A number of new trends are emerging against the backdrop of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)–mandated health insurance exchanges being rolled out. One is the creation of new businesses based on digital technologies that allow individuals to manage and improve their own health, and gives service providers the ability to deliver increased quality and efficiency […]
A recent PBS documentary on the roots of Silicon Valley was really a story about Fairchild Semiconductor and the birth of the microchip industry. However, over the past 10 years, the Valley has continued to transform, becoming dominated by Internet and software companies like Google and Facebook. Venture capital funding has followed suit: during the last […]
Last month, SEC chairman Mary Shapiro told the House Oversight Committee that the commission is reviewing the rules and restrictions surrounding the sale of private company stock. Current restrictions include, among others, a limit of 500 shareholders and the prohibition of general solicitation. The SEC’s increased scrutiny of private company stock sales is the result […]
Forbes, in conjunction with a quantitative analysis firm called Audit Integrity, recently ranked the most trustworthy publicly traded companies in America. Audit Integrity uses a quantitative metric score to assess the risk of a company’s accounting policies and corporate governance practices that they call the Accounting and Governance Risk rating. The assessment uses data from […]
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