Apple officers donate $3 million
Senior executives and board members made big year-end gifts to charity Forms filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday show two senior Apple (AAPL) executives and two board members...
View ArticleThe SEC's challenge in the secondary market
SecondMarket, Sharespost, NYPPEX all let wealthy investors treat private companies, like Facebook, as publicly traded ones. Are they flouting securities laws, or reinventing them for the 21st century?...
View ArticleToday in Tech: Nintendo losing in clash with Apple
Fortune's curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day. * Nintendo slashed the price of its 3DS handheld...
View ArticleApple trading halted, resumes
A circuit breaker kicked in after high-frequency trades from BATS triggered a flash crash The hearts of Apple (AAPL) traders stopped briefly at 10:57 a.m. Friday when the company's share price, which...
View ArticleThe truth about social media for business: It's a risk
Last's week's Twitter-fueled crash erased $136 billion in value in minutes, underscoring concerns about companies' use of social media. By Verne Kopytoff FORTUNE -- A fraudster hacks into a company's...
View ArticleAfter stratospheric rise, a phantom social network’s shares nose dive
The good news for Cynk Technology is that the supposed social network’s shares resumed trading on Friday after a 10-day suspension by U.S. regulators.The bad news for Cynk: it’s shares plummeted 85%....
View ArticleHertz delays quarterly earnings as it undergoes accounting review
Hertz Global Holdings has warned it will delay the filing of its second-quarter results, as the car-rental company continues to work through an accounting review that found errors in three years of...
View ArticleIsn’t one Internet enough?
The late linguistics and political columnist William Safire used to write delightfully about retronyms--words or expressions that change because newer versions of the object or concept they describe...
View ArticleIs the SEC being too soft on Affiliated Computer Services?
One of the main jobs of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to crack down on accounting fraud at public companies, but a commissioner recently questioned if the agency is living up to its...
View ArticleSEC hands out $30 million in largest-ever whistleblower award
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the largest-ever award to result from a whistleblower program that went into effect three years ago. The government will fork over more than $30...
View ArticlePre-IPO tech stock sales investigated by regulators
A new investigation launched by U.S. securities regulators is looking into the sale of private technology stocks to determine if certain hedge funds and other investors are improperly trading those...
View ArticleThe big flaw in the SEC’s CEO pay-ratio rule
Five years after it became law, the Securities and Exchange Commission has finally adopted a rule requiring public companies to disclose their CEO's pay as a ratio of the median compensation of average...
View ArticleThis Hedge Fund Recently Bought $1.1 Billion of Apple Stock
Tiger Global Management apparently stocked up on new holdings in the final quarter of 2015, including major new stakes in Apple and Priceline. The tech-heavy hedge fund run by Chase Coleman reported...
View ArticleTesla Gets $300 Million Credit Line From Deutsche Bank
Tesla can borrow up to $300 million for its vehicle leasing program through an agreement with Deutsche Bank as part of a broader effort to bolster the company’s finances. In a filing with the U.S....
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