Boardroom

Just over a year after taking the job as HP's top executive, CEO Leo Apotheker may soon be unceremoniously escorted to the door. The company's board of directors is reportedly meeting on this and other issues this week. The board is said to be eying former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as a replacement. Whit...

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 da...

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, wi...

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 criti...

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. I have worked with many companies in the industry and always had a g...

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, ef...

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. Executives at companies with great names like "Google," "Sony," "Panasonic," "Rolex," "Microsoft" or "CNN" are not losing sleep over gTLD, but those at some oth...

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 ...

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 we...

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...

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 a...

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...

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 co...

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. Th...

Nestled in between the news of some excellent quarterly earnings -- namely a 29 percent increase in profit and revenue -- Google dropped a bombshell on unsuspecting shareholders: Eric Schmidt will turn over the CEO reins to Larry Page, who will handle the company's day-to-day operations. Schmidt wil...