Is Twitter's top engineer worth $10.3 million?
Twitter revealed its biggest earners as it prepares for its IPO. CEO Dick Costolo netted $11.5 million last year, and Christopher Fry, SVP of engineering, raked in $10.3 million.
Twitter revealed its biggest earners as it prepares for its IPO. CEO Dick Costolo netted $11.5 million last year, and Christopher Fry, SVP of engineering, raked in $10.3 million.
It pays to be CIO -- millions, in some cases. Take Filippo Passerini. He joined Procter & Gamble in 1981 as a systems analyst in Italy and rose through the techie ranks. Today Passerini is CIO and leads the company's global business services organization -- a dual role that netted him $5 million last year.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who consistently ranks among the highest paid CEOs in the U.S., took an 18% pay cut this year. His total compensation, valued at $78.4 million, is down from $96.2 million in 2012.
Among computer science grads, alumni from University of California, Berkeley, led the pack with a median mid-career salary of $141,400, PayScale says.
PayScale ranked 129 college majors based on earning potential. Engineering, math, science and technology fields dominated the rankings.
SDN is taking a toll on Brocade.
Looking to bulk up its often flat Ethernet fortunes, Extreme Networks today grabbed up Enterasys Networks for a cash price of $180 million.
Looking to bulk up its often flat Ethernet fortunes, Extreme Networks today grabbed up Enterasys Networks for a cash price of $180 million.
What does Microsoft's Nokia move mean to Apple?
Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding his plan to retire:
Birst, a San Francisco company that offers cloud-based business intelligence services, has scored a US$38 million venture investment led by existing backer Sequoia Capital and including newcomer Northgate Capital. Birst has raised $84 million to date, including $26 million last year in a round also led by Sequoia.
If the new biopic of Steve Jobs, called "Jobs," was an Apple product, it would end
up on lots of blogposts with headlines like "Apple's Biggest Failures" or "Apple's Worst Products," judging from the first round of reviews compiled by the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes.
Apple's App Store still pulls in twice as much revenue as the Google Play Store, despite the continued growth in Android smartphone use,according to a report from mobile app tracking firm Distimo.
As BlackBerry's board of directors formally begin exploring "strategic alternatives," they'll find their options limited, according to two IT sector analysts. All the likely alternatives call for a much diminished company, or
broken up into some software assets and a brand value that's declining every
day.
FireEye could soon be known on the stock market as FEYE if its plans to go public in a $175 million bid made official with the SEC today come to fruition.