Earlier this week, Applied Materials (AMAT) announced that it was acquiring Semitool (SMTL) in a $364 million all-cash deal. As we’ve footnoted before, Semitool had an interesting side-deal with CEO Ray Thompson that had the company leasing several planes and an aircraft hangar ... Read ... Read more

Yesterday, there was a hearing in New York over the Lehman bankruptcy where Lehman CEO Bryan Marsal, who we’ve written about several times over the past year (see here and here ). The big headline out of yesterday’s hearing was Marsal’s statement that claims against Lehman ... Read more

When we posted on Nov. 12 about the flurry of margin calls at Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX), there was no way to know that the pace of involuntary stock sales would continue. As a historical recap:  Michelle noted in her post last week that company co-founders Peter Nicholas and John Ab ... Read more

This morning, a certain sub-sector of the financial blogosphere is abuzz over the press release that Overstock.com (OSTK) put out late yesterday announcing that they had fired its outside auditor, who had just been hired earlier this year, and were filing an “unreviewed” 10-Q. Here&# ... Read more

Earlier this month, Denbury Resources announced that it planned to buy Encore Acquisition (EAC) in a $4.5 billion deal (according to the press release) or $3.25 billion deal (according to the WSJ ). We’re not sure which number is more accurate, but we do know that the Powerpoint present ... Read more

Yesterday, Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) announced that Gary Parsons, the company’s Chairman and one of the co-founders of XM Radio before the two companies merged last summer, had resigned. One oddity is that the press release was a little vague on when Parsons was leaving (or whether he had alr ... Read more

It’s been a little over a year since we last saw a margin call at Boston Scientific. But on Monday and again on Tuesday, we spotted two Form 4s filed by one of the company’s co-founders, Peter Nicholas, who is also a director. On Nov. 5, Nicholas sold 250,000 shares of company stoc ... Read more

Today is Veteran’s Day, which means that the SEC (and all federal offices) are closed, even though the markets are open. Given that Monday was a big deadline for (mostly) third quarter Qs, it gives us a chance to play catch up and check in on those companies that couldn’t make it to the church o ... Read more

It’s been awhile since we’ve checked in on Vonage (VG), the once high-flying alternative phone company whose ads are still all over the place. But last time we  checked in , they had just hired former Cingular marketing executive Mark Lefar to serve as CEO. Last August, Vonage had agre ... Read more

It’s Q season and footnoted regulars know what that means & lots of crazy things buried deep in the filings. Sonya, Kristen and myself spent much of the weekend in our waders working our way through all sorts of filings. Some of the biggest names — Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) ... Rea ... Read more