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A Facebook Monopoly on Nouns

Topics: Cash Flow, Chapter 11, Equity, Risk, Facebook

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: The social network flexes its legal muscle . Now they're just being greedy. After suing Teachbook.com for using the word "book" in their company name, Facebook is trying to trademark the word "face," as well. According to TechCrunch, any business starting with the word "face" could be at risk. It gets better. Not long ago, Aaron Greenspan, one of Mark Zuckerberg's former Harvard classmates, claimed he had helped Zuckerberg create Facebook. Though the case was settled last year ,…

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How To Breathe Life Back Into A Dying Company, And Win "Corporate Executive Of The Year" While You're At It

Topics: Advertising, Chapter 11, Marketing, Planning, Sales

More than $560 million of debt. A 30 percent dip in revenue. Dwindling market share. Those are the kind of figures that indicate a failing company. Fast forward six years, and that same company is prospering. It's on pace to achieve its highest revenue ever, its marketshare is swinging upward, and its debt is 25 percent of what it once was. How's that for a turnaround? Good enough to earn Paul Block , CEO of Merisant , the company that manufactures Equal sweetener and experienced this turnaround, the 2010 Global M&A Network Atlas Award for "Corporate Executive of the Year."…

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ISE Corp., Maker of Heavy Duty Hybrid Electric Drive Systems, Files for Bankruptcy Reorganization

Topics: Bankruptcy, Chapter 11, Corporation, Loan, Management

Poway, CA-based heavy-duty hybrid-electric drive systems maker ISE Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization yesterday in San Diego-less than six months after the 15-year-old company went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company makes hybrid-electric drive trains and energy storage systems for buses and other heavy-duty vehicles. In a statement issued yesterday, the company says it was unsuccessful in its recent efforts to raise additional capital. In a July 13 statement, ISE said it was laying off 45 employees, or roughly a third of its workforce, in a bid to conserve capital while it searched for new investors…

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Tribune proposes severance package for top executives

Topics: Bankruptcy, Chapter 11, Equity, Management, Planning

L.A. O.C. D.C. Money & Co. Opinion L.A. Tribune Co. proposed paying its top 43 executives a severance package of cash and benefits if they are asked by a new board to leave the company after the media conglomerate emerges from bankruptcy. The Chicago company, whose properties include the Los Angeles Times, did not put a price tag on the package but said it amounts to 2.5 times salary and bonus for Chief Executive Randy Michaels and 2.25 times salary and bonus for Chief Operating Officer Gerry Spector. Both would be entitled to 24 months of the company's group health…

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