BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Memo
- a documented note that acts as a reminder and is used for conveying and recording information. The memo has to some extent been displaced by e-mail, although it is still sometimes used for important communications.
Wiktionary Definition for: Memo
- #a short note; a memorandum
Additional Resources
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller on Democratic memo announcing plans to play politics on Senate intelligence committee, on MSNBC: "The memo is not a memo
- * Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D., W.Va.) on Democratic memo announcing plans to play politics on Senate intelligence committee, on MSNBC: "The memo is not a memo. The memo is just an option thing which staff prepared for me." ... Sen. Kit Bond (R., Mo.) on Rockefeller's "option thing," on CNN:...
- Research articles 2003-12-08
- The Gates memo. (confidential memo from Microsoft Chmn Bill Gates leaked)
- Last week, the San Jose Mercury News published a confidential memo that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates sent to about 20 of his top managers. What's Softeletter's reaction to the memo's contents? Gates starts by talking about how he spent a think week Last week, the...
- Research articles 1991-07-07
- Breaking News: GM to pursue more global alliances: memo
- General Motors Co will pursue more global alliances with other companies, according to a memo sent to employees. General Motors Co will pursue more global alliances with other companies, according to a memo sent to employees. The company has set up a corporate planning and alliances group headed by Group...
- News items 2009-08-17
- 'Thought police' displeased by general's memo.(Washington Pulse)(media coverage of memo to army reserve forces)(Brief Article)
- Senior Pentagon officials were not amused when a memo written by the U.S. general in charge of Army Reserve forces was leaked to the news media last December. The memo by Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly criticized the current reserve mobilization process--in place since 1952--as out of...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- The Carol Bartz Is Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It Anymore Memo: The Hypoglycemic Edition [BoomTown]
- BoomTown promised a Yahoo internal memo upon our return from vacation today and we will not let you down. Thus, here's a doozie Yahoo YHOO CEO Carol Bartz recently sent to her troops. It's actually from mid-August, although it took me this long to get my hands on it, as...
- News items 2009-08-31
- Statement by American Federation of Teachers Sec.-Treasurer Edward J. McElroy on White House Memo Warning of Domestic Program Cuts
- WASHINGTON, May 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement by Edward J. McElroy, secretary-treasurer, American Federation of Teachers, on a White House memo warning of domestic program cuts. The Washington Post reported today that a White House memo pWASHINGTON, May 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement by...
- Research articles 2004-05-27
- White House releases 9/11 memo
- CRAWFORD, United States AFP ? The White House released an August 6 2001 memo prepared for President George W. Bush that foresaw possible terrorist attacks by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network on the United States. The memo is considered key to understanding what information the US government had that...
- Research articles 2004-04-10
- Subject: Interim Policy Memo on Expectation Management in Acquisition
- DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20330-1060 FEB 24, 2004 OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY MEMORANDUM FOR SEE DISTRIBUTION FROM: SAF/AQ 1060 AF Pentagon Washington DC 20330-1060 SUBJECT: Interim Policy Memo on Expectation Management in Acquisition (Policy Memo 03A-006, 29 April...
- Research articles 2004-05-01
- U.S. disavows torture memo; Bush denies he OK'd policy
- WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on Tuesday disavowed a memo that appeared to justify the use of torture in the war on terror and argued that the president's wartime powers superseded anti-torture laws and treaties. The 50-page memo issued to the White House on Aug. 1, 2002,...
- Research articles 2004-06-23
- Exclusive: Secret Memo--Send to Be Tortured
- An FBI agent warned superiors in a memo three years ago that U.S. officials who discussed plans to ship terror suspects to foreign nations that practice torture could be prosecuted for conspiring to violate U.S. law, according to a copy of the memo obtained by NEWSWEEK. The strongly worded memo,...
- Research articles 2005-08-08
- Harvard Students Rip New President on Toxic Waste Memo.
- The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 12--A notorious World Bank memo signed nine years ago by Lawrence H. Summers, the new president of Harvard University, yesterday triggered the first challenge to his administration, as student protesters demanded that he embrace a progressive...
- Research articles 2001-03-12
- Coalition That Won Coverage of Downing Street Memo Promotes New Document
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A coalition of over 100 organizations -- headquartered at http://www.AfterDowningStreet.org - - flooded the U.S. media with e-mails, phone calls, faxes and protests last June until a leaked British document known as the Downing Street Memo received coverage. The same coalition has launched a...
- Research articles 2006-02-06
- Pentagon probing memo suggesting U.S. strafed Korean refugees
- WASHINGTON, June 6 Kyodo The U.S. Defense Department on Tuesday confirmed the existence of a memo suggesting the U.S. Air Force strafed civilian refugees during the Korean War. But that does not mean the incident happened as the memo indicated, Pentagon spokesman Craig Quigley told a...
- Research articles 2000-06-12
- Pentagon probing memo suggesting U.S. strafed Korean refugees
- WASHINGTON, June 6 Kyodo The U.S. Defense Department on Tuesday confirmed the existence of a memo suggesting the U.S. Air Force strafed civilian refugees during the Korean War. But that does not mean the incident happened as the memo indicated, Pentagon spokesman Craig Quigley told a...
- Research articles 2000-07-03
- SSE SIGNS COOPERATION MEMO WITH TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
- AsiaInfo Services 01-21-2003 SSE Signs Cooperation Memo with Tokyo Stock Exchange SHENZHEN, Jan 21, 2003 SinoCast via COMTEX -- On January 15, Shenzhen Stock Exchange SSE signed cooperation memo with Tokyo Stock Exchange in Shenzhen. The cooperation memo...
- Research articles 2003-01-21
- 'Accentuate the positive...' Edgell memo says.
- `Accentuate the positive...' Edgell memo says Concerned that competitors are using the recent upheaval at Edgell Communications Inc. for a tactical advantage. Edgell's president has written a memo to employees telling them how to turn negatives into positives when dealing with customers. ...
- Research articles 1990-04-30
- Leaked Microsoft memo touts Megaserver.
- In a memo leaked to press sources last week, Microsoft chief Bill Gates set forth his vision of an MSN.com future online, one with a Microsoft "Megaserver" on every desktop. Megaserver, a code name for all-purpose software that Gates ...
- Research articles 1998-10-19
- Sony Pictures Entertainment. (internal memo issued denying rumors about Michael Fuchs replacing Alan Levine as COO and president)(Brief Article)
- Responding to media reports of a pending shakeup at Sony Pictures Entertainment, the company Issued an Internal memo last week to deny rumors that former HBO head Michael Fuchs Is about to replace Alan Levine as president/COO. "I understand that Responding to media reports of a...
- Research articles 1996-08-12
- The Hill: Senate Democrats on Defense After Leaked Iraq Intelligence Memo
- WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democrats are on the defense after a leaked memo revealed that they had a strategy for opposing the administration's use of intelligence before the invasion of Iraq, Alexander Bolton reports in the Nov. 6 issueWASHINGTON, Nov. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Democrats are...
- Research articles 2003-11-05
- WakeUpWalMart.com Statement: Wal-Mart Memo: Unhealthy People Need Not Apply
- WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement by Paul Blank, campaign director, WakeUpWalMart.com, regarding the New York Times article on an internal Wal-Mart memo: WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement by Paul Blank, campaign director, WakeUpWalMart.com, regarding the New York Times article on...
- Research articles 2005-10-26
