Yahoo grabbed PayPal co-founder and Evernote director Max Levchin for its own board, but loses two of its existing members. Yahoo now has a total of 11 on its board.
Canada-based BlackBerry maker Research in Motion has plenty of problems, and among them is a board that isn’t as technically savvy as its competitors. Today at its annual shareholder meeting, RIM chairwoman Barbara Stymiest confirmed that the company is indeed …
Facebook has named chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg as its newest board member, settling recent criticisms that the public company doesn’t have a woman on its board.
Sandberg’s appointment to the board of directors has been a long time coming. …
Proxy battles are tailored made for tech blog coverage: conflict, deadlines, inflammatory letters! But the latest move by Yahoo, which appointed three new board members yesterday, is not the smack in the face that blogger Kara Swisher (who we typically …
When it rains, it pours. The embattled Yahoo, which made itself the black sheep of Silicon Valley this week with a patent lawsuit against Facebook, is now facing a proxy battle over a new board from activist investor Dan Loeb …
Apple held its shareholder meeting today and discussed its pile of cash, its relationship with Facebook, and how to elect members to its board.
The meeting began with a push from shareholders for Apple to require a majority vote by …
The word “Wordnik“ isn’t in the dictionary. But with $8 million in third-round financing and a Google exec on its board, the company called Wordnik just might redefine what a dictionary is.
Along with the new round of funding, Wordnik …
Guest Post
(Editor’s note: Brad Feld is an early stage investor and co-founder of Foundry Group. This post originally appeared on his blog.)
I had an incredible experience this week. My friend Phil Weiser, who is now the Deputy Assistant Attorney …
Hewlett-Packard agrees to cough up $14.5 million in response to the board-spying scandal that has hurt HP’s brand, but this raises fundamental questions about how board members are trained.
Still pending are criminal charges facing five individuals. These people, including …
