The top brass at Abbott (NYSE:ABT) saw their 2011 pay packages reduced by a collective 23.9%, ranging from a 6.1% cut for chairman & CEO Miles White to a whopping 26.9% hit for pharma head Richard Gonzalez.
VCs press Senate on “IPO On Ramp” bill | Wall Street Beat
The National Venture Capital Assn. is spearheading a drive to get a bill through the U.S. Senate that would make it easier for small companies to raise money by going public.
The "IPO On Ramp" measure would ease the regulatory requirements for IPOs and temporarily reduce the reporting burdens imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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Allezoe Medical says executive wrote affidavit for lawsuit opponent | Personnel Roundup
Allezoe Medical Holdings (OTC:ALZM) said board member and secretary Hyman White broke its internal rules and possibly state and federal laws when he wrote an affidavit supporting the un-named plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against Allezoe.
St. Jude Medical rebounds after “Greek tragedy” | Wall Street Beat
Shares of St. Jude Medical (NYSE:STJ) clawed back some of the value lost yesterday in what 1 waggish analyst termed a “Greek tragedy.”
STJ shares closed down 3.3% yesterday at $39.96 when the company revealed a $56 million writedown after a Greek distributor failed to pay up for an estimated 2 years worth of sales.
Allezoe Medical hopes to cradle organs to transplant
Allezoe Medical Holdings (OTC:ALZM) said its Organ Transport Systems subsidiary is preparing for clinical trials of the LifeCradle for preserving donated hearts before transplant.
The company, based in the Philippines, bought OTS in January. The move puts it on a collision course with TransMedics Inc., an Andover, Mass.-based which also has been developing an organ transport system.
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