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The waiting room and Best of Web…

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

We take a break from our usual trawl through the filings in anticipation of the SEC’s “major announcement” about XBRL (there’s a video link here). Though the press conference, which promised “CEOs, and other representatives of SEC filers, accounting firms, technology firms and investors” was supposed to start at 10 am, it’s clearly [...]

Welcome, Wendy!

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Footnoted.org is pleased to welcome Wendy Fried as a regular contributor to the site. For the past two years, Wendy, a Harvard-trained lawyer, has been blogging at her own site, Proxyland where she dissects employment contracts and the other types of legalese that are commonly found in SEC filings. Or, as Wendy describes it, “In [...]

Acquiring some bad habits and celebrating an anniversary…

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Earlier this month, the Argonaut Group (old ticker: AGII) announced that it had completed its acquisition of PXRE Group (old ticker: PXT). But it wasn’t just the Bermuda-based PXRE’s assets that were acquired. Judging by this employment agreement filed by the new company, Argo Group International Holdings (AGIID for now, but the D will drop [...]

The weakest link…

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

We take a break from our usual trawl through the filings out of necessity because my cracker-jack hosting company can’t seem to figure out why I’m not receiving any email. And, since I get all my SEC filing alerts from 10KWizard via email, this is creating a pretty significant problem. So while Business Week may [...]

Giving up on the Iphone…

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

Last night, I returned my second Iphone to the Apple (AAPL) store and I won’t be buying another one — at least anytime soon. Twelve days ago, after spending all day in line waiting to plunk my $599 down, I was eagerly looking forward to replacing my trusty Treo, which I’ve had for the past [...]