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Sarbox Lite or the end of Sarbanes-Oxley?
in Sox First, on November 25, 2009
...ection Act of 2009 which allows most companies to never comply with the law. Norris quotes former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt saying: "That the Democratic Party is the ...
New fair value rule to face test
in Sox First, on November 16, 2009
...h the classification and measurement of financial assets, such as loans, as well as debt and equity securities using fair value. Sox First will remember how the banks were screaming about fair value, ...
Seen that? - Consumer P2P use legal in France
in Digital Music - The Future, on November 9, 2009
...legal data invasion. P2P networks cannot be monitored to secure evidence for copyright infringement lawsuits. The ruling may lead to lawsuits against the record labels. "We do not know how many f...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
... New York Stock Exchange (John Thain and Duncan Niederauer); the chief operating officer of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division (Adam Storch). No wonder they call it Governm...
MBA turkeys and the market
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...ley O'Neal and his successor John Thain, bank bail out master Henry Paulson, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Christopher Cox, former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and his su...
Skype Founders Drop Lawsuit
in The VoIP Weblog, on November 6, 2009
...as been resolved.
"The founders of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, will drop their lawsuits against [eBay] and a consortium of buyers whose bid to purchase 65 percent of Skype was ann...
Big profits: How Goldman Sachs bet on the US housing crash
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
...aises serious questions about the legality of Goldman Sachs actions by accusing the bank of selling securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages while at the same time placing bets that ...
Madoff calls SEC's Schapiro a "dear friend": jailhouse interview
in Sox First, on November 1, 2009
...k into the SEC investigators and says he was amazed he wasn't caught. More alarmingly, he describes Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro as a "dear friend" and says she "probably thi...
Seen that? - Pillow Talk
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 31, 2009
...s it with insider trading? Why is there a spate of cases involving dirty trades and pillow talk?The Securities and Exchange Commission has so far filed seven insider trading cases against married coup...
Breaking up the banks
in Sox First, on October 28, 2009
...ker has called for the reinstatement of laws that stop banks from owning and trading risky securities. Still, their calls are unlikely to get any traction from the Obama administration which seems...
Sun Microsystems to Cut 3,000 Jobs
in Java Entrepreneur, on October 22, 2009
...racle in April," writes Times Online's Mike Harvey . "Sun said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the layoffs would come from all its major regions, including...
!0 more to be charged with insider trading
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
... trading is just the beginning. Bloomberg reports that US investigators plan to charge another 10 securities professionals with insider trading. And who knows what comes after that? All this sugge...
Is the US ready for IFRS?
in Sox First, on October 20, 2009
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Earlier this year, the then incoming head of the Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Schapiro indicated she was in no hurry to bring global accounting standards (otherwise known as Intern...
Seen that? - A VOD Ad Network is Possible
in The Digital TV Weblog, on October 19, 2009
...Plans at The Digital TV Weblog At the Banc of America Securities media conference in New York City last month, Time Warner Cable CEO, Glenn Britt, and Cab...
How the ratings agencies sold out investors
in Sox First, on October 19, 2009
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After helping to create the financial collapse by giving dodgy securities triple-A ratings, moves are afoot to bring ratings agencies into line with legislation designed to make them collecti...
Twitter 开发新功能阻止用户发送重复信息
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-18
...ght with Kindle by Reuters
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P2P Traffic Declining Dramatically Worldwide
in P2P File Sharing, on October 16, 2009
...be the growth of legitimate services that would bring an end to piracy, rather than legislation and lawsuits from content providers," writes Pocket-lint's Duncan Geere . "This data seems to...
Hedge funds lied to investors
in Sox First, on October 15, 2009
...n badly exposed in a new study Trust and Delegation . Hedge funds were instrumental in buying bad securities and and helping bring the world's financial system to its knees. The study found that ha...
China's Problems with the Falling Dollar are its Own Fault
in China Venture News, on October 11, 2009
...d other major currencies, China and other emerging economic powers holding lots of dollars and U.S. securities are crying foul, and for an end to the dollar’s central status in global commerce.
If ...
A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...system. As a result, the market imploded with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. As a result, former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt says we need to have a new system that all...
Seen that? - NYSE Value, is in Goldman`s mind
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 9, 2009
... Pan Asian Biz is one of several sources reporting that the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has approved the New York stock exchange Group (NYSE). What t...
Luxury hotels the latest victims of the recession
in Sox First, on September 25, 2009
...ic Monthly's Daniel Indiviglio points out, this could devastate the commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) market and that will damage the US economy even further. There is only one answer...
Old Books in New Ways
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on September 22, 2009
...ore that carries the book.
Right now, Google Books is somewhat limited. There were a number of lawsuits against the program ranging from monopolies to copyright infringement. Google has mostly s...
FBI probes BoFA-Merrill deal
in Sox First, on September 21, 2009
...as already stinking to high heaven with the Bank of America being forced to pay $33 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading shareholders about the billions of dollars of bon...
Gigolo [Nick Cannon]
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-20
[Intro - R. Kelly + (Nick Cannon)]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (Oh, uh, haha)
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh (Kels!)
(We in the club singing this for money, ha!)
[Chorus - R. Kelly]
I'm a gigolo, spending lot's a dough
You can tell the way wide-body, sitting on four's
And how I'm shining, wit the f...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
...d exotic financial products. Jacobs writes: "They're still packaging risky mortgages into securities and selling them to investors, who can earn higher returns by purchasing the securities t...
The next bubbles
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
...in the making: China; gold; renewable energy; the Fed snapping up $1.25 trillion of mortgage backed securities; the prices of junk financial stocks like Fannie, Freddie, AIG, Citi and Bank of America ...
SEC links to Madoff scam
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...ver the weekend, I did a blog entry looking at whether Bernard Madoff's victims could sue the Securities and Exchange Commission for its negligence. Certainly, Madoff himself expressed surpris...
Madoff: contender for SEC chairman
in Sox First, on September 3, 2009
...d Madoff, now spending the rest of his life in jail, was actually a contender to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. That's the revelation in this SEC report into the regulato...
Commercial real estate to create a new mortgage crisis
in Sox First, on August 31, 2009
...struggling to refinance loans. As the WSJ says, the problems hitting the commercial mortgage backed securities sector will damage what's left of the banks. WSJ reporters Lingling Wei and Peter Gr...
Who is buying up US debt?
in Sox First, on August 23, 2009
... report, the grouping known as the Caribbean Banking Centers holds $189.7 billion worth of Treasury securities. That group takes in the Cayman Islands, home to US hedge funds and investment vehicles. ...
Scams bigger than Bernie
in Sox First, on August 14, 2009
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Remember Harry Markopolos ? He was the whistleblower who alerted the Securities and Exchange Commission to Bernard Madoff's scam. The guy who was ignored by the SEC until it was too late. N...
Liquidia Technologies Raises $7 Million
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 13, 2009
...d over $7 million in new funding, according to a regulatory filing.
"A filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals the company raised $7,031,130 in equity," accordin...
Madoff's right hand man pleads guilty: who's next?
in Sox First, on August 12, 2009
...court heard that this was happening as early as the 80s, so nearly 30 years ago. Why didn't the Securities and Exchange Commission pick it up? A new book Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Ma...
Citigroup and Norwegian greed
in Sox First, on August 11, 2009
...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 mon...
GE cooks the books
in Sox First, on August 9, 2009
...E's auditors KPMG. Echoes of Arthur Andersen. Accounting commentator J. Edward Ketz says the Securities and Exchange Commission chief Mary Schapiro is doing the public an injustice by going too...
Global Recovery
in China Venture News, on August 7, 2009
...leinfeld, Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) CEO Richard Adkerson, CEO Donald Tang of Hong Kong-based Citic Securities International Partners, and Joe Meuse, president of financial consulting firm Belmont Par...
美科技公司 TechRadium 起诉 Twitter 侵犯专利
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-08
TC 消息 ，总部位于德克萨斯州的美国科技公司 TechRadium，本周在德克萨斯州南部联邦地方法院向 Twitter 提起诉讼，起诉 Twitter 侵犯其三项专利。要求赔付损害赔偿金及律师费，并向法院申请对 Twitter 发布永久禁制令。
TechRadium 向学校、政府、美国军方等提供紧急警报信息广播系统和广播及呼叫系统。
TechRadium 表示， Twitter 侵犯其三项专利，专利号分别为 7,130,389, 、 7,496,183 和 7,519,165 ，专利内容分别为"数字通知及回复系统"、"提供数字通知的方法&quo...
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
...cheduled for hearing before the English High Court in June next year. eBay's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission makes it quite clear that Skype's future really hangs on the ...
Goldman Sachs in the gun
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
...ernal communications, such as email, show bankers had private doubts about whether mortgage-related securities they were putting together were as financially sound as their public pronouncements sugge...
Selling Domain Names
in The Search Engine Weblog, on July 29, 2009
...arly years of the Internet, there was furious competition for web site domain names, accompanied by lawsuits and huge sums paid for well-known names. Last year the buying and selling of Web site domai...
Pacific islands' climate change litigation threat
in Sox First, on July 27, 2009
...he Pacific island states under international human rights law. And that will open the way for more lawsuits....
First SOX clawback
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
...running the company when misleading information was being put out. And now for the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that former chief executive officer of CSK Auto C...
MFA on Obama's Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2009
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 16, 2009
... private pools of capital, including private equity and venture capital funds, to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Baker highlights how the Administration's proposed le...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...sults to be sustainable. Moreover, we continue to have concerns about the confidence sensitivity of securities firms with sizable trading operations and high reliance on wholesale funding, despite thi...
The Mercedes Folding Bike
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-10
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Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
... of corporate greed. But he was allowed to get away with it for years. We can blame the incompetent Securities and Exchange Commission turning a blind eye. Surely, the SEC should be brought to account...
Climate change: the lawyers' picnic
in Sox First, on June 28, 2009
... Swiss Re warns that climate change litigation is the new asbestos. Only this time, climate change lawsuits will spread faster than anything we saw with asbestos. We are already seeing signs of this...
Directors warned about greenwash
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
... implications for company directors if governments crack down and investors start hitting them with lawsuits.
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Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...y, advisers of hedge funds whose assets exceed a certain size will be required to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As I said, it all makes sense and is long overdue. But will it ...
Disney and toxic waste allegations
in Sox First, on June 15, 2009
...ndwater with toxic chemicals, including cancer-causing chromium 6. The allegations are contained in lawsuits filed against the company by residents and watchdog group Environmental World Watch. As det...
Camara vs. the RIAA
in P2P File Sharing, on June 10, 2009
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An unusually aggressive lawyer and his Harvard Law School professor have filed a class action lawsuit against the RIAA for over $100 million...
"Lawyer Kiwi Camara is joining forces with Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson to file a class-action lawsuit against the re...
PCAOB chairman Mark Olson quits. What now for Sarbanes-Oxley?
in Sox First, on June 9, 2009
...lt in a rethink of Sarbanes-Oxley. Another explanation might be that Olson was appointed by former Securities and Exchange Commission chief Christopher Cox. He is gone and a new administration an...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
..., brought the company down. It has since been bought out by Bank of America.
Mozilo was charged by securities regulators earlier this week with insider trading and regulatory fraud. You can read all ...
SEC probe uncovers problems
in Sox First, on June 2, 2009
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All is not well at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Read through the report of the SEC Inspector General and weep. Shake your head in disgust because the report makes it clear that the th...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...esolve it then. Clusterstock has come up with its own radical solutions. These include nuking the Securities and Exchange Commission which has failed to protect investors, stop letting companies hir...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...h, Hank Paul-son, the former US Treasury secretary, and Christopher Cox, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a remarkable trinity who more than fulfilled the mission o...
SEC official abuses position
in Sox First, on May 18, 2009
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at how appallingly the Securities and Exchange Commission has been managed. Basically, it's a case of of the lunatics running the asylum. Addi...
Hedge Fund Administrator of The Year
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 13, 2009
... Nordic institutions.
The Global Awards judging panel included Dr Werner Frey, CEO of the European Securities Forum and Angela Knight, CEO of The British Bankers Association.
More about the awa...
GAO slams SEC
in Sox First, on May 10, 2009
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The Securities and Exchange Commissions stuffed up big time with Bernard Madoff, letting him get away with his fraud for some time. It failed to do its job and protect investors. Now a Governmen...
Madoff's son in slug fest
in Sox First, on May 6, 2009
...nto a Wall Street warrior defending dad's not so good name. The story about his fist fight with securities trader Reed Abend came out on the Dealbreaker blog last week. Apparently, young Mad...
The next accounting battle
in Sox First, on May 3, 2009
...s this month. More details here . CFO.com reports how James Kroeker, acting chief accountant at Securities and Exchange Commission says it will eclipse fair value as a painful issue for accountant...
OIN Seeks Prior Art in TomTom Patent Suit
in HackITLinux, on May 2, 2009
...ommunity members searching for prior art that could prevent Microsoft from wielding them in future lawsuits," writes ChannelWeb's Kevin McLaughlin .
More here from iTWire ... more here ...
Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...isconduct. This is not before time but it does leave one wondering why it's taken so long. The Securities and Exchange Commission is cracking down on conflicts of interest at the rating agencies ...
Taiwan Approves Three-Strikes Law
in P2P File Sharing, on April 30, 2009
...the bill is designed to encourage self-correction by users while discouraging excessively punitive lawsuits against small-time infringers," writes Billboard's Thibault Worth . "In addit...
No recovery in sight
in Sox First, on April 30, 2009
...ely to remain weak for a time". With the Fed printing money to buy Treasurys, mortgage-backed securities and housing agency debt , some economists are predicting the US economy will return to gr...
HedgeCo.Net Spring Manager Showcase on Wed next week
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 26, 2009
... HedgeCo.Net and HedgeCo Securities is holding the Spring 2009 Manager Showcase. This event is open to all accredited hedgeco .Net members and will profile some of the leading fund managers....
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...s open to fraud and now we have the Los Angeles Times telling us of criminal probes into possible securities fraud, tax violations, insider trading and other crimes related to the $750 billion bailo...
