Reality-starring socialiate Kim and Khloe Kardashian joined The Insider on Thursday to dish on everything from Tiger Woods to cheating to their fantasy crushes.
Khloe tells The Insider: “I just gained some love weight and it gives [my husband] Lamar [Odom] something to hold on to. He is really eager to have a baby and [...]
A jump in options call trading for 3Com in the hours leading up to HPs announcement of is $2.7 billion bid for networking company 3Com is prompting SEC regulators to investigate whether there was insider trading, according to Bloomberg. In addition, 3Com faces two shareholder lawsuits from investors who say HPs offer is too low. HP is hoping to adding 3Com to its networking business to better compete with Cisco.
– Federal regulators reportedly are investigating whether there was illegal inside trading connected to Hewlett-Packards $2.7 billion bid for networking company 3Com.
According to a report by Bloomberg, options call trading for 3Com jumped in the hours before HP announced the offer, at one point grow…
The $25 million insider trading scandal that touched such IT heavyweights as AMD, IBM and Intel has now led to charges against six people from Silicon Valley and Wall Street. The case continues to roil both coasts. Federal prosecutors say executives from IBM, Intel and McKinsey Co. gave nonpublic information on such companies as AMD, Sun Microsystems, Google, PolyCom and Akamai to two directors at two hedge funds, Galleon Management and New Castle Funds, which used the information to make their trades. Most of the companies are cooperating with investigators, and some – including Intel, McKinsey and Akamai – reportedly are conducting their own internal probes. Intel also put Rajiv Goel, an executive with its treasury department, on administrative leave after the charges were brought against him and five others. Here, eWEEK offers a look at who is involved with the case.
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Former Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz has been named as an inside tipster to Galleon Group by unnamed sources, according to the Wall Street Journal’s Website.
– Galleon Group is the Wall Street hedge fund
that recently had one of its key members, Raj Rajaratnam, arrested by the Department
of Justice after years of wiretaps revealed that he, hedge fund manager
Danielle Chiesi of New Castle Partners and five other financial and technology
executives inclu…
This story is about as believable as this photoshopped pic, but here goes: Word is Jennifer Aniston recently had a war of words with Angelina Jolie after she drunk-dialed ex-husband Brad Pitt.
The Break-Up actress apparently got sentimental after getting sloshed and wanted to have an intimate chat with her one-time flame.
“When Jen drinks she tends [...]
Robert Moffat, senior vice president in charge of IBM’s hardware business, is one of seven people named by the SEC as part of an insider trading scheme that illegally netted $25 million. Moffat and Intel Treasury executive Rajiv Goel are among those accused of giving insider information on such companies as Google, AMD and Sun Microsystems to two managers at New York-based hedge funds, who allegedly used the information in their trades.
– Robert Moffat, a 31-year IBM veteran who
currently is in charge of the tech vendor’s hardware business, is one of seven
people charged in an insider trading scheme that federal investigators say
generated $25 million in illegal gains.
Moffat was named in a complaint Oct. 16 filed by the Securiti…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged a Texas man with insider trading for reaping $8.64 million of illegal profit related to Dell’s planned acquisition of Perot Systems.
– NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
charged a Texas man with insider trading for reaping $8.64 million of
illegal profit related to Dell Inc’s planned purchase of Perot Systems Corp.
According to a complaint filed on Wednesday with the federal court
in Dallas, Reza S…
The Insider reports that the family of the late Michael Jackson has signed papers for the King of Pop to be buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.
The star-studdard cemetary is already the final resting place of Hollywood legends Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, and Ed McMahon.
MJ’s maternal grandmother was also buried at [...]
Simon Cowell is reportedly desperate to sign Queen of Pop Madonna to guide ‘The X Factor’ contestants as a guest mentor.
He is said to have asked show bosses to allocate some extra cash in their budget to fund a one-off deal with the Material Girl.
“Simon is the most powerful man in TV these days [...]
There seems to be some trouble brewing in the paradise of Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds.
The couple, who tied the knot last September, were reportedly caught in a fight last week as they were about to depart for San Diego’s Comic Con sci-fi convention.
Scarlett, there to discuss her new role as Black Widow in “Iron [...]
Madonna is coaching her former boytoy on how to become a popstar.
Madge reportedly dumped 22-year-old Jesus Luz earlier this summer after being too busy with her Sticky And Sweet World Tour. Nonetheless, the Queen of Pop was has promised the Brazilian model that she wil help him release a single.
Luz himself has said that [...]
Idol….Out? The end of an era could be approaching with whispers out of Hollywood claiming American Idol is on the chopping block.
The National Enquirer claims the most-watched show in America will be just a memory by 2012.
A spy says: “By that times, the show will have been on the air for more than a [...]
DALLAS — A federal judge has dismissed a civil insider trading lawsuit against Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater granted Cuban’s motion Friday. Fitzwater gave the Securities and Exchange Commissi…
Twitter King Ashton Kutcher is recovering from a ruptured eardrum after he was injured during shooting for his new movie Five Killers in Nassau, Bahamas earlier this month.
Ashton was filming scenes for the action comedy with co-star Katherine Heigl when he complained of a severe headache and took a break.
Worried crewmembers rushed Ashton to a [...]
On Wednesday, I reported how Retired Rear Admiral John D. Hutson, the former Judge Advocate General of the US Navy from 1997 to 2000, had…
