A short time ago, BEA Systems (BEAS) filed its preliminary merger proxy which had lots of interesting details about the dance that finally led to Oracle’s (ORCL) deal to buy BEA for $19.37 a share. Now, granted, I almost always find the whole “background of the merger” stuff to be pretty juicy reading, but the [...]

Yesterday afternoon, Motorola (MOT) filed this 8-K, which provided details about CEO Gregory Brown’s new salary, now that he’s taken over from Ed Zander. But it was the information about acting CFO Thomas Meredith — tacked on to the discussion about Brown — that caught my attention.
Almost as an afterthought, the company mentions that Meredith’s [...]