Facebook spills the beans on users
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| There's nothing wrong with the idea of letting people choose to be found
| through search engines, but existing users may feel betrayed by Facebook's
| opt-out policy.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14346/1054/
Dell founder 'unaware' of company's financial shenanigans
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| Speaking of backlogged product, he also addressed the delays plaguing new XPS
| and Inspiron notebooks, but curiously there was no mention of paint-related
| problems.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9772374-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. He also pulls an Apple. Steve jobs
was in a similar situation just months ago.
Related:
Dell accounting probe finds possible 'misconduct'
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| Last year analyst firm Friedman Billings Ramsey criticized the
| way Dell accounted for warranties, saying the company used an
| "unusual" method for accounting for the money it takes in from
| warranty sales and the money it reserves to handle expected
| warranty claims.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6171818.html
Investors sue Dell on payments from Intel: WSJ
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| An investor lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Dell Inc. of
| improper accounting in its relationship with chip giant Intel,
| according to a media report published Thursday evening.
|
| [...]
|
| The suit alleges that Dell received at times as much as $1 billion
| a year in "secret and likely illegal" kickbacks in the form of
| "e-Cap" or "exception to corporate average pricing" payments"
| from Intel to ensure that Dell used no other chip supplier,
| according to The Journal.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/investors-sue-dell-payments-intel/story.aspx?guid=%7B400315B0%2DE375%2D4920%2DB300%2D784220BEFE35%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
Microsoft + Novell + Wal-Mart +Ubuntu + Dell = Conspiracy ?
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| Dell supposedly gets pounded by a hoard of folks demanding they come
| up with a Linux box. Dell goes back and forth and finally gives in,
| announcing they will use Ubuntu. Than Dell does a strange thing and
| joins in the Microsoft-Novell alliance.
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http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/2007/05/26/microsoft-novell-wal-mart-ubuntu-dell-a-conspiracy/
Apple's Jobs brushes aside backdating concerns
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| After presiding over a 50 percent rise in Apple's stock over the
| past year, CEO Steve Jobs can afford to shrug off shareholder
| questions about stock option backdating and environmental policies.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6182965.html
Apple board backs Jobs against ex-CFO allegations shock
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| Apple's Board of Directors is backing CEO Steve Jobs after former
| CFO Fred Anderson accused Jobs approving the company's stock
| option backdating. Anderson settled civil charges against him
| Tuesday without admitting any guilt, but agreeing to pay back
| approximately $3.5m to make up for personal gains in the scandal.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/25/apple_q2_revenues_2007/
Options troubles aren't over for Apple
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| But one of the accused -- former Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson --
| pointed a finger at his former boss, Steve Jobs, raising new accusations
| that experts say could land Jobs in some legal hot water if true.
|
| [...]
|
| Gene Munster, a financial analyst at Piper Jaffray, said Anderson's
| accusations will fuel investors' worries over Jobs and his critical role in
| Apple's continued success.
|
| "It gives the appearance that, 'I had a partner in crime and it was Steve
| Jobs,'" Munster said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_on_hi_te/apple_stock_options
Lawsuit seeks to shut down Facebook
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| The lawsuit's allegations against Zuckerberg include fraud, copyright
| infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets. It asks the court to shut
| down Facebook and give control of the company and its assets to ConnectU's
| founders.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_hi_te/facebook_lawsuit
Microsoft's past stock options practice poses questions
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| Microsoft in 1999 announced that it would end a policy of awarding
| options at monthly lows and said it would take a $217 million charge,
| though many details of that discontinued practice haven't been widely
| known, The Wall Street Journal said Friday.
|
| Those details raise questions about how Microsoft began the practice,
| what prompted the company to end it and whether the way the options
| were dated--at 30-day lows the month after they were
| granted--influenced other companies, it said.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6084617.html
Facebook teams with Amazon
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| In a collaboration with Redmond-based Microsoft Inc.'s Popfly,
| Facebook users can create applications and add them to their
| profiles with no programming.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/070525/1468844.html?.v=1
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