Wall Street Strategies submits:By David SilverSo in an interesting turn of events, General Motor's CEO Ed Whitacre said that the U.S. taxpayer is going to make money off its General Motors investment. Oh yeah, but a Congressional Ov...

General Motors will pay back roughly $8 billion in debt to the United States and Canada before June and could go public in a way that would allow taxpayers to make a profit on the bailout, Ed Whitacre said Wednesday.

AT&T has agreed to buy two of the first electric-powered Ford Transit Connects, despite the fact that the company's former CEO, Ed Whitacre, is now CEO of Ford-competitor General Motors and, it was revealed this week, still flies AT...

We reported yesterday that GM’s recent dealer cull flip-flop was motivated by Chariman/CEO Ed Whitacre’s desire for increased sales volume. Though that may have been the main reason GM took over 600 dealers back into the fold, there...

One of the arguments in favor of GM Chairman/CEO Ed Whitacre’s use of AT&T corporate jets is that “given the role he plays and the decisions that need to be made worldwide, you want this guy to be working 24/7.” But like so many of ...

General Motors doesn’t have any corporate jets of its own following the 2008 bankruptcy restructuring, but that hasn’t stopped GM CEO Ed Whitacre from taking advantage of his AT&T retirement package that allows for limited air trave...

General Motors Corp., prodded by impatient chairman and newly named CEO Ed Whitacre to start hiking sales and market share, reportedly is planning a new management restructuring that will place more power with GM North America presi...

General Motor’s Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre has been pushing hard for an early roll-out of the Chevy Volt, GM’s extended-range electric car. GM was planning to release a small number of the vehicles before the official November rel...

It’s been over ten days since GM’s Bob Lutz took to the local papers to complain that GM’s executives are “way, way, way underpaid,” and its still been less than a week since Ed Whitacre’s $9m compensation package was announced but ...

When General Motors emerged out of bankruptcy the chairman of the board of directors was one Ed Whitacre, Jr., formerly of AT&T. And the CEO was Fritz Henderson who had been promoted from within the company.

Hmmm. I wouldn’t have thought that this could happen, not with President Obama running Government General Motors. From GM Chief to Get $1.7 Million Pay By Sharon Terlap General Motors Co. Chief Executive Ed Whitacre will receiv...

Ed Whitacre, new CEO of General Motors, will receive a $1.7 million salary and $9 million total compensation package. That's about twice what his predecessor Fritz Henderson received. Don't cry for Henderson, though--he's making alm...

General Motors’ CEO, Ed Whitacre, has announced further personnel changes coming in an effort to speed up the transformation process. Also revealed is Whitacre’s total compensation package, set at $9 million annually. Leftlane pre...

It appears that when General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre tells his staff to jump, they ask how high.

And I thought Ed Whitacre had moved on to run United States General Motors. You may recall that, half a decade ago, when Whitacre was running SBC (prior to its takeover of AT&T), he made sure that a lot more people heard the term "...

Despite launching a search late last year to find a permanent CEO after ousting Fritz Henderson, the General Motors board of directors selected its own chairman and then-interim chief, Ed Whitacre, to continue leading the automaker....

Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, GM The more things change, the more... you know what we're trying to say. Just last week, longtime AT&T guru and then interim General Motors CEO Ed Whitacre was able to ditch that pesky 'interi...

Yesterday's announcement that Ed Whitacre would stay on as CEO of General Motors may have dominated the industry news but it certainly wasn't the only CEO switch that took place this week. Jaguar Land Rover has also announced the d...

ABC's Tahman Bradley reports from Detroit: General Motors Chairman Ed Whitacre announced this morning that he will continue in the role of CEO of the Detroit auto maker. "Having spent the past few months learning the business, meeti...