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The old saw in Silicon Valley is that Sarbanes-Oxley has made the public offering less attractive as an exit option. But that seems to be changing. The New York Times notes data from the National Read more...

Five years after Sarbanes Oxley, companies in Silicon Valley have reshaped their boards, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Nearly all have a director with financial expertise in their audit Read more...

Business Week Online takes a look at the VC industry, and notes there are some bright spots but also some "disturbing Read more...

Sarbanes Oxley gets tossed around a lot as the reason for small-company woes. Anytime there's a delisting, you can bet "the additional costs of Sarbanes Oxley" gets ritualistically trotted out. But Read more...

The conventional thinking on stock options backdating cases was that prosecutors would have the best Read more...

You may want to check on your datacenter capacity before it turns into a problem. Here's some background: We've discussed before that data centers have made a huge comeback in recent years. Demand Read more...

The bandwidth needs of companies are growing, seemingly geometrically. Corporate websites are more complex and the regulatory need to preserve more records are pushing the IT needs to new levels. Read more...

We tend to stay focused on some pretty narrow, almost niche issues. But everyone now and then it's nice to take a step back and gaze through a larger window, such as the effect of Sarbanes-Oxley Read more...

Sarbanes-Oxley can now claim a big-name victim: Jim Clark. Remember him? The co-founder of Netscape Communications and one of the best known entrepreneurs of that era? He has quit as chairman of Read more...

> White-collar prosecutions have declined significantly during the past four years. The result of Sarbox? Or is homeland security a bigger prosecutorial priority? Read more...