July 3, 2007—We're quite sure that all of those Congressmen who were whining last week during the House Financial Services hearing with the SEC about America losing its competitive edge when it came to financial markets, aren't checking IPO Home on a regular basis. Yesterday, eight companies, including a ...

June 18, 2007—Late Friday, TiVo (TIVO), which apparently doesn't like its name to be used as a verb (we have an Archos in our house) filed this revised proxy. And while the revision itself wasn't all that titillating -- the only real change was that Jeffrey Hinson is ...

June 4, 2007—When it comes to risk factors, most companies present a laundry list that runs the gamut from garden variety lawsuits to the sky falling. But the 10-K filed by Stanley Inc. (SXE) late Friday included something that, given the news that 14 more U.S. soldiers had been ...

May 23, 2007—Two weeks ago, ever since the NY Times reported on how some doctors were a bit too free with anemia drugs produced by Amgen (AMGN) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), the two stocks have fallen, although Amgen's fall has been steeper. Now, it turns out that the story has ...

April 30, 2007—I was expecting Friday night's crop of filings to be pretty good, given the proxy deadline. But based on the stuff I've come across so far -- and I'm still making my way through lots of filings -- it was even better than expected. Some companies, including Brightpoint (CELL) opted ...

April 12, 2007—Judging by the preliminary proxy that Mastercard (MA) filed on Tuesday, 2006 must have been a good year for home security firms in suburban NYC, where the company is based. That's because according to the proxy, several Mastercard executives got what seems to be -- judging by ...

February 8, 2007—Back in the early 1990s, when I was a young reporter on Florida's west coast, I covered a bank called Key Florida that talked a good game and dressed up its numbers real pretty, but was essentially a house of cards that eventually folded under the weight of too ...

January 25, 2007—One of the few nice things about a long flight -- like the one I took home from Paris on Tuesday -- is that you get lots of uninterrupted time to read. No phone calls. No email. Nothing else to do, but sit and periodically check the map to see exactly ...

December 12, 2006—Today was supposed to be the day that Jeff Skilling got outfitted with an orange jumpsuit (or whatever they wear in federal prisons these days) to begin his 24-year term for his role in crashing Enron into the ground. But as the WSJ reported late yesterday, that's been delayed while ...

October 16, 2006—As many people know, Sarbanes Oxley prohibited making loans to top executives. But that doesn't mean that the loans -- in one form or another -- have disappeared entirely from the filings. Take Service Acquisition Corp. International (SVI), which disclosed $1.72 million in loan forgiveness and tax gross-up for CEO Paul ...