Archives: 2007December

For corporate acquirers, the second half of 2007 marked the end of all that pesky interference from private-equity firms. Now they have yet another reason to smile.
An analysis of Thomson Financial’s list of the 10 largest corporate acquisitions of U.S. companies that closed in 2007 shows that, on average, the deals have gotten off […]

If there is one thing I noticed this past year, it is that companies seem to be tripping over themselves more than ever before to claim the mantle of openness. Openness is now a marketing mantra. Facebook kicked things off in May by opening up its social network to outside developers through a […]

The stalwart nature of Harry S. Truman doesn’t extend to everyone. Here, MarketBeat takes a look back at a number of moments where a company or individual decided that the ultimate responsibility for a problem was with, well, someone else.

Morgan Stanley ended up with a $9 billion write-down in the fourth quarter, and on […]

With New Year’s in the offing, the Health Blog figured it was time to consider the hangover.
For such a common malady, the hangover still has a bit of mystery about it. As an M.D. wrote in an NIH publication wrote a few years back, “Despite the prevalence of hangovers … this condition is not well […]

A judge’s ruling on San Francisco’s plan to offer universal health insurance could have implications throughout California and beyond.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White last week struck down a provision in a city ordinance that would have required businesses with at least 20 employees to either offer health insurance or pay a fee to the city […]

It has been 10 months since Deal Journal first launched. In that time, we have written almost 1,500 posts, which have generated more than 11,000 comments. Some comments were insightful, some supportive and some took us to task. (See this post for an example.)
While the prior post highlighted Deal Journal’s most-popular posts, those posts didn’t […]

From TechCrunch UK:
Israeli search technology start-up Hooja has raised $1.5 million from some well known-investors, including Peter Thiel, one of the founders of PayPal, and an early investor in Facebook. Hooja, currently in stealth mode, is said to be developing a technology that enables content providers to access personal and social information about users, and […]

It’s been a superb year, Law Blog readers. Thanks for all your support, tips, suggestions and comments. We thought we’d say goodbye to 2007 with a little year-end quiz touching on some of the highlights (and lowlights) of the year in law. We’ll have the answers on Wednesday. Have a joyous and safe new year. […]

As the auto industry has recently demonstrated, even if an industry clearly possesses the capacity to improve its end product, and at a price that does not put that product immediately out of reach of 95% of its consumers, they’ll fight tooth and nail to oppose any legislation that makes them do it. For […]

Maybe one could make the case that 2006 was a more critical year for cleantech investing. It was, after all, the year that saw venture capital investment in the industry break one billion dollars US. But at that point, it seemed the industry was still on the cusp. Would a 1980s-style turnaround […]