| Oracle general counsel replaces Apple's top lawyer
SAN JOSE In a shuffle between companies with legal challenges spanning the globe, Apple Inc. general counsel Donald Rosenberg is leaving for Qualcomm Inc. after just 10 months in the post. Oracle Corp. general counsel Daniel Cooperman, 56, will replace Rosenberg on Nov. 1, Apple said Friday. Rosenberg, 56, joined Apple last November, when the maker of iPod players and Macintosh computers was in the thick of a stock options scandal. His predecessor there, Nancy Heinen, is now fighting civil charges that she fraudulently backdated stock-options awards to the executive team and a grant to CEO Steve Jobs. Jobs has a reputation as a tough boss, and his Cupertino-based company maintains an overflowing plate of legal work. In addition to shareholder lawsuits, Apple stays busy building and defending a large portfolio of patents and faces copyright concerns and anticompetitive complaints from a string of European agencies over its iTunes-iPod franchise.
AT&T planning to enter Florida broadband cable market
TALLAHASSEE- AT&T Inc. plans to announce Thursday that it will make a $750 million investment in broadband infrastructure in Florida as it seeks to woo customers from traditional cable companies in the race to beam TV and high-speed Internet into homes, officials said. The move follows the passage earlier this year of a new state law that makes it easier for telecommunications companies to get into the TV business. .
Chevron Promises Continued Push into Growing Retail and Exploring Alternative Fuels
DENVER, Colo. -- Promising not to rest on their laurels, Chevron North America executives told its marketers, dealers and franchisees that the best is yet to come during the oil company's biannual convention in Denver last week. "Beyond the Horizon" was the theme for the event, which attracted almost 2,500 attendees, according to a company spokesman. In the opening Town Hall session Friday morning, Danny Roden, vice president of North America marketing; Frank Herbst, general manager of the company's Eastern retail region; and Cary Knuth, Herbst's counterpart for the Western region, disclosed the company's achievements since its last convention two years ago in Nashville, Tenn., and outlined new initiatives aimed at growing marketing share in the retail arena. In addition to announcing a one-month extension (until the end of September) of its temporary credit-card fee reduction program and the imminent end of its 75-cent upfront fee on gift cards, Chevron also revealed that next year it would introduce a new co-branded credit card tied to a loyalty program.
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