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Google rolls out its option exchange program…

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Last month, Google (GOOG) announced an options exchange program that would let employees exchange their underwater options. In the announcement, Google estimated that about 85% of its employees had underwater options and told employees that “if you’re interested in learning more about this employee-only stock option exchange, we encourage you to read our related SEC [...]

Google’s offer letter to its new CFO…

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Yesterday, Google (GOOG) announced that it had hired a new CFO, 10 months after George Reyes announced his plans to retire. As a result, most of the coverage, including this post from the LA Times’ technology blog, focused on how long it took Google to find Bell Canada executive Patrick Pichette. We’ll ignore for the [...]

Google’s growth spurt…

Monday, February 18th, 2008

On Friday, four Dow 30 companies filed their 10-Ks — Honeywell (HON), Boeing (BA), Alcoa (AA), and 3M (MMM) — and I’m still poking around through them. Up until 3M filed at 5:23 on Friday, it seemed as if there was a relationship between the size of the filing and the proximity to a long [...]

Information overload on Microsoft, Yahoo deal…

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

While it’s only Day 3 — at least as far as the SEC clock goes — since Microsoft (MSFT) announced its $44.6 billion desire to buy Yahoo (YHOO), the number of filings poring in is reaching a feverish pitch: 12 so far at Yahoo and 10 at Microsoft, though there’s some duplication there. Among the [...]