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		<title><![CDATA[SEC Watch: Comcast-NBCU: Stuck Together For At Least 3.5 Years; Non-Compete Rights]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Some more Comcast-NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) deal details were filed this morning in an SEC filing. From it:&#8212;The formal name of the Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Entertainment + NBCU combine: a lame &#8220;NewCo&#8221;.&#8212;NewCo will be managed by a board of directors initially consisting of three Comcast designees and two GE...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:33:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEC Watch: Harbinger Sells Another Batch Of NYT Shares, Now Owns Less Than 13 Percent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Harbinger Capital Partners is systematically cutting back its stake in the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) this time taking it down to 12.79 percent, according to an after-market filing with the SEC. The activist hedge fund raised $22.1 million by selling 2,651,635 shares on Dec. 1 at $8.35...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:40:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEC Watch: New DirecTV CEO Could Make $35.5 Million (And Then Some)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Michael White, the PepsiCo vet who takes over as president and CEO of DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) Jan. 1, could make more than $35 million during his three-year contract, according to an SEC filing. His base salary is $1.5 million a year with up to 200 percent bonus based on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:23:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEC Watch: Skype By The Numbers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The morning-after paperwork from eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) as control of Skype shifts to a private investment group led by Silver Lake Partners offers a look at the post-split financials for both companies&#8212;and the kind of detail on Skype we aren&#8217;t likely to see much of now that it&#8217;s no...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEC Watch: Harbinger Cuts New York Times Stake To 16.4 Percent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Harbinger Capital Partners, the activist hedge fund that bought its way into two New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) board seats in 2007, has reduced its stake in the publishing company by nearly one fifth, according to SEC filings. The hedge fund spent more than $500 million to make...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:35:21 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Former CellCyte Execs Sued by SEC for Role in Pump and Dump Stock Scheme]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you were wondering why counsel always cuts the hype out of your press releasesÃ¢â‚¬Â¦CellCyte Genetics and its former top execs got slapped with an SEC lawsuit for their role in a hype-driven pump-and-dump stock scheme. by Trista Morrison]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Created after the '29 crash to regulate the stock market, the Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to be watching your investments, but it doesn't directly oversee mutual funds. Here's why.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:12:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun shareholders convening today to approve the company's acquisition by Oracle can breathe a sigh of relief. The company seems to be in the clear today, although as recently as April 30 ten days after Oracle announced its bid, Sun was concerned that it might have breached the Foreign Corrupt...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Evergreen Investment Management to Fund Shareholders: Drop Dead]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's only June, but we have a very strong leader in the clubhouse for the smarmiest mutual fund manager of the year. Take a bow Evergreen Investment Management. Ã‚Â There's really only one word that can be used to describe people who engaged in the sorts of activities Evergreen is accused...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:00:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Case Against Financial Planners]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All hot and botheredÃ‚Â I was last week to write about James Putman. He is a past president of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors NAPFA, aÃ‚Â white-shoe trade organization whose members pledge not to take commissions on any financial products (mutual funds, annuities and insurance, for example) and to adhere...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Happens When Venture Funds Dry Up?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent announcement by cloud software vendor Workday that it has raised $74 million in venture capital notwithstanding, venture funding has slowed considerably over recent months and from the looks of things, VCs may be more likely to close up shop than fund new companies. While that means tech ventures...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 17:26:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Merck-Schering: SEC Launches Insider Trading Probe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/pharma/10001893/merck-schering-sec-launches-insider-trading-probe/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The SEC has launched an insider trading probe around Schering-Plough and its March merger agreement with Merck, according to the WSJ. Stock in SGP jumped 8 percent on Friday March 6; the merger was announced on Monday March 9.    This graphic shows that on Thursday, SGP stock...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:13:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Numbers Behind The Times' Threat to Fold the Globe]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When here at Bnet we started suggesting last year that The New York Times was headed for financial trouble, I heard from some readers who scoffed at the notion that the nation's top newspaper could falter. What had led to my concern was problems with the company's financials as revealed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:25:02 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Financial Roundup: Obama to Guarantee Private Equity, Probe Bank Chiefs, Directors, Cramdowns Lightened Up]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama to unlock lending -- President Barack Obama is drawing up a plan to subsidize the profits of big private investment firms in bond markets. As much as $1 trillion could be spent for guarantees to hedge funds and private equity firms so they will continue buying securitized consumer and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:08:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the 1993 movie 'Dave" where Kevin Kline starred as a fill-in for the U.S. president who had slipped into a coma?    That kind of situation may have been strangely on minds of Securities & Exchange Commission regulators who are poring over Apple Inc.'s files to see...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:53:41 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[5 Ways to Reform the Embattled SEC]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest twist of the Bernie Madoff story, the House Financial Services Committee will question Securities & Exchange Commission officials Jan. 5 about how they missed Madoff's huge pyramid scheme despite evidence of wrong-doing dating back more than a decade.    This is just another shoe to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:25:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ex-Felon Turned Pastor Exposes Lying Corporate Executives]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top executives at Broadcom, Microsemi, and other public companies have been accused of lying about their backgrounds in SEC documents. If true, should they all be terminated, no questions asked? What if it's Steve Jobs of Apple or Eric Schmidt of Google? What do you do then? Is this a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:31:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEC Won't Enforce Rule That Would Make Facebook Finances Public]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Facebook isn't a public company and it isn't going to have to act like one any time soon. According to BusinessWeek,  the SEC agreed that it won't enforce a rule that would require public disclosure of financial results when the number of equity holders hits 500 and the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:19:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Billionaire Mark Cuban Responds to SEC Insider Trading Charges]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the SEC charged billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban with insider trading. According to the SEC's press release, Cuban sold 600,000 shares of Mamma.com stock based on material, non-public information. Cuban's alleged misdeed apparently saved him $750,000. That's a lot of dough to you and me, but peanuts to the Dallas...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Under Armour: Maverick Capital Sells Entire Position]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Market Folly submits: In a 13G filing made with the SEC after the close today, hedge fund Maverick Capital has sold off their entire position in Under Armour UA.  Maverick Capital is a $10 billion hedge fund ran by the notoriously great stock picker Lee Ainslie. The filing shows that...]]></description>
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