Carol Bartz had some choice words for Yahoo’s Board of Directors in an interview with Fortune. But more than $10 million in compensation still owed to Bartz is apparently tied to a non-disparagement clause in her contract. Could that money now be in jeopardy?
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In a recent article in the New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes about how Steve Jobs, unlike other high profile high tech gazillionaires, never had a reputation for his charitable gifts. While that or or may not be true, Apple the company is stepping up to the donation plate.
Google is continuing its slew of big name purchases, with news now coming that it has purchased Zagat, the company that did what Yelp does today in the pre-digital age.
On Wednesday, SanJose.com wrote about the fall of Yahoo’s Carol Bartz that, “Before there was Google there was Yahoo, and before there was Yahoo there was Alta Vista, now long forgotten.” Empires rise, only to fall (as did Rome and the British).
Netflix has just moved a big step closer to building a new corporate headquarters in the Los Gatos Business Park at Albright Way and Winchester Boulevard.
Chef Matthias Froeschl was born in Austria and worked his way up through the Austrian culinary system, starting his apprenticeships at 15 and simultaneously studying at culinary school. After three years, he passed his final exams and was certified as a chef. He worked around Austria, before moving to New York a decade ago at the behest of a former employer who was running an Austrian restaurant there. Eventually, Froeschl was running four kitchens for him. His in-laws had run Cafe Marcella in Los Gatos for 17 years before selling it, and, along with a family friend, the two couples decided to open Naschmarkt together this summer.
Amazon, Yahoo, and Dish Network have all been eying the video site Hulu, even though Hulu is not sure it wants to sell. Reports say that the companies are offering between $1.5 and $2 billion for Hulu.
“To all, I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board.” That was the first sentence of a brief, two-sentence email sent out by Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo, yesterday.
It is a strange state of affairs when it’s easier to buy a bag of weed than a gallon of dairy-direct milk. All I need to score dope is to make up a fake ailment (sleeplessness, dandruff) and pay $100 bucks to a shady doctor to get a medical marijuana prescription. Then I can buy as much pot as I like. But I don’t need weed. I want raw milk.
Avoid the drive-thru and drive to these top burger stops instead.
