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- News Corp.'s Chernin Sitting Pretty In Any Succession Scenario
- Rupert Murdoch continues to make CEO succession a high-profile issue at News Corp. In the company's just-filed 2008 proxy filing, the first item of note is that the company's longtime No. 2, News Corp. President Peter Chernin, gets paid as much as the top boss. In 2007, they...
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
- Dancing With the CEOs at Borland, Citigroup, and Apple
- Tod Nielsen, Chief Executive of Borland Software, is moving from the top honcho role at the software development provider to a supporting role as chief operating officer at VMware, a leader in desktop and storage virtualization. Borland was reticent on the reason behind Nielsen's resignation -- other than to say...
- Blog posts 2009-01-22
- See More, Pay More â€" The IMAX Management Experience
- IMAX Corporation announced last month that Bradley Wechsler would step down as Co-Chief Executive Officer, effective April 1, 2009, and would assume the position of Chairman of the Board. Wechsler's alter ego in the shared chairman and CEO positions, Richard Gelfond, will assume full responsibility for the CEO job and...
- Blog posts 2009-01-07
- General Electric Taps TARP for Additional Liquidity
- With interests in technology, manufacturing, and media, General Electric is highly diversified -- a position that should help prop up earnings in this troubled economic environment. GE has one blemish, however, GE Capital. GE Capital is the lending unit at the diversified conglomerate, providing consumer and commercial loans. According to...
- Blog posts 2008-12-27
- LIFO vs FIFO Inventory Accounting at Home Depot
- Home Depot, Inc. announced a key change in accounting principals in its third quarter filing with the SEC. After adopting a new enterprise resource planning system, otherwise known in the wholesale-retail world as an “ERP” system, Home Depot is now keeping track of inventory values in its Canada retail operations...
- Blog posts 2008-12-27
- Jackson Hewitt Prepares for 2009 Tax Season
- Despite popular thinking on the certainty of taxes, recent filings with the SEC suggest even Jackson Hewitt Tax Service JHI -- and its business partners -- is taking a cautious approach to the coming year. The No. 2 U.S. tax return preparer, which competes with H&R Block, has reworked agreements with its...
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- SVB Financial Group -- Last Bank Standing?
- Silicon Valley Bank SVB Financial Group focuses on commercial lending to companies predominantly in the technology, life science, wine and private equity sectors. Jaded and weary from the seemingly endless loss of banks involved in originating and securitizing mortgage loans, might this offer some comfort to stockholders? Unfortunately, the focus...
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Acquisition Hangover at Manpower
- In its most recent quarterly filing, Manpower, Inc. detailed a write-down of $140.8 million in goodwill and $22.3 million in intangible assets, signaling another asset bubble bursting in this global slowdown -- that of employment service providers. The charge for impaired assets came after the company determined that...
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- FedEx's Price Hedge Against Slumping Demand
- Few were surprised when FedEx Corp. reported decreased shipping volume for its overnight services in its first-quarter ending August 2008. FedEx spelled it out in its press releases and its 10-Q filing: a weak U.S. economy and persistently higher fuel prices had reduced demand for the overnight shipper's premium services....
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
- Tax Man Cometh to Synopsis
- Synopsis, a developer of chip set design software, provided details on its recent dust-up with the IRS in its third-quarter 2008 filing on Tuesday. During the third-quarter ended July 31, the IRS completed a field examination of Syopsys' federal income tax returns for the years 2002 through 2004, and now...
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- No Reform in CEO Pay at General Mills
- Stephen Sanger, the recently retired CEO of General Mills, ranked near the bottom of Forbes' 2007 CEO performance rankings (148 out of 189). And and his exit package, which I sifted through in the company's most recent proxy filing, suggests that General Mills has no intention of embracing the...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Value of Avnet’s Customer Relationships Questionable
- Avnet’s recently announced that it needs more time to tie up its books for the December quarter and will be late in filing its Form 10Q with the SEC. The electronics wholesaler has historically been a timely filer, but asset impairment issues have the Avnet accountants working late. The company...
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
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- South Dakota High School Student Charged with Counterfeiting $10 Bill.
- By Christian Richardson, American News, Aberdeen, S.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 11--A Central High School student stands accused of counterfeiting a $10 bill on his home computer. In mid-February the cash was spent at Central's cafeteria, said Aberdeen ...
- Research articles 2004-03-11
- FreeEDGAR Earns Berth On Worth Magazine's List of the Top 10 Financial Web Sites
- KIRKLAND, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 30, 1999-- Partes Corporation today announced that Worth Magazine has named its widely used FreeEDGAR Web site as one of the top financial destinations on the Internet. The magazine's July/August issue awards FreeEDGAR the No. 5 slot in a 10-site rating. The ranking places FreeEDGAR...
- Research articles 1999-06-30
- Break possible in '97 shooting Detective meets with prosecutors over evidence.(News)
- Byline: Christy Gutowski Daily Herald Legal Affairs Writer It was a crime in the heart of Naperville that had the markings of a mob hit. Rosemarie Re was shot seven times in broad daylight July 16, 1997, outside Linden Oaks Hospital, where...
- Research articles 2006-10-17
- Playing detective: how are fragrance sales trending?
- As the industry heads into the crucial Christmas selling season, how are mass market fragrance sales trending?It depends on the chain. As far as Drug Store News can determine, the category has been up in single-digit increments in some of the industry's largest drug chains, but down, sometimes in double-digit...
- Research articles 1996-09-09
- `Robbery Homicide Division'
- Barry "Shabaka" Henley stars as Detective Archie Simms and Klea Scott stars as Detective Sonya Robbins in the compelling drama that draws viewers into the lives of the elite Robbery and Homicide Division of the present-day Los Angeles Police Department on (Friday, October 11 at 10 p.m., ET) on CBS....
- Research articles 2002-10-14
- Men arrested in Dublin assault, robbery
- DUBLIN -- Police arrested two men suspected of robbing and assaulting a man last month at Hacienda Crossings mall. Marcus Bryant, 19, of Dublin and Paolo Lacson, 25, of Pleasanton were spotted by a plainclothes detective near the scene of the original crime -- Regal Cinemas at...
- Research articles 2007-05-10
- How to Gather Competitive Research
- To formulate an effective corporate strategy, it's essential to understand two basic questions: What is your company doing, and what are your competitors doing? Establish the Strategic Problem Goal: Define your question before you begin the search for answers. Developing a competitive strategy...
- Articles 2007-03-28
- Never Mind Good Earnings -- Banks Still Face Dangerous Credit Losses
- What might "The Closer's" ace detective Brenda Johnson glean from what these senior bank officials said this month in discussing their respective companies' latest earnings? "I would say consumer charge-offs may be close to peaking in dollar terms around year-end, although we believe it will stay elevated post to...
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
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