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• Renaissance Research Group: The SCO Group, Inc. Report titled: Handicapping the SCO-vs.-IBM Lawsuit. Seeks to reinforce conclusions of strong buy recommendation. Suggests in part why SCO stock has risen during the lawsuit period. [Renaissance Research Group]
• Visions of Ka-ching Dance in Their Heads Analysis of why investors are raising SCO stock price, based on two documents from Renaissance Ventures, LLC, venture capital firm. Links and quotes source documents. Many forum comments. Print-friendly version too. [Groklaw]
• SCO Execs Cash in on Suit Spotlight Link to story, useful forum comments, on ZDNet finally looking at SCO stock insider trading. [LWN: Linux Weekly News]
• Who is Selling SCO Stock? Two outside stockholders, John R. Wall, Morgan Keegan and Co., decided to dump 1 million shares they held. SCO executed full registration process, at its expense, to facilitate this, yet proceeds go to sellers. Forum comments. [LWN: Linux Weekly News]
• SCO Insider Trading Watch SCO executives keep slowly cashing in their stock to benefit from its current, inflated price; total 93,000 shares sold since suit filing, net $782,000 earnings. Table with links. Forum comments. [LWN: Linux Weekly News]
• Editor's Note: A Few Questions for SCO From a Hypothetical Investor SCO got $50 million in private investment this week; good for them, maybe not so good for investors. Potential investors in SCOX stock should ask SCO some fairly harsh questions. Forum comments. [Linux Today]
• Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock of The SCO Group, Inc. Full document, agreement said to involve minority investor BayStar Capital ($20 million), and majority investor Royal Bank of Canada ($30 million). [US Security and Exchange Commission, SEC]
• IBM's Days in Court Tiny SCO Group opts to take its Linux business to court. While meant to serve justice, lawsuits can be effective business tools; making publicity, distracting and getting cash in settlement from competitors. [Motley Fool.com]
• Form S-3 Registration Statement New S-3 filed as part of BayStar deal, allows for converting BayStar preferred stock to regular stock, so SCO had to register another 3.85 million shares for sale. [US Security and Exchange Commission, SEC]
• The Mouse That Roared New regulations made it harder for small-cap companies to get noticed; this is not the case for SCO. The big question is will SCO investors survive this dispute? [Motley Fool.com]
• Basic Chart for SCO Group, Inc. Graph of stock price and volume; since SCO sued IBM, stock price has varied greatly, was rising, now falling. Yahoo Finance.
• SCO Building up a War Chest Ability to build cash war chest too compelling to pass up, so SCO agreed to $50 million investment deal, announced yesterday, with investment fund BayStar Capital. CEO Darl McBride pleased with transaction. [eWeek]
• SCO Wins $50 Million Investment Received large cash boost in private investment deal led by investment fund BayStar Capital, structured as private placement of non-voting Series A Convertible Preferred Shares, at fixed conversion price $16.93/share. [eWeek]
• SCO Gets $50 Million Investment SCO, firm embroiled in legal actions with Linux and Unix, announces $50 million investment by BayStar Capital, a reversal of plans it stated in May; will use funds for software development, legal and licensing costs. [CNET News.com]
• SCO Roars as Shares Soar In heavy trading, SCO shares rose about 30 percent as firm defends what it sees as unauthorized illegal use of its Unix code by customers, Linux users, vendors, open source community. [eWeek]
• SCO Insider Trades List of all such stock trades since 2002 that author could find, sorted by publishing date, compiled from SEC public records, about $1,375,654 in sales since March 2003. [Groklaw]