Filed under: Company News , People The unlikely marriage of caffeine and meat snack got its start in Utah, in the winter of 2005. Tech entrepreneurs and college friends Brian Levin and Matt Keiser were on a skiing trip at Snowbird, and after a day on the slopes, they partied hard and fueled up on energy-drink cocktails late into the evening. The next morning, as they loaded up their gear to hit the snow, the duo noticed that a bottle of caffeinated energy drink had spilled on some peppered beef jerky snacks. After a few tasteless jokes, Keiser and Levin decided to pack the jerkies anyway for edibles on the slopes. “I took a bite and thought the taste was good — actually better than the regular jerky taste. It was also more tender than jerky usually is. So some bells went off, and we thought: ‘We have the world’s first performance-enhancing meat snack,’” recalls Levin. Continue reading Perky Jerky: This caffeine and meat snack has a dash of charitable cause Perky Jerky: This caffeine and meat snack has a dash of charitable cause originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: People It wasn’t enough for felonious Ponzi patriarch Bernard Madoff to bilk his clients of over $60 billion in assets. Now, the jailbird stock swindler is trash-talking about the very federal authorities who should have caught him and stopped the largest financial scam in history. In a jailhouse interview released late Friday by H. David Kotz, the Securities & Exchange Commission’s inspector-general, Madoff disses SEC investigators as bumbling bureaucrats and says he was “astonished” that no one caught him earlier. Continue reading Bernie Madoff ‘astonished’ Feds flunked ‘accounting 101′ and missed his fraud Bernie Madoff ‘astonished’ Feds flunked ‘accounting 101′ and missed his fraud originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: Company News , Earnings The onset of H1N1 flu season and the coming health-care reforms are putting health insurers — and their latest quarterly reports — in the spotlight. With the exception of Aetna ( AET ), most insurers’ shares have dropped as investors worry about potential fallout of reform and from rising swine flue costs and insurance for people who’ve lost their jobs. Laid-off workers who become insured under COBRA plans generally cost companies more than employees in regular group plans. Continue reading Health insurer earnings are suffering from swine flu and coming reforms Health insurer earnings are suffering from swine flu and coming reforms originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: Company News , Investing I like what the Securities & Exchange Commission is doing this days. It cracked down on insider trading at Galleon Holdings , the former $3.7 billion hedge fund whose boss, Raj Rajaratnam, is out on $100 million bail. But the SEC hasn’t stopped there: Yesterday it announced an indictment against a former chief financial officer of ValueAct Capital. You may recall that several years ago, ValueAct Capital cleverly bought a huge chunk of Martha Stewart Omnimedia ( MSO ) after Stewart was indicted for insider trading in the stock of biotech company Imclone in June, 2003 . Stewart ultimately went to jail. ValueAct ended up owning 22 percent of MSO and sold most of its stake in 2005 after the stock rebounded, picking up a nice profit in the process. Continue reading The SEC moves against another alleged insider-trading ring The SEC moves against another alleged insider-trading ring originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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(TrendHunter.com) This October, GreenBiz.com launched the Green Confidence Index, partnering with a leading market research firm, Earthsense, and a leading polling firm, Survey Sampling International. The Green Confidence…

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(TrendHunter.com) Harmless-Dissolve is a truly compostable packaging that dissolves in warm water. UK-based Cyberpac makes the clear, compostable bag, which can be printed with biodegradable inks and fitted with a biodegradable…

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Filed under: Company News , Costco Wholesale Corp. I’ve always been a big fan of the phrase “keep it simple, stupid,” which apparently was created by a person who designed spy planes for a living. But keeping it simple is a lot easier to say than do when it comes to Securities & Exchange Commission filings. I know, because I’ve had to read plenty of them. In a nutshell, 10Ks, 10Qs, and proxy statements are usually anything but simple. Instead, they’re often dozens (or even hundreds) of pages written in some variation of English that I like to think of as accounting-speak mixed with lawyer-speak. So you can imagine my surprise — no sheer delight — when I recently came across the 10K filed by Costco ( COST ), the giant warehouse club. Continue reading Costco’s corporate documents are models of simplicity Costco’s corporate documents are models of simplicity originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: Economy When Mia Hubbard of Greensboro, North Carolina, enters Wake Forest University next fall, she’ll receive a little financial boost from the nonprofit support group she joined in seventh grade. For six years, Hubbard has belonged to an adolescent girls’ group called College Bound Sisters, which focuses on fellowship, goal-setting, age-appropriate sexual education, and getting into college. Hubbard will complete the program by graduating high school and enrolling in college. At that point, she’ll receive a stipend of more than $2,000: a dollar for each day she’s been a participant in the group. Continue reading Teenage girls earn extra cash for college — as long as they don’t get pregnant Teenage girls earn extra cash for college — as long as they don’t get pregnant originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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(TrendHunter.com) The new Mackdaddy sneakers are so bright they should come with a light switch. The result of a collaboration with FILA, the ‘Mack Squad’ shoe is just one part of the new Mackdaddy collection which also…

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(TrendHunter.com) Southwest Airlines’ ‘Green Plane’ is a refurbished a Boeing 737-700 that will serve as test lab of eco-friendly products and practices. Among the materials that the Green Plane will test are 100% recyclable…

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