Barnes &amp; Noble subpoenaed in options probe
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NEW YORK -- Barnes &amp; Noble Inc., the biggest US bookseller, received a subpoena from a US attorney requesting documents on its stock options practices, according to a regulatory filing.
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Japanese electronics firm Toshiba Corp.   said it had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of  Justice about its flash memory business in the key U.S. market.
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The US Justice Department said yesterday it is investigating The New York Times Co.'s plan to buy a 49 percent stake in the free commuter daily Metro Boston, a deal the Boston Herald has challenged as a threat to competition.
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By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 14--Congressional investigators are questioning Hewlett-Packard CEO  Mark Hurd's sale of stock options that gave him $1.37 million in gains, 15  days before the company's controversial boardroom-leak investigation became  public.
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Berkshire Hathaway, the US conglomerate run by Warren Buffett, has been caught up in a widening investigation into alleged misuse of insurance products to manipulate company earnings.
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Federal regulators have subpoenaed Fidelity Investments and several brokerage firms that handle the stock-trading business for the mutual fund giant, seeking information about gifts and expensive perks Fidelity traders may have accepted from the brokerage firms, according to attorneys involved in the case.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has subpoenaed Advanced Micro DevicesÂ as part of an antitrust investigation into the market for graphics processors and graphics cards, AMD said Thursday. AMD recently entered the graphics chip business with itsÂ acquisition of ATI Technologies, which was finalized last month. The DOJ has not made any allegations against AMD or ATI, and AMD intends to cooperate with the investigation, it said. While the DOJ hasn't said specifically what it is investigating, one industry analyst speculated that the case could be about price fixing. The DOJ has alreadyÂ charged a number of chip companiesÂ in the DRAMÂ memory chip market for price fixing, and isÂ investigating severalÂ in the SRAM (Static RAM) chip market. "If the DOJ wanted to, it could just go down every line in the semiconductor industry and find the same issue," said Gartner analyst Richard Gordon. That's because there are a relatively few number of suppliers in the chip industry and an open flow of communication between competitors and customers, who may not define price fixing the same way the DOJ does, he said. The investigations are unlikely to benefit end users, according to Gordon. Historically, prices in the chip industry have gone up and down based on supply and demand and he doubts that such investigations will result in lower pricing. A spokeswoman for AMD in Europe, Hollis Krym, said she did not know if the investigation has a broad scope and includes other graphics chip companies or if it is in the context of the ATI acquisition. U.S. antitrust authorities have already approved AMD's merger with ATI. In the DRAM market, the DOJ has charged Samsung Electronics, Hynix Semiconductor America, Elpida Memory, and Infineon TechnologiesÂ with price fixing and sentenced the companies to pay multi-million dollar fines. Sony, Cypress Semiconductor, and the U.S. arms of Mitsubishi Electric, Samsung Electronics, and Toshiba have all been asked to turn over information to the DOJ for an investigation into SRAM price fixing.
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THREE senior officials running one of Americaâs junior stockmarkets could face civil charges relating to its options market, following a probe by US watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Bear Stearns has received subpoenas from federal investigators looking into its municipal bond business, the company reported in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday.
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Investigation into media leaks from the boardroom
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US financial regulators have requested information from Warren Buffett&#39;s Berkshire Hathaway group as part of a probe into certain insurance products.
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LOS ANGELES - The Department of Justic has launched a probe into the handling of stock options at KB Home, one of the nation's largest homebuilders, although it is not targeting the company directly, KB Home said Friday.
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The subpoenas seek information on nontraditional insurance and transactions that some companies have used to improve the appearance of their financial statements.
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Barnes & Noble Inc. , the world's largest book retailer, on Thursday posted a first-quarter loss, citing charges stemming from the closure of its Internet distribution center and an investigation of its stock option granting practices.
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Expected restatement comes as a result of its internal investigation into stock options practices.
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US prosecutors in New York have subpoenaed two New York City tabloids, the Daily News and New York Post, in a probe of how the rivals report circulation figures to potential advertisers.
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An investigation of the stock option practices of the arts and crafts retailer was transferred to the Justice DepartmentÂs fraud section.