WINNERS

LOWELL McADAM
Newly promoted Verizon COO’s pay hiked 70 percent to $1.4 million

BOBBY KOTICK
CEO of Activision Blizzard, whose “Call of Duty: Black Ops” raked in a record $360 million in first-day sales

GOOGLE EMPLOYEES
Search giant’s 23,300 workers slated for 10% salary increase in 2010

LOSERS

RALPH LAUREN
Missed out on $250 million by selling $955 million of stock in June

OSWALD GRUEBEL
CEO of UBS, booted as GM IPO underwriter after analyst’s errant e-mail

PHILIP FALCONE
Blackstone Group & Goldman Sachs pull money out of his Harbinger Capital fund