gary-weiss.com (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
And when will the media call him on his lies? Overstock.com's wack-a-doo CEO Patrick Byrne has been telling every journalist naive enough to swallow his hokum that he "predicted" the current economic calamity. His latest blatherings came today on CNN. There was this exchange: .....How did you know the train was coming? BYRNE: Well, boy, you do your homework. Yes, if you go on YouTube...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 10 -- Overstock.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: OSTK) chairman and CEO Patrick M. Byrne sends an open letter to President George W. Bush. October 10, 2008 Mr. George W. Bush Presiden...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
'Enact a market-wide mandatory pre-borrow requirement for all short sales' writes Byrne SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overstock.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: ) chairman and CEO Patrick M. Byrne sends an open letter to President George W. Bush. October 10, 2008 Mr. George W. Bush President of the United States of America 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C....
Law Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne travels down an aisle on his Go-ped scooter at his company Long before John Mack and Dick Fuld thought short sellers were destroying every company, Patrick Byrne thought short sellers were destroying his, aided by the research firm Gradient Analytics. In 2005, Mr. Byrne, Overstock.com’s founder and president, claimed that Gradient’s...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... and close-out merchandise through the Internet. "This is very, very positive for Overstock," CEO Patrick Byrne said. "This represents a great step forward in our case." Overstock sued Gradient in 2005, alleging it issued false and misleading research reports about Overstock using information from hedge fund Rocker Partners LLC to help it benefit from short-selling, or bets that Overstock's...
Market Wire - Professional Services: Consulting (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... revenue. "The integration of with has had a significant upside on our conversion process," said Patrick Byrne, CEO, . "Having these two companies come together makes tremendous sense for data-driven retailers." "Omniture is the top supplier of Web analytics to the retail industry and this acquisition extends our leadership further into merchandising," said Josh James, CEO and co-founder...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
All Attention Now on Copper River and Its Principals SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overstock.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: ) announced it has settled all claims against Gradient Analytics and its principals and officers named as defendants in Overstock's defamation case filed in Marin County, California. Overstock.com chairman and CEO, Patrick Byrne said, "I am pleased to publish...
In the Agora (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... Wikipedia's article on naked short selling for over two years as he feuded with Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne on the topic: "At some level, you can control the public discourse from Wikipedia," Byrne says. "No matter what journalists say about the reliability of Wikipedia, they still use it as a resource. I have no doubt that journalists who I discussed [naked shorting] with...
Techdirt (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
For quite some time, Overstock's CEO, Patrick Byrne, has been on something of a... campaign against the practice of "naked short selling." Byrne isn't known for holding back his opinions on just about anything, and his complaints about naked short selling resulted in a rather massive Wikipedia edit war -- with folks on every side pointing fingers and arguing with each other over...
Webmaster World (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
"At some level, you can control the public discourse from Wikipedia," Byrne says. "No matter what journalists say about the reliability of Wikipedia, they still use it as a resource."
The Last Psychiatrist (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
... a Wikipedia editor and effectively controlled the entry. He also derided the CEO of Overstock.com, Patrick Byrne, who was vocally against the practice, by blocking his edits and even controlling his (Byrne's) Wikipedia page. The story would be more interesting if Gary Weiss turned out to be a former journalist at BusinessWeek, where he should have learned not to manipulate...
