Satyam Chief Admits Huge Fraud
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Ramalinga Raju, chairman of Satyam Computer Services, resigned Wednesday after disclosing he had systematically falsified accounts of the giant outsourcing company.
NEW DELHI — Satyam Computer Services, a leading Indian outsourcing company that serves more than a third of the Fortune 500 companies, significantly inflated its earnings and assets for years, the chairman and co-founder said Wednesday, roiling Indian stock markets and throwing the industry into turmoil.
The chairman, Ramalinga Raju, resigned after revealing that he had systematically falsified accounts as the company expanded from a handful of employees into a...
Ten days after escaping a bear hug from Microsoft, Yahoo hasn’t completely won its independence yet. Billionaire financier Carl Icahn is looking at launching a proxy fight against Yahoo’s board, according to a CNBC report. That’s a fight that Microsoft, which dropped its unsolicited bid for Yahoo on May 3, was unwilling to take on.
Icahn reportedly has been accumulating as many as 50 million shares, or 2.5% of Yahoo’s stock, which helps explain why Yahoo’s stock has remained well above its pre-Microsoft bid of about $19 a share. Icahn could nominate a full slate or a “short slate†of three or four directors, which would be a...
Shareholder activism is fairly mainstream when it comes to globalized economies or developed world. But what about India?
Columnist and Author Sucheta Dalal , Consulting Editor, MoneyLIFE feels that proper investor associations and consumer groups are required to empower shareholders.
Nimesh Kampani , Chairman, JM Financial agrees with Dalal and also feels that the present shareholder associations need to be govermed by a certain framework.
Excerpts from an interview with CNBC-TV18's Shereen Bhan :
Q: You write about a lot of this stuff, we have seen shareholder activism being fairly maintstream abroad in international markets in fact the...
Meredith Whitney's dire predictions shook the financial giant to the core and brought death threats. But Wall Street seems to think she got it right
Meredith Whitney probably will not be getting any holiday cards from former Citigroup (C) Chief Executive Chuck Prince. The CIBC World Markets (CM) stock analyst was a leading agitator for the ouster of the embattled leader of the $200 billion bank.
The company, already under fire because of its weak stock price, had run into even more trouble over its exposure to the troubled credit markets (BusinessWeek.com, 10/18/07). Whitney went out on a limb in an Oct. 31 report...
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The shock waves from the collapse of Enron, a Texas-based energy-trading giant, are continuing to be felt by banks and their regulators, the accountancy profession and credit-rating agencies, as well as by politicians who benefited from the company’s past largesse
THE bankruptcy of Enron—the world’s biggest-ever corporate failure—has left no one looking good. Auditors, who successfully fought off tougher regulation last year, will find it harder to do the same now. Rating agencies were left behind by unfolding events. Enron’s long-term bankers are nursing hundreds of millions of dollars of losses after failing to see the gathering storm. And everyone...
Satyam Chief Admits Huge Fraud
Adeel Halim/Bloomberg News
Ramalinga Raju, chairman of Satyam Computer Services, resigned Wednesday after disclosing he had systematically falsified accounts of the giant outsourcing company.
NEW DELHI — Satyam Computer Services, a leading Indian outsourcing company that serves more than a third of the Fortune 500 companies, significantly inflated its earnings and assets for years, the chairman and co-founder said Wednesday, roiling Indian stock markets and throwing the industry into turmoil.
The chairman, Ramalinga Raju, resigned after revealing that he had systematically falsified accounts as the company expanded from a handful of employees into a... 
Meredith Whitney's dire predictions shook the financial giant to the core and brought death threats. But Wall Street seems to think she got it right
Meredith Whitney probably will not be getting any holiday cards from former Citigroup (C) Chief Executive Chuck Prince. The CIBC World Markets (CM) stock analyst was a leading agitator for the ouster of the embattled leader of the $200 billion bank.
The company, already under fire because of its weak stock price, had run into even more trouble over its exposure to the troubled credit markets (BusinessWeek.com, 10/18/07). Whitney went out on a limb in an Oct. 31 report... 
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The shock waves from the collapse of Enron, a Texas-based energy-trading giant, are continuing to be felt by banks and their regulators, the accountancy profession and credit-rating agencies, as well as by politicians who benefited from the company’s past largesse
THE bankruptcy of Enron—the world’s biggest-ever corporate failure—has left no one looking good. Auditors, who successfully fought off tougher regulation last year, will find it harder to do the same now. Rating agencies were left behind by unfolding events. Enron’s long-term bankers are nursing hundreds of millions of dollars of losses after failing to see the gathering storm. And everyone...