SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 6, 2003–Board members who are complacent, over-committed or unwilling to confront difficult issues can create major problems for the technology start-upcompanies they are supposed to be governing, a new white paper asserts. The white paper entitled, “After […]

PetroData has won (pounds) 800,000 venture capital funding to support an international sales push for the technology it has developed to allow oil and gas firms monitor wells remotely. TheAberdeen-based fledgling will use the funding to beef up its sales […]

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Nov. 6–VENTURE CAPITALISTS HOPEFUL OF UPSWING IN BUYING START-UPS: If the buzz about a pickup in corporate spending is true, venture capitalists might soon be able to save their hides. They’ll finally be able to sell some of their start-ups […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Alliance Capital confirmed Thursday that federal regulators intend to take civil action against the money management firm’s mutual fund operations – the same operations New York stateregulators are expected to charge next week over improper fund […]

Nov. 6–U.S. Bank has invested $100,000 in the Northeast Entrepreneur Fund in Virginia to help develop new businesses and jobs in northern Minnesota. This is the first time the Minneapolis-based bank has made an investment in community development funds that […]

Nov. 5–A local company has become entangled in the growing scandal over illegal mutual-fund trading. Kaplan & Co. Securities Inc. in Boca Raton has not been charged, but has received a subpoena from the authorities for information involving allegations against […]

The government is conducting a broad sweep of the mutual fund industry and more charges are likely in the growing scandal in the $7 trillion business, a top enforcement official said Tuesday. Stephen Cutler, head of the Securities and Exchange […]

Nov. 5–The US Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to name one of its top lawyers, Peter H. Bresnan, as interim district administrator of its troubled Boston office, according to severalsecurities lawyers whose work brings them in contact with the […]

Nov. 5–Many of the nation’s 95 million mutual fund investors are both confused and outraged to learn that the some of the funds were cheating them. A few fund shareholders have withdrawn their money; others are thinking about it; and […]

The growing mutual fund scandal hit Prudential Securities Inc. Tuesday as five former brokers and two former Boston branch managers were accused by regulators of improper trading, some of itallegedly hidden behind dummy names and numbers. The regulators painted a […]

Since being repriced at $99.99 just over a month ago, Nintendo’s GameCube video-game console has more than quadrupled its U.S. sales rate and has taken 18 points of market share from its twocompetitors, the company said. It had been selling […]