8 posts and columns on regulatory filing

Motorola Mobility Shareholders Approve Acquisition by Google

in Mobile on November 17, 2011 at 5:38 pm PT

The company said it now expects the deal won’t close before early next year, as it works to complete various regulatory requirements.
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EU Objects to Oracle-Sun Deal

in News on November 9, 2009 at 2:43 pm PT

The European Commission today issued a so-called Statement of Objections over Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Disclosed in a regulatory filing by Sun, the document gives formal voice to the EC’s concerns over the fate of Sun’s open-source MySQL database.

So Much for SamDisk

in News on September 4, 2009 at 5:57 am PT

It was fun while it lasted, but Samsung has abandoned its bid to buy SanDisk. In a regulatory filing made nearly a year after its $5.85 billion offer for SanDisk was rejected as too low, Samsung officially called off the effort, which, had it been successful, would have combined two of the largest flash memory producers into a single NAND monstrosity.
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Skype Actually a "Voice Over IP Litigation" Service

in News on July 31, 2009 at 5:35 am PT

What a costly blunder Skype has proven to be for eBay. A $2.6 billion purchase price. A $1.4 billion asset impairment charge. Missed financial targets. And now this: eBay’s plans to spin off Skype next year are being threatened by a legal dispute over the telephony service’s underlying technology.
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Skype Actually a “Voice Over IP Litigation” Service

in News on July 31, 2009 at 5:35 am PT

What a costly blunder Skype has proven to be for eBay. A $2.6 billion purchase price. A $1.4 billion asset impairment charge. Missed financial targets. And now this: eBay’s plans to spin off Skype next year are being threatened by a legal dispute over the telephony service’s underlying technology.
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LOL @ AOL

in News on July 28, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

No Worries, Sergey. We Can Make It Back in a Week on Mesothelioma Ads.

in News on July 27, 2009 at 4:08 pm PT

When Google took a five percent stake in AOL for $1 billion in 2005, it valued the company at about $20 billion. Last year the search giant wrote down $726 million of that investment. And now, according to a regulatory filing, Google has gone and sold its share back to Time Warner for $283 million, about a quarter of what it originally paid for it.
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eBay Plans Options Water Safety Course

in News on March 11, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Apparently, fear of a deepening recession alone isn’t enough to maintain tech worker loyalty these days–mounting job losses be damned. This week, Google repriced millions of employee stock options that had gone underwater as the company’s share price declined. Now eBay hopes to do the same. The reason: employee retention.
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