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Daily Archives: July 8, 2007

Moody’s Savages Private Equity

Posted: July 8, 2007 at 7:55 pm

Moody's is unleashing an attack on private equity, The ratings company obviously does not want to be accused of missing a blow-up if buy-out deals which took on too much ...
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Dow Jones On A Fishing Expedition

Posted: July 8, 2007 at 6:28 pm

Dow Jones (DJ) has decided that, instead of selling out to News Corp (NWS) right away, it will shop the company around. The first stop will be billionaire Ron Burkle ...
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A Microsoft (MSFT) Break Up?

Posted: July 8, 2007 at 6:20 pm

John Dvorak over at MarketWatch has raised the issue of Microsoft (MSFT) being broken into pieces. He writes: "As things stand, Microsoft has become stodgy and rumpled." The idea of ...
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Chinese Car Market Gets Crowded

Posted: July 8, 2007 at 4:35 pm

Nissan wants to sell 300,000 cars in China this year. During 2006, the company moved 220,000 units. The Japanese company is even beginning to market its luxury Inifiniti line to ...
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Verizon’s (VZ) Three Card Monte

Posted: July 8, 2007 at 3:15 pm

Verizon (VZ) cuts the old copper wire to homes when it installs its new fiber-to-the-home service, Fios. Fios offers faster broadband, so who needs the copper anyway?Verizon points out that ...
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Apple (AAPL): A 3G iPhone?

Posted: July 8, 2007 at 10:06 am

One of the biggest knocks against the new Apple (AAPL) iPhone is that it works on AT&T (T) 2.5G network and not a newer 3G network. Consumers want that faster ...
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Will Baidu’s (BIDU) Chinese Music Business Model Spread?

Posted: July 8, 2007 at 9:56 am

Chinese search leader Baidu (BIDU) has formed a partnership with the largest Chinese record label to stream music online. For free. Advertising will run on the pages where the music ...
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Verizon’s (VZ) Friend: The Cable Box

Posted: July 8, 2007 at 9:47 am

There was a time when cable operators picked a box, generally from Motorola (MOT) or the Scientific Atlanta division of Cisco (CSCO). They rented the device out to customers and ...
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