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No autographs, say auditors
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
...fair and true. But as WebCPA reports, auditors are now saying it will increase costs and risk of litigation. Grant Thornton has even warned it will subject to lynch mobs of angry investors. "The pu...
What can newspapers learn from the music business?
in Sox First, on October 12, 2009
... will suffer. Just as the music industry caused all sorts of problems for itself when it engaged in litigation against Napster, the print media is on a hiding to nothing with its plans to charge for o...
Citigroup and Norwegian greed
in Sox First, on August 11, 2009
So the fallout from the meltdown continues with reports that Norwegian municipalities and a bankrupt securities broker, Terra Securities, are suing Citigroup for $200 million after losing all their money in investments in notes which they claim Citigroup said was conservatively geared. The f...
Google 出价 1.065 亿美元收购 On2
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-06
Google 表示 将斥资 1.065 亿美元收购数字视频压缩技术提供商 On2 Technologies。
根据协议规定，每股 On2 股票将转换为价值 0.60 美元的 Google 普通股。交易规模大约在1 .065 亿美元。整个交易预计将在今年第四季度完成。
Google 拥有广受欢迎的视频共享网站 YouTube。而 On2 是一家数字视频压缩技术提供商，在网络视频日益盛行的今天，数字视频压缩技术已成为一个重要法宝。
Google 产品管理副总裁 Sundar Pichai 在声明中表示，"现在视频已经是 Web 体验的一个重要组成部分，我们相信高品质的视频压...
Skype to shut down?
in Sox First, on August 1, 2009
...ourt ruling. The filing says: "Although Skype is confident of its legal position, as with any litigation, there is the possibility of an adverse result if the matter is not resolved through nego...
微软与 Yahoo 达成为期 10 年的搜索合作协议
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-31
微软和 Yahoo 今天共同对外宣布，双方已达成为期 10 年的搜索和广告合作协议，称该交易将为全球消费者和广告主带来更多选择，并有利于进一步加强全球互联网产业的技术创新步伐。
微软、 Yahoo 称，总而言之，通过该交易，微软将成为 Yahoo 搜索的技术提供商，而 Yahoo 将独家负责两家公司全球范围内的搜索广告销售事务。
两家公司称，对网民和广告主而言，该交易在整合双方产品资源和搜索平台后，将推动互联网产业的持续技术创新。网民们会发现，他们查找信息的速度将更快，所获得信息准确性也更高。通过微软具有市场竞争力的搜索平台，将为广告主、内容提供商带来更多价值，并提高网民们的互联网活...
Pacific islands' climate change litigation threat
in Sox First, on July 27, 2009
An alarming Oxfam Australia report shows very clearly that Pacific islands like Tuvalu and Kiribati will probably need one strategy to stop climate change: complete evacuation. "Rising sea levels, heavier floods, more frequent and severe storms, extensive drought, contamination of drinki...
CalPERS sues ratings agencies
in Sox First, on July 16, 2009
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Ratings agencies have been prime targets for litigation as their conflicts of interest contributed to the global market meltdown. But they have always defended their actions, hiding under the Firs...
AMR: Oracle/Sun to 'Wreak Havoc' on Enterprise Software Market
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 9, 2009
...lawyers are already getting ready to go to the mattresses. This battle will make the Peoplesoft/DoJ litigation look like a first grader's Little League game," writes Seeking Alpha's Denn...
Climate change: the lawyers' picnic
in Sox First, on June 28, 2009
...sed by the narrowest of margins and business opposition, we can expect to see it open up a spate of litigation. Writing in Forbes earlier this week, Institute for Liberty president Andrew Langer wa...
Michael Jackson's debt legacy
in Sox First, on June 27, 2009
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There's bound to be massive litigation over Michael Jackson's estate. For the last years of his life, the pop icon was bogged down in controversy. But more to the point, he was trappe...
Directors warned about greenwash
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
...ACCC's findings would not have any direct impact on directors, it potentially opens the way for litigation and prosecution down the track. All this coincides with moves by the World Business Summ...
Free Screenwriting Software
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-07
... AnswersFinder.com
• Google Loses A Round In Sponsored Search Litigation
• Chinese Social Networks 'Virtually' Out-Earn Facebook And MySpace: A Market Analysis
• Henry Porter: Google is ...
Subprime meltdown drives litigation
in Sox First, on January 8, 2009
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The financial meltdown is driving litigation. New data released in the Securities Class Action Filings: 2008 Year End Assessment , from Cornerstone Research and the Stanford University Law Schoo...
Climate change chain of command
in Sox First, on January 6, 2009
.... What impact, for example, will an emissions trading scheme have on contracts? Or for that matter, litigation? Businesses don't have departments or experts who are across all these issues and fe...
Insurance brokers warn
in Sox First, on December 20, 2008
...ccountancy Age reports that insurance broker Marsh is warning that the global crisis will increase litigation against accountants. The global crisis has hit everyone hard, but the currency forex tra...
Competes and Non-Competes
in The CIO Weblog, on November 4, 2008
...y have been, as I have, vaguely following the IBM versus Apple shootout (now seemingly destined for litigation after the opening press release bombardments have failed to budge either party) over form...
GM-Chrysler merger: a bad idea for bad times
in Sox First, on October 12, 2008
... headaches? All the plants to close, all the tortuous discussions with the UAW, all of the possible litigation with dealers. It's too horrible to contemplate." The Autoblog has a similar w...
How global warming will change corporate governance
in Sox First, on September 24, 2008
...ications at Law.com . And this is just the beginning. These changes will fuel more climate-linked litigation....
The Financial Crisis and Legal Process Outsourcing Conflicts
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 23, 2008
...cial market that have occurred in the past two weeks, there is little doubt that an avalanche of litigation will ensue. In fact, it is possible that the quantity of securities litigation will be so ...
PokerTek Hits the Strip at Excalibur
in Internet Poker, on August 21, 2008
...es Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are made in accordance with the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The forward-looking statements herein include, but are not limited to, the ...
How global warming will change companies
in Sox First, on August 20, 2008
...l the changes will be the result of the new compliance costs foisted on business, and the threat of litigation. It will be a new world order , and no-one yet knows how it will end up looking....
FASB has drug makers squealing
in Sox First, on August 15, 2008
... Standards Board, reported here , requiring companies to account for the potential cost of ongoing litigation. As The Wall Street Journal points out, it would give attorneys a licence to print money ...
Pax World's irresponsibility
in Sox First, on August 5, 2008
Pax World Funds, which calls itself a socially and environmentally responsible mutual fund, has come to grief after it agreed to pay $500,000 to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it violated its own investment rules. Pax World was caught red-handed when two of its mutual fu...
Subprime + volatility = litigation
in Sox First, on July 30, 2008
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It's clear that the subprime debacle has resulted in an outpouring of litigation. The trend was fairly obvious just months ago when I looked at the issue here . Now, the trned seems to be ga...
A Bump in Disputes For Outsourcing Contracts?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 28, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, christine balderas
In a recent ComputerWeekly.com article , the London-based law firm of Pinsent Masons suggested that the current credit crunch will lead to a an increase in the number of re-negotiations, reductions-in-scope, terminations and disputed within I...
PCAOB to get smashed?
in Sox First, on July 16, 2008
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the centerpiece of the sarbanes-oxley legislation , is under serious legal threat, reports Bloomberg's Jane Bryant Quinn . The legal challenge, brought on by a small accounting firm in Nevada and backed by the conservative free market ch...
Audit liabilty - the PwC case
in Sox First, on July 12, 2008
...lean audit opinions before the company collapsed in bankruptcy in 1998. PwC won the first round of litigation but a three-judge panel in the 3rd Circuit has thrown that ruling into question, reports ...
Microsoft increasing commitments to India
in The CIO Weblog, on June 11, 2008
...in terms of right and wrong, but I don't happen to agree with that perspective) than in funding litigation against open-source projects which serve the same purpose....
The business of corruption
in Sox First, on April 29, 2008
...likely to peak in the next year or two, FPCA work, along with the coming flood of subprime mortgage litigation, should be enough to keep Washington 's legal industry humming, even as the res...
SOX and backdating
in Sox First, on April 11, 2008
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Much has been said about Sarbanes-Oxley stopping backdating. But is that true? Has it actually improved corporate governance? Under Sarbanes-Oxley, all high-level executive stock option grants an...
Subprime crisis drives litigation
in Sox First, on April 10, 2008
...;s been confirmed with latest research from ISS RiskMetrics showing that shareholder activism and litigation has increased as a result of the credit crisis. a significant number of subprime-related ...
Class actions rise: more to come
in Sox First, on April 2, 2008
... associated with significantly higher settlements. With the money power of institutions bankrolling litigation, we can expect the number of class actions to increase. The question is what impact the ...
Biovail's fraud and SOX
in Sox First, on March 28, 2008
Drugmaker Biovail's $10 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle some seriously bad fraud charges makes fascinating reading. And it's a lesson for anyone who thought Sarbanes-Oxley was going to stop fraud. It also tells us that the SEC is one big lumbering...
Carbon world of 2028
in Sox First, on March 19, 2008
...hese companies will shape business, very much in the same way that Google and Microsoft have done. Litigation over damage from climate change will be common. And insurers might not want to write cert...
Top 10 big business risks for 2008
in Sox First, on March 17, 2008
...ability. It can also contribute to health problems as well as the spread of environmentally related litigation. Climate change also produces the political risk of conflicts over scarce resources, and ...
Business Disputes and Wasted Resources
in Bizinformer, on March 7, 2008
... Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. - abraham lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was asked by a young attorney how to build his law practice. His advice (p...
Backdated tax gifts
in Sox First, on February 29, 2008
...avid Yermack , reported in Porttfolio.com . Yermack's research was absolutely critical in the backdating revelations . According to Yermack, chief executives and chairmen of public companies, i...
SEC litigation and share price
in Sox First, on February 27, 2008
...on the share price . But are some violations worse than others? Is there a difference between litigation being settled with fines and without? What happens if it's just left pending? These ...
Who exposes corporate fraud?
in Sox First, on February 12, 2008
In their haste to pass Sarbanes-Oxley into law following the spate of scandals headed up by Enron, politicians and regulators neglected to look carefully at the issue of whistleblowers. Who actually blows the whistle ? What drives them to do it? Important questions because the answers tell...
An Introduction to Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 23, 2008
...nd and discusses how unregulated hedge funds are regulated.
The book also looks at hedge fund litigation and directs you to recommended resources. All of this is combined in a format that w...
Lawsuits increase with subprime
in Sox First, on January 4, 2008
...uts are getting bigger. The research also showed a correlation between stock market volatility and litigation. On the other hand, litigation activity for 2007 as a whole was 14 per cent below the te...
TeleCommunication Systems Sues RIM for Patent Infringement
in The Wireless Weblog, on December 20, 2007
...nage multiple email accounts," according to a company statement . "The company initiated litigation to protect its rights only after business discussions with RIM failed to resolve the disp...
Would you Sue your Online Dating Service?
in The Dating Weblog, on November 5, 2007
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We live in a world where litigation is a common vocabulary word. People are sue-happy and there's no industry that gets left out of the courtroom. So is the online dating industry fair game...
Auditors, litigation and caps
in Sox First, on November 2, 2007
...ip to Francine McKenna at Re: The Auditors for alerting to us the prospect of entrepreneurial litigation funders threatening to drive auditors out of business. Certainly the case of third part...
Wi-LAN Sues the World
in The Wireless Weblog, on November 1, 2007
...r to resolve patent infringement through business discussions, we have consistently maintained that litigation was always a possibility when negotiations do not result in a license within a reasonable...
Publishers pile on photog
in Digital Shot, on October 31, 2007
...om Greenberg are significant," writes R. Robin McDonald at Law.com .
Oral arguments in the litigation are scheduled for Feb. 25....
Vendor Protector Helps Designers and Small Lines Take on Deadbeat Stores!
in Cool Picking, on October 30, 2007
We have all heard the line, The check is in the mail We know it is a line and an excuse for not paying someone. What is really unfortunate is that small clothing and accessories lines and designers who are on miniscule budgets find in the beginning often are left hanging for payment when their busin...
Security lawsuits fall? Depends which number you look at
in Sox First, on October 23, 2007
... trend is continuing. Although it's more complicated than the raw numbers suggest. The latest Litigation Trends Survey conducted by international law firm Fulbright & Jaworski suggests the ...
Suing your business partner not so odd after all
in The CIO Weblog, on October 16, 2007
...ll sued, but on the face of it, I think most people accept it's generally bad practice to start litigation against someone you are trying to make money with. In Microsoft's case this is probab...
First Linux patent lawsuit has been filed
in The CIO Weblog, on October 15, 2007
The first patent-infringement lawsuit against Linux has been filed in Texas against Red Hat and Novell as of last week. The patent holder, IP Innovation LLC, appears to be a subsidiary of Acacia Technologies Group, a firm whose litigious proclivities have been well-documented.
Hard on the hee...
Fashion Designers and Small Brands Find Financial Assistance with Vendor Protector
in Cool Picking, on October 10, 2007
...Vendor Protector offers a dispute resolution service that provides an easy and affordable option to litigation to collect monies owed from these lemon stores.
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Shared photo leads to litigation
in Digital Shot, on October 2, 2007
Given the popularity of photo-sharing Web sites, it's surprising that it has taken this long for a prominent lawsuit to emerge over the practice. The case in point, Chang v. Virgin Mobile USA, written about yesterday in the New York Times , by Noam Cohen, charges that a photo posted...
Fashion Designers and Small Brands Find Financial Assistance with Vendor Protector
in Cool Picking, on October 1, 2007
...Vendor Protector offers a dispute resolution service that provides an easy and affordable option to litigation to collect monies owed from these lemon stores.
Ms. Olenicoff, (founders and chief medi...
Was Ken Lay a typical CEO?
in Sox First, on September 18, 2007
...ther they could be vulnerable. Brickley bases his case around documents released through the Enron litigation. He finds that Lay performed a role at Enron consistent with existing economic theory and...
Michael Dell and deja vu
in Sox First, on September 11, 2007
...tional security adviser." And then of course, there's Steve Jobs handling of Apple's backdating shenanigans . Yeah, a bit of buck-passing goes a long way in business and politics.
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Britney should pay K-Fed's Lawyers
in The Parenting Weblog, on September 1, 2007
...is around $50,000.
According to Mark Vincent Kaplan, lawyer of K-Fed, Spears should pay the litigation expenses since she is the "monied party".
K-Fed receives a monthly spousal sup...
Limewire Jumps on the MP3 Bandwagon
in Digital Music - The Future, on August 27, 2007
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The major recording labels though likely won't take such a charitable view. They are still in litigation with Limewire for abetting copyright infringement. From their perspective Limewire's ...
Limewire Jumps on the MP3 Bandwagon
in P2P File Sharing, on August 27, 2007
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The major recording labels though likely won't take such a charitable view. They are still in litigation with Limewire for abetting copyright infringement. From their perspective Limewire's ...
P2P to Generate $5 Billion Per Year
in P2P File Sharing, on August 23, 2007
...stream and are now well beyond the early days when a few of the early service providers ended up in litigation,"
"Peering and file sharing have now been embraced by fixed-line and wireless...
BluBet: Bet The World
in Wangtam, on 2007-08-23
... Jooce：超酷的基于Flash技术的WebOS
- Viacom And NBC Inject Themselves Into Online Video Litigation
- auditoriumA
A human guided search service that delivers content via a visual platform and adds a commu...
The Brocade case: now for the gatekeepers
in Sox First, on August 21, 2007
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Now that the Justice Department got its first backdating scalp in Brocade Communications System's former CEO Gregory Reyes, the Securities and Exchange Commission has now targeted compa...
PwC and IBM settle kickback allegations
in Sox First, on August 21, 2007
... without any admission of wrongdoing, in order to avoid the expense, distraction and uncertainty of litigation," said PricewaterhouseCoopers. So if the payments weren't kickbacks, what exact...
Subprime litigation
in Sox First, on August 16, 2007
...hat the credit meltdown could leave banks, hedge funds and private equity firms embroiled in costly litigation. The Wall Street Journal warns hedge fund investors of litigation. Having watched m...
Backdating fallout continues
in Sox First, on August 14, 2007
...ast week's conviction of former Brocade chief executive officer Gregory Reyes of stock option backdating continues to send shivers through Silicon Valley . More indictments are likely to follo...
Risky Business
in On Storage, on August 13, 2007
...ghout the organization. Seventy-four percent reported loss of customers, 59 percent faced potential litigation, 33 percent faced potential fines and 32 percent experienced a decline in share value.
S...
The Price Is Wrong
in Eagle Par Birdie, on August 8, 2007
... going on legally in the ever-changing world of golf equipment.
And the landscape is peppered with litigation.
Take, for instance, the ongoing battle between Bridgestone and Acushnet. Brid...
Climate change and company directors
in Sox First, on August 3, 2007
...nsurance and other exposures and the picture is quite disturbing. And as he points out, even if the litigation is without merit, it will generate significant legal expenses. This paper is a warning t...
Climate change for boardrooms
in Sox First, on July 26, 2007
...ss opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change. Exac...
Epic Games sued by Silicon Knights
in PCGamers Blog, on July 20, 2007
Today Mark Rein, VP at Epic Games (Gears of War developer), issued a brief statement informing the press that the company was served a lawsuit this morning from Silicon Knights , creators of Eternal Darkness and the forthcoming RPG Too Human. The statement doesn't release any details about th...
