The buy brought her total direct ownership to 8K shares and her indirect ownership to 10.4K shares spread among five separate trusts. She previously was buying shares in March, picking up 5.7K shares for herself and three of the trusts in the $17.42 to $17.44 range.

Co-founder and former Chairman Robert Howard is IOTN's largest shareholder with a 28.8% stake, while EVP of Business Operations Joseph Hayden and EVP of Technology Stephen McCahon each own 8.3% stakes. On the institutional side, Artis Capital Management owns a 10.19% stake, and SAC Capital controls a 9.12% stake.

Chairman & Interim CEO William Leonard purchased 40K shares at $10.92, increasing his holdings to 62K shares. Leonard was named interim CEO on July 18th, replacing Larry Stevenson, who resigned. While he is interim CEO, Leonard will take home a salary of $83.33K per month. Leonard has been on PBY's board since 2002 and was named chairman in February. He was formerly the president & CEO of Aramark (RMK). In April 2005, he exercised options on 12K shares at $15.91.

Chairman Daniel Lyle bought 3K shares at $8.18 on August 10th, increasing his holdings to 5.5K shares, and marking his first open market buy. A partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers from 1982 to 2003, Lyle has been on REDE's board and chairing the company's Audit Committee since July 2003. He was named chairman in September 2005. Directors at REDE receive an annual retainer of $10K plus fees. As chair of the Audit Committee, Lyle receives an additional $2.5K in cash compensation, plus options for 20K shares (other directors receive options for 10K shares). Lyle currently holds options for 50K shares.

As a result of the buy, Citron now controls approximately 53.863M shares of VG, or a more than 33% stake. Included in Citron's holdings are more than 4.74M unexercisable options, and about 1.392M exercisable options. In a ceremonial move, Citron bought 100 shares at $17.00 when VG went public. Citron and venture capital firms 3i Group plc, Bain Capital, LLC, Institutional Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and New Enterprise Associates invested more than $450M into VG before the company's IPO, and Citron is the largest shareholder.

In 2005, McNulty was paid a salary of $377.5K and a bonus of $430.76K, and he was granted options for 162K shares at $9.00. Based on his current holdings, if McNulty exercised all of his options, he would own about a 2.3% stake in SCUR. The company has no stock ownership guidelines.

In June 2005, after spurning a takeover offer from E-Trade (ET), AMTD announced a deal to acquire TD Waterhouse, the U.S. brokerage business of Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD). Under the terms of agreement, TD received a 32% stake in AMTD, and the Canadian company agreed to immediately launch a tender offer to acquire an additional 7.9% stake in AMTD. TD also agreed to limit its ownership stake in AMTD to 39.9% for three years from the closing (January 24th, 2006), and 45% from years four through ten. Ricketts, meanwhile, agreed to limit his family's ownership to 29% for ten years from the closing. TD eventually completed most of the tender offer, via purchases sometimes well above the $16 price, through a trading plan, and the company currently holds a 39.5% stake in AMTD.

Liberate Technologies was once a publicly traded, software maker for the digital cable industry. The company was hit by accounting problems in 2002, which resulted in two former officers being charged with fraud by the SEC (both settled) and one of those former executives being indicted by the Department of Justice (the case is apparently still pending). In January 2005, Liberate sold its North American assets for $82M to a joint venture controlled by Comcast (CMCSA) and Cox Communications. Three months later, the company sold its non-North American assets to SeaChange International (SEAC) for $23.5M.

Sandell Asset Management, a multi-strategy hedge fund that has worked with billionaire Nelson Peltz to rattle the cages at Wendy's International (WEN) and HJ Heinz (HNZ) this year, disclosed this morning that it now holds 10.761M shares of SUG, or a 9.62% stake in the company, up from 2.227M shares, or a 2% stake, at the end of the first quarter.

President & CEO David Crane purchased 4K shares at $46.70, raising his stake to 219K shares. Crane previously purchased 3K shares at $38.60 in November 2005 and 2.5K shares at $21.35 in May 2004. A director at the company, Crane has about 430K exercisable stock options as well.

Non-Executive Chairman Johan Blanchard III bought 15K shares at $17.73, upping his holdings to 39.23K shares. Blanchard, the chairman & CEO of eFunds (EFD) until September 2003, has been a director at ADCT since 1999 and non-executive chairman since 2003. He was formerly a director at Wells Fargo (WFC); the president & CEO of Deluxe Corp. (DLX), from which EFD was spun-off; and an executive at AT&T (T), well before that company's merger with SBC Communications.

Michael Dell, the 41-year-old founder of DELL, bought 2.9195M shares at $23.99 on May 24th. As a result of the purchase, Dell now controls over 245.67M shares, or just over a 10% stake in the company he launched in 1984. Dell's holdings include about 26.45M shares held by his wife, 95.6K shares held in a retirement account, and just under 3M shares held by a trust.

TCS disclosed the purchase via a Form 4 filing; however, the firm was buying shares of FRNS some time between April 1st and May 18th, as on May 15th it disclosed just a 4.13M-share stake in FRNS in a Form 13F-HR filing for the period ended March 31st.

On May 15th, DIET said that Prides Capital, a Boston and San Francisco-based hedge fund headed by former Blum Capital partner Kevin Richardson, agreed to purchase 1.98M shares at $5.05 from the company. Prides is also receiving five-year warrants to purchase 1.2M shares at $6.00, and the company will get a slot on DIET's board.

The only other insider buy in the last three years came a little more than a year ago when Senior Vice President John Goldsberry purchased close to 73K shares at $3.44 from another executive in a private transaction.

The former COO of ZiLOG, a provider of integrated 8-bit microcontrollers (MCU) and universal remote control solutions, Diamond joined WJCI in June 2005. He has a long history in the semiconductor sector, and he previously bought 20K shares of WJCI at $1.14 to $1.28 in November 2005. Miller, meanwhile, joined the company last month after serving as CFO of California Micro Devices Corporation, a supplier of application-specific analog semiconductor products. He was formerly in senior financial positions at LSI Logic (LSI), National Semiconductor Corp. (NSM), and Texas Instruments (TXN).

Dan McGurl sold 100K shares of EPAY at an average price of $11.08 on May 12th, dropping his holdings in the company to about 235.8K shares. McGurl previously sold 100K shares at an average price of $11.53 on February 1st, and he has exercised options on and immediately sold 107.5K shares this year. Following EPAY's 1999 initial public offering, McGurl owned just under a 15% stake in the company.

Schultze Asset Management ("SAM") disclosed May 17th that it now holds an approximately 4.27M-share, or 13.4%, stake in MOVI, up from a 2.77M-share, or 8.6%, stake on April 26th. The firm upped its stake by purchasing 1.5M shares of MOVI at $5.22 on May 11th, and it is now MOVI's largest shareholder.

Knapp, a board member since 2001 and the president of Andover Group, a Houston-based private real estate investment and development company, was named to his current position in September 2005. Knapp's most recent purchase was for his SEP-IRA, and he also holds shares directly, in a trust for his children, through Andover Group (for which he is the majority owner), and through an investment vehicle that he claims sole ownership of.

John Clay bought 10K shares of ACF at $29.06 on May 12th, upping his holdings in the company to 58.2K shares. Clay, the former CEO of accounting and auditing manual publishing firm Practitioners Publisher Company, has been on ACF's board since June 2004. He previously bought 2K shares at $24.06 in September 2005, and he is one of only two ACF insiders to buy stock on the open market over the past three years (other insiders have bought 1K shares and exercised and held a total of 30K shares).