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Monthly archive February, 2008

Richard Leza Jr. nominates self to Rackable board

Richard Leza Jr. of Sierra Madre, who owns 2,600 shares of Rackable Systems, asked the company to nominate himself and Steve Montoya of Los Gatos to its board of directors, according to a filing the company made with Read More →

Novellus CFO quits as shares hit 52-week low

William Kurtz quit Friday as chief financial officer at Novellus Systems the same day its shares hit a 52-week low. The news didn't rate a press release   or a single line of explanationin the SEC filing the company made late Friday Read More →

Calpine chief calling it quits with estimated $29.6M “success fee”

Robert May, the head of the San Jose energy company Calpine that emerged from bankruptcy in January, will be resigning, he announced Friday, the same day that the company estimated his "success fee'' for his effort would be $29.6 million, Read More →

Google ad weakness actually sign of strength

When traffic tracking outfit comScore released numbers Monday that seemed to show an ongoing slowdown in Google's ad clickthrough rates, it sent a shiver through the market and had every pundit and his dog speculating on the reasons, with most Read More →

Tormented ghost of Jeeves spotted in Ask.com offices

The butler didn't do it, and neither has The Algorithm -- nothing that search site Ask.com, nee Ask Jeeves, has tried over the years has helped it gain ground on Google or, for that matter, any other rivals. Read More →

The boss is retiring, Crazy Stevie’s in charge, and our prices are INSA-A-A-A-NE!!

In the year since its introduction, Microsoft has moved more than 100 million copies of Windows Vista into the market, and just on the numbers, you'd have to call that a success. But the vast majority of those sales have Read More →

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