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• The 10 worst-managed companies in America

  Posted Jun 23 2008, 05:41 AM by Douglas McIntyre
  Filed under: Citigroup, Sprint, Wal-Mart, Intel, AMD, AT&T, Starbucks, Target, Sears, IBM, Circuit City, Sun Microsystems
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  With the trading year almost half over and results from the first quarter out, 24/7 Wall Street has created the latest installment of its Ten Worst Managed Companies In America list. This is a companion piece to the "CEO of the Year" list and "Large Companies that May Disappear" series.

  This analysis is based on: 1) one-year and five-year stock performance relative to the major indexes and other companies in the industry, 2) the company's position in its industry both now and over the last five years, 3) whether management made identifiable and critical decisions which hurt the company, 4) a change in the company's relative market strength compared to its competition, and 5) whether the company could have identified mistakes and changed course quickly enough to avoid a catastrophe.

  Some readers will think it is not fair to include companies which have had a recent   Read More...

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• The top-paid CEOs in tech

  Posted May 02 2008, 10:33 AM by Kim Peterson
  Filed under: Apple, Oracle, Sun Microsystems
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  It's no surprise that Oracle's Larry Ellison tops Forbes' list of the best-paid CEOs in technology. Ellison is #14 on the list of world billionaires and gets big money from his company every year. His salary last year was only $1 million, but he got $182 million more through exercising stock options, according to Forbes.

  Oracle shareholders can't be too upset. The company's total return in the fiscal year was 36.3%, according to Forbes. A year ago Oracle shares were in the $19 range. They reached the $23 mark in January and are now trading at around $21.34.   Read More...

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