Monthly Archives: August 2003

Targacept has won an award for its ability to raise venture capital. The Winston-Salem company, which is developing treatments for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, won an Entrepreneurial Excellence Award on Friday from the Council for Entrepreneurial Development. Targacept, a 1997 […]

ATLANTA, GA — (MARKET WIRE) — 08/12/2003 — Trusted Network Technologies, Inc. (www.trustednetworktech.com), the leader in Identity-based Access Control™ software, announced today thatCEO, Stephen Gant, will speak at Datacenter Ventures, which is scheduled to take place September 16 to 17, […]

Trusted Network Technologies, Inc. (www.trustednetworktech.com), the leader in Identity-based Access Control(TM) software, announced today that CEO, Stephen Gant, will speak at Datacenter Ventures, which is scheduled to take place September 16 to 17, 2003, at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President George W. Bush described former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s departure into exile as “an important step” but gave no hint whether it moved him closer todeploying more U.S. troops to the war-ravaged country. Three U.S. warships […]

Two New Jersey companies, Expand Networks and Audible, celebrated $15 million in venture capital investments last week. Wayne-based Audible received a $6 million investment from Apax Partners, aglobal private equity firm, and Bertelsmann, an international media company. Alan Patricof and […]

Two quarterly surveys of venture capital financing show investments soaring statewide and nationally in the second quarter of 2003. According to the PficewaterhouseCoopers/ Thomson Venture Economics/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree Survey, 11 Connecticut companies received $114 million during the second […]

Aug. 11–Baird Venture Partners, a Milwaukee investment firm, plans to announce Monday that it has raised $90 million to back technology, biotechnology and business services companies in Wisconsinand the Midwest. The Baird fund — along with the Frazier Technology Ventures […]

Aug. 11–GROWTH STOCKS: “JetBlue Airways (JBLU) differentiates itself by flying new aircraft, offering low fares and good service. This strategy has been well received, as indicated by the company’s87.4 percent load factor in the second quarter of 2003 the best […]

Aug. 11–The story slugged WS-WALL-STREET-COL, which was sent by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News for Aug. 11, contained an error in the Logitech section. The end of the fifth sentence should have read “profits fell to $0.12 per share on lower […]

Aug. 11–Now that you have made back some of your losses from the stock market collapse, it might be useful to look at the differences between index funds, mutual funds, and hedge funds. The index fund is the simplest. It’s […]

MUNICH, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 11, 2003–A subsidiary of Saban Capital Group, Inc. (SCG), the private investment firm of media entrepreneur Haim Saban, announced today that consistent withGerman law, it will make a cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of ProSiebenSat.1 […]

MUNICH, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 11, 2003–A subsidiary of Saban Capital Group, Inc. (SCG), the private investment firm of media entrepreneur Haim Saban, announced today that consistent withGerman law, it will make a cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of ProSiebenSat.1 […]