IBM's head honcho Ginni Rometty was paid $16.45m for running the company last year though this was dramatically lower than it could have been – the exec herself downgraded her final incentive score and the board agreed. According to a 2019 Notice of Annual Meeting & Proxy Statement this week filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, IBM’s CEO, president and chairman could have made roughly 15 per cent more than she did...

Oracle is hoping stockholders will finally approve its executive pay plan – having failed to get the thumbs-up for six years running – at its annual meeting in November...

InfiniBand/Ethernet tech supplier Mellanox is being targeted by an activist investor pissy that it rejected overtures from Marvell...

Imation's CEO has been provisionally voted off the company's board, as shareholders supported the activist investor Clinton Group in its view of Imation's alleged leadership failures. This AGM proxy vote result still has to be certified, but that looks a formality. The Clinton Group said Imation's long revenue decline and turnaround failure was due to the board and CEO Mark Lucas...

VMware spin-off? Let the shareholders decide Analysis EMC is going to ask its shareholders whom they support: CEO Joe Tucci or hedge fund exec Paul Singer?…

Olga Madruga-Forti quits domain oversight organization ICANN has seen its second Board member resign in less than a year.…

Boss Tim Cook named in investors' class-action sueball Apple is once again being sued by its own investors – this time they're irked by the ebook price-fixing brouhaha.…

When former Microsoft CEO and current board member Steve Ballmer said he was "very interested" in the company's future, he wasn't kidding. As of Wednesday, Ballmer became Redmond's largest individual shareholder, with a stake even greater than that of founder Bill Gates...

'Conflict of interest' for John Thompson, say watchdogs Proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis has told Microsoft shareholders to vote against the re-election of independent director John Thompson, who is leading the search for a new chief exec.…