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You might have heard over the long holiday weekend this little story about a well-known tech company executive taking a leave of absence from his high-powered job to deal with lingering health issues. Though the news about Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs was released early in the morning on a day when both the markets [...]
There’s usually a time in late February — invariably on a Friday — when the folks here at footnoted begin to wonder what the hell we’re doing as we stare at several hundred filings in our inbox. Just like the little Dutch Boy, we often feel as if we’re trying to plug the hole in [...]
Measuring up against the competition is always tough, especially when there’s someone in the field that never seems to slip up too badly. MetLife (MET) found a way around the problem recently: It just chose to ignore the star. We found the bit of fancy footwork (worthy of its dancing mascot, Snoopy) in an 8-K [...]
We’re sure that it’s just a mere coincidence. But after spending $50 million for her unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate (which according to this article Linda McMahon has no regrets over), we found the timing of husband Vince McMahon’s new employment contract kind of amusing. As best we can tell, McMahon has been working [...]
Yesterday, Apple (AAPL) announced that it had appointed former Northrup Grumman (NOC) Chairman and CEO Ronald Sugar to its board of directors. While the news didn’t generate quite the level of buzz as Apple’s Beatles announcement a day earlier, as all things Apple tend to do, it still generated plenty of attention. Like the seven [...]
