"Are you really going to trust your corporate jewels to these cloud providers?" Executives at the Web companies that are Amazon customers said that while they knew of the risk, the failure was still frustrating.
The jump in average prices -- to about $128 per month from $48 -- may not be good for cable providers; executives have said publicly that they're worried that a boost in bills will push customers away.
Mr. Nacchio is expected to be succeeded by Richard C. Notebaert, the former chairman of the Ameritech Corporation and the president and chief executive of Tellabs, a telecommunications network provider, the executives said.
Lagardere, Club Internet's parent company, would receive about a 5percentt stake in T-Online, Deutsche Telekom's Internet service provider, the executives said.
Increasingly, large employers have been negotiating rebates or revenue-sharing agreements with money managers and plan providers, industry executives said.
For instance, a company could resell its spectrum on an as-needed basis to other providers, the executives said in their formal proposal to the federal agency.
Clark/Bardes Holdings, a provider of executive-compensation and benefit services to corporations, has bought the closely held Pearl Meyer & Partners for about $23.5 million in cash and stock.
The ten John Doe defendants are presumably other service providers, and/or executives of Hi5, VideoEgg and those other companies.
Korn Ferry, the world's largest provider of executive search, identifies learning agility in individuals as encompassing mental agility, people agility, change agility, results agility, and self-awareness.
"We're very focused on developing strategic relationships with other organizations," said one provider organization executive.
