Killing time with a corporate M&A lawyer over the weekend, the ritual trawl for a subject of mutual interest threw up the topic of Virtual Data Rooms, on which we carried a feature in  the June issue. He wasn’t a big fan, having used them several times.
The point of VDRs is that teams of corporate [...]

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Back in September 2004 when VMWare launched in one of the market’s hottest IPOs since the tech crash, I asked how the company could achieve such high values in a market where Microsoft looked fully capable of launching its own products, especially after it had acquired Softricity.
Last week VMWare dumped Diane Green, the company’s co-founder [...]

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American politicians were hitting the Sunday morning talk shows assuring the public that Freddie and Fannie, the big government-backed mortgage finance companies, were in fine shape. So it didn’t surprise anyone, did it, when the Monday papers announced new measures to provide them stronger backing from the US Treasury. Are news crews staking out the [...]

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When I saw this morning’s news that the feds have dropped their criminal investigation into Apple’s options grants, I clicked onto FakeSteve. Nothing, despite some hilarious advice to Steve on how to get along in prison from friends like Martha Stewart, DeShaundre X, Ted Kacznski when the criminal investigation first broke.
So naturally I wanted to [...]

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