• On January 3rd SecondMarket, a broker-dealer in private-company shares, said it had been asked by the SEC for data about pooled investment funds formed to buy private-company stock precisely the kind of vehicle that Goldman has in mind for would-be Facebook investors.

    ECONOMIST: And will its new financing scheme fall foul of regulators?

  • This might happen when a Shariah-compliant company in a Shariah-compliant mutual fund acquires a forbidden company, the main business of which is in a forbidden industry such as finance or hog farming.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Shariah��s Black Box

  • The question investors must ask themselves is, does this best- in-class company not command a premium?

    FORBES: Cisco Selloff Sets Up Sweet Buy

  • It has been beefing up its original content with in-depth company coverage by its own writers and analysts.

    FORBES: Stock Pickers

  • "We have a golden opportunity to move wealth at no tax cost, " says Mark Nash, a partner in private-company services at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

    WSJ: Family Value: A Big Break for Family Businesses

  • The site also has been beefing up its original content with in-depth company coverage by its own stable of writers and analysts.

    FORBES: Pick Of The Stock

  • Cisco's 42 "distinguished engineers"--the best brains in the company--were told to spend half their time outside the groups they run, looking for novel technologies they could borrow from other products.

    FORBES: What Makes Cisco Run

  • So the news that, last month, a group of American and Russian researchers received a patent for an apomictic maize plant has probably caused a few flutters in seed-company boardrooms.

    ECONOMIST: Genetic engineering

  • Venture for America is a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates to work in a start-up or early stage company in a low-cost city.

    WHITEHOUSE: Venture for America �C Building Businesses

  • India has the second-largest weighting in the small-company fund, just behind Hong Kong, with 25%.

    FORBES: Bad government, good companies

  • Last quarter, MetLife reported a 17% year-on-year increase in operating income from Asia, which drove a 47% increase in company-wide operating income.

    FORBES: MetLife Is Worth $39 On Asian Growth

  • Today, the average return in the United States on investment in company-wide information systems is 81% compared with an average of 6.3% for everything else, say researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.

    ECONOMIST: Wiring corporate Japan

  • She attended Demo Days for Y-Combinator, an investment firm involved in early-stage startups, and eventually invested in the education-technology company Clever, according to people familiar with the matter.

    WSJ: Laurene Powell Jobs, Widow of Steve Jobs, Goes Public to Promote Dream Act

  • After introducing lemonade and fruit-flavored ice tea in distinctive wide-mouth bottles, the company went public in a much-ballyhooed initial public offering in 1992.

    WSJ: Snapple Guy's Overnight Success Took Decades

  • He invested in a cellular-tower company in Nigeria and stocks in the Harare bourse through Imara Securities, a Botswana firm he owns a piece of, but he avoids South Africa in part because of the laws requiring local partners.

    FORBES: Champions of Free Enterprise

  • The phrase "US delete" leaps out at the reader, so consistently does it appear - often in company with Canada - particularly on anything relating to "common but differentiated responsibilities", the phrase that basically means rich and poor countries both have an interest in solving something but have different roles to play.

    BBC: Rio: So much to do, so little time

  • His visit to Egypt was a hastily arranged affair, bolted on to the start of a long-planned commercial tour of Gulf Arab allies and made in the company of a plane-load of British business chiefs, among them the representatives of eight defence and aerospace firms, prompting press headlines at home about Mr Cameron preaching peace in the company of arms-dealers.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • In an email, Biggar said that requiring an opt-in for her company's service would put real-world stores at a disadvantage as they compete with online retailers that track shoppers' behavior from the moment they enter a website.

    WSJ: Schumer: Don't track shoppers without consent

  • In late 2005, national oil companies from both countries joined to purchase stakes in Al-Furat Petroleum Company in Syria.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The battle for India

  • This year LA Fitness also opened its first overseas club - in Spain - which the company said had so far exceeded initial expectations.

    BBC: Muscly performance at LA Fitness

  • That year rapper Pharrell Williams invested a "high six-figure" amount for a 30% equity stake in the company--enough to hire graphic designers to create slick brochures and a new website with color diagrams on Bionic's manufacturing process.

    FORBES: Entrepreneurs

  • Crestwood, the Houston-based company engaged in gathering and processing natural gas, announced an all-stock merger with Inergy, the Kansas City, Missouri-based company engaged in storage and transportation of natural gas earlier this month.

    FORBES: Energy MLPs acquire so they can borrow cheaply... and do more deals

  • In June this year, the Mittal Steel Company, which began life as a small family-run company in the north of India, successfully took over Luxembourg-based rival Arcelor to create the world's biggest steel manufacturer.

    CNN: India reaps benefits of economic boom

  • If big growth is out of reach, do not destroy the value in a healthy mid-size company in a futile attempt to reach for the moon.

    FORBES: How Impossible Dreams Can Destroy Value In Mid-Sized Firms

  • The jury was also told that throughout the day there had been a number of witnesses who had seen Mr Bayne, increasingly intoxicated and aggressive, in Zoe's company - in spite of his claims that he had been home alone all day.

    BBC: Zoe murder accused Robert Bayne 'guilty of atrocity'

  • The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press both reported Friday that GM is moving the engineers -- who have been working on the fuel-cell technology in the company's advanced development laboratories division -- to the company's core production engineering division, which designs vehicles to be brought into production.

    CNN: GM takes step toward fuel-cell car

  • But at some point -- maybe in November -- the private company that helped complete the project may begin sales, but only in India for now.

    CNN: Announcing the $49 computer tablet

  • Working with a group of young digital filmmakers in company-owned production studios, Gregory finds it easier to kick around ideas that would never fly at a bigger company.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Whether the participants underwent a flood of weight changes and were then compared back to their former selves in different states, the participants are cross-examined among other employees in the same company, the participants are cross-examined among employees in neighboring states, etc.

    FORBES: Why Being Thin Can Actually Translate Into A Bigger Paycheck For Women

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