Google gives blanket 10% raises -- tipster gets fired

Want to keep your employees around? How about some cold hard cash.  Google CEO Eric Schmidt apparently sent out a company-wide e-mail informing all employees that they're getting a $1,000 holiday bonus, plus a 10 percent raise come the first of the year. Schmidt said how surveys of employees had revealed that base pay was more important than benefits to most Googlers, and that Google "want[s] to continue to attract the best people..." The raise will go into effect this coming January for all of Google's 23,000 employees. Except for one person, the guy who leaked the e-mail. He's been fired, apparently. [Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, CNN Money]