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Risk factors in SEC filings often seem like boilerplate that the attorneys throw in to cover every conceivable possibility of things that could go wrong.  One of these days, we wouldn’t be surprised to find a risk factor that says something along the lines of “Our CFO may catch the flu from his Aunt Edna, [...]

Forget about the usual boring office gift exchange where you wind up with a $25 gift certificate to some restaurant you’d never set foot in. The SEC has decided to give AOL (AOL) and, by extension, Google (GOOG) something much more valuable: it’s the gift of silence. Yesterday, five separate Confidential Treatment orders (in SEC [...]

The 8-K that Google (GOOG) filed on Friday evening may not have been the last of the day — that honor belongs to tiny InoLife Technologies (INOL). But it was certainly one of the juicier filings in the Friday night dump. That’s because in the filing, Google disclosed that four of its top executives — [...]