Posts Tagged ‘conflicts of interest

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today. Julian Assange To Be Extradited to Sweden WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is to be extradited to Sweden to [...]

The SEC is investigating conflicts of interest in the marketplace for stock in private companies like Twitter and Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reports. Secondary marketplaces like SecondMarket and SharesPost connect people who want to sell stock in private companies (often former employees) with potential buyers. Since private companies are allowed to remain, well, private [...]

Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian investment firm that’s pretty well poured money into Facebook (and also funded Groupon and Zynga), apparently won’t be providing Twitter with any cash in the near future.  A report’s indicated that Kleiner Perkins will instead be the organization leading a new round of funding. "[S]ources close to the situation" provided [...]


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