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...settlement demonstrates the lack of regard Lewis and the former Bank of America board has for shareholders," says Finger. "They were not as open as they should have been...
...shockingly unsurprising move, Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple Inc.'s board of directors today. This was inevitable, since both companies are staking their future growth on the explosion in mobile computing. So why did it take so long...
...Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple's core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric's effectiveness as an Apple board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest," Steve Jobs said in a written statement on Aug. 3. "Therefore, we have mutually decided that now is the right time for Eric to resign his position on Apple's board." That's right: Schmidt was not fired; he quit...
...significant compromises that Obama has glossed over. Last month, Obama greeted the passage of a House energy bill with great fanfare, calling it a "bold and necessary" step and a "victory of the future over the past." He did not mention that the price of getting enough Democrats on board with the legislation was significant compromises of his previous pledges. During the campaign, Obama had proposed auctioning off carbon permits (for companies that weren't yet sufficiently energy efficient) and using that money for other green programs. But the final bill in the House gave 85% of those allowances away...
...Moldova rarely features on the world's radar. There is even a board game called Where is Moldova?, designed to teach geography. Locked between Ukraine and Romania, it has the sad distinction of being Europe's poorest country. About a sixth of its population works abroad, largely in menial jobs on the streets of Western Europe. But it made headlines in April when thousands of Moldovans, mostly young people, took to the street crying fraud after elections that returned the Communist Party to power. Protesters torched buildings and ransacked the presidential palace. (Read: "Ghosts of Kosovo...