In a lengthy filing with the SEC, Omniture (OMTR) provides a detailed time-line of the events that culminated in its agreement to be acquired by Adobe Systems (ADBE) for $21.50 a share. There are several fascinating aspects to the company’s account.

For starters, the deal came together in a hurry. On July 20, Adobe told Omniture it was interested in pursuing a transaction, and that it wanted to announce the deal on September 15, the day it was scheduled to report earnings. And that is actually how it played out.

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Ah, Father’s Day. The perfect time to kick back, fire up the grill, grab a cold one and watch a game on the tube, surrounded by the rest of the clan, all catering to your every whim.

While you are all doing that (well, some of you), I’m at Stanford Law School for the kick-off dinner for the 15th annual Stanford Directors’ College. Tonight’s keynote speaker: Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz. Check back to this post for live updates.

Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer sends his regards. So does Law Professor Joseph Grundfest, a former SEC commissioner who runs the conference every year.

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Give the SEC credit: they know how to write a press release.

Yesterday, the commission announced that it had charged two New Jersey men with a scheme involving the sale of so-called “prime certificates of participation,” which were supposed to be invested in various fixed income instruments, but in fact were pocketed by the sellers and used to help run their payroll services company and a charter aviation firm.

More specifically, the SEC alleges that Paul G. Bultmeyer and Arthur J. Piacentini advertised the instruments in print publications, as well as on Craigslist and other Internet sites. The men operated as Sherbourne Capital Management (here’s a cached version of their Web site, courtesy of Google) (GOOG) and Sherbourne Financial (here’s the cached site while it lasts.)

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There’s a spirited debate on the Street this morning about what to make of the Diploma-Gate scandal that’s broken out at Concur Technologies (CNQR), which provides software used to track employee travel expenses. (We actually use their software here at Dow Jones, and I find it incredibly irritating and nonintuitive. But I digress.)

As I noted on Friday, Concur has confirmed that CEO S. Steven Singh does not actually have a degree from the University of Michigan, contrary to what the company had stated in SEC filings from 1998 until January 2007. Subsequent filings no longer claim that Singh graduated from Michigan, but the issue came to light publicly last week, when it was uncovered by convicted ZZZZ Best fraudster Barry Minkow, who now spends at least part of his time seeking to uncover–and profit from–corporate misdeeds as part of something called the Fraud Discovery Institute. While Concur in a statement Friday acknowledged the issue, the company also said it had no plans to take any disciplinary action against Singh.

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Intel (INTC) this morning filed with the SEC for a potential future securities offering. The shelf filing provides no specific information on any immediate plans to raise cash, and covers the potential sale of equity, debt, preferred shares, warrants and various other types of securities. I presume that the advantage of making a filing of this type is that it allows the company to move more quickly when it really does decide to raise capital.

I would also note that the filing includes two lengthy paragraphs about the risks from the current economic downturn. It makes for pretty grim reading.

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When I talked the other day with Bill Coleman, CEO of Cassatt and a former colleague of new Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz at Sun Microsystems (JAVA), he said he was initially surprised she would take on such a demanding job. After all, she stepped back from being CEO of Autodesk (ADSK) to be executive chairman, seeming to head toward relative retirement. “I thought, why does Carol need that at this time of her life?” But he thinks she was ready to get back to full-time work. “I think she misses that energy.”

I’m sure he’s right. But there’s another reason, too: money. According to a new Securities and Exchange Commission filing, she will be paid a base salary of $1 million plus up to a $3 million annual bonus, plus an annual equity grant worth $8 million in 2009, plus a $10 million equity grant this year to make up for forfeiting Autodesk grants and medical coverage. Nice.

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While former eBay (EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman mulls a run for the Republican nomination for governor of California, eBay Chairman and founder and venture investor Pierre Omidyar has cropped up in an SEC filing listed as an executive for a secretive start-up officially known as Peer News Inc. but operating a service under the name Ginx. PE Hub blogger Dan Primack dug out the SEC filing that mentions Omidyar, which also notes that the company has so far raised $2 million.

There’s not much info on the Ginx.com Web site; the blog ReadWriteWeb.com theorizes that Ginx is “a Twitter management service that recommends news items and other users you should meet, based on your interests.” He notes that Ginx is being used as a URL shortener on Twitter by some people, including Omidyar himself.

You can find hints of what’s happening here by searching for Pierre and Ginx.com on Google. For instance, here’s an example where Omidyar points people to how a Google (GOOG) search for “chimp” triggers a link to a site called BushorChimp.com.

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Combing through Research in Motion’s (RIMM) 6-K filing with the SEC dated Dec. 19, which covers the company’s third fiscal quarter ended in November, Avian Securities wireless analyst Matthew Thornton writes that the company’s prospects are still intact as it moves past product delays to introducing new BlackBerrys, including the Curve 8900, also known as the “Javelin,” along with November’s lineup of Storm, Flip and Bold.

Thornton trolls through various stats from the filing, including the fact that U.S. sales, which are 58 percent of revenue, were down nine percent in Q3 from the prior quarter, though up 62 percent year over year.

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Agilent Technologies (A) disclosed in an SEC filing this afternoon that it will reduce its workforce by 500 positions, with most of the cuts to be completed by May 31, 2009 and the rest by October 31. The company also said it has reduced its temporary workforce by over 300 positions, and will temporarily cut pay and/or require unpaid time off for Agilent employees worldwide.

Agilent said the restructuring will reduce annual operating expenses by about $65 million; the pay reduction programs, which are effective January 1, will save another $100 million

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So, this is way off topic, I know, but really, I couldn’t stop myself.

As Bloomberg reports today, the SEC has sued National Lampoon, its CEO Daniel Laikin and three other people for allegedly participating in a plan to fraudulently manipulate trading in the company’s stock.

The SEC asserted in a civil suit filed in federal court in Philadelphia that Laikin paid kickbacks to a stock promoter and a witness cooperating with the FBI whom he believed had connections to “corrupt” brokers. Whoops! Fake mobsters!

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Well, this would explain why they didn’t want to disclose the price.

In a filing with the SEC, Macrovision (MVSN) disclosed the price tag for the sale of TV Guide to OpenGate Capital, and it’s a stunner: a single dollar, along with the assumption of liabilities. (Like the need to fulfill current subscriptions.) Macrovision even agreed to provide the buyer with a loan of up to $9.5 million.

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OK, so this is getting ridiculous.

The SEC this morning added another dozen names to its list of stocks that are temporarily banned from new short sales. The weirdest addition: IBM. That’s right, IBM, one of the world’s leading technology companies. Someone needs to explain this to me, because I don’t get the logic.

What makes this especially weird is this: IBM shares are actually dramatically outperforming the market this year; the stock is up 7.8 percent year to date, beating the pants off both the major averages and most other large-cap tech stocks. In short, IBM has been a terrible short.

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Quarter-billion-dollar (market cap) communications equipment vendor MRV Communications (MRVC) said this evening after the bell that it received a notice last Thursday from the staff of NASDAQ. The notice states that the company is not in compliance with listing requirements because it has delayed filing its quarterly report for the June quarter with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The company has appealed, it said.

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The great tech IPO drought continues.

In the latest sign that the market is really not that interested in tech industry IPOs, chipmaker Allegro Microsystems today filed with the SEC to withdraw its planned initial offering, citing “current market conditions.” Which might have been a nice way of saying no one was all that interested.

The last couple of tech IPOs have been less than rewarding for investors. GT Solar (SOLR), which makes equipment used to make solar cells, became public in July at $16.50, and now trades at $11.25. But the company looks like a moneymaker. … at least, that is, for class-action lawyers, who have already filed at least eight separate lawsuits over the stock’s quick post-offering swoon.

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No one has official said we’re in a recession. But consider this: Apple (AAPL) thinks the economy is “depressed.”

As Michelle Leder points out in her always-interesting Footnoted.org blog, Apple’s latest 10-Q, filed yesterday with the SEC, includes some new language about the economic risks the company faces.

The new filing says this (emphasis added):

The Company’s operations and performance depend significantly on worldwide economic conditions and their impact on levels of consumer spending, which have recently deteriorated significantly in many countries and regions, including without limitation the United States, and may remain depressed for the foreseeable future.

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