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Oracle, HP Fight Over Hurd
Image by Getty Images via @daylife HP and Oracle both ratcheted up the hostilities yesterday as HP sued its former CEO and now Oracle president Mark Hurd and Oracle responded with a statement from CEO Larry Ellison threatening to cut ties with HP. The companies are protecting their turf, for sure, and their shareholders’ investments.…
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Oracle President Mark Hurd’s Big Paycheck
(Reuters) – Oracle Corp offered its new president, Mark Hurd, former head of Hewlett-Packard Co, a salary of $950,000 and a bonus of up to $10 million for fiscal 2011, plus stock options. Oracle, the world’s No. 3 software maker, named Hurd co-president on Monday, a month after he stepped down from HP following a…
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Hurd Hire Boosts Oracle’s Channel Cred
Image via Wikipedia In the day since Oracle announced it would hire HP ex-CEO Mark Hurd to serve as president, replacing Charles Phillips, plenty has been written about just what Hurd brings to the table for Oracle. For instance, Oracle now has an executive that has led a multi-billion dollar business. It now has an…
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Jobs: Employment Falls for Third Straight Month in August
(Reuters) – U.S. employment likely fell for a third straight month in August as more temporary census jobs ended and cautious businesses scaled back hiring, an outcome that could pressure the Federal Reserve to prop up growth. Nonfarm payrolls fell 100,000 after declining 131,000 in July, according to a Reuters survey. Private payrolls, a better…
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Job Creation Still Bleak at Small Businesses
(Reuters) – Employment at small U.S. businesses was subdued in August, although fewer companies cut jobs than in the previous month, a survey showed on Thursday. The National Federation of Independent Business’s monthly employment poll showed 11 percent of companies surveyed increased average employment by 2.3 employees. That was a modest rise from July’s 10…
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In Honor of Labor Day Weekend: The Treadmill Desk
Ever feel like your life is full of doing the same task over and over again? Does it seem like you are on a treadmill, figuratively? Well, now you can also be on one, literally, while you are working. In honor of Labor Day weekend, we bring you the TrekDesk Treadmill Desk. Now you don’t…
