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- Chai Labs?Led By Former Googler Rajaram?Raises $1.1 Mililion
- Chai Labs—the stealth consumer internet startup led by former AdSense product management director Gokul Rajaram—has raised $1.1 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing. Rajaram, who helped launch AdSense, left his job at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the end of 2007 to start Chai Labs....
- External links 2009-10-06
- Digital Music Store Amie Street Raises $3.9 Million
- Digital music retailer Amie Street has raised $3.9 million in a round of funding, according to an SEC filing. Amie Street prices tracks based on their popularity; songs start out free and then cap out at 98 cents as more Amie Street users download them. Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) led...
- External links 2009-10-07
- EA's Acquisition of Playfish: Some More Details From SEC Filing: Earnout Already in Escrow
- Yesterday EA announced buying social gaming company Playfish for $275 million upfront our coverage is here. Now comes more details from an SEC filing by EA. Among those:—$30 million of $275 million is in escrow, a normal occurrence.— Kristian Segerstrale, Sebastien de Halleux and Sami Lababidi, all Playfish senior...
- External links 2009-11-10
- Adobe-Omniture: Some Details From SEC Filings
- Some more details on Adobe’s acquisition of Omniture (NSDQ: OMTR), from the SEC filing filed today, following the acquisition announcement earlier today. —Name of the shell acquiring corp: Snowbird Acquisition Corporation—Termination fee: $64 million that Omniture will have to pay—No shop provision—The directors of Omniture currently holding shares representing...
- External links 2009-09-15
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- Madoff lists assets for SEC but agency mum on details
- NEW YORK — Bernard Madoff gave the Securities and Exchange Commission a list of his personal assets Wednesday, but investors may have to wait to learn whether the filing contained any clues as to the whereabouts of their missing billions. The disgraced money manager, now under house arrest, had faced...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Smaller firms consider halting SEC filings as Sarbanes costs rise.(Focus)(Securities and Exchange Commission)
- Byline: Katie Merx Michigan Heritage Bancorp and Federal Screw Works are among dozens of companies nationwide that have stopped filing federal financial reports to save money and avoid the hassle of complying with the final phase of Sarbanes-Oxley Byline: Katie Merx ...
- Research articles 2005-04-18
- Sec Leads The Way In Junking Jargon
- The Securities and Exchange Commission, which guides the standards of behavior for US quoted companies, has launched an unusual crusade - to defend the English language. The people it is taking on are company lawyers and accountants, two professions united by a love of money rather than any affection for...
- Research articles 1998-02-13
- New Roche Offer and Genentech Squeeze-Out Ploy Put Focus on April's Avastin Results
- UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal reports that the boards of Genentech and Roche are "near an agreement" on a $95 a share bid. What are we to make of Roche's new $93 per share offer for Genentech? BNET previously suggested that market conditions were so rough that...
- Blog posts 2009-03-08
- Slacker's Still Raising Money?But Ditches Its Device In Favor Of Apps
- After raising over $70 million to develop and sell its G2 portable music device, music startup Slacker is giving up on it—choosing instead, to focus on building a mobile app-based streaming business. President Jim Cady, who’s been running the company since founder and CEO Dennis Mudd stepped down in...
- External links 2009-10-22
- In SEC Filing, Edison Schools Cites Cash Concern.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 1--Edison Schools says it has the money it needs to operate its schools in Philadelphia and elsewhere through June, but in financial documents filed yesterday, the New York company said it could face cash...
- Research articles 2002-10-01
- Blockbuster Outlines 'Transformation': Will Add Kiosks, Expand Streaming, Close Stores
- Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) will close as many as 960 additional stores through 2010, as the movie rental chain continues to struggle with losses. In a series of SEC filings, Blockbuster outlines how it willl transform itself into a “multi-channel brand.” In addition to focusing on fewer retail locations, it...
- External links 2009-09-15
- Financial Portal RakedIn Gets $5.7 Million From Unionsquare and Others
- UpCompany, the parent company of RakedIn, the financial and company profiles portal launched by Michael Yavonditte, former CEO of Quigo, has raked in $5.73 million in a new round of funding, according to an SEC filing. The investors in the round include Unionsquare Ventures, and Vast Ventures, among plenty...
- External links 2009-09-25
- SEC, BofA Plead For Merrill Bonus Settlement
- By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp BAC and the top U.S. securities regulator sought to persuade a judge to approve their $33 million settlement of a civil lawsuit over the lack of disclosure of billions of dollars of bonuses at Merrill Lynch & Co. A...
- News items 2009-08-24
- GM prepares for IPO sometime next year
- DETROIT - The new General Motors Co. said Friday it was worried about regaining consumer confidence following its exit from bankruptcy protection, and that its sales won't improve in 2009 as U.S. economic troubles continue. In a sweeping review of its business filed late Friday with the U.S. Securities and...
- News items 2009-08-09
- The Numbers Behind Salon's Layoffs
- Reading Salon.com’s SEC filing last Friday was simply too depressing a way to end my week, so I decided to pass on covering it â€" then. But with the news breaking today that the company has had to lay off six (or ~20 percent) of its talented edit staff, we...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- paidContent Quick Hits: Thanksgiving Edition: More News Than You Want
- » Playboy’s sale talks moving fast, according to our sources, and Iconix is still in there strong. A few other parties are in there, including a hedge fund. As we have reported, TV/online outsourcing is on table too, and among the names floated for that are Cisneros Group, with...
- External links 2009-11-26
- American Apparel Floats on Debt; Some of It From CEO Charney
- Porn-based advertising/clothing empire American Apparel released its Q4 2008 results yesterday, and the news on the top and bottom lines looked good: Sales were up 30 percent to $146 million and net income was up 30 percent to $3.9 million. Less well-publicized, however, was the $4 million...
- Blog posts 2009-03-17
- Hear Donna Karan IPO nears filing with SEC. (initial public offering)(Brief Article)
- NEW YORK FNS--Donna Karan's second attempt to go public is about ready to hit the Securities & Exchange Commission, according to market reports. The filing is expected to be imminent and could come before the end of this week. The long-rumored move to raise money...
- Research articles 1996-04-03
- SEC Charges Two Former J.P. Morgan Securities Officers in Alabama Illegal Payments Scheme
- « Corp Fin Staff Release New Guidance on Shareholder Proposals related to Risk and Succession Planning | Main | Three Former Symbol Technologies Settle Accounting Fraud Charges » The SEC filed fraud charges against Charles E. LeCroy and Douglas W. MacFaddin, two former directors of J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. in connection with an unlawful...
- News items 2009-11-04
- How to Gather Competitive Research
- To formulate an effective corporate strategy, it's essential to understand two basic questions: What is your company doing, and what are your competitors doing? Establish the Strategic Problem Goal: Define your question before you begin the search for answers. Developing a competitive strategy...
- Articles 2007-03-28
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