CFO popularity and CFO trends

Says in SEC filing that it failed to report $600,000 Chevy 100th anniversary deal given ad agency where CFO Dan Amman's wife is a partner.

Today, Israeli startup Superfly, which offers a secure tool that combines worldwide flight information with personal travel preferences to help people organize and maximize the value of their travel rewards among other things, is quietly launching a shot across the bow of the industry's giants -- in this case, uber popular metasearch engine, Kayak. That's because the startup now has the benefi...

They can act as a catalyst and help the company grow faster, says owner of Ontario engineering firm

So now the bad news is out. HP will cut about 27,000 jobs over the next two years or so. But CEO Meg Whitman and company are cautiously optimistic about the long haul.

Apple Inc’s chief financial officer is asking the residents of Cupertino, California, to support the company’s new 2.8 million square foot spaceship-like campus, which critics say would increase traffic and pressure city services.

Shares of video conferencing and integrated communications provider Polycom (PLCM) were one of the stronger tech stocks today, rising 74 cents, or almost 7%, to $11.64, perhaps prompted by an upbeat note from Wells Fargo’s Jess Lubert, who pounds the table on the stock after a meeting with CEO Andy Miller and CFO Eric Brown. [...]

Remember the giant spaceship campus Apple's building in Cupertino? The people who live in the neighborhood where Apple's mothership is landing definitely do. So Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer sent out a packet to neighborhood residents pumping up the virtues of the new campus—in a decidedly Apple way. More »

afabbro writes "Verizon mentioned in an investor conference that it will be eliminating unlimited data plans, even for those it grandfathered in. From the article: 'Speaking at the J.P Morgan Technology Media and Telecom conference today, Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo told investors that the company's 3G unlimited data plans that customers were allowed to hang onto last year when Veriz...

A Verizon exec has announced that the company plans to do away with its unlimited data plans for grandfathered customers in favor of new tiered "data share" plans, effectively killing off the final unlimited plans at the nation's largest mobile carrier. As first reported by FierceWireless, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo told a crowd at J.P. Morgan's Technology, Media and Telecom conference in Boston t...

CFO forum to debate limiting data available to big three raters in wake of behaviour in crisis, putting potential new rivals on an level playing field

BOSTON (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp has no interest in pursuing large acquisitions, preferring to focus on targets worth $200 million to $1.5 billion, a top executive said on Tuesday.

Gene Morphis, the chief financial officer for Francesca's Holding Corps., a clothing company based in Houston, Texas, was fired for 'improperly' communicating through social networks.

While Douglas Beatty acknowledged he ‘did not do his job,’ he was not involved in any conspiracy, defence lawyer says

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's largest outside shareholder said the Internet company should make its finance chief or head of media the interim chief executive because of the controversy surrounding CEO Scott Thompson's educational background.

LONDON (Reuters) - Thomas Cook is set to announce the departure of its chief financial officer this week, dealing another blow to the world's oldest travel group, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

AMSTERDAM, May 8 (Reuters) - America Movil, the telecoms giant controlled by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, sees Dutch telecoms firm KPN as a long-term investment that provides a closer look at European...

Neustar (NYSE: NSR), which runs the global registgry for .biz, and .us TLDs and provides back-end registry solutions for .co, .tel, and .travel domain names, announced its first quarter results for 2012. Revenue is up 37% to $200M for the quarter, with Enterprise Services (which includes the company’s DNS and registry operations) bringing in $39.49M [...]

New York University, Tishman Auditorium New York, New York 10:59 A.M. EDT THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Hello, folks.  How are you?  It’s great to be with you all.  (Applause.)  What a great introduction.  I just said I hope she remembers me when she’s President of the United States of America.  (Laughter.) Ladies and gentlemen, it’s great to be before such a distinguished audience at a great u...

Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett could be succeeded by Iscar CFO Danny Goldman and CEO Jacob Harpaz.

Chinese B2C e-commerce website Dangdang.com announced that its chief financial officer Conor Chia-huang Yang has resigned due to personal reasons. However, Yang will still work for the company during a three-month transitional period, and Dangdang.com will soon start looking for a new CFO. Yang joined Dangdang.com in March 2010 and he led the company's IPO [...]

Will HTC join the likes of RIM and Palm? The handset maker has gone from sales superstar to treading water

Online brokerage TD Ameritrade's fiscal second-quarter earnings slumped 20% as its CFO spoke of a "difficult" operating environment.

(Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc said on Wednesday that Michael Dastugue is leaving on Friday after just 15 months as chief financial officer as the department store chain continues to work on its overhaul under its new chief executive.

FORMER Westfield Group chief financial officer (CFO) Marlon Teperson has joined shopping centre owner Centro Retail Australia.

So far Groupon is backing its CFO but as its accounting issues have now expanded into an SEC probe, pressure may increase on Jason Child to step down, writes Therese Poletti.

Schwadorf bei Wien (OTS) - Der Aufsichtsrat der Trenkwalder International AG hat Stefan Ulrich mit sofortiger Wirkung zum neuen Chief Executive Officer (CEO) und Károly Pataki zum Mitglied des Vorstandes berufen. Vom CFO zum CEO - Stefan Ulrich ist neuer CEO der Trenkwalder International …

JPMorgan says it received "multiple clear oral assurances from senior MF Global officials" that a $175 million transfer from the firm to cover an overdraft did not include customer money. The claim comes in testimony prepared for a Congressional hearing Wednesday on MF Global's collapse by Diane Genova, JPMorgan's deputy general counsel. It has since emerged that the $175 million did in f...

Days before the MF Global brokerage firm collapsed, leaving many of its clients without access to their money, a top executive was troubled that the firm appeared to be putting customer funds at risk, the executive says. Read full article >>

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Mike Lang is stepping down as CEO of Miramax, the company said Friday. Lang has agreed to remain a consultant to the company as it searches for a successor. Steve Schoch, Miramax CFO, will serve as interim CEO until a replacement is named. "We are very proud of what Miramax has accomplished in such a short period of time," Richard Nanula, chairman of Miramax and a pr...

Your police and firefighters put their lives on the line for the protection of the citizens of Atlanta. At the very least, you could educate yourself on basic principles of investing and enable them to retire with dignity.

Roustabouts, weatherpeople and Air Force pilots  As if to underscore Apple (AAPL) CFO Peter Oppenheimer's claim that "nearly all" Fortune 500 companies "approve and support" iPhones on their networks, three major purchase orders came to light this week: Halliburton announced that over the next year the oil services company will be "transitioning" from Research in Motion's (RIMM) BlackBerry plat...

Declines in search, display advertising blamed on weakness in Europe; CFO sees some positive trends

Ivan Dittrich is due to take up his new position as chief financial officer and group executive director of Vodacom in July.

With the oil field service company's stock near a 52-week low after CFO Ricardo Rosa suddenly resigned, we see deep value.

Bangalore-based early stage venture capital fund, August Capital Partners has roped in former AppLabs CFO, Mohan Krishna Reddy (MKR) as a Venture Partner.

THE CHIEF financial officer of Royal KPN, the biggest telecoms operator in the Netherlands, has resigned with immediate effect after objecting to the group’s new executive structure.

According to statements made by Sprint's CFO at a recent analyst conference, Sprint's anticipated 4G LTE network may arrive later than expected.

There are no missing millions in the Cricket South Africa coffers, an official told a ministerial inquiry on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp is still in "the acquisition game" and would like to see more acquisitions in coming years, Chief Financial Officer Bruce Tanner told an investor conference...

Der Präsident der lcoal-lounge Wien ist geschäftsführender Gesellschafter sowie CFO der ACCEDO Holding GmbH und feiert Erfolge gerne auf zwei verschiedene Arten.

New DN Journal Cover Story: The life of former Fabulous.com leader Dan Warner. He has done a hitch in the Navy, worked as a carpenter, paramedic, fireman, software developer & pharmaceutical salesman + survived a near fatal accident & a thieving CFO who wound up in jail after destroying Warner's multi-million $ company.