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2. Japan's Olympus to Propose Board Seat for Activist Investor ValueAct
  
  Explore Stock Market Quotes and News Jan 11 2019 BoardNews
  
  TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Olympus Corp said it would propose to give top shareholder U.S. hedge fund ValueAct Capital a seat at its board, a rare move in the country where activists are still viewed by companies as asset-strippers to be resisted. The Japanese medical equipment and camera maker also said Yasuo Takeuchi, its vice president, will become chief executive officer from April 1, replacing Hiroyuki Sasa. Shares of ...
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  Mentions: Hedge Fund KKR Japan
3. Court Sides With Disney Board in Tossing Suit Over No-Poach Pacts
  
  Explore San Francisco Chronicle Dec 26 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...petition and wages for skilled technicians. Other participants, the suit said, included DreamWorks Animation, Sony Pictures Animation and Blue Sky Studios. The suit alleged that Disney had reached its first “no-poaching”...
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4. WWE Adds Former Sony Pictures Exec & Publicis CEO To Board of Directors
  
  Explore Laugh. Learn. Do Some Good. Dec 3 2018 BoardMoves
  
  ... March 2018 where he was most recently President, Home Entertainment. Prior to being President, Singh oversaw Sony’s Multi Screen Media subsidiary in India, where he was instrumental in moving into the sports market with...
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  Mentions: IBM AT&T Sony
5. Data Privacy And Cybersecurity Issues In Mergers And Acquisitions
  
  Explore forbes.com Nov 11 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...nd selective disclosure of sensitive information for embarrassment and harassment (consider, for example, the Sony and Democratic National Committee hacks, in which sensitive emails were made public). Moreover, companies...
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  Mentions: Mergers and Acquisitions SEC Cybersecurity
6. Rupert Murdoch and Sons Pay Soars as Fox-Disney Deal Awaits Completion
  
  Explore Entertainment news Sep 28 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...Bros., 2012) "Transformers: Age of Extinction" -- $1.10 billion (Paramount, 2014) "Skyfall" -- $1.11 billion (Sony, 2012) "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" -- $1.12 billion (New Line, 2003) "Transformers: Dark ...
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7. CBS Execs Accused of Destroying Evidence in Shari Redstone Legal Battle
  
  Explore Entertainment news Jul 31 2018 BoardNews
  
  CBS Corp CEO Leslie Moonves senior executive team was accused in a Delaware Court filing of destroying evidence in the media companys messy legal battle with Shari Redstone and National Amusements...
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  Mentions: Cybersecurity Delaware Disney
8. 'Medical Check-Ups': Japan Firms Tap Banks for Advice as Activists Circle
  
  Explore uk.reuters.com Jul 19 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...tivist hedge fund investor Daniel Loeb’s Third Point failed in 2013 to get electronics and entertainment firm Sony Corp to partially spin off its entertainment business. Still, emboldened by the government’s governance p...
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9. DataStax Appoints Bethany Mayer to Board of Directors
  
  Explore businesswire.com Jul 12 2018 BoardMoves
  
  ...han 400 of the world’s leading brands like Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and Walmart transform their businesses through right-now applications focused on enterprise optimiz...
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  Mentions: Diversity Technology Governance Committee
10. If Comcast Loses Fox to Disney, CEO Brian Roberts Still Has Options
  
  Explore The Edwardsville Intelligencer Jul 1 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  ...Amobi also said Comcast moving to buy Lionsgate would make sense. In a blog post on Tuesday, Kelly wrote that Sony, Lionsgate, and Viacom (Paramount) — the number five, six, and seven best-performing studios at the box o...
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  Mentions: Disney acquisition AT&T
11. DataStax Appoints Kelly Battles to Board of Directors
  
  Explore businesswire.com Jun 14 2018 BoardMoves
  
  ...han 400 of the world’s leading brands like Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald’s, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and Walmart transform their businesses through right-now applications focused on enterprise optimiz...
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  Mentions: Management Audit Committee Governance Committee
12. Qualcomm-Broadcom Saga Headed to Dramatic Vote on Tuesday
  
  Explore sandiegouniontribune.com Mar 4 2018 BoardNews
  
  ... Government of Spain from 2004 to 2010. Anthony Vinciquerra, director since 2015, current chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Former senior adviser for Texas Pacific Group, former chairman of Fox Networks Gr...
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  Mentions: Investment hostile takeover CFO
13. Sony's Revival Puts a Smile on Activist Shareholders' Faces
  
  Explore Nikkei Asian Review Feb 5 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...ntial write-down on its movie business, providing another negative surprise to the market. In stark contrast, Sony today appears capable of earning profit in a stable manner. The revival of Sony can largely be credited t...
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  Mentions: Activist Investors Management Netflix
14. Kaz Hirai is Stepping Down as CEO of Sony
  
  Explore Business Insider Feb 2 2018 BoardNews
  
  ...am I intend to determine the best path for us to move forward, and devote my full effort to creating a better Sony that captures the imagination of our many stakeholders around the world." Sony might expand on its strate...
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  Mentions: CFO Sony Kaz Hirai
15. Nestle and L'Oreal are getting a Boost from an Activist Investor
  
  Explore Stock Market Data Today Jun 26 2017 BoardNews
  
  ...bout $3.5 billion... Daniel Loeb, famous for being a successful activist investor in companies like Yahoo and Sony, has set his sights on the consumer conglomerate Nestle. Loeb's hedge fund, Third Point, released a note ...
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  Mentions: Activist Investors Hedge Fund Nestle
16. BoardProspects Member Wayne Sadin Weighs In on the Ransomware Attacks and What Boards Should be Talking About
  
  Explore BoardProspects May 15 2017 BoardProspects Announcements
  
  ...is debacle a good thing for the Board? For most, the damage wasn't very severe. Think Target, or Anthem, or Sony. $300 to decrypt, or the cost to restore data, is quite low. You weren't alone. Reputational risk is diff...
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17. Snapchat CEO "Devastated" By Email Leak in Sony Hack
  
  Explore cnet.com Dec 18 2014 BoardNews
  
  ...e was "angry" and "devastated" that information about his startup's business plan was revealed as a result of Sony Pictures' crippling security breach. The information was contained in archived mails between the chief o...
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  Mentions: Sony Chairman MDC Partners
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