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To: BCrago66; eeman
eeman, I know you were joking, but the guys who saved them last time were given a tranche of convertible preferred stock.

Any attempt to buy Salon.com on the open market would probably run up against a trigger of some kind ensconced in the terms of that offering.

In other words, we go out and spend $250K on the stock (and it would of course run up as we were buying it) and all of a sudden Salon.com issues 20 million new shares struck at 0.001 cents to the convertible holders.

BCrago66, I'm sure they thought of subletting, but probably one of the few things that is keeping their skeleton crew working for peanuts is the relatively tony address and central location.

Right now they are just an expensive hobby for their investors.

28 posted on 07/01/2003 1:07:36 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: wideawake
From your post, you must be a very knowledgeable guy, so let me ask you this question: Re the "investors" who bailed them out and got convertible preferred stock. Does that explain why there are 50 million authorized shares, but only 14,155,276 outstanding shares. Hence they could flood the market in case some evil mean conservatives tried to buy them out for their own malevolent purposes?
34 posted on 07/01/2003 2:07:28 PM PDT by eeman
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To: wideawake
Their Annual Report came out yesterday...

Salon.com Anal Report...

Salon has a history of significant losses and expects to incur operating losses in the near future. For the year ended March 31, 2003, Salon had net losses attributable to common stockholders of $5.7 million and had an accumulated deficit of $82.3 million. If and when Salon does achieve profitability, Salon may not be able to sustain or increase profitability on a quarterly or annual basis in the future. If revenues grow more slowly than Salon anticipates or operating expenses exceed expectations, financial results will most likely be severely harmed and the ability of Salon to continue its operations will be seriously jeopardized.

lol...

36 posted on 07/01/2003 2:33:48 PM PDT by Geronimo
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