Monthly Archives: August 2003

Daily News, New York, Guerrilla Investing Column

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 […]

Saban Capital Group Announces Tender Offer For All Outstanding Shares of ProSiebenSat.1; Will Not Convert Preference Shares into Common Shares

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 […]

Saban Capital Group Announces Tender Offer For All Outstanding Shares of ProSiebenSat.1; Will Not Convert Preference Shares into Common Shares

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 […]

Unveil Technologies Expands Board of Advisors; Contact Center Pioneers, Technologists and Thought Leaders Line Up Behind Speech Self Service Innovator

WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 11, 2003–Unveil Technologies, Inc., a provider of enterprise speech self service applications for contact centers, today announced that it has formed a newboard of advisors to help lend guidance and additional expertise to the Company. The new […]

Unveil Technologies Expands Board of Advisors; Contact Center Pioneers, Technologists and Thought Leaders Line Up Behind Speech Self Service Innovator

WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 11, 2003–Unveil Technologies, Inc., a provider of enterprise speech self service applications for contact centers, today announced that it has formed a newboard of advisors to help lend guidance and additional expertise to the Company. The new […]

Venture capital pool getting deeper

Venture capital pool getting deeper Milwaukee firm raises $90 million to back Midwest projects By JASON GERTZEN jgertzen@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Monday, August 11, 2003 Baird Venture Partners, a Milwaukee investment firm, plans to announce today that it has raised $90 […]

After Two Slow Years, Early-Stage New England Venture-Capital Funding Heats Up

Aug. 11–Timing looms large in the mind of every entrepreneur. Ask Larry Genovesi, who’s building a networking company in the aftermath of a networking industry meltdown. Genovesi is president ofAmmasso Inc., one of more than two dozen New England companies […]

Ceristar Enrolls in Investrend Shareholder Empowerment Program

NEW YORK CITY, August 11, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) — Ceristar, Inc. (OTCBB:CTRI) has enrolled in the unique shareholder empowerment platform administered by Investrend Communications, Inc., a provider offinancial intelligence programs. Benchmark analyst coverage will be initiated by Investrend Research analyst Kipley […]

Mayban Venture Capital to invest RM3m in Intecture, BUSINESS TIMES

xfdws MAYBAN-VENTURE sked Emerging Markets Datafile August 11, 2003 BUSINESS TIMES MALAYSIA ENGLISH Mayban Venture Capital to invest RM3m in Intecture, BUSINESS TIMES ASIA WorldSources, Inc. 322 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE 2ND FLOOR, NE WASHINGTON, DC 20002 COPYRIGHT 2003 BY WORLDSOURCES, INC., […]

Mayban Venture Capital to invest RM3m in Intecture

MAYBAN Venture Capital Co Sdn Bhd (MVCC) has signed an agreement to invest RM3 million in Intecture Sdn Bhd, an information technology company developing niche e-Government solutions for the globalconstruction industry. In a statement released in Kuala Lumpur, Intecture said […]

Unfit For Public Consumption

MeVC took the lofty idea of making venture capital public and dragged it through the gutter. It seemed like a brilliant idea at the time. The year was 1999, and Wall Street worshipped all things venture. Newly public tech stocks […]

Street Semantics

When is a shareholder not a shareholder? SmartDisk, a Fort Myers, Fla.-based manufacturer of digital storage products, filed to deregister from Nasdaq in May. No more need to file costly financialreports, proxy statements and the like, even though its stock […]