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The company has disclosed it held a private meeting with Ratio to discuss buying a small share of another, unstudied offshore gas license.

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Last year, Google had a table at one of the three main nightly events associated with CES. This year, the company just held a small party and rented a private meeting room.

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Highest ranked private tech company exec, excluding Facebook: James Goodnight, CEO of privately held SAS Institute.

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Because Cargill remains a privately held company, officials at the foundation and the trust could not at first liquidate the private Cargill stock.

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This includes a merger of two publicly-traded firms, the acquisition of a privately-held company by a publicly-traded one, and the purchase of publicly-traded firm by private equity.

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Jack Remondi was named the company s CFO, a return to a position he held from 2001 to 2005, while the company shedded its government-sponsored enterprise status to become a private company in 2004.

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