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Daily Archives: April 4, 2008

Verizon (VZ) And AT&T (T) Go After Cable And WiMax

Posted: April 4, 2008 at 4:57 am

Now that AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless have picked up oodles of spectrum at the FCC auctions, investors want to know what all that money went for. The answer is ...
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Northwest (NWA) Raises Fares, But Will Anyone Pay Them?

Posted: April 4, 2008 at 4:40 am

The management at Northwest (NWA) knows when it is in a pickle. Fuel prices are moving up and passenger traffic is likely slowing as the recession keeps people off airplanes. ...
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Bad News For Vista: Microsoft (MSFT) Keeps XP

Posted: April 4, 2008 at 4:26 am

Vista, the new OS from Microsoft (MSFT) was supposed to be so good that every customer and business using Windows would want to upgrade as soon as possible. But, a ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) And Yahoo! (YHOO) Meet

Posted: April 4, 2008 at 4:17 am

Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO) management met this week to discuss a possible merger. Redmond made it clear that it would not raise its bid, according to The Wall Street ...
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Media Digest 4/4/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 4, 2008 at 2:50 am

According to Reuters,US non-farm pay-rolls are likely to fall by 60,000.Reuters reports that Fed official are playingt down rate cut expectations.Reuters writes that the ex-ceo of UBS (UBS) wants to ...
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Asia Markets 4/4/2008 (HMC)(DCM)

Posted: April 4, 2008 at 2:26 am

Many markets in Asia were closed for a holiday.The Nikkei was down.7% to 13,293. Honda (HMC) was down 5.2% to 2920. KDDI was up 3.1% to 664000. Docomo (DCM) was ...
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