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6 min ago | Maktoob Business

Israel banks mull conversion of TowerJazz notes

Nasdaq-listed shares were down 8.6 percent at 76 cents in early trade, while its Tel Aviv shares closed 9 percent lower.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Israel Corp

4 hrs ago | Business Journal

United Maritime wraps up $220M sale of barge subsidiary

United Maritime Group LLC has completed the sale of U.S. United Barge LLC to Ingram Barge Co.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Bank of America, Banking

Mon May 28, 2012

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

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LA PUENTE - Lois Maben is a self-described bulldog who has made great strides at increasing transparency and accountability at City Hall.

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Related Topix: La Puente, CA, Financial Services, Los Angeles County, CA

Journal Gazette

SEC wages courtroom battles

If you think MRI tests are expensive, try buying a magnetic resonance imaging machine.

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Related Topix: Banking, JP Morgan Chase , Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Sun May 27, 2012

ChinaTechNews.com

China's Ku6.com CFO Resignation Comes In Wake Of Board Turbulence

Shen Xiaotong, chief financial officer of Ku6.com, has resigned due to personal reasons, and Feng Jie, the company's vice president for finance, will temporarily command the CFO position.

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Related Topix: Financial Services

The Orlando Sentinel

05/28 Insider Trading

Insider Trading is a weekly report of stock transactions involving officers, directors and owners of 10 percent or more of a publicly held company.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, New York, Recreational Vehicle, Security

Sat May 26, 2012

SFGate

Crowd funding lobbyists get in on ground floor

Startups looking to take advantage of a new law allowing them to sell their stock online to the public can't count that seed money just yet.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Ralph Hall, Texas

Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter

SEC Staff Ends Probe of Lehman Without Finding Fraud

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigators have concluded their probe of possible financial fraud at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers, Financial Services, Economics News, Bankruptcy

The Washington Post

Icahn Buys Stake in Chesapeake to Force Overhaul of Board

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn bought a 7.56 percent stake in Chesapeake Energy Corp.

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Related Topix: Chesapeake Energy, Energy, Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Warren Buffett, Business News

Daily Mail

Apple CEO Tim Cook turns down $75m dividend income

In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, Apple says Mr Cook asked that his restricted stock units not receive dividends.

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Related Topix: Apple, Startups, Financial Services, Steve Jobs

USA Today

GM didn't disclose $600,000 deal for CFO's wife's firm

General Motors told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today that it failed to report a $600,000 deal given to an ad agency where the wife of GM's chief financial officer is a partner.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Autos

Hispanic Business

Investment Crowdfunding Closer to Launch

As part of a lengthy meeting with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week, the National Crowdfunding Association, www.NLCFA.org, delivered a twenty-four-point memorandum outlining the primary concerns and open questions regarding the regulations the SEC is currently drafting for the American investment crowdfunding market.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Austin, TX

Fri May 25, 2012

SlashGear.com

Facebook IPO prompts legal free-for-all

As Facebook's IPO "bungle" explodes on the legal scene this week, firms litigating against and defending NASDAQ, the banks that took Facebook public, and the public itself are running rampant.

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Related Topix: Financial Services

Bloomberg

SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro is weighing whether to allow money-market mutual funds to charge a fee on customers who take out money from the firms during a liquidity crisis, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance, US News

Maktoob Business

Bribery scandal may dampen Wal-Mart annual party

But a bribery scandal has led to growing calls for its chief executive and others to be removed from the boardroom and activist shareholders threaten to put a damper on the June 1 party, even if their efforts have little chance of succeeding.

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Related Topix: Retail, Wal Mart Stores, Financial Services, University of Arkansas

Reuters

UPDATE 4-Independent director Daft quits Green Mountain board

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc independent director Douglas Daft resigned from the board this week, at a time when concerns about slowing growth and allegations of accounting malpractice have hammered the stock.

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Related Topix: Beverages, Food, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Drink, Coffee, CocaCola, Financial Services, Retail, Wal Mart Stores

International Business Times

Facebook, 'Titanic" Of IPOs, Could Poison Tech Company Pipeline

Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg ceremoniously starts Nasdaq trading May 18, 90 minutes before disasters start plaguing Facebook's first trades.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, VeriSign, Google, Zynga, Financial Services

The Globe and Mail

Timken to shutter Ontario plant

Thomas, Ont., in the next year in another blow to one of the cities hit hardest by the recession and the crisis afflicting Canada's manufacturing sector.

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Related Topix: Canada, Financial Services

Thu May 24, 2012

News Observer

Fact check: TV ad attacks Pat McCrory without needed context

Funded by the Democratic Governors Association. "Tree.com: A company that paid Pat McCrory over $140,000 to sit on its board while he was mayor of Charlotte." Pat McCrory joined the Tree.com board of directors in January 2009.

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Related Topix: Tree.com, Financial Services, LendingTree, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

The Campbell Reporter

Apple CEO gives up $75 million in dividend income

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook will not be earning dividend income on the more than 1 million shares to which he is entitled, which will cost him about $75 million.

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Related Topix: Apple, Startups, Financial Services

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