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...media has become fascinated with Yahoo again over the last few weeks as it finally found a new CEO to run the company in the place of founder Jerry Yang who was part of the Microsoft foul-up. Carol Bartz was the head of Autodesk (ADSK) from 1992 to 2006. She deserves whatever credit she got for improving Autodesk's fortunes. The stock soared over the period that she ran the company. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...picking low-hanging fruit to say that Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo! (YHOO), can't fix the portal company - its shares went down about 3% on news of the selection. Bartz had a good reputation at Autodesk, the other firm she ran. But Yahoo! is an Internet company, and Bartz is not an Internet executive...
...movies and TV shows to manipulate the images, voices and surroundings of the stars. Avid has won 45% of a professional computer-based editing and special-effects global market, worth $1 billion last year and expected to double by 2005. Its closest competitor, Discreet Logic, a division of Autodesk based in Montreal, has 30% of the market. Sony and Matsushita have managed to win only 15%, even though they dominate electronics hardware...
...well-run company, extremely profitable. They've been buying back stock religiously, and it's very cheap. I'd make the argument that security is growing as a percentage of corporate information technology spending, and it's more resistant to recessionary cutbacks. Another software company that we like is Autodesk. If you're an architect and want to translate your thoughts or drawings into a computer-generated model, you use Autodesk's drafting software. They have an absolute dominance of this business...
...buybacks are increasingly concocted to offset the potential dilution of mega-stock-option grants, which exploded in number in the '90s. The strategy is especially prevalent among tech companies, including Dell, Adobe and Autodesk. But others, including Citigroup and Chiron, do it too. The idea is to buy back enough stock so that when executives and employees exercise options, the company can deliver the stock without printing more...