Vince Cable has moved to strengthen the hand of shareholders by giving them powers to lead the crackdown on excessive executive pay deals. full story ![]()

A majority of 68 per cent voted in favour of plans for shareholders to veto executive pay and for a ban on big rewards for new and departing managers in Switzerland.
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Theresa May has warned there are potentially thousands of people at risk of being radicalised in the UK as she indicated plans for a fresh crackdown on extremists groups.
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In the wake of Cablevision's lawsuit against Viacom, the cable-TV business are openly pondering a world where subscribers could actually choose which cable channels they want to pay for.
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Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said yesterday that there was no place in a just society for excessive executive pay as her coalition government joined a Europe-wide clampdown on corporate largesse.
telegraph.co.uk (3 months and 8 days ago)
In the wake of Cablevision's lawsuit against Viacom, the cable-TV business—as well as its customers—are openly pondering a world where subscribers could actually choose which cable channels they want to pay for. But that scenario is a long way off.
wsj.com (3 months and 20 days ago)
In the wake of Cablevision's lawsuit against Viacom, the cable-TV business—as well as its customers—are openly pondering a world where subscribers could actually choose which cable channels they want to pay for. But that scenario is a long way off.
wsj.com (3 months and 20 days ago)
According to a filing yesterday, Target Corporation barely squeaked majority approval of its pay plans, with only 52.1% of shareholders voting to approve executive compensation at the company. Given Target’s share price performance over the last 10 years, this is as much of a surprise as Occidental losing its “Say on Pay” vote back in 2010, when its share price was also...
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Jennifer Lopez: Fly Girl, singer, movie star, "American Idol" judge and now. . . television executive. A flurry of smartphone cameras flashed as tabloid diva arrived at the 2013 Cable Show at the Convention Center on Wednesday. J-Lo was in D.C. to promote the NUVOtv channel as the the newly-appointed chief creative officer and add some Hollywood glitz to the final day of the...
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John Malone's cable group will pay $810 million for just over 12 percent in Ziggo, the largest cable operator in the Netherlands.
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