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Just 10.2% of shareholders reject pay plan of Europe’s biggest bank

A clutch of British firms yesterday risked the wrath of investors backing the intensifying Shareholder Spring with details of bumper executive pay packages.

Bank handling Facebook IPO may have given inside tips to select clients, sparking review, shareholder suitVIDEO: Greifeld Apologized to Morgan Stanley for Facebook IPO Shareholders Sue Facebook, Morgan Stanley

Business software giant SAP announced today that it will acquire Ariba's cloud -based business commerce network for approximately $4.3 billion. SAP's subsidiary, SAP America, Inc., is offering $45 per share for the platform, and plans to close the deal during the third quarter, pending Ariba shareholder approval of the sale. Ariba had 100.2 million shares on the market, as of March 31st, accord...

As the euro zone crisis intensifies and global markets reflect investor concerns, we ask ourselves, is a Greek exit from the euro on its way? Preparations have already begun to protect shareholder interest.

WIRED:IT LOOKS LIKE it’s going to be Yahoo’s “year of the three emperors”. The company entered 2012 without a company head, after its board summarily dismissed Carol Bartz, the chief executive of only two years. The new chief executive, Scott Thompson, started in January, and lasted less than five months, after being ousted this week following a shareholder proxy battle and accusations he had f...

Now that Tepco is about to gain a new shareholder (the Japanese government) there is little incentive for existing investors to hang around

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.

Andrew Moss (pictured), who has been chief executive of the UK's largest insurer since 2007, will leave after more than half of shareholder votes failed to back the firm’s remuneration report at its annual meeting last week.

A major Yahoo shareholder has made a legal demand for internal records about the embattled Internet company's hiring of CEO Scott Thompson.

Nokia (NOK), which earlier this week filed a patent-related lawsuit against Research In Motion (RIMM), HTC (2498TW) and visual technology company Viewsonic Corp., found itself on the receiving end today, thanks to one of its shareholders. As All Things Digital reports, Robert Chmielinski filed a class action suit against Nokia, alleging it misled investors with [...]

TORONTO — SNC-Lavalin defended its handling of the Cynthia Vanier affair on Thursday after a friend turned up at a shareholders’ meeting to implore the firm to assist the Canadian contractor arrested in Mexico over her alleged role in a Libyan smuggling plot. “I am not a shareholder but I ask you as the shareholders, ...

The recent shareholder challenges to excessive executive pay are only a start. It’s time that all parts of the Dodd-Frank reform law be carried out.

HUNDREDS of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators from across America have descended on San Francisco to try and crash banking giant Wells Fargo's annual shareholder meeting.

Citigroup's Indian American CEO Vikram Pandit and its directors have been sued by a bank shareholder over a compensation package that was contested by investors in a rare failed "say-on-pay" vote in Manhattan.

Move to renationalise YPF by ousting Spanish group Repsol as majority shareholder prompts a furious row with Madrid.

Following a £4million investment, British yacht broker Jamie Edmiston is now the chief executive officer of the company, although the peer remains a director and a minority shareholder

Ahead of its anticipated market debut, Facebook is reportedly stopping all trading of its shares on secondary markets. A report from Bloomberg citing unnamed “people with knowledge of the matter” said that the company will halt trading by the beginning of April to get a stable shareholder footing and keep prices from fluctuating ahead of its initial public offering. Read full article >> ...

Higher shareholder returns may be in store for the conglomerate.

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As Yahoo struggles to turn itself around, a key stakeholder is waging war to take control of the process.

Chinese multi-platform media company SearchMedia Holdings Limited says it has reached settlement agreements for the arbitration between the company and certain of its predecessor shareholders. The arbitration was filed between SearchMedia Holdings Limited versus two groups composed first of settling defendants China Seed Ventures, LP; Qinying Liu; Deutsche Bank AG Hong Kong Branch; and Le [...]

Doncaster Rovers will hold talks with Billy Sharp over a new contract after major shareholder Dick Watson and chairman John Ryan raised funds to try and keep him at the club.

During the meeting Vladimir Putin said that Rosneft would become the principal shareholder in the CSKA ice hockey club.