earning jaw-dropping salaries while other athletes on the same football pitch earn much less. This may lead many football fans, wondering if these...
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