CEO Drew Houston on meeting Steve Jobs and landing a $4 billion valuation.
The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup.
CEO Drew Houston on meeting Steve Jobs and landing a $4 billion valuation.
The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup.
When Trevor Blackwell, CEO of a company called Anybots, wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles.
Source:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/07/30/anybots.robots.office/index.html#fbid=_TZvT-Jj4iq
Online shoe retailer Zappos struggled for years before landing its big payday through a $1.2 billion sale to Amazon.
Here's a look at 10 milestones the company and CEO Tony Hsieh passed along the way.
Pimco's El-Erian: US Stock Plunge to Pick Up Speed - The decline in stock prices that took the Dow Jones Industrial Average down nearly 7 percent so far in May may continue, says Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of money management titan Pimco.
Source:
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Pimco-El-Erian-Stock-Plunge/2010/05/28/id/360417
The West Virginia mining disaster was caused by deregulation.
The CEO of the Massey Energy literally bought himself a judge. Corrupted absolutely, 29 dead later. This is the Reagan Revolution coming home to roost. Finance, Mines, Oil and Debt are all manmade disasters brought on by deregulation and the meme that government is bad.
Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/finance-mine-oil-debt-dis_b_563534.html
Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, complained last year that it is very difficult� to obey nonsensical� safety rules.
On April 5th , 25 miners died in an explosion at his Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, WV, which had racked up thousands of safety violations.
If there is one thing decidedly true, it is that Blockbuster Video's future is not bright.
It just announced 500+ more store closings, having already shuttered 250+ stores in January. Its stock is 30 cents. Its business a dinosaur & in shambles. If its future is "bright", would love see a business whose future is cloudy...or bad.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo unveiled a major legal action against senior Bank of America executives Thursday over its controversial purchase of Merrill Lynch, including bringing civil charges against its former CEO Ken Lewis.
Source:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/04/news/companies/bank_of_america/index.htm?hpt=T1
"The public has set a new standard of giving for a relief telethon with 'Hope for Haiti Now,' and the donations continue to come in," Lisa Paulsen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, said in a statement released Saturday.
Source:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9641401
CEO Muhtar Kent told the company's 92,000 employees in an e-mail Wednesday the Atlanta-based company is also checking on the safety of the 850 people who work for its bottler there.
Three Coca-Cola employees who happened to be in Haiti during the earthquake Tuesday were safe and have since gone to the Dominican Republic, the company said.
Dick Fuld is punched in the face
Check it out here:
http://consumerist.com/5060063/lehman-brothers-ceo-got-punched-in-the-face