In "Spring Loaded" Compensatory Stock Options, the Business Law Prof Blog has a post about another practice involving stock options called "'sping loaded' executive options." Are these illegal? That's the question addressed by the post. For an interesting take on the issue, read it.
According to this Reuters article, Take-Two, CNET face more stock option issues, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. and CNET Networks Inc. are in a bit of a jam with the SEC. Take-Two, which produces and sells the "Grand Theft Auto" video game series, disclosed that the SEC has "launched an informal investigation into its stock options policies dating back to 1997." CNET, in turn, disclosed that it "would likely restate results to correct errors related to its stock-option accounting."
Finally,the smallbizpipeline has a great article about the options scandal. According to the article, written by J. Nicholas Hoover, approximately 60 companies have been "caught up in this latest American corporate scandal." Most of those are technology companies. The article covers an issue that has received little, if any, attention: Whether the scandal could affect the customers of those companies. For this interesting perspective on the scandal, read Options Pricing Scandal Could Hit Tech Vendors' Customers to learn more.
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