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Securities Fraud News
Securities Fraud: Bing News- Investors found Shkreli 'weird,' but they 'recognized genius' his lawyer says July 27, 2017Prosecutors in closing arguments Thursday at Shkreli's securities fraud trial said it was all a brazen con. The defense countered that no one should feel sorry for the alleged victims because they were high-rollers who ended up doubling or tripling their ...
- Shkreli Told ‘Lies Upon Lies,’ Prosecutors Say In Closing Statements In Securities Fraud Trial July 27, 2017Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager and pharmaceutical executive charged with securities fraud, told “lies upon lies,” prosecutors told a Brooklyn jury on Thursday. He lied about the size of his hedge funds, whether they had an auditor and ...
- Martin Shkreli smirks, pulls faces during closing arguments by prosecutor at his securities fraud trial July 27, 2017Martin Shkreli's antics became more animated the longer the closing argument went on. His lawyers appeared to be doing their best to ignore his pointed facial reactions. A prosecutor took more than four hours to sum up the evidence against Shkreli.
- Texas AG's Securities Fraud Trial Gets December Start Date July 27, 2017Law360, Houston (July 27, 2017, 7:41 PM EDT) -- Jury selection will begin in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's felony securities fraud trial on Dec. 1 with testimony slated to begin Dec. 11, the parties agreed following a hearing attended by Paxton on ...
Securities Fraud: Google News- Feds Call Shkreli A Liar As Defense Denies Any Fraud July 28, 2017Feds Call Shkreli A Liar As Defense Denies Any Fraud ... Thursday in the government's securities fraud case against the controversial “pharma bro,” ...
- Sports Bettor Billy Walters Gets Five Years for Securities Fraud July 28, 2017Celebrated sports bettor Billy Walters was sentenced to five years in prison by a federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday, having been found guilty in ...
- Contrasting Views of Investors Dominate Closings in Shkreli Trial July 27, 2017Lawyers making closing arguments in the securities fraud trial of ex-pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli on Thursday painted contrasting portraits ...
- Texas attorney general now facing December trial date July 27, 2017A new trial date of Dec. 11 is set for Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to face felony securities fraud charges. It's the third time a trial ...
Stock Market News
Stock Market News - Forbes- South China Sea: Vietnam And India Should Follow Duterte's Wisdom July 28, 2017Vietnam and India need to learn from President Duterte’s wisdom. They should ask Beijing before they make any drilling plans in China’s “own sea,” really.
- Stocks Are Still The Best Way To Reach Your Financial Goals July 27, 2017If you are learning to invest, watching a stock's price change every day can take some getting used to. It is not obvious why stocks whose daily price fluctuations are impossible to predict or to explain are better investments than money market funds and bank accounts.
- Coca-Cola's Revenue Declines, But Core Business Remains Solid July 27, 2017The Coca-Cola Company posted its second quarter earnings on July 26, reporting a 16% fall in revenues, hit by headwinds of 17% from the refranchising of its bottling operations, and a 2% impact from foreign currency.
- Key Takeaways From Ford's Second Quarter July 27, 2017Ford announced its Q2 2017 results on July 26, and the company beat analysts’ expectations for both EPS (earnings per share) and revenues.
WSJ.com - Market News- The Bull Market's Growth Problem July 28, 2017Under the hood of the stock market rally, signs the 8-year bull market may be nearing its end.
- Investors Don't Believe in Twitter's Turnaround July 27, 2017Twitter has found a way to moderate its revenue declines, but it told investors not to get too excited about it.
- AstraZeneca Shocker Reminds Investors Miracle Drugs Are No Remedy for Risk July 27, 2017Chasing exciting new developments in medicine can be a very expensive endeavor. Such is the takeaway from AstraZeneca’s announcement that a hotly anticipated clinical trial didn’t meet expectations.
- Nestlé's Slow Growth Plays Into Dan Loeb's Hands July 27, 2017The activist investor is agitating for higher margins at the world’s largest food company. Disappointing growth lends weight to his arguments.
- Investors found Shkreli 'weird,' but they 'recognized genius' his lawyer says July 27, 2017
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Startup News and Business News
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Startup News
Startup News: Google News- Indonesian Travel Startup Valued at $2 Billion After Expedia Deal July 28, 2017Expedia said it was contributing $350 million to Traveloka's financing round, a major investment into a five-year-old startup backed by China's JD.com ...
- Mattress startup Purple merges with NY shell company in $1.1 billion deal July 28, 2017Purple, a Utah-based mattress startup announced today it will merge with Global Partner Acquisition Corp (GPAC) in a deal that would value the ...
- Fremont: City takes another step to create startup hub in Warm Springs July 28, 2017“We know we have a very robust startup environment in Fremont, but kind of lack that physical infrastructure to really draw them out of the woodwork,” ...
- CT: Sports medicine startup making the leap from lab to stadium July 28, 2017Springbok's analytics platform compares the size of each muscle to the average for their overall body size. Muscles that are smaller than average are ...
Startup News: TechCrunch- Meg Whitman says she’s not going to Uber July 28, 2017Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman wants everyone to know that’s not going to Uber. Bloomberg and Recode had reported that she was on the short list for the CEO spot, but she took to Twitter to make it clear that it’s not happening. In a three-part tweet, she concluded that the “rumors” have “become a distraction,” so she wants everyone to know… Rea […]
- Mattress startup Purple merges with NY shell company in $1.1 billion deal July 28, 2017Purple, a Utah-based mattress startup announced today it will merge with Global Partner Acquisition Corp (GPAC) in a deal that would value the company at $1.1 billion. Purple was already well on its way to that valuation when we got to take a sneak peek at operations at the company’s headquarters in the small town of Alpine, Utah and its giant factory an ho […]
- Dropbox is reportedly inching closer to a potential IPO July 27, 2017Dropbox may be taking another step in its very slow shuffle toward an IPO, and is now working with Goldman Sachs to prepare documents that could be filed as soon as this year, according to a report by Bloomberg. The company is expected to hire Goldman Sachs as the lead advisor of the IPO process, according to the report. Read More
- Timekettle’s WT2 real-time translation earpieces enable ordinary conversation across language barriers July 27, 2017At TechCrunch’s event in Shenzhen last month, we had a chance to test out the WT2, a clever and ambitious device from startup TimeKettle. It’s a pair of wireless earpieces; each person in a multilingual conversation wears one, and they translate what’s said into the language spoken by each participant. Essentially it’s a Babel fish, though admittedly a rough […]
Startup News: OnStartups- Secret To SaaS Success: Recognize That You're Not Selling Software March 7, 2017I've been working in the software industry for over 25 years. Pretty much my entire professional career (if you don't count that stint as a night clerk at Red Roof Inn).
- Why This New Chatbot Is More Likely To Get You Promoted Than Fired July 14, 2016Confession: For the past several months I've been furiously coding away on a new project as part of HubSpot Labs. It's called GrowthBot. It's a chatbot for marketing and sales people -- and anyone looking to grow a company (like startup folks).
- Insightful Study of 386 SaaS Startup Pricing Pages March 21, 2016Late last year, I combed through the Montclare SaaS 250 — a directory of the biggest SaaS companies in the world — to find common trends in what I thought would be a significant dataset. As it turned out, 80% of the 250 biggest SaaS companies didn’t have a pricing page at all.
- 10 Questions I Hope I Don't Get Asked During My Product Hunt AMA February 22, 2016I'm doing an "Ask Me Anything' (AMA) session on Product Hunt tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb 23rd, 2016 at 10 am PST, 1pm EST).
Startup News: The Economist- Not the enemy: The advantages of public markets for unicorns and their investors May 25, 2017Print section Print Rubric: Startups can stay private for longer. That doesn’t mean they should Print Headline: Not the enemy Print Fly Title: Tech unicorns UK Only Article: standard article Issue: How to improve the health of the ocean Fly Title: Not the enemy THE public markets in America are much less crowded than they […]
- Placing trades: A British firm plans a secondary market for crowd-funded shares May 17, 2017Print section Print Rubric: An attempt to bring liquidity into a new market Print Headline: Placing trades Print Fly Title: Crowd-funding startups UK Only Article: standard article Issue: Why Israel needs a Palestinian state Fly Title: Placing trades Main image: 20170520_fnd001.jpg EVERYONE would like a piece of the […]
- Silicon Valley North: How America’s two tech hubs are converging May 11, 2017Print section Print Rubric: Two of America’s most inventive regions are growing closer Print Headline: Silicon Valley North Print Fly Title: A tale of two tech hubs UK Only Article: standard article Issue: The policy designed to make America great again Fly Title: Silicon Valley North Location: SEATTLE Main image: […]
- Women in technology: Silicon Valley’s sexism problem April 12, 2017Print section Print Rubric: Venture capitalists play an outsize role in technology’s sexism problem Print Headline: Silicon pally Print Fly Title: Startups UK Only Article: standard article Issue: As Turkey votes on a new constitution, it is sliding into dictatorship Fly Title: Women in technology Main image: 2017041 […]
Startup News: StartUp Beat- Smallpdf: Big things come in small packages thanks to this startup with 10M monthly users July 27, 2017Smallpdf is an online service which allows users to drag a file into their compression tool, reducing a ... Click the link or visit www.startupbeat.com for the full story!
- Millions of Americans Still Don’t Have Access to Broadband Internet: BroadbandNow July 26, 2017Broadband access in the US has come under both scrutiny and criticism recently with a lack of competition ... Click the link or visit www.startupbeat.com for the full story!
- Embark turns the dream of remote working into a fully comprehensive reality July 24, 2017Founded by three world travelers who know how to balance work and life while on the road, Embark ... Click the link or visit www.startupbeat.com for the full story!
- Why Do Startups Have Such Odd Names? July 23, 2017It’s fair to say the new startup environment has put a much more enjoyable spin on traditional business ... Click the link or visit www.startupbeat.com for the full story!
Business News
Business News - Mashable- The unsexy source of Amazon's profit hot streak July 28, 2017Amazon may swallow up nearly half of every dollar spent on online shopping, but that isn't what's fueled its nine-quarter profitability streak. The real money flows from a northern Virginia server compound from which the company powers Netflix, Slack, Pinterest and thousands of other sites that make up close to half of the web. SEE ALSO: Jeff Bezos […]
- In Silicon Valley, even a place to live is a job perk July 27, 2017Silicon Valley is famous for outlandish job perks. Amenities like foosball tables, nap pods, and office pubs are ostensibly meant to lure tech professionals in a cutthroat hiring market. But the more cynical explanation is that they blur the lines between work and home to numb employees to the long hours demanded of them. Perhaps, then, it only makes sense […]
- Move over Bill Gates, Amazon's Jeff Bezos is now the world's richest man July 27, 2017Amazon's Jeff Bezos has surpassed Bill Gates as the world's richest man. He has an estimated net-worth of over $90 billionAmazon, which started out as an online retailer for books, now sells anything you can possibly imagine. The company also recently purchased Whole Foods Read more...More about Tech, Business, Mashable Video, Real Time Video, and […]
- This startup wants to help you claim every last dollar of financial aid July 27, 2017Applying to college is hard enough without the even trickier minefield of financial aid. The basic government form, the dreaded FAFSA, asks for information high-school students might not know about their families' financial lives. Even parents filling financial aid forms out on their children's behalf can get discouraged and abandon the process par […]
Business News - Reuters- U.S. coal exports soar, in boost to Trump energy agenda, data shows July 28, 2017WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. coal exports have jumped more than 60 percent this year due to soaring demand from Europe and Asia, according to a Reuters review of government data, allowing President Donald Trump's administration to claim that efforts to revive the battered industry are working.
- Digital currency start-ups shrug off SEC warning on fund raising July 28, 2017NEW YORK (Reuters) - Technology companies looking to raise money by issuing digital coins are moving forward with their plans despite a U.S. regulator's decision that their offerings may be subject to tough securities laws.
- Wells Fargo to refund $80 million to customers hit by car loan insurance July 28, 2017(Reuters) - Wells Fargo and Co said it would reimburse about 570,000 customers who may have been charged wrongly due to issues related to auto collateral protection insurance policies.
- Asian shares pull back after U.S. techs knocked off highs July 28, 2017TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stock markets sagged on Friday after U.S. tech shares retreated from recent rallies, though optimism about U.S. corporate earnings and the global economy underpinned overall sentiment.
Business News - Forbes- Amazon's Second Quarter Miss Can't Stop Bezos July 28, 2017Amazon missed second quarter earnings expectations but that won't stop its founder's continued quest for retail dominance.
- Would You Take TV Ads On The Field In MLB To Allow Shorter Commercial Breaks? July 28, 2017Would you take corporate logos placed on the field of play in MLB broadcasts in exchange for shorter commercial breaks? The league is experimenting with it as part of pace of play.
- Starbucks Shutters Teavana: Another Retail Victim or Poor Strategy Execution? July 28, 2017Starbucks announced they are shuttering all 379 Teavana units by the end of next year, ending a diversification strategy that began with some promise but ultimately yielded little other than new brands being incorporated into existing Starbucks locations.
- New York Mets Trade Polarizing, Forever Underrated 1B Lucas Duda to Tampa Bay Rays July 28, 2017Forever polarizing, forever underrated. New York Mets trade first baseman Lucas Duda to the Tampa Bay Rays
Small Business News - Google News- Small Business Service Provider Workshop October 12th July 27, 2017Fairfield Chamber of Commerce will be offering an All-Day Small Business Service Provider Workshop on Thursday, October 12, 2017. According the ...
- Private Advisors raises seventh small business PE fund July 27, 2017Private Advisors LLC has pulled together $350 million in capital commitments for the firm's seventh small company private equity fund, Fund VII.
- Opinion: Make small business tax benefit to credit unions permanent July 27, 2017The B.C. Chamber of Commerce hopes the new B.C. government will show leadership by permanently granting the small business tax benefit to credit ...
- Paducah small business to be recognized by the state July 27, 2017A small business in Paducah is going to be recognized by the state of Kentucky Thursday for its role in the community. Kentucky Secretary of State ...
Entrepreneurs - Forbes- Why Foxconn's $10 Billion 'Inception' Has Us Waiting For 'The Kick' July 28, 2017Foxconn, which manufactures Apple products in China, has announced plans to open a plant in Wisconsin to build LCD screens for Sharp. How far does this go? Will Foxconn's Wisconsin operation re-outsource back to Asia? Globalization is confusing for workers. Cartoon by Ted Rall.
- South China Sea: Vietnam And India Should Follow Duterte's Wisdom July 28, 2017Vietnam and India need to learn from President Duterte’s wisdom. They should ask Beijing before they make any drilling plans in China’s “own sea,” really.
- All Aboard The Shane Train: An Interview With Shane Dawson July 27, 2017I sat down with Shane Dawson, the YouTube star, and we talked about his career, Howard Stern, and what food he’d like to be reincarnated as.
- Why Data-Driven Advertising Will Be The Next Frontier July 27, 2017Interview with Rob Schwartz, CEO of TBWA\Chiat\Day
Business News - Google News- US orders Venezuela embassy families out, crisis deepens - Reuters July 28, 2017ReutersUS orders Venezuela embassy families out, crisis deepensReutersCARACAS (Reuters) - The U.S. government ordered family members of employees at its embassy in Venezuela to leave on Thursday as a political crisis deepened ahead of a controversial vote critics contend will end democracy in the oil-rich country.Death toll in Venezuela unrest soars past 100 […]
- Senate Republicans prepare to pass Obamacare repeal few of them back - Politico July 28, 2017PoliticoSenate Republicans prepare to pass Obamacare repeal few of them backPoliticoSenate Republicans are closing in on passage of their so-called “skinny” Obamacare repeal — thanks to a pledge from Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that it won't become law. The bizarre turn of events — GOP senators were gearing up to vote for a bill few ...Senate Republicans […]
- The Latest: Texas executes prisoner for woman's 2004 killing - Washington Post July 28, 2017Washington PostThe Latest: Texas executes prisoner for woman's 2004 killingWashington PostHUNTSVILLE, Texas — The Latest on the execution scheduled in Texas for a man who killed a San Antonio woman in 2004 (all times local):. 9:30 p.m.. A Texas prisoner has been executed for killing a San Antonio woman after breaking into her apartment ...Texas executes […]
- With New Sanctions, Senate Forces Trump's Hand on Russia - New York Times July 28, 2017New York TimesWith New Sanctions, Senate Forces Trump's Hand on RussiaNew York TimesPresident Trump walks into the East Room of the White House on Thursday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times. The Senate on Thursday approved sweeping sanctions against Russia, forcing President Trump to decide whether to accept a tougher line ...Senate sends Russia san […]
- Indonesian Travel Startup Valued at $2 Billion After Expedia Deal July 28, 2017
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