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Gannett, AP Won’t Agree To New SEC Online Media Rules

Aug 24, 2009 3:06 PM

Tim Tebow and the University of Florida Gators head the Associated Press pre-season football poll by a wide margin but the AP may not be in the stadium to cover their season opener against Charleston Southern. AP won’t be able to pick up coverage from member chain Gannett (NYSE: GCI)…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Companies, AP, sec, southeastern conference

Judge Dismisses SEC Insider Trading Charges Against Mark Cuban

Jul 17, 2009 12:09 PM

A federal judge has dismissed SEC insider trading charges against entreprenuer and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban over the way he dissolved his investment in search engine Mamma.com. The SEC has 30 days to file an amended complaint but given the bad publicity from this one—and the changes at the…

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Posted In: Legal, mamma.com, mark cuban, sec

SEC Mandates Interactive Filing; Will Start Phasing In Next Year

Dec 19, 2008 5:15 PM

The news is filled with stories of how much the Securities and Exchange commission has missed but, hey, maybe some of the atrocious examples of financial skulduggery could have been caught sooner if the commission had moved faster towards interactive filing. But that tortured march at least has an end…

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Posted In: Legal, Regulatory, sec

Bad Joke: National Lampoon Execs Hit With Fraud Charges

Dec 15, 2008 6:03 PM

It probably won’t rise to the level of the Bernie Madoff scandal, but it’s not a joke either. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against National Lampoon CEO Daniel Laikin and several other execs in a Philadelphia civil court. The execs are accused of manipulating the entertainment company’s…

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Posted In: Legal, Money, national lampoon, sec

Reg Changes Shift Flow Of Information On Fundings, Public Companies

Nov 25, 2008 7:43 PM

You may have noticed over the years that a fair amount of our information on fundings comes from PEHub via its access to paper filings from the SEC. The paper versions of the Form Ds, as PEHub’s Dan Primack explains, weren’t duplicated in online database EDGAR; PEHub, now part of…

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SEC Won’t Enforce Rule That Would Make Facebook Finances Public

Nov 24, 2008 2:19 AM

Facebook isn’t a public company and it isn’t going to have to act like one any time soon. According to BusinessWeek,  the SEC agreed that it won’t enforce a rule that would require public disclosure of financial results when the number of equity holders hits 500 and the assets total…

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Posted In: Legal, Regulatory, Money, Companies, Facebook, sec

EX-DJ Director Li To Settle Insider Trading Charge With SEC: Reports

Jan 28, 2008 1:56 PM

Former Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) director David K. P. Li is close to settling insider trading charges with the SEC, according to the FT and WSJ. Li, who is chairman and CEO of Hong Kong-based Bank of East China, has close friends who allegedly purchased 415,000 Dow Jones shares just…

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Posted In: Legal, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Companies, News Corp., Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, david k. p. li, sec

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