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• DOJ Statement on Decision to Close Investigation of MediaNews's Acquisition of Contra Costa Times and San Jose Mercury News

  - 2006-07-31

  WASHINGTON, July 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement of the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division on its decision to close its investigation of MediaNews Group Inc.'s acquisition of The Contra Costa Times and San Jose Mercury News. The investigation focused on whether a combination of newspapers in...

  Tags: acquisition, East, FINANCE, Investment, MediaNews Group Inc., San Jose Mercury News, U.S. Department of Justice

• Issue arises for California leaders over venture capital performance disclosure.

  - 2004-12-15

  By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 15--State leaders, led by the regents of the University of California, are discussing legislation to placate venture capitalists upset by the disclosure of information about how they are performing....

  Tags: Benefits, California, CalPERS, FINANCE, Investment, leader, performance, San Jose Mercury News

• Former California banker banned from securities industry for life.

  - 2004-11-23

  By John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 23--Former Silicon Valley technology banker Frank Quattrone, convicted on criminal charges of obstructing justice, has been barred from the securities industry for life by regulators for allegedly refusing to...

  Tags: California, E-mail, FINANCE, Government, Investment, IPO, NASD, Regulations, San Jose Mercury News, Strategy

• Tech firms win reprieve on options expensing.

  - 2004-10-14

  By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 14--Technology companies won a six-month reprieve Wednesday from looming accounting rules that would soon have required them to subtract billions of dollars' worth of stock options from their ...

  Tags: accounting, Benefits, board, FINANCE, Investment, San Jose Mercury News, SEC, stock, U.S. Congress

• Regulators charge five former executives of online credit card firm with fraud.

  - 2004-09-29

  By Deborah Lohse, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 29--Securities regulators sued five former executives of the defunct online credit-card company NextCard, charging them with fraudulently misleading investors about the formerly high-flying San Francisco company's level...

  Tags: accounting, FINANCE, fraud, investor, Litigation, regulator, San Jose Mercury News, SEC

• San Mateo, Calif., mutual fund adviser to pay $50 million to fund holders.

  - 2004-08-03

  By Kristi Heim, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 3--Franklin Advisers, the San Mateo firm that advises the country's fourth largest mutual fund, has agreed to pay $50 million back to Franklin Templeton shareholders to settle charges it...

  Tags: advisor, Benefits, FINANCE, Investment, investor, San Jose Mercury News, SEC, shareholder

• California budget stalemate continues over local funding.

  - 2004-07-15

  By Ann E. Marimow, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 15--SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The state budget stalemate continued Wednesday, with impatient legislators and local government leaders sparring over the funding issue that has kept them from a new...

  Tags: California, FINANCE, Government, Governor, Leadership, legislator, Republican, Sacramento, San Jose Mercury News, SOFTWARE, Taxes, U.S. Senate

• Internet-video firm Akimbo raises $12 million in venture funding.

  - 2004-07-12

  By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 12--Akimbo, the San Mateo start-up that wants to be the first major provider of video services to customers' televisions via the Internet, is expected to announce today that it...

  Tags: FINANCE, Hearst Corp., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, MARKETING, NETWORKING, San Jose Mercury News, satellite, TVs, video

• U.S. technology companies cut back on stock options.

  - 2004-07-08

  By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 8--Technology companies are getting much stingier with stock options -- especially with rank-and-file workers. A Mellon Financial survey released Wednesday indicates tech companies nationwide have slashed...

  Tags: Benefits, FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, Mellon Financial Corp., San Jose Mercury News, stock, survey, worker

• Treasury Secretary Visits San Jose, Calif., Area.

  - 2004-06-18

  By Chris O'Brien, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 18--A one-day spin through Silicon Valley on Thursday left U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow convinced that the economic recovery has spread to this high-tech region. Snow...

  Tags: California, eBay Inc., FINANCE, San Jose Mercury News, Taxes, U.S. Department of Treasury