Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Iceland's Straumur-Burdaras said on Friday it was cancelling a planned purchase of the majority Landsbanki's overseas corporate finance and brokerage business for 380 million euros (306.8 million pounds).
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Amsterdam - Only a comprehensive international solution can save the global financial markets, Arnoud Boot, professor of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets at the University of Amsterdam said on Dutch television on Friday. Boot was commenting on...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quarterly results show that the third quarter ended September 30, 2008 has been the most active quarter of the year so far for the health care venture
1-Ipod Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Enjoy better signal integration with your car stereo using i-CRUISE’s built in 13 channel Digital FM transmitter. It has a two dimensional tuning technology (TDTT) that scans radio frequencies quicker and more accurately than analog tuners, rapidly switching from coarse tuning to fine tuning to eliminate static interference. It’s built in car charger charges all [...]
ultimate-resumes (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
It seems like everyone is talking about the economy these days and I think that is a good thing. Unfortunately when things are going well in the markets the average American can't be bothered to care about banking regulations or the intricacies of corporate finance. Which is really too bad. Economics and finance are fascinating and are the building blocks for everything we have, do, and see in the...
IPKat—IP news and fun for everyone (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The Court of Appeal judgment in Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents has just been published, and is available from BAILII here . The UK-IPO's appeal against the decision of Mr Justice Patten in the High Court ( here , with IPKat commentary here and here ) has been dismissed. More details later...
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Christopher Menkin submits: On Friday, October 3, 2008, CIT Group Inc. (CIT) announced that Walter Owens resigned as President of Corporate Finance, effective immediately. The company will issue its financial results for the quarter ending September 30, 2008 before the market opens on Thursday, October 16, 2008. No comment on Owens' resignation was made except for the SEC filing . The shake up, which...
Tech release (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Auto dealer giant Bill Heard Enterprises, Inc. allegedly violated federal labor law when thousands of employees throughout the nation were terminated just before the company sought bankruptcy protection on Sept. 28, according to lawyers for a former company worker who sued Friday in Alabama federal bankruptcy court. According to the Complaint, Bill Heard Enterprises,...
Freakonomics (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
I probably have an unhealthy attraction to the powers of Excel. I taught my daughter how to use it when she was 7. When I teach corporate finance, I try to make sure that my law students come away from the course knowing how to crunch in Excel. It would be embarrassing to teach students [...]
Ideoblog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Last week I complained about the “appalling quality of public policymaking” in relation to the then pending bailout. Now we get a partial explanation of that quality. Gregg Easterbrook (apparently not discussing corporate finance with his brother Frank): Supposing we...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Canadian markets saw no new initial public offerings come to the stock market - a first, according to figures released by PriceWaterhouseCoopers Thursday.
Economist's View (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Gavin Kennedy: A Gem Amidst the Dross, Adam Smith's Lost Legacy: It is a positive sign that not every commentator on current affairs in the current corporate finance crisis purveys the inaccurate nonsense that a source of the problem lies...
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
It is a positive sign that not every commentator on current affairs in the current corporate finance crisis purveys the inaccurate nonsense that a source of the problem lies in anything written by Adam Smith , the man born in Kirkcaldy in 1723. Eli Cox , Chair, department of Marketing at McCombs School of Business , writes in McCombs Today (‘ News from the McCombs School of Business’ ) HERE (30 September)....
The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
, GBMason Stone Limited is a software company providing systems for advisory companies to manage the process of M&A, fund raising, MBOs and other corporate finance undertakings. View the full item at MoneyScience.
