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Daily Archives: July 30, 2008

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Nintendo: Wii Uber Alles (MSFT)(SNE)

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 5:16 am

It has to gall corporate leviathans Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE) that Nintendo trumps them in the video game console business. The modest Japanese company did it again in the ...
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Siemens (SI) Shows It True Colors, A Lesson For GE (GE)

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 4:53 am

Most of the executives at Siemens (SI) are being dragged off in handcuffs as part of the prosecutions in the company's bribery scandal. But, the few managers who remain are ...
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Detroit Bites The Hand That Feeds It (GM)(F)

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 4:33 am

Chrysler is exiting the car leasing business and GM (GM) and Ford (F) have a foot out the door. All of those SUVs that come back off lease sit on ...
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Dell (DELL) Hopes To Hunt And Kill Apple (AAPL) iPod

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 4:15 am

Dell (DELL) wants to accomplish what no other company has been able to do over the last five years. It wants to hunt down and kill the Apple (AAPL) iPod ...
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Whole Foods (WFMI) Buy-Out Of Wild Oats Back In Limbo

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 3:02 am

Here's something you don't see everyday: a recently completed merger facing more anti-trust scrutiny. But an appeals court has ruled that evidence of antitrust concerns in the Whole Foods/Wild Oats ...
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Media Digest 7/30/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 2:57 am

According to Reuters, oil is nearing a 20% drop from its peak, moving into bear market range. Reuters writes that HP (HPQ), Yahoo! (YHOO), and Intel (INTC) are looking at ...
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Asia Markets 7/30/2008 (CN)(CHU)

Posted: July 30, 2008 at 2:25 am

Markets in Asia were mostly higher.The Nikkei rose1.6% to 13,368. Mazda rose 3.3% to 623. Nissan rose 3% to 837.The Hang Seng rose 1.8% to 22,647. China Netcom (CN) rose ...
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