secrecy

Exclusive: Silver Lake Finally Signs Yahoo NDA, as Talks Proceed With Bidders

Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2011 at 11:08 am PT

Aggressive private equity firm signs on the secret dotted line it said it would not. Of course.

Déjà Vu: Facebook's Questionable Stock Hijinks Feels Like Winklevii 2.0

Kara Swisher in News on January 4, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s clear intent to keep the lid on Facebook tight–with no disclosure about the details of the financial performance and other pertinent information a public offering would require be disclosed–is clearly becoming a nettlesome issue for the company. But while that effort at preserving secrecy by staying private has resulted in little more than cute media guessing games about a possible IPO until now, the social networking giant’s most recent machinations are too clever by a half.

EU Data Protection Chief: Beware the ACTA

John Paczkowski in News on February 22, 2010 at 10:59 am PT

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated behind a veil of secrecy by the United States, European Union, Japan and a host of other countries is a potentially onerous one. That’s the gist of a 20-page memo issued today by Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor, who is clearly appalled by what he read in the portion of the draft of the agreement leaked to the Web last week.

McGraw-Hill: We Didn’t Get Booted From the iPad Launch, Because We Weren’t Part of It

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 28, 2010 at 9:39 am PT

Though it may have seemed like another of Apple’s perfectly timed third-party leaks, McGraw-Hill CEO Terry McGraw’s remarks to CNBC earlier this week were nothing of the sort. The publisher tells me it was not privy to iPad prelaunch details and that to conclude otherwise is a misinterpretation of McGraw’s comments.