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Cool ticker symbol up for grabs
SOFTWARE company BladeLogic, which went public last July, has one of the hippest ticker symbols going: BLOG.
But now that the company is being acquired by BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) those funky four letters are up for grabs.
One problem, though. The way the US IPO market has been doing so far this year, it doesn’t look [...]
News Digest for December 11, 2006
There are 7 items… VC rises to dotcom bubble levels | SEC more in tune with European companies | SEC Delays Proxy Access Again | New Online Activities Show Greatest Growth | The price of a tarnished image | Countdown to compliance: The transparency directive | Nasdaq’s CEO ‘does not know how to calculate [...]
Corporations Are Getting Naked — OK, Some Are
By Dominic Jones
LAST week was an interesting one for people who believe that corporations are entering a new era of openness where once jealously guarded pretences are being stripped bare to reveal the “authentic” soul of the company.
Both Time Warner Inc. and Yahoo Inc. stood naked in front of millions when their internal management workings [...]
News Digest for September 22, 2006
There are 5 items today… Canadian Social Investment Organization Recommends Mandating Global Reporting Initiative | Who needs a board of directors, anyway? | Largest Web 2.0 deals involve Silicon Valley firms, startups | Share buy-backs
Canadian Social Investment Organization Recommends Mandating Global Reporting Initiative
“We have a Conservative government, but I don’t believe that they are [...]
Fear and Loathing in the HP Boardroom
By IR Web Report Staff
BIZARRE revelations that Hewlett-Packard’s chairwoman and “an internal group” within the company hired private investigators to spy on directors’ personal home and cellphone records has set tongues wagging across the Internet and in boardrooms everywhere.
The story, documented in extraordinary detail in a Newsweek article, raises questions about the legality of HP [...]
GoDaddy CEO Blogs About Canceled IPO
By Dominic Jones
A SCRAPPED IPO is rarely a good thing. It suggests the company being shopped is a lemon. Companies that pull their IPOs traditionally go off to some dark corner with their tails between their legs.
So when Internet domain registration company The Go Daddy Group, Inc. withdrew its registration statement with the Securities and [...]
Investor Relations headlines for July 3, 2006
Blogs employed in China corporate bid battle
The unusual tactics began this month when Xiang Wenbo, CEO of Sany, revealed in his personal blog that the company wanted to bid for Xugong, which had already agreed to be acquired by US venture capital group Carlyle.
Options Fallout Widens in Tech
The options backdating scandal mushroomed across the tech [...]
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