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Mar. 29, 2005

Former EBay Workers Sue Over Stock-Option Changes

In the days when computer-powered fortunes jumped and fell seemingly every day, the phrase "stock options" caught the interest of Internet company employees like no other. Workers would anxiously wait months or years for their options to "vest," or become ready for them to exercise, because employees with vested options sometimes turned them into huge sums of wealth.

By Draeger Martinez
        In the days when computer-powered fortunes jumped and fell seemingly every day, the phrase "stock options" caught the interest of Internet company employees like no other. Workers would anxiously wait months or years for their options to "vest," or become ready for them to exercise, because employees with vested options sometimes turned them into huge sums of wealth...

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