ValueAct Acquired EBay Stake Before Icahn Prompted ExitBloombergActivist investor Jeffrey Ubben, who runs ValueAct Capital Management LLC, said his firm bought a stake in EBay Inc. (EBAY) and then quickly exited when the disclosure of Carl Icahn's investment inflated the stock price. ValueAct bought EBay at about …3 World Champions …
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Daily Mail An eBay dress, homemade food and sale suits from M&S! Thrifty couple reveal …Daily MailSavings included swapping fresh flowers for plastic ones, ordering a dress from China via eBay and picking up suits in the M&S sale. Catering for the 60 guest who attended the reception, which took …
Read More »Booksellers: We Got Shakespeare’s Personal Dictionary on eBay – The Atlantic
The Atlantic Booksellers: We Got Shakespeare's Personal Dictionary on eBayThe AtlanticIt surfaced on eBay, naturally, where the book's 1580 publication date and a seller's reference to "contemporary annotations" caught Koppelman's eye. Suspecting the book was what he now believes it to be, Koppelman paid $4,300 for it in 2008, he …
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Does Royal Mail PLC (LON: RMG) have the right credentials to be classed as a very attractive growth play? More: continued here
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Feds accuse Saridakis of insider trading in eBay-GSI dealPhilly.com (blog)Saridakis' contact, identified in a separate SEC complaint as Jules Gardner, founder of online ad developer PointRoll, bought the stock and collected "an illicit profit of $260,304" when it doubled after the eBay deal was announced. Saridakis is also … More: …
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More women on food stamps than in the work forceWPECHe would like to see food stamps tied to work requirements like other welfare programs, but he doesn't see that happening. "They make people dependent on government for the long term and not transitioning them to work which is what really …
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New Restaurant Planned for former Post Office Cafe on Main StreetPatch.comThe East Greenwich Town Council on Monday will consider raising the cap on liquor licenses from 32 to 33 in response to an application for a liquor license from a restaurant company that hopes to open a new eatery in …
Read More »READER SUBMITTED: Citizen Advocacy Results In Improved Access To Post … – Hartford Courant
READER SUBMITTED: Citizen Advocacy Results In Improved Access To Post…Hartford CourantCitizens Coalition for Equal Access (CC=A), a grassroots organization that advocates for accessible entry to public buildings, will celebrate its latest victory on May 6 at 1:30 p.m. at the U.S. Post Office, 102 LaSalle Road, West Hartford. In response …
Read More »Icahn says eBay investors lost $4bn on Skype
The activist investor Carl Icahn has stepped up his attack on eBay, claiming the company’s chief executive, John Donahoe, oversaw a premature sale of Skype at a price that resulted in shareholders losing more than $4bn (£2.4bn). More: continued here
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