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We’re still recovering from South by Southwest so we didn’t make it to Omaha this past weekend for Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK.A) annual meeting. But several footnoted readers who were there have pinged us over the past few days about some comments that Warren Buffett made on reading SEC filings. Let’s just say that Sonya, Theo and [...]
In case there was any doubt, it’s now official: WikiLeaks has planted itself firmly in the corporate zeitgeist, in the form of a prominent mention in the 10-K that Ebay (EBAY) filed late on Friday afternoon. Technically, WikiLeaks has made an appearance in the Edgar database before — on Aug. 20, in a conference-call transcript [...]
Are the “oopsies” contagious? We just found signs that Starbucks (SBUX) may be suffering from the same affliction as Raymond James Financial (RJF), which disclosed last week in an amended 10-K that it forgot to disclose a loan for $1 million Canadian dollars that it made to an executive in August, 2008. In the 10-K [...]
Thanksgiving may not be until tomorrow, but we found a heaping helping of turkey attached to the 10-K that Tyson Foods (TSN) filed on Monday. Don Tyson — yes that Don Tyson who five years ago had to settle with the SEC over the improper disclosure of company perks — has a new employment contract [...]
Ongoing litigation is just part of the cost of doing business for a big company like Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST), but the recent 10-K that the company filed on October 18 disclosed that a case involving its stock options practices may soon be resolved. The case, initially filed in 2008 by the Pirelli Armstrong Tire [...]
