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The new golden parachute: Apple’s iPad…

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

If two data-points make a line, according to the old reporter’s saw, three make a trend. And by that measure, we’ve seen more than enough executives heading out the door with company-issued iPads to make it a trend. So let’s make it official: If you’re shown the door to the executive suite, you can snag [...]

Introducing the corporate time machine…

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

It’s not enough that shareholders underwrite the cost of many executives’ personal flights on the corporate jet, green fees, and country club dues.  It now appears that some companies have invested in time machines. At least, that’s one explanation for some of the curious applications of time that we’ve noticed in recent SEC filings. Take, [...]

Lots of eye candy in Abercrombie PowerPoint…

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Here at footnoted, we spend most of our time reading SEC filings — lots and lots of SEC filings. And while there are certainly plenty of interesting tidbits buried in those filings, most filings tend to be pretty dull affairs visually speaking. So imagine our surprise when we came across this PowerPoint presentation that Abercrombie [...]

Footnoted goes to the dogs!

Friday, April 1st, 2011

  We’re chest deep in proxies today (really, all week) and even with both the brain behind footnoted and the baby working around the clock, Sonya, Theo and me are still not really managing to keep up with all of the filings that are coming in. Rather than outsourcing to India, where Morningstar has a [...]

Charlie Sheen and the SEC filing…

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

April Fool’s Day may be right around the corner, but this is not a joke. Time Warner (TWX) has decided that the little matter of Charlie Sheen suing Warner Bros. for $100 million, which you no doubt have heard about unless you were, um, dead, is material enough to mention in an SEC filing. Here’s [...]