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Steve Jobs, Apple and Fair Disclosure

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AppleHow much inform­a­tion should com­pan­ies be expec­ted to make pub­lic on issues like — say — their CEO’s health? Indi­vidual exchanges have their own rules about disclosure.

For example, the NASDAQ says its com­pan­ies: “shall make prompt dis­clos­ure to the pub­lic through any Reg­u­la­tion FD com­pli­ant method (or com­bin­a­tion of meth­ods) of dis­clos­ure of any mater­ial inform­a­tion that would reas­on­ably be expec­ted to affect the value of its secur­it­ies or influ­ence investors’ decisions.” Con­tinue read­ing →

The next Len Downie: A Source familiar with his own thinking?

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I’m not even famil­iar with my own think­ing, so I loved this bit of tor­tured sourcing about pos­sible suc­cessors to Len Downie at the Wash­ing­ton Post:

A source famil­iar with [Mar­cus] Brauchli’s think­ing says he is eager to return to edit­ing a news­pa­per, two months after being pres­sured into resign­ing from the [Wall Street] Journal, while another source, who has spoken to [Jon] Meacham about the Post job, says the New­s­week editor, hav­ing recently presided over his own pain­ful round of staff cuts, is less than enthu­si­astic about the pro­spect of a job where more such downs­iz­ing would almost cer­tainly be required.