August 21, 2012—On July 2, Brightpoint (CELL) announced it would be bought by Ingram Micro (IM). As far as we can tell, the acquisition makes sense on its face: Brightpoint provides procurement, logistics and other services to the wireless industry, and Ingram ...

August 20, 2012—Last fall's floods in Thailand destroyed lives and property in the Southeast Asian country, but it also hobbled several prominent companies that have manufacturing plants there. And it looks like the impact continues, if a recent filing by Western Digital Corporation ...

August 17, 2012—Yesterday's announcement that the chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (BRCD), Michael Klayko, plans to step down resulted in the company's stock price ticking upwards about 6%, after the news rekindled some oft-bandied speculation that the company ...

August 15, 2012—FedEx Corporation (FDX) made headlines earlier this week after it announced plans to offer voluntary buyouts to an unknown number of employees — one step in a bigger plan to restructure the company's U. S. operations. But the same ...

August 14, 2012—Today's a big day for another filing that we tend to pay less attention to here at footnoted: the 13F. That's because there's a lot of other very competent sites including our friends at both Market Folly and Whale Wisdom ...

August 10, 2012—It turns out there's a lot of money to be made in business cards and marketing brochures -- and some good eating, too. We know this because Vistaprint (VPRT) told investors yesterday, via this 8-K, that executive Katryn Blake ...

August 9, 2012—Footnoted's Red Flag Alerts, including this alert about The Middleby Corporation, are available exclusively to footnoted*Pro subscribers. To subscribe, click here.

August 7, 2012—There's no question that top executives don't retire like the rest of us: See Sam Palmisano's nine-figure retirement package from IBM (IBM), or more recently, the $89,000-a-month "allowance" for former General Electric (GE) Vice Chairman John Krenicki, which Michelle

August 6, 2012—Footnoted's Red Flag Alerts, including this alert about Ariba, Inc., are available exclusively to footnoted*Pro subscribers. To subscribe, click here.

August 6, 2012—Several years ago, The Smoking Gun, which focuses on different types of documents, but was something of a model for footnoted, started delving into the quirky things that celebrities asked for while on the road. We thought about that as ...