Groupon's S-1 filing for an IPO last month certainly got a lot of ink. Unfortunately, much of it was negative, focused on several controversial parts of the document. So the social buying service conducted a poll to find out the impact.

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Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson have written a book with this title. It is now available on Amazon. I got a preview copy and gave it a read. It's a textbook on venture capital deals. If you plan to do...

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I did a few posts on this topic back in 2004 when I was just starting to get this blogging thing. the original the followup the second followup These posts were inspired by my friend Brad Feld's initial post on...

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Zacks.com submits:

Quest Diagnostics (DGX) is scheduled to release its second quarter fiscal 2011 results on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, before the market opens. The company is expected to earn $1.13 during the quarter on $1,913 million in revenues, according to the Zacks Consensus Estimate.

Previous Quarter Highlights

Quest Diagnostics reported an adjusted EPS of $1.00 during the first quarter of fiscal 2011, a penny above the Zacks Consensus Estimate and the year-ago quarter. Revenues for the quarter increased 1% year over year to $1.8 billion, in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. A 10.5% decline in the number of outstanding shares had a favorable impact on earnings.

The adjusted earnings in the reported quarter excludes the impact of severe weather ($0.07), costs associated with workforce reduction ($0.05) and transactions ($0.02) related to Athena Diagnostics and Celera Corporation. The year-ago period also witnessed the impact of severe weather ($0.05) and restructuring charges

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Some interesting reading material for your afternoon pleasure: ? Wall Street?s Euthanasia of Industry (Michael Hudson) ? Mastering the Hedge Fund Machine (New Yorker) ? BofA Mortgage Settlements Magnify Capital Strain as $50 Billion Gap Looms (Bloomberg) ? The U.S. Is Not Drowning In Debt (Moneyland) see also Wall Street?s Shocking Debt Denial (The Daily [...]

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I love the smell of blog wars in the morning! Acting as Facebook often does to Google, a new site started by former Engadget editor Josh Topolsky just hired away yet another passel of tech journalists from the giant gadgets news and reviews organization. It is Topolsky's second major talent raid since he left his editor-in-chief job there in March, for a new gadget property aimed at unseating Engadget.

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MBA Mondays are back after a one week hiatus. Today we are going to talk about convertible debt. Convertible debt can also be called convertible loans or convertible notes. For the purposes of this post, these three terms will be...

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