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Many big N.C.-based companies soared over the soared over the past year. But 33 of the 75 showed declines. It's conventional investing wisdom that few individuals can top the long-term [...]

What truly works in the boardroom--and what does not? The best, most insightful education comes from personal experience. Here are life lessons from a seasoned board member, investor, and turnaround specialist, with firsthand learnings on what actually makes the role of a board and its members effective., I started serving on corporate boards over a dozen years ago. Since that time, I have served on seven public company boards and have also served as an independent director [...]

The marijuana industry needs a bigger market. Trulieve funds a way to it. 350 BIGGEST COMPANIES Trulieve Cannabis HEADQUARTERS: Quincy CEO: Kim Rivers EMPLOYEES: 5,800 2023 REVENUE: $1.1 B RANK: [...]

Far away from the boardroom (there are boards involved, but they are more of the variety that happen when players miss shots), gender diversity was on full display in the [...]

Dawn Zier is a bit of a numbers geek. That is not an opinion drawn from her status as chair of the compensation committee of Prestige Consumer Healthcare or the [...]

Warren Buffett is the billionaire boss of one of America's biggest companies. Yet Berkshire Hathaway's website looks like it was built in the 1990s and hasn't been updated since. The [...]

Vera Bradley announced that its board unanimously approved the adoption of a limited duration shareholder rights plan 'to protect shareholders' interests and maximize value for all shareholders.' The company said, [...]

Honeywell announced a plan to spin off its Advanced Materials business into an independent, U.S. publicly traded company, which is targeted to be completed by the end of 2025 or [...]

KOIOS, a company focusing on financial intelligence solutions, reported the completion of its seed funding rounds. The company said it raised $5 million from family offices and private investors in [...]

Arm, a company focusing on building the future of computing, reported that the company has been added to the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index (SOX), as of September 20. 'In our [...]

N2OFF announced key strategic initiatives approved by its board of directors that are intended to increase shareholder value. Key Highlights of the Board's Initiatives Spin-off of cleantech activities: N2OFF is [...]

Envoy Medical commemorates its one-year anniversary trading as a public company. On September 29, 2023, the formerly private Envoy Medical merged with Anzu Special Purpose Acquisition Corp I, creating the [...]

SHARES View from the ASX summit In a modestly sized economy, it’s no surprise that big, dominant companies, such as the miners and banks, continue to dominate the ‘most valuable’ [...]

Arm, a company focusing on building the future of computing, reported that the company has been added to the PHLX Semiconductor Sector Index (SOX), as of September 20. 'In our [...]

SITE Centers Corp. reported that its Board of Directors has set record and distribution dates for the spin-off of its portfolio of convenience retail properties into a separate publicly traded [...]

Byline: Abhay Sachan Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. ('WBD' or the 'Company') (NASDAQ: WBD) today announced that Daniel E. Sanchez will join the Company's Board of Directors (the 'Board'), effective October [...]

Byline: Adgully Bureau Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. announced that Daniel E. Sanchez will join the Company's Board of Directors , effective October 1, 2024, and stand for election by the [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2024 M2 COMMUNICATIONS US-based technology company Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: KTOS) has been awarded a contrace by Thaicom Public company Ltd, a leading satellite and [...]

TLDR: Metaplanet purchased 300 million worth of Bitcoin, increasing holdings to ~400 BTC The company used funds from exercised stock options for the Bitcoin purchase Metaplanet partnered with SBI VC [...]

RingCentral, a global provider of trusted AI communications for businesses of all sizes, reported that Sonalee Parekh has resigned as Chief Financial Officer, effective September 10, to accept a Chief [...]

Last year, the SEC mandated that public companies disclose material cybersecurity incidents. Cybersecurity experts explained the rule, which can be confusing for company executives. This story is part of ' [...]

(https://bitcoinmagazine.com/tags/metaplanet) Metaplanet, a publicly listed Japanese company, (https://metaplanet.jp/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/20240910-Notice-of-Additional-Purchase-of-Bitcoins.pdf) announced it had purchased 38.6 Bitcoin for 300 million yen (approx. $2.2 million), bringing its total Bitcoin holdings to 398.8 BTC. [twitter-tweet]JUST [...]

Fortive Corporation announced its intention to pursue a tax-free spin-off of its Precision Technologies segment ('NewCo'). The planned spin-off will create two independent publicly traded companies, each with focused business [...]

SoftBank-backed glassmaker View filed for bankruptcy in April, 3 years after its SPAC. CEO Rao Mulpuri has stepped down from View which was taken private by two investors. Insiders told [...]

Concord Acquisition Corp II, a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, affiliated with investment firm Atlas Merchant Capital, and Events.com, an event management platform, have entered into a definitive agreement [...]

Medical device company (https://bitcoinmagazine.com/tags/semler-scientific) Semler Scientific announced it (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/semler-scientific-announces-additional-bitcoin-purchases-302230158.html) purchased an additional 83 Bitcoin for $5 million in cash. This latest buy expands Semler's total Bitcoin holdings to 1,012 BTC [...]

Warming temperatures and rising sea levels disrupt operations and damage assets. Companies use private vendors' climate models to predict and mitigate potential losses. However, discrepancies in climate models raise concerns [...]

Brian Niccol is taking over as CEO of Seattle-based Starbucks next month -- from Seattle. He'll work remotely and travel to headquarters, where he'll have a driver. Niccol's total compensation [...]

TLDR MicroStrategy made its first Bitcoin purchase on August 10, 2020, becoming the first public company to use Bitcoin as its main treasury reserve. As of August 2024, MicroStrategy holds [...]

Byline: Marc Lutz In a deal worth $1.5 billion, an Eagle-based company has sold to a New York-based private investment firm. Announced on Aug. 7, PetIQ entered into a definitive [...]

The U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Trade Commission are rolling out a unified effort to encourage consumers of residential solar technology to [...]

'Today's announcements accelerate NCR Voyix's long-term strategic objective to optimize the Company's operations and drive shareholder value. The initial part of this multi-faceted plan was achieved in October 2023 with [...]

Cove Street Capital, on behalf of its clients and related entities, issued a public letter to the shareholders of Motorcar Parts of America, announcing it has voted NO with respect [...]

The company said, 'We are profoundly saddened by the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Sandy Robertson. Sandy served on the Board of Directors of Cassava Sciences since its [...]

With proxy season upon us, company boards should prepare to learn from this season's activist campaigns, use their proxy statements as a communication tool, and assess their own weaknesses. Has your board assessed its vulnerabilities? How well do you really know your shareholder base? Do you have a plan to engage, work with, or counter an activist campaign?, No public company is immune from becoming an activist target. The good news is that in today's environment, being approached does not signal that the company is on the brink [...]

The boards of directors at Florida's public companies are among the nation's most male-dominated. But a network of women who built successful C-suite careers is working to bring new talent [...]

IN BRIEF The explosion in special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) mergers with private companies to form public companies during 2020 and 2021 highlighted a variety of concerns with this new [...]

Standard BioTools announced that Jeffrey Black, CFO, will resign from the company, effective August 31, to accept an opportunity at another public company. Alex Kim, the company's COO and co-founder [...]

Byline: Kevin T. Dugan On July 16, the S&P 500 index, one of the most widely cited benchmarks in American capitalism, reached its highest-ever market value: $47 trillion. Of those [...]

Andrew Left, the famed short-seller known for his research and social-media activity, has been accused of fraud. The DOJ alleges that Left 'knowingly exploited his ability to move stock prices.' [...]

Metaplanet Inc., a Japanese public company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, has (https://contents.xj-storage.jp/xcontents/33500/a71c463e/ad8c/4140/a963/f496cffd70d5/140120240723553120.pdf) announced a partnership with (https://www.hoseki.app/) Hoseki, a global leader in Bitcoin verification solutions, to launch a [...]

The Enfidha deep-water port project has been delayed by around 11 years and a public company, the Port of Enfidha Company, has been set up to complete, develop and maintain [...]

Byline: Arlene Karidis As director at Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL), a M&A and capital markets advisor, James Cocita helps public companies, private equity, and founder-owned firms through one [...]

'As a public company, and one dedicated to developing a drug for Alzheimer's disease, we hold ourselves to the highest standards,' Executive Chairman Rick Barry said. 'While our priority remains [...]

Politan Capital Management an 8.9% shareholder of Masimo responded to the Company's Board of Directors moving Masimo's Annual Meeting of Stockholder previously scheduled for July 25 to September 19. Politan [...]

At its peak in 2005 the London Stock Exchange (LSE) attracted nearly one in five companies that went public globally. In 2023 that share was around 1%. To arrest https://www.economist.com/britain/2024/05/02/questions-grow-over-the-future-of-the-london-stockmarket [...]

BY JUSTIN WORLAND / SENIOR CORRESPONDENT AI chipmaker Nvidia became the most valuable publicly traded company in the U.S. for a moment in June as its market capitalization topped $3.3 [...]