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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$250.5K
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Number of Employees 1,400
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NAICS Code : 516110
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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...
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
San Francisco Firm Boosts Vietnamese Venture Fund to $100 Million.
- 2004-03-26
By Ben Stocking, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 26--HANOI, Vietnam -- San Francisco's IDG Ventures has decided to boost its new venture capital fund for Vietnamese start-ups to $100 million and will extend the reach of its...
Stock-Options Proposal Draws Criticism.
- 2003-11-20
San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 20--WASHINGTON--The technology industry and its backers hope that a Senate measure introduced Wednesday and billed as a compromise on stock-options accounting will help them head off efforts to require companies to...
Sunnyvale, Calif.-Based Online Dating Site Rejects $30 Million Google Offer.
- 2003-10-31
By Matt Marshall, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 31--Search-engine giant Google recently made a $30 million offer to buy Friendster, the hot Sunnyvale online dating site that lets users meet and date friends of their friends. ...
San Jose, Calif.-Area Technology Firms Cut Back on Options, Survey Says.
- 2003-10-18
By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 18--Pressured by investors, rule-makers and regulators, most tech companies have gotten stingier with stock options and are investigating other forms of equity compensation, a new survey shows. ...
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