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Virtual Goods: Entertainment, Fad, or Both?: Virtual goods in gaming is an area that seems to be heating up on Facebook. But is the activity sustainable, or a collection of fads? by Erik Sherman; Tags: Facebook, Investor, Entertainment, VentureBeat, Games, Financial Accounting, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Finance, Marketing, Erik Sherman; Blog posts 2008-07-23
"Say on Pay" Loses Support at Big Financial Houses: While gaining among corporations in general, "Say on Pay" support is losing favor among financial companies, according to a new report by The Corporate Library. The shareholder watchdog group notes that "Say on Pay" lost support among eight major financial firms during this proxy season. The list...; Tags: Shareholder, Financial, Wachovia Corp., Corporate Library, Financial Accounting, Finance, Peter Galuszka; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Apple Signals Change in Pricing -- Finally: Investors decided to punish Apple for its indication that it will lower prices on products going forward. Instead, they might consider voting management a bonus for doing something the company has needed to do for a long time. by Erik Sherman; Tags: Apple Inc., Pricing Strategy, Balance Sheets, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Erik Sherman; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Oil and Corporate Responsibility: Oil companies like to boast that their record-breaking profits are largely invested in infrastructure, exploration for new sources of "Texas tea," and in exploring "green alternatives." But, according to an AP story, the bulk of oil companies' earnings have gone not into exploration, but to stock buybacks...; Tags: Oil Company, Shareholder, Stock Buyback, Corporate Responsibility, Stock, Exploration, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Michael Mattis; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Another Bump for Sarbanes-Oxley: After six years of survival, could a constitutional technicality derail the far-reaching Sarbanes-Oxley Act? At issue is a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. that challenges the constitutionality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. The PCAOB was set up by the Sarbanes-Oxley...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Peter Galuszka, PCAOB, Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Blog posts 2008-07-21

VMware Reprices Stock Options: VMware, whose stock value has dropped 65 percent from its $124.83 peak in October, is seeking shareholder approval to re-price its stock options, according to the Financial Times (and, sorry, but it requires a paid subscription). The board has already approved the move. by Erik Sherman; Tags: Stock options, Corporate governance, Investment, Financial accounting, Erik Sherman, stock, stock option, VMware Inc.; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Could OPEC Extend Its Grasp to Oil Tanking?: The Company: Overseas Shipholding Group, one of the largest oil tanker companies in the world The Filing: Schedule 13D filed with the SEC on July 10 The Finding: Bermuda-based Frontline, the leading oil tanker in vessels capable of carrying between 120,000 and 320,000 in deadweight tons,...; Tags: David Phillips, Overseas Shipholding Group, tanker, OPEC; Blog posts 2008-07-18
What To Do When a Crisis Hits: Crisis communications experts like to say that every organization is going to have a crisis sooner or later, and that in fact, the underlying reasons for your crisis are probably already festering in your organization. Larry Smith, president of the Institute for Crisis Management, likes to point...; Tags: Jon Greer; Blog posts 2008-07-18
The Friday Round-Up: Let's start with enterprise. Bad Entrepreneur explains the value of setting goals that are challenging, but reachable. The advice is sound: focus on a particular earnings figure per week. For BE, It started out of necessity. He set a figure that he needed to get him out...; Tags: Financial, Aunt, Refuge, Andrew Charalambous, Robert Peston, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Accounting, Finance, Joanna Higgins; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Paul Atkins: SEC Needs Lighter Touch: Do you think the nation's top securities regulator goes overboard in enforcement? One of its outgoing commissioners thinks it does. U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission member Paul Atkins recently co-wrote an article claiming that enforcement issues are so egregious that the SEC needs to set up an...; Tags: Regulations, Peter Galuszka, SEC, Paul Atkins; Blog posts 2008-07-17
Peeling Away the Economic Onion: The Onion has a cunning bit of satire, Recession-Plagued Nation Demands A New Bubble To Invest In , that offers a welcome bit of relief from the oppressive sense of doom that pervades most financial news right now. A sample bit: ...; Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Investment, Michael Fitzgerald, bubble; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Conflicts of Interest in Advisory Firms: BNET columnist Jessica Stillman penned an intriguing post last week calling a new Stanford study noting the dubious claims of shareholder advisory services that they can predict future performance of companies. The report, issued by the Rock Center for Corporate Governance, run jointly by Stanford law and graduate business schools,...; Tags: Financial accounting, Peter Galuszka, ISS, shareholder; Blog posts 2008-07-15
Will the Sun Set on Canadian Solar's Market Strategy?: The Company: Canadian Solar, a seller of solar-cell and photovoltaic-module products for residential and commercial applications, principally in Europe. The Filing: Form F-3 Registration Statement filed on July 14 with the SEC. The Finding: Canadian Solar said Monday that it shipped about 47 megawatts of solar...; Tags: Manufacturing, Financial accounting, Investment, Semiconductors, strategy, David Phillips, Sun Microsystems Inc., Canadian Solar; Blog posts 2008-07-15
Time for a Microsoft-Yahoo-Icahn Time Out: The more headlines I read about the spat with Yahoo on one side and Microsoft and Carl Icahn on the other, the more the parent in me wants to call a time out and send everyone to their respective corners. At the beginning of the month, I titled a post,...; Tags: Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Erik Sherman, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2008-07-14
Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: SOX Comes of Age: In the first two installments of this three-part series, I talked about the birth of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and about how it spread fear and loathing among business leaders in the U.S. Flash forward to today. Having taken effect nearly six years ago, SOX has settled in. Was it...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Peter Galuszka, Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Blog posts 2008-07-11
Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: Fear and Loathing: By 2005, it was clear that Sarbanes-Oxley wasn't exactly popular. SOX was being blamed for everything from putting companies out of business to forcing foreign firms to seek capital in non-U.S. markets. The most serious and believable criticisms surrounded SOX's notorious Section 404 which called for internal...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Peter Galuszka, compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Blog posts 2008-07-10
Solarfun CEO Powers Up Own Bank Account: The Company: Solarfun Power Holdings is a vertically integrated manufacturer of silicon ingots and photovoltaic PV modules located in Shanghai, China. The Filing: A registration statement filed with the SEC on June 27. The Finding: The prospectus, which allows for original security-holders of $175 million in...; Tags: Manufacturing, Financial accounting, Semiconductors, Investment, David Phillips, bank, Solarfun Power Holdings, Linyang Electronics, Yonghua Lu; Blog posts 2008-07-10
Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: In the Beginning: We're coming up on the sixth anniversary of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act which still stirs strong emotions. Indeed, when President George W. Bush signed it into law on July 30, 2002, he called it "the most far-reaching" business regulation reform since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Peter Galuszka, Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Blog posts 2008-07-09
Sir John: Before He Lost It, He Really Had It: Whenever great investors are interviewed, they almost invariably say how simple what they do really is. The reader is trained to think that the wizard must be hiding something: It can't really be that easy. I've been studying the obits of Sir John Templeton who died the...; Tags: Mutual funds, Retirement plans, Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Investment, Dan Ackman, Templeton Prize; Blog posts 2008-07-09
Job Fears Put Britons Off Their Breaks: As Americans suffer from "vacation starvation", employees in Britain -- where annual leave allocation of 20 days is not uncommon -- are so fearful of being forgotten that they are forgoing their breaks. Executives are putting their holidays on hold as workplace pressures mount and the spectre...; Tags: Job, Holiday, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Joanna Higgins; Blog posts 2008-07-09