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By IR Web Report on April 4, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged initial public offerings, Investor Relations, IPOs, nasdaq, national venture capital association, nyse, stocks, thomson financial, ticker symbol, venture capital, venture capital association, venture capital funding, wordpress
By IR Web Report on 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 gross [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Ernst & Young, Europe, Hewlett-Packard, Ireland, law, nasdaq, New Jersey Superior Court, SEC, the Times, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, venture capital
By IR Web Report on November 19, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, blogs, Dan Rosensweig, David Berlind, DB Advisors LLC, Deutsche Bank AG, Jason Calacanis, Jon Miller, Jonathan Miller, management, media coverage, microsoft, Paul Kedrosky, Roger Ehrenberg, SEC, strategy, Sue Decker, techcrunch, technology, Terry Semel, the Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time Warner Inc., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, venture capital, wall street journal, Weblogs Inc., yahoo, ZDNet
By IR Web Report on 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Ellmen, finance, Internet start-ups, M cKinsey & Co, MySpace, online brokerage, SEC, venture capital, yahoo, Yahoo Finance
By IR Web Report on September 6, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, EDGAR, George Keyworth, Hewlett-Packard, law, law professor, media coverage, media outlets, member of the board, Newsweek, Patricia Dunn, Paul Kedrosky, privacy, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, Stephen Bainbridge, strategy, Thomas Perkins, UCLA, venture capital
By IR Web Report on August 9, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged AICPA, blogs, earnings, EDGAR, financial media, GoDaddy, Investor Relations, IPOs, law, Middle East, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, venture capital
By IR Web Report on July 2, 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Investor Relations, SEC, strategy, venture capital
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