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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Mark Spangler, Seattle Investor, Accused of Defrauding Customers and Losing $46 Million of Their Money

    Mark Spangler describes his investment firm, The Spangler Group, as an "environment of excellence, ethics and innovation." The "innovation" part may be true, to a point. But the "excellence" and "ethics" part: not so much, according to the FBI.

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Alaska Air CEO Bill Ayer Said to Be Under Investigation By SEC For Insider Trading

    ​Bloomberg reports that the head of a famously God-fearing airline is getting the Martha Stewart treatment by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Alaska Air CEO Bill Ayer sat on the board of Puget Energy in 2008, the same year one of Alaska's biggest investors, the NY-based hedge fund Dona ... More >>

  • Film

    September 22, 2010

    Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps: Gordon Gekko Repents--or Does He?

    ​Bloomberg reports that the head of a famously God-fearing airline is getting the Martha Stewart treatment by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Alaska Air CEO Bill Ayer sat on the board of Puget Energy in 2008, the same year one of Alaska's biggest investors, the NY-based hedge fund Dona ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    CORRECTED Classmates.com Finally Surrenders to Facebook, Announces Revamped Website

    ​Update: United Online CEO Mark Goldston contacted SW over errors in this story. It has been corrected and updated, see below. This week, United Online, Classmates.com's parent company, announced that it will be getting out of the social networking game since apparently people don't want to p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Classmates.com Rakes It In With "Un-American" Internet Marketing Tactic, Charges Senate Committee

    And make sure to check your credit card after you do.​Bellevue-based Intelius isn't the only company raking it in from the dubious tactic known as "post-transaction marketing." A U.S. Senate committee report released in advance of a hearing held yesterday on "aggressive" Internet practices sin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    A U.S. Senate Committee is the Next to Shine a Spotlight on Naveen Jain's Intelius

    Intelius founder and self-proclaimed Internet wizard Naveen Jain​Intelius is facing more scrutiny. Next Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation plans to hold a full committee hearing on "aggressive sales tactics on the Internet." The kind of dodgy tactics u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Internet Wizard Loses His Magic: Intelius Hit with Two Class Action Suits

    Crystal BaalWhy can't I wave my wand and make it go away?​Given the sleazy marketing practices of Bellevue-based Intelius over the past couple years, and the hundreds of complaints lodged with state Attorney General Rob McKenna and the Better Business Bureau, the lack of consumer lawsuits agai ... More >>

  • News

    March 18, 2009

    Intelius and the Dubious Art of “Post-Transaction Marketing”

    A checkered success during the dot-com bubble, Naveen Jain has come charging back with a new venture—and the complaints are rolling in.

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2009

    SF Chronicle's Lesson for Frank Blethen?

    As we mentioned earlier, the Hearst-owned San Francisco Chronicle recently made the stunning announcement that it might close that paper--the dominant daily in the Bay Area--as it's expected to do with the P-I. Now that looks more like a hard-line bargaining tactic with the unions. The Chronicle its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    How Much Is Seattle Times Co. Worth?

    Absolutely nothing, says McClatchy in its 2008 SEC filing. Nothing as in "zero dollars" nothing. Reports the P-I: "In 2006, McClatchy valued its Times investment (the chain owns 49.5 percent of Seattle Times Company) at $102.2 million. At the end of 2007, the value had fallen to $19.3 million." Gra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    Feds Take On WaMu

    Absolutely nothing, says McClatchy in its 2008 SEC filing. Nothing as in "zero dollars" nothing. Reports the P-I: "In 2006, McClatchy valued its Times investment (the chain owns 49.5 percent of Seattle Times Company) at $102.2 million. At the end of 2007, the value had fallen to $19.3 million." Gra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    More Bad News From/On Fairview

    Absolutely nothing, says McClatchy in its 2008 SEC filing. Nothing as in "zero dollars" nothing. Reports the P-I: "In 2006, McClatchy valued its Times investment (the chain owns 49.5 percent of Seattle Times Company) at $102.2 million. At the end of 2007, the value had fallen to $19.3 million." Gra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2008

    Costco: What Recession?

    Absolutely nothing, says McClatchy in its 2008 SEC filing. Nothing as in "zero dollars" nothing. Reports the P-I: "In 2006, McClatchy valued its Times investment (the chain owns 49.5 percent of Seattle Times Company) at $102.2 million. At the end of 2007, the value had fallen to $19.3 million." Gra ... More >>

  • News

    February 6, 2008

    The Cell Sell: There Will Be Blood

    Efforts to create a cell phone directory hits snags in Olympia.

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2008

    Intelius Yanks Cell Directory

    Efforts to create a cell phone directory hits snags in Olympia.

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2007

    WaMu Layoffs With A Side of Lawsuit

    Efforts to create a cell phone directory hits snags in Olympia.

  • News

    September 13, 2006

    Big Game Hunters

    Breaking into Washington's Native American gaming gold rush can be a wild west circus. Just ask the Snoqualmie Tribe.

  • News

    August 23, 2006

    Drinking & Reading

    The Blue Moon saves itself; and Bill Gates loves newsprint.

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2006

    Bill Gates, Newspaper Guy

    The Blue Moon saves itself; and Bill Gates loves newsprint.

  • News

    October 5, 2005

    Harriet Miers and MS-DOS

    The Supreme Court nominee helped defend Microsoft against consumer lawsuits.

  • News

    June 8, 2005

    787 Hiring Outsourced

    A foreign-owned firm gets a state contract.

  • News

    April 21, 2004

    Plane Pain

    Boeing's ethical challenges aren't a problem for its new business partner, the state. At least not yet.

  • News

    March 24, 2004

    Disinterest in Conflict

    The AG's office says it was never asked to vet the governor's use of a Boeing consultant in the bid to win Boeing's favor.

  • News

    March 17, 2004

    The State's Two-Timing Consultant

    Taxpayers paid Deloitte Consulting $715,000 to help woo Boeing—which just happens to be a $5 million Deloitte client.

  • News

    February 11, 2004

    Election Pros Are Cons

    Two felons have been involved in printing and processing ballots for King County—one of them a convicted embezzler. A voter activist calls this a security breach.

  • News

    August 13, 2003

    Strippergate, Politics, and the Law

    Two felons have been involved in printing and processing ballots for King County—one of them a convicted embezzler. A voter activist calls this a security breach.

  • News

    April 30, 2003

    Starbucks: Just Getting Started

    Seattles other big monopoly is swallowing the competition on its way to grinding out greater global dominance.

  • News

    December 4, 2002

    NEGATIVE NUMBERS AT CHANNEL 9

    Seattle's fiscally challenged public-television station has a new investor: an offshore bank.

  • News

    July 24, 2002

    Capitalism's Cronies

    Seattle's fiscally challenged public-television station has a new investor: an offshore bank.

  • News

    June 5, 2002

    It's raining shoes

    Seattle's fiscally challenged public-television station has a new investor: an offshore bank.

  • News

    December 13, 2000

    Caught in the downdraft

    For late arrivals to the dot-com party, there was barely enough time to lose everything they had.

  • News

    August 30, 2000

    Toxic harvest

    In Georgetown, hazardous chemicals are a matter of heaven and earth.

  • Diversions

    July 12, 2000

    Kozmo.com identifies the crooks in its corporate ranks.

    In Georgetown, hazardous chemicals are a matter of heaven and earth.

  • News

    April 12, 2000

    Is Seattle going to hell?

    The exclusive Seattle Weekly interview with Satan.

  • Music

    January 5, 2000

    Ch-ch-changes

    ARO.space gets new owners; high-tech company Encoding.com gets a new name.

  • News

    January 6, 1999

    Microfraud?

    A Microsoft executive accuses the company of cooking its books.

  • News

    June 17, 1998

    Boeing

    Business the island way

  • News

    April 1, 1998

    Milken the system

    Greed is still good to Michael Milken, whose small check to us may be in the mail.

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