Feb 6 - Washington, DC
The United States Securities Exchange Commission has finalized regulations, effective September 15, 2008, which will require small businesses raising capital under the SEC's "Regulation D" exemption to file Form D electronically - with certain information then being made available electronically via the world wide web.

The full text of the SEC release is available at
SEC Final Rule Release

The User Posted News portion of www.Richmond.biz is made available as a public service. In order to post, you must be a registered user of the website. Posting is subject to our Terms of Use as linked from the "About" link on the top menu bar of our Home Page. By posting, you adopt and agree to our Terms of Use and User Posted News Policies as a binding legal agreement. These include (i) a representation by you that the post is accurate, does not contain any copyright content of any third party unless you have the right to post it, (ii) a prohibition against any posting that is slanderous, illegal, containing "hate" material," (material expressing racial, religous, sexual orientation or other bigotry) or known to you to be untrue, and (iii) a representation by you that if posting on behalf of an organization or other person, that you have the right to make such posting. Violaters are subject to loss of posting and/or website access privileges. If you observe any posting which violates our Terms of Use, pleae notify us via our contact link (on the Home Page) and report the abuse and we will endeavor to promtly investigate and remove if appropriate.

One exciting feature of the new www.Richmond.com is our "User Posted News" feature. This feature permits registered users of the website to submit and self approve news and announcements in a variety of categories. Available categories include

"Community & Civic Organizations", "Churches & Religous Groups", "Charitable Organizations", "Local Business News", "Local Schools & Educational Institutions", "Sports & Recreation", "Death Notices & Obituaries", "Job Promotions, Awards & Honors", "Governmental", "Birth Announcements", "Marriages", "Fairs & Festivals", and "Local News." This feature also allows us, upon reciept of a request from you, to create a special subcategory for any individual group, and the ability to post and approve news under this subcategory can be restricted to members of your group designated by you.

We have the ability to create subcategories under each of our main categories. If your organization, business, sports team, or other group desires to make regular use of this website feature, please contact us and request that we establish a seperate subcategory under the appropriate category - this will aid visitors and your members to locate the latest news and announcements of your group. If you send us an electronic .gif or .jpg picture or image of your facility or logo, we can post that so that it appears with the Section devoted to your organization or group.