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Exclusive: Skype Employees Were Briefed in Plain English -- The Internal...
I have largely stayed away from opining about the he-said-he-said over what or what not Skype employees were told about the treatment of their stock options. Some employees are alleging they were duped...
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What to Expect When You're Expecting a Zynga IPO (Insider Selling, Natch!)
So exactly how fecund is “FarmVille”? If reports hold, we’ll all find out today what the yield is from the online gaming phenom Zynga, which will finally be filing its regulatory documents sometime...
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Worried About IPO Filing Backlash, Groupon Surveys Consumer and Merchant...
Groupon’s S-1 filing for an IPO last month certainly got a lot of ink. Unfortunately, much of it was negative, focused on several controversial parts of the document. Most scrutinized were large slugs...
View ArticleAdobe Acquires Electronic Signature Start-Up EchoSign
Adobe has bought EchoSign, an electronic signature start-up, for an undisclosed price. The San Francisco-based company said it will integrate EchoSign — which has three million users — into its...
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Not So Much on Groupon IPO Delay, But SEC Scrutiny Still a Drag
Earlier today, CNBC reported that the regulatory review of Groupon’s questionable use of certain accounting metrics in its IPO filing was delaying its offering until later in September. While more...
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Exclusive: Groupon Will Dump Controversial ACSOI Accounting in Amended IPO...
According to numerous sources close to the situation and after regulatory pressure, Groupon will amend its S-1 public offering filing to remove references to an unusual accounting treatment that has...
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Is Facebook IPO on Track for May?
According to multiple sources, the long-anticipated public offering of Facebook is now likely to come in the second or third week of May. That means that the company must file its IPO documents within...
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Facebook Board Meeting Today for Final IPO Okays
According to several sources close to the situation, the Facebook board has been meeting early this afternoon at its Silicon Valley HQ to give the go-ahead to a massive initial public offering....
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Stop All That Poking: Facebook Filing Temporarily Crashes SEC Web Site
Apparently, Facebook has a lot of friends. Clickety-clicking ones, whose massive interest in the just-filed IPO of the Silicon Valley social networking giant seems to have temporarily crashed the...
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Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls...
In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook. The attack by the Silicon Valley Internet icon...
View ArticleMore Shoes Drop: Third Point Formally Files Preliminary Proxy Statement With SEC
No surprise — preliminary proxy documents from Yahoo’s activist shareholder Third Point were filed to the Securities and Exchange Commission today, which you can see here. In them, the New York hedge...
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Facebook Smacks Back at Yahoo With Patent Claims in Counter-Lawsuit
Facebook has just taken strong aim back at Yahoo’s patent lawsuit with an answer and counter-claim filing of its own, alleging infringement over a number of issues. “From the outset, we said we would...
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Updated S-1: Facebook's Yearly Revenue Growth Up 45 Percent, But Down Six...
Facebook filed an updated version of its S-1 public offering document today, which included somewhat disappointing first-quarter financials. In the new filing with the Securities and Exchange...
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They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don't They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a...
Earlier today, Yahoo’s persistent thorn, activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point poison-penned another letter to the board of the Silicon Valley Internet company, demanding that Yahoo fire its...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Director in Charge of Botched CEO Vetting to Step Down From...
CSLie has claimed its first victim, although the mystery is still unsolved. Patti Hart — the Yahoo director in charge of the search that resulted in the hiring of Scott Thompson as its CEO, making her...
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Loeb Calls Again for Thompson Firing From Yahoo, as Former eBay Boss Supports...
As expected, activist shareholder Daniel Loeb of Third Point released a new letter on the bio controversy he set off at Yahoo, again calling for the firing of its CEO, Scott Thompson. “It seems...
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Not So Scott Free? Yahoo's Other Big Shareholder -- Cap Re -- Leaning Toward...
One of Yahoo’s biggest long-term investors, Capital Research and Management, which owns more than 10 percent of the company in two different funds, is leaning toward voting for the slate proposed by...
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Is He In or Is He Out? Crunchtime for Scott Thompson at Yahoo.
While he has only been CEO of Yahoo for less than five months, in the next several days Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is facing perhaps the most critical moment of his short tenure. According to sources...
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Yahoo's Parting With Thompson Will Be for "Cause" (aka CSLie)
According to numerous sources, Yahoo is claiming “cause” in its parting with former CEO Scott Thompson, related to the fake computer science degree on his resume. Such a determination will mean the...
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Here's Yahoo's Official Parting With Thompson Over ResuMess -- No Severance,...
As I reported earlier today, former Yahoo Scott Thompson left the Silicon Valley Internet giant with no severance. The reason for the agreement was that the company was claiming “cause” for the...
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