5 posts and columns on Jeffries & Co.

HP Analysts Like Losing Léo, Not Sold on Whitman as CEO

in News on September 22, 2011 at 9:59 am PT

Analysts covering HP all seem united in their approval of its apparent move to oust CEO Léo Apotheker. They’re a lot less enthusiastic about his replacement.
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The Start Project Gets Start-Up Stars as Advisers, Including Stone, Sacca, Mullenweg

in News on February 1, 2010 at 1:57 pm PT

A new Silicon Valley business incubator called The Start Project has recruited a high-profile group of entrepreneurs as advisers, which it announced today on its Web site. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, former Google exec and angel investor Chris Sacca, as well as Mike Tatum and David Liu, have all agreed to help the company’s start-ups before and during their creation.

Ciena Snags Nortel’s Optical Business

in News on November 23, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

Ciena is buying Nortel Networks’ optical networking and carrier Ethernet business after besting an offer from Nokia Siemens in a three-day auction. Ciena will pay $769 million for these assets from the now-bankrupt company, noting that they will significantly bolster its Internet infrastructure business.
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Microsoft a First-Mover With No Advantage in Twitter Deal

in News on October 26, 2009 at 2:14 pm PT

Microsoft may have gotten the jump on Google when its Bing search engine became the first to allow users to search Twitter in real time, but that victory is largely an empty one. Because while being first is generating quite a bit of attention for Bing–which is, for once, leading search innovation instead of following Google’s–that’s about all it’s good for now.
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LogMeIn: IPO Drought? Feh…

in News on July 1, 2009 at 9:50 am PT

Earlier this week John Fitzgibbon, founder of IPOScoop.com, said that LogMeIn was an IPO “candidate that should blow the socks off people.” Looks like he was right.
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