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An expensive babysitter for Applied Materials 21 Aug 2013 | 06:41 pm
For those that missed this tweet on Monday, footnoted quietly celebrated its 10th anniversary on Sunday. For those who want to see the proof, this is the post that started it all. Over the next few we...
More, please: Honest moments in SEC filings 13 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
You’ve probably read more than enough over the past few weeks about the very public dispute between J.C. Penney and hedge fund titan Bill Ackman. Without getting too into the weeds, Ackman’s choice of...
On Jeff Bezos and the late-Friday Form 4 7 Aug 2013 | 01:24 am
Over the weekend, before news broke that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had bought the Washington Post for $250 million (there’s a seemingly endless number of links to this news and lots of analysis over at Ji...
Polycom gives cash and electronics to ex-CEO 24 Jul 2013 | 10:19 pm
With earnings season in full swing, we’re paying close attention to companies that use their routine earnings releases to dump other bad news. Take Polycom’s earnings release filed after the market cl...
Leap Wireless deal brings our batting average to .500 15 Jul 2013 | 08:58 pm
Back in January 2011, we put out a list on our top 10 takeover candidates for 2011. Three of those companies were taken over by April 2011: Smurfit-Stone Container, Pride International and Lawson Soft...
3 million reasons to hope for quick sale 11 Jul 2013 | 05:06 pm
Over the years, we’ve written a bit about Coach, mostly because many of their employment agreements have been unusually generous. Back in 2008, for example, the company came up with multiple ways to p...
A happy ending for Belo execs post-deal 2 Jul 2013 | 05:54 pm
When Gannett announced several weeks ago that it was buying Belo Corp. in a $1.5 billion deal, there were lots of smiles and huzzahs, not to mention a sharp increase in both company’s stock prices — s...
Will Sandridge CEO really only get $90m? 20 Jun 2013 | 07:50 pm
Various estimates put outgoing CEO Tom Ward's exit at $90 million. We think the actual number is closer to $165 million, due to the tax gross-up.
Behind the wall: a closer look at taxes 14 Jun 2013 | 06:51 pm
We're making two of our Pro reports on unusual tax rates in the first quarter available to everyone today in light of the big WSJ story that focuses on this issue.
Meritor’s ex-CEO makes out by “departing” 11 Jun 2013 | 07:05 pm
Anyone who’s ever been fired before — and, yes, we have some first-hand experience in this department — knows that things can be a bit unsettling, at least in the beginning, until you figure out whate...
