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Motorola to split by 2009 (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Greg Brown, Motorola Inc.'s president and CEO, said the firm would create two independent, publicly traded companies as part of a strategic realignment (started on Jan. 31) of its mobile devices and broadband and mobility solutions businesses. Moto, which has yet to name a new CEO, said the separation will...

Posted on March 26, 2008 9:07 AM

Electronic Arts CFO Warren Jenson to leave (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Electronic Arts Inc.'s chief financial officer Warren Jenson, presumably a chief architect of EA's hostile bid for Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., is leaving the firm. Jenson cited a need to write the next chapter in his career. He has served as EA's CFO since 2002 and will stay with the...

Posted on March 25, 2008 3:05 PM

E*Trade, possibly for sale, makes Layton CEO (from Corporate Dealmaker)

New York's E*Trade Financial Corp. elected chairman Donald Layton as CEO. Layton, a former vice chairman of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., told the WSJ he might consider a sale if it made sense for shareholders. Back in November there was speculation of a sale after the company's share price...

Posted on March 3, 2008 3:52 PM

Help wanted: Freescale loses CEO (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Michel Mayer, chairman and CEO of Austin, Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor Inc., has decided to step down. Mayer (pictured) joined the firm in 2004 and navigated the transition from being a Motorola Inc. division to a public company that summer. Two years later, he was leading the company through the...

Posted on February 8, 2008 3:22 PM

Deliver and you get paid (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Nothing reinforces more the view that corporate chieftains are overpaid than the sums awarded CEOs given the boot. Early this year, Robert Nardelli's $210 million severance package, after he'd presided over a steep drop in Home Depot Inc.'s market value, made headlines for its extravagance. But Nardelli's isn't the...

Posted on August 15, 2007 6:03 PM