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Spam, spam, risk factors and spam at Google…

Monday, February 14th, 2011

The New York Times had a long but interesting piece on Friday on how J.C. Penney (JCP) has apparently been gaming Google’s search results. And, wouldn’t you know it, Google (GOOG) tweaked the language it used to describe that very problem in the risk factors in the 10-K it filed the same day. It came [...]

Fast food goes new media…

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Until this week, it seemed fairly safe to suppose that an impenetrable divide existed between the world of SEC filings and the technophiles who have already downloaded MashDeck. And then we read the exhibit to this 8-K, which included one of the first references we’ve seen in SEC filings to the the popular social media [...]

On Rupert Murdoch in San Francisco (and in my hotel room)…

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Last night, I stopped by the big Web 2.0 conference that’s going on here in San Francisco, but missed last night’s main event: Rupert Murdoch speaking. If you also missed it, you can read all about it online, including this Guardian article (and if that doesn’t suit you, Google news search lists over 239 variations [...]

Barnes and Noble still doesn’t get it…

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

While footnoted.org is focused on the things that companies bury in their routine SEC filings, every now and then it seems worth taking a short detour to talk about a personal experience with one of the companies that happens to file and my experience on Saturday night at a local Barnes & Noble (BKS) seems [...]