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Is the medium the message? Netflix’s decision to post material information on social media channels

  • Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC
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  • USA
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  • April 17 2013

The news is out! There's a buzz in the blogosphere. It's trending on Twitter. The Securities and Exchange Commission has authorized the use of social

Netflix SEC investigation report clarifies the use of social media and Regulation FD

  • White & Case LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 10 2013

Regulation FD prohibits US public companies or persons acting on their behalf from selectively disclosing material, nonpublic information to

Are your executives posting company information on Facebook or other social media websites? The SEC is watching

  • Blank Rome LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 24 2013

On December 6, 2012, Netflix filed a Form 8-K announcing that, on December 5, 2012, Netflix and its CEO, each received a "Wells Notice" from the SEC

Exclusion clauses must contain ‘clear’ and ‘strong’ language to cover a deliberate repudiatory breach of contract

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 5 2009

In Internet Broadcasting Corporation Ltd (NETTV) and NETTV Hedge Funds Ltd v MAR LLC (MARHedge), the High Court held that an exclusion clause in a contract should not extend to cover a deliberate personal repudiatory breach

Beware of Twitter

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 20 2010

Companies, like athletes, show business types, and your teenage kids, have been flocking to twitter

Regulatory sweep of investment advisers

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 21 2011

On February 15th, Crain's reported that the SEC has opened a regulatory sweep of investment advisers' use of social media

Barclays Capital Inc., et al. v. Theflyonthewall.com

  • Loeb & Loeb LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 24 2010

After a bench trial, the district court entered judgment in favor of plaintiff financial institutions on their claims of copyright infringement and "hot news misappropriation" against online aggregator of financial information

“Private” placements of securities: a London view of the Facebook saga

  • Dechert LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 2 2011

According to a story in the New York Times, on Sunday night, 2 January 2011, Goldman, Sachs & Co. sent a number of its wealthy U.S. clients an e-mail offering them the opportunity to invest in an unnamed “private company that is considering a transaction to raise additional capital.”

Investment adviser use of social media

  • Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2011

In late 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC or the Commission) sent a "sweep" letter (the Sweep Letter) to a number of registered investment advisers requesting information on their involvement with social media and related recordkeeping practices

Facebook moves slowly towards an IPO

  • Eversheds LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • October 5 2011

Facebook initial public offering (IPO) delayed until September 2012