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• Industry Moves Round Up: SourceForge; N.E. Media; Tribeca; TouchTunes; Petsky Prunier; Cycle World

  PaidContent - 2009-09-01

  —SourceForge: Jon Sobel, the company’s Group President of Media, will be departing at the end of the month to join the executive team at Tesla Motors. The former General Counsel at CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) will hold that title at Tesla, as well as being...

  Tags: Boston Globe, SourceForge, VP, Media, Industry, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Investment, Branding, Finance, Marketing, Industry Moves, Alex Ferreyra

• Non-Profit Option For Boston Globe Isn't Getting A Lot Of Love

  PaidContent - 2009-08-21

  Platinum Equity, the private equity firm that is still slashing away at costs at the San Diego Union-Tribune, is one of two bidders for the Boston Globe invited to on-site meetings, according to the paper, citing unidentified sources. Also invited, the Globe reports, the group led by former Globe...

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• Report: San Diego Union Tribune Owner Platinum Bids $35 Million For Boston Globe

  PaidContent - 2009-08-07

  Private equity firm Platinum Equity, which specializes in acquiring distressed companies, wants to add the Boston Globe to its newspaper holdings, the paper reported today. Sources tell the Globe the bid is $35 million, plus the assumption of $59 million in pension liabilities. The Beverly Hills-based firm picked up...

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• Helium Adds Publishing and Online Industry Veterans to Board, Executive Team

  - 2008-08-05

  ANDOVER, Mass. -- Helium (www.Helium.com), the online spot to learn what you need and share what you know, has added three industry veterans to its team. Peter Newton, who most recently served as Monster.com's senior vice president and GM of Monster's media alliances, has been named Helium's vice president of...

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• Perini Corp Ranked First in the Boston Globe's Annual Globe 100 List.

  - 2007-05-25

  M2 PRESSWIRE-25 May 2007-InvestorInstantMessaging: Perini Corp Ranked First in the Boston Globe's Annual Globe 100 ListC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25052007 InvestorIM has been created as a tool for the average investor. The idea is simple, a website where the world can...

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• Boston Globe.(promoted Alfred Larkin, Jr.)(Brief article)

  - 2006-06-22

  Alfred Larkin, Jr. was promoted to executive vice president of The Boston Globe in March. In his new position, Larkin is responsible for the Globe's corporate communications, organizational development, and community relations, including the Globe Foundation. He also is a senior adviser to Richard Gilman, the...

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• Boston Globe Announces Changes to Stock and Mutual Fund Coverage

  - 2006-05-30

  BOSTON -- The Boston Globe announced today that beginning June 20, it would replace the weekday stock and mutual fund listings in the newspaper, with new financial news features and services in print and online. The Globe will continue to publish weekly stock and mutual fund listings in the Sunday...

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• Alito: Recusal promise was too 'restrictive'

  - 2005-11-11

  WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said Thursday that he was "unduly restrictive" when he promised the Senate 15 years ago to remove himself from court cases involving two firms in which he has investments. When the Senate was considering Alito's nomination to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court...

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• Changes are dismantling Boston mutual fund firm.

  - 2004-12-16

  By Beth Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 16--BlackRock Inc. is rapidly dismantling State Street Research & Management Co., even before its acquisition of the 80-year-old Boston mutual fund firm is officially complete. New York-based BlackRock, which...

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• Harvard professor sued by United States for Russian investments sees setback.

  - 2004-12-10

  By Marcella Bombardieri, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 10--The US government won a small victory yesterday in its lawsuit against a Harvard University professor and another staff member for making personal investments in Russia while working on a government...

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