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George Lucas backs Disney CEO Bob Iger in Nelson Peltz proxy fight

Filmmaker and Hollywood legend George Lucas is throwing his support behind Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger in the bitter proxy battle between the company and activist investor Nelson Peltz.Lucas, who received 37.1 million Disney shares as part of Disney's $4.05 billion purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012, is currently the largest individual investor in the company, multiple sources confirmed to CNBC.In a statement provided to CNBC, Lucas wrote:"Creating magic is not for amateurs. When I sold Lucasfilm just over a decade ago, I was…

George Lucas Endorses Disney and CEO Bob Iger in Proxy Fight

The “Star Wars” creator and one of Disney’s biggest individual shareholders said Tuesday that he was confident in the company’s leadership in their battle against Peltz, whose hedge fund Trian Partners is trying to seize two board seats. The “Star Wars” creator and one of Disney’s biggest individual shareholders said Tuesday that he was confident in the company’s leadership in their battle against Peltz, whose hedge fund Trian Partners is trying to seize two board seats. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original…

Labor unions end proxy fight at Starbucks after bargaining progress

Steph Kronos, a pro-union activist, tries to talk to Starbucks customers while joining Starbucks workers, former employees and supporters in holding signs in support of a strike, outside of a Starbucks store in Arlington, Virginia, on Nov. 16, 2023.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesA group of labor unions said on Tuesday that it was ending its proxy fight at Starbucks, after the two sides agreed last week to work toward a "foundational framework" on collective bargaining."We feel that now is the time to acknowledge the…

How to get and set up proxy for WhatsApp

WhatsApp has a built-in feature called proxy that lets users use the Meta-owned messaging platform in regions where it is blocked. When connected to a proxy server, users can exchange messages with others as they used to traditionally by bypassing the restrictions. In this guide, we’ll tell you all about WhatsApp proxies, where to get them, and how to set up a proxy server on your Android mobile phones and iPhonesWhat is WhatsApp proxy?WhatsApp proxy is a server that bridges the gap between your mobile phones and WhatsApp…

Macy’s activist Arkhouse launches proxy fight with nine directors

Customers visit the Macy's Herald Square store in New York City on Dec. 17, 2023.Kena Betancur | Corbis News | Getty ImagesInvestment firm Arkhouse Management has launched a proxy fight at Macy's, nominating a slate of nine directors for election to the department store's board.Macy's on Tuesday confirmed that it had received notice of the nominations from Arkhouse, which made an unsolicited $21-a-share bid for the company in December. Macy's board rejected that $5.8 billion offer and questioned the status of Arkhouse's…

Nelson Peltz isn’t abandoning proxy fight

Nelson Peltz, founder and chief executive officer of Trian Fund Management, during the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute Priority Summit in Miami, Florida, US, on Thursday, March 30, 2023.Marco Bello | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAre you not entertained, Nelson Peltz?Disney shares jumped 6% in after-market trading Wednesday after the company posted earnings and flooded the zone with new announcements meant not only to excite its employees and shareholders, but also to put activist investor Nelson Peltz in his…

Nelson Peltz outlines plans for Disney proxy battle

Nelson PeltzDavid A. Grogan | CNBCDisney and its investors are going to start hearing a lot from activist investor Nelson Peltz.In the coming weeks, Peltz's Trian Fund Management plans to post on X and add content to its website RestoreTheMagic.com as a crescendo to launching a dense white paper explaining its case to add Peltz and former Disney Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo to Disney's board. That paper will be released in a couple of weeks, Peltz said in a CNBC interview, after appearing on "Squawk on the Street"…

Securing Web User Interfaces of Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Services via Apache Httpd Reverse Proxy

It’s an HTTP Server built by Apache Foundation. HTTP Stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which decodes Hypertext and Multimedia documents through a server-side program. An HTTP daemon (background process) program runs and serves the requests from any HTTP client like a Web Browser. It is important to note that Apache HTTP Server can only serve static content like text or media that doesn’t change during the web page loading. To serve the dynamic content via scripts technologies/protocols like Common Gateway Interface…

James Gorman talks Disney succession, proxy fight

Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman said Thursday that he's gearing up to join a succession planning committee at Disney, which will advise the board on choosing CEO Bob Iger's successor. Gorman is set to step down as Morgan Stanley CEO Jan. 1. He will join Disney's board in February.Disney announced last month that Gorman was joining the company's board. The announcement also included the appointment of former Sky TV boss Jeremy Darroch, beginning in January. The move was seen as a way to hold off a proxy fight by activist…

How to set up a proxy on your phone with Proxifier

Proxifier is a software that allows you to connect a proxy server to applications that do not support a separate configuration section for this option. The program supports two network protocols – HTTPS and SOCKS. The Proxys.io project offers a modification that supports these two protocols simultaneously. That is exactly the functionality of the version for PC, but today we are going to talk about the mobile version of Proxifier, or to be more precise, about the guide on configuring a proxy server for your smartphone.…