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Truce called in Bryant Riley’s fight with Transmeta, at least through 2010(0)

Bryant Riley, who filed a shareholder lawsuit against Transmeta in January and said in May he intended to mount a proxy fight at the company’s next annual meeting to have himself and a cohort nominated to its board, will now be nominated to the board by the company itself, according to an agreement announced Tuesday.

Transmeta also agreed to increase its board size from seven to nine directors, and to immediately name to it J. Michael Gullard, who serves on the board of directors at Alliance Semiconductor along with Riley and Melvin Keating, whom Riley had originally nominated along with himself to the Transmeta board.

Riley also agreed to acquire no more than Read the rest of this entry »

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Asyst CEO to employees: beware posts like these(0)

If you are an employee at Asyst Technologies and you are reading this, maybe you shouldn’t.

Your boss, Steve Schwartz, sent you a note Wednesday warning that Read the rest of this entry »

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