There are 7 items… SEC cancels planned vote on proxy access issue | Insiders with a Curious Edge | Gates, Schmidt Lead Stock Sales to Highest Since 1987 | S.E.C. Changes Its Tune on Letting Foreign Securities Leave | Adobe Announces Availability of Adobe Reader 8 | Adobe Reader 8… tech blog reaction | The “Father of VisiCalc” Is Back – Well Almost
SEC cancels planned vote on proxy access issue
The Securities and Exchange Commission, struggling over the controversial issue of shareholder proxy-voting, on Wednesday canceled plans to vote next week on how to modify its policies.
Insiders with a Curious Edge
The words “prearranged trading plans” bring to mind a steady pattern of trading over a long period of time. But in reality, many executives sell huge numbers of shares in a very short time, and often right before a tumble.
Gates, Schmidt Lead Stock Sales to Highest Since 1987
Last month, stock sales by chief executive officers exceeded purchases by the widest margin since 1987. Insiders sold $8.4 billion and bought only $133 million.
S.E.C. Changes Its Tune on Letting Foreign Securities Leave
IT will be much easier for foreign companies to withdraw their securities from American public markets, so long as those securities primarily trade overseas, the Securities and Exchange Commission indicated yesterday.
Adobe Announces Availability of Adobe Reader 8
Features a new “Start Meeting” button that launches Adobe Acrobat Connect, an Adobe-hosted software service that provides real-time online collaboration through Adobe Flash Player.
Adobe Reader 8 … tech blog reaction
“I’m not sure why they keep throwing more and more features into Adobe Reader when all it does is make it slower. The only thing that Adobe Reader does right is make it possible to open PDF’s from within a browser. Heck, I don’t even like that feature though because it seems like my browser crashes most of the time when using it.”
The “Father of VisiCalc” Is Back – Well Almost
Any minute now Dan Bricklin, the guy who co-invented VisiCalc back in the olden days – and so precipitated the computer revolution – is going to deliver the first release of wikiCalc, a GPL 2-governed next-generation spreadsheet written in the Perl scripting language that – being a wiki – lets multiple users simultaneously log in and update the numbers over the Internet.
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