January 22, 2012
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Oregon’s Chip Kelly ‘close’ to landing Bucs job
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers coaching search has been quiet the last few days but on Sunday night a potentially earth-shaking report emerged that has Oregon Ducks coach Chip Kelly leaving his gig in Eugene to take a job with the Bucs. That report comes from KGW Sports' Michael Berk who says that Kelly is "working to finalize a deal that would make him head coach of the Tampa Bay Bucs." Berk adds that Kelly will "make the jump" if he can "come to terms on a contract," so let's hold the horses on assuming that this is a done deal, at least for now.. . -
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Damning Evidence Emerges In Google-Apple “No Poach” Antitrust Lawsuit
The evidence states that the defendants agreed not to poach employees from each other or give them offers if they voluntarily applied, and to notify the current employers of any employees trying to switch between them. They also agreed not to enter into bidding wars and to limit the potential for employees to negotiate for higher salaries. In one particularly juicy piece of evidence from May 2005, Adobe’s CEO Bruce Chizen emailed Steve Jobs regarding “Recruitment of Apple Employees”. In the message, Adobe’s SVP for human resources writes “Bruce and Steve Jobs have an agreement that we are not to solicit ANY Apple employees, and vice versa.” Additionally, documents state that there is “strong evidence that the companies knew about the other express agreements, patterned their own agreements off of them, and operated them concurrently with the others to accomplish the same objective.” For example, Lori McAdams of Pixar wrote an internal email to others at Pixar in April 2007 stating, “I just got off the phone with Danielle Lambert [of Apple], and we agreed that effective now, we’ll follow a Gentleman’s agreement with Apple that is similar to our Lucasfilm agreement.”More » -
Hitler reacts to the Green Bay Packers losing to the New York Giants in the 2012 Divisional Playoffs
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Report: Heidi Klum, Seal to Divorce
Hollywood power couple Seal and Heidi Klum are calling it quits, according to a report by TMZ.com. The website claims Klum will file for divorce as early as next week, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the split. The couple wed in May 2005 and have three children together.. . -
Dutch teenager sails into the record books, unofficially
A YEAR and a day after she set out to sail single-handed around the globe, Dutch teenager Laura Dekker has broken the unofficial record set by Australia's Jessica Watson in 2010 to become the youngest person ever to sail solo around the world. Dekker, who is 16 years and four months old, has cut six months off the unofficial record set by Watson, who was days shy of her 17th birthday when she completed a non-stop voyage. . .
