Some Updates

Further to the story of Bulldog Investors' attempts to challenge an SEC rule requiring hedge funds to disclose their positions as an unlawful taking of trade secrets, a story from Barron's (subscription req'd). (Thanks to fund manager Phillip Goldstein for the head's up.)

And from cnetnews.com, a follow-up to a story from January regarding Hewlett-Packard spying on Dell. Fortune magazine contends that there's evidence that HP paid a former Dell executive to turn over some of Dell's trade secrets. Fortune quotes an unidentified law enforcement official claiming that the "circumstantial evidence is very strong."