As an investor I've always been interested in, Prince Alwaleed carries an interesting story. His Citigroup investment has been well documented, first as a wild success, and then, well we all know what happened to Citigroup in 2008. I read his biography and reviewed it awhile back (a href="http://briskycapital.blogspot.com/2007/11/book-review-alwaleed-by-riz-khan.html"Click here to read review and purchase book/a).br /br /Today, I found a a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087amp;sid=aGiKNISJrIkc"piece from Bloomberg /agiving us an update on how he has survived the recession. So far, it looks like he's done well:br /br /br /blockquotepAug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Citigroup Inc.’s largestbr /individual investor, was ranked the richest Saudi national by Arabian Business,br /even after losing 4.6 percent of his personal wealth in the past year.br /br /Alwaleed’s assets are valued at $16.3 billion, compared with $17.1 billionbr /last year, the Dubai-based magazine said today in its 2009 Saudi Rich List,br /citing the accounts of ...

Tiberius Capital II, LLC (”Tiberius”), a value-opportunity fund located in Chicago, announced August 17, 2009 that it is increasing its tender offer price to $1.35 per share, and is extending the expiration date of its tender offer for all MathStar (Pink Sheets: MATH) common shares until 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on August 31, 2009. As of August 14, 2009, approximately 1,430,000 shares of MathStar’s common stock have been tendered and not withdrawn.

ArthroCare Corp. (Pink Sheets: ARTC) August 17, 2009 announced that it has entered into an agreement with One Equity Partners (OEP), the global private equity investment arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co., whereby OEP will purchase $75 million of newly-issued ArthroCare Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. ArthroCare intends to use the proceeds to repay the Company’s existing Credit Agreement and expects to use the remaining portion for general corporate purposes.

Metiscan, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MTIZ), a holding company focused

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