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<title>SEC approves SoftBank offer to Sprint, Dish chairman attacks proposal</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/02/shareholders.to.vote.on.june.12th.deal.could.close.july.1st/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/sprint-store.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved the proposal from SoftBank to buy out Sprint. While shareholders in the US carrier are expected to discuss and vote on the deal at a meeting next month, the chairman of Dish Network has made comments against the proposal, citing the need for Sprint's network to be upgraded by US teams....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 17:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SEC greenlights investor updates via Twitter, Facebook</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/04/02/new.policy.follows.netflix.ceo.investigation/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1356554055_ScreenShot2012-12-26at1.33.17PM.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission has revised its reporting requirements, enabling companies to use social media to announce information that could be of interest to investors. The Commission cites its investigation into a Facebook post by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, which noted viewership metrics and drove up the company's stock value, as the driving force behind its reconsideration and clar...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 22:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Schmidt to sell $2.5B in Google shares to diversify holdings</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/10/share.sale.repeat.of.145b.transaction.last.year/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/google-ericschmidtweb2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt will be selling two-fifths of his stake in the company in exchange for a significant amount of cash. The former CEO will earn around $2.51 billion from the transaction, the intention for which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission after hours on Friday....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Netflix CEO faces SEC action over Facebook post</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/06/july.facebook.post.could.net.netflix.a.civil.claim/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/netflix-reedhastings.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Netflix and its CEO Reed Hastings have been informed by the Securities and Exchange Commission that they could face a civil claim over a post a statement Hastings posted to Facebook over the summer. This past July, Hastings' Facebook page announced Netflix had surpassed a billion hours of user streaming for the month of June, the first time the service has done so in its history. That post, thoug...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>SEC, regulators to scrutinize Facebook IPO issues</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/23/morgan.stanley.allegedly.warns.investors.on.facebook.revenue.estimates/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn1.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1337633052_zucksml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Facebook initial public offering (IPO) may have been hampered by the bank that brought the social network to Wall Street. The LA Times writes, Morgan Stanley was advising favored clients on reduced revenue estimates for Facebook, leading Wall Street insiders to avoid or drop shares. The US Securities and Exchange Commission will be looking into the Facebook IPO, with the Financial Industrial R...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 10:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Former Yahoo executive settling insider trading charges</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/22/robert.kwok.faces.fines.business.restrictions/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/kwok-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Yahoo's former senior director of business management, Robert W. Kwok, and a former mutual fund manager at Ameriprise Financial have agreed to settle insider trading charges. The Securities and Exchange Commission maintains that Kwok and fund manager Reema D. Shah shared confidential information after a chance meeting in 2008 and continued with the information exchange into 2009. Kwok pled guilty ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 05:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>TiVo sues back vs. Motorola, Time Warner over DVR patents</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/26/tivo.tries.to.hold.off.motorola.suit.with.its.own/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/tivopremiereq-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[TiVo picked an SEC filing to disclose that it had fired back against a 2011 Motorola lawsuit with one of its own.  The new complaint, which also includes Motorola customer Time Warner Cable, accuses the two of violating its key Time Warp patents, including for simultaneous DVR recording and watching, converting TV to digital video, and performing functions on a live stream.  The filing, as it wasn...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>TiVo co-creator Barton leaves CTO role</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/17/tivo.cto.barton.backs.away/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/tivopremiereq-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[TiVo through an SEC filing let slip that its co-founder and CTO Jim Barton was leaving.  He had left Friday, although he would stay on as a consultant on legal and patent issues for $25,000 per month.  No immediate replacement had been named....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google chairman sells up to $1.45b in stock to diversify</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/18/googles.eric.schmidt.sells.large.stock.amount/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1111/google-ericschmidtweb2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google through an SEC filing on Friday revealed that its chairman Eric Schmidt intended to sell a large if minority portion of his stock.  The plan would see him sell as much as 2.4 million of 9.1 million total shares, which at the $604.64 closing price would net slightly over $1.45 billion.  The swap will leave him with about 6.7 million shares, or enough to still represent 2.1 percent of Google'...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Beastie Boys' Mike D pushes AT&amp;T to embrace net neutrality</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/14/sec.allows.issue.to.come.to.shareholder.vote/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/news/1201/att_hq_gallery.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The US Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly ordered AT&amp;T, Verizon and Sprint to allow net neutrality proposals to be included in annual shareholder votes. The move is said to be partially inspired by pressure from shareholder groups such as Trillium Asset Management, which represents high-profile AT&amp;T investors including Mike D of the Beastie Boys and his wife Tamra Davis, director of...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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