Another tech company has announced it is conducting internal inves­ti­ga­tions into their options grant practices. This time it is Novell, a company known for its NetWare network operating system and more recently as a Linux company. Novell said its audit committee began the inves­ti­gation because of news about irreg­u­lar­ities in the way that dozens of […]

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Tech companies are the primary focus of the SEC’s recently announced and currently ongoing inves­ti­gation into options dating irreg­u­lar­ities, which makes sense given their proclivity for awarding stock options as part of compen­sation packages with employees. An article in BusinessWeek documents what tech company execu­tives have recently termed a “witch hunt”: Many execu­tives are surprised […]

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Microsoft has invited the Firefox guys up to Redmond to test Firefox and Thunderbird on Vista to ensure compat­i­bility. The move isn’t entirely unexpected, after all, Firefox has been steadily eating into Internet Explorer’s market share ever since it was released. It isn’t a wholly benev­olent move, however. Microsoft is making sure all the big […]

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We’ve all been wondering just what Microsoft was going to do with that massive reserve of cash it’s been sitting on for years, not unlike a corporate Smaug. Turns out, they’re buying some shares in themselves. It isn’t news that Microsoft is buying back some of their shares, but what is news is that they […]

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Digg, a still relatively new web 2.0 site which previ­ously focused primarily on technology and other geeky news, has expanded its coverage to include broader topics. For instance, business and finance. Time will tell if their readers are as adept at ranking inter­esting stories in other topics, which is its strength.

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