Neowin News Feed for: Shareholders

Tesla Board Chair asks shareholders to approve Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package

Hamid Ganji — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:16:01 +0000

Tesla's Board Chair has informed shareholders that the company could lose Elon Musk as CEO if the $1 trillion pay package is not approved. Read more...

Netflix says its doubling down on AI in its media and ads

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:56:01 +0000

Netflix has told shareholders that its creative partners are using AI in their productions in various ways, including de-aging characters in flashback scenes. Read more...

Tesla board's new 2025 CEO Performance Award might make Elon Musk a trillionaire

Pradeep Viswanathan — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:22:02 +0000

Tesla's board has approved a new 2025 performance-based compensation plan for CEO Elon Musk after a previous, similar award was canceled by a court. Read more...

After making job offers worth millions of dollars, Meta stops AI hiring

Usama Jawad — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:42:01 +0000

Meta has triggered an AI hiring freeze, likely because of investor concerns over the multi-million dollar expenditure involved in building the Superintelligence team. Read more...

Apple faces pressure from major shareholders to disclose safety risks about AI

Anushe Fawaz — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:36:01 +0000

Apple's shareholders are urging the company to disclose its risk management strategies and the social impacts of increased deployment of AI in its operations to help them make informed decisions. Read more...

Microsoft announces a 10% dividend increase for shareholders

Paul Hill — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 07:56:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it will be increasing dividend payments to shareholders later this year. Those who want the higher dividends must already hold the company's stock on November 17. Read more...

Nvidia fined $5.5 million for misleading investors about crypto market

Usama Jawad — Fri, 06 May 2022 16:04:01 +0000

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fined Nvidia for not telling investors that their rise in revenue in 2018 was due to cryptomining interest rather than its gaming business. Read more...

Microsoft announces increase in quarterly dividend, authorizes $40 billion in share buybacks

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 04:26:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced a new share repurchase program, along with a quarterly dividend increase. In addition, the tech giant's annual shareholders meeting is set for December 4, 2019. Read more...

Several major Facebook stakeholders call for Mark Zuckerberg to step down as Chairman

Sharath Ravishankar — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 08:22:01 +0000

Multiple major public funds with large stakes in Facebook came together on Wednesday to call for Mark Zuckerberg's removal as Chairman, for his numerous company mishandlings over the past few years. Read more...

Elon Musk to keep Tesla public following shareholder concerns

Paul Hill — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 14:34:01 +0000

Elon Musk has announced that he plans to keep Tesla public after hearing from shareholders. He confirmed that he found the process of going private to be more difficult than he anticipated. Read more...

Two Apple shareholders want to prevent addiction

Paul Hill — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 10:38:01 +0000

Two Apple shareholders have asked the company in a public letter to do more to research and tackle children's addiction to iPhones. One proposal it mentioned was a yearly report of progress made. Read more...

SoftBank is trying to buy Uber shares for 30% less

Paul Hill — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 05:18:01 +0000

SoftBank and a coalition of other companies looking to buy shares in Uber in exchange for a multi-billion dollar investment, are looking to buy shares on the cheap at around $33 each. Read more...

Stockholders question Satya Nadella's mobile division strategy at shareholders meeting

Cage Appleby — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 09:08:01 +0000

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, was under fire at the annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday. Windows Phone users were quick to ask Nadella what future lies ahead for the company's mobile division. Read more...

Decision day for Nokia as shareholders set to vote on Microsoft deal

Andy Weir — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:51:06 +0000

After announcing the planned sale of its devices business to Microsoft, Nokia's shareholders will vote today on whether to accept the $7.35bn deal, which is expected to be completed in early 2014. Read more...

Jeff Bezos: Profits are not important to Amazon, customers are

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:18:46 +0000

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, has written a letter to shareholders outlining his aims for the company. Bezos says that Amazon innovates even when there is no need, putting customers above profits. Read more...

Apple "iWatch" could be past the experimental stage

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:01:31 +0000

A report from Bloomberg says that Apple's rumoured "iWatch" could already be in development, by a team of as many as 100 of the Cupertino employees ahead of a 2013 launch. Read more...

Nokia shareholders want CEO Elop ousted [Update]

Byron Hinson — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:21:30 +0000

It seems that not everyone is happy with the Nokia and Microsoft deal that the two companies announced last week, especially some of the Nokia shareholders. According to computing.co.uk, nine Nokia shareholders will use their next... Read more...

Microsoft gives shareholders greater input on executive pay

Sam Symons — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:21:16 +0000

Executive compensation can be quite a big deal if you're a shareholder with a company; as you'd expect, people want to be able to have a say on whether or not a high ranking member... Read more...

Google Shareholders Vote Against Anti-Censorship Proposal

Fri, 11 May 2007 02:58:53 +0000

A majority of Google shareholders have voted against an anti-censorship proposal that took aim at the way Google conducts its business in China and other countries that engage in active censorship. The company received a... Read more...

Apple's Jobs apologizes to shareholders

Steven Parker — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:49:27 +0000

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has apologized to shareholders after an internal investigation found that he had been aware of the company's practice of "backdating" employee stock options. "I apologize to Apple's shareholders and employees for... Read more...

Apple Shareholders Sue Apple

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:38:30 +0000

Apple shareholders have filed suit against the company, in the latest development of the options furore. The shareholders claim Apple's CEO Steve Jobs and other Apple executives, changed their option-grant dates to reap "millions of... Read more...

Seagate, Maxtor Merger Approved by Shareholders

Thu, 18 May 2006 16:41:22 +0000

After a deal was reported to be in the works months ago, shareholders for both Seagate and Maxtor have approved a merger of the hard drive giants. Under the deal, Seagate will acquire Maxtor,... Read more...

Cisco Fights Shareholders on Human Rights

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 11:04:29 +0000

Internet equipment maker Cisco Systems is fighting a shareholder action that urges the company to adopt a comprehensive human rights policy for its dealings with the Chinese government, and with other states practicing political censorship... Read more...

PeopleSoft Shareholders Give Oracle Green Light

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 02:05:28 +0000

Oracle Relevant Products/Services from Oracle, backed by what the company views as a favorable response from PeopleSoft Latest News about PeopleSoft stockholders, is applying more pressure in an effort to complete its proposed US$9.2 billion... Read more...

Sega shareholders give go-ahead to Sammy merger

Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:36:45 +0000

One of the industry's biggest-ever mergers is on track for October As we announced in our previous Sega post, we said that Sega would announce today what their plans will be. Sammy's... Read more...

Apple not US-centric, Jobs tells shareholders

Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:30:01 +0000

Apple shareholders yesterday re-elected the company's six-member board and voted down a proposal to restrict executive pay. During the company's annual shareholders meeting at its Cupertino headquarters all board members were approved by a majority... Read more...

Shareholders query porn star presence at Nvidia party

Mon, 26 May 2003 19:22:21 +0000

Investors on a Yahoo board are wondering just how Nvidia will justify pulling in a famous porn star at a party held at the E3 games show recently. A number of investors in... Read more...

Acclaim Shareholders Sue...Acclaim?

Marcel Klum — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:47:38 +0000

As you may have heard over the last few days, a group of shareholders in games developer and publisher Acclaim have filed a class-action lawsuit against the company. The complaint alleges that the company's predictions... Read more...