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  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
    "The Bush administation will have a legacy of turning back nuclear proliferation in Libya, with AQ Khan,"

    Where's Khan now? Wasn't he on house arrest and then inexplicably released instead of executed?
    Jul 02 12:49 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
    "Sources say Microsoft (MSFT) has talked with both Time Warner (TWX) and News Corp. (NWS) about joining it in a deal that would see Microsoft buy Yahoo's (YHOO) search business, while one of them would combine forces with what remained of Yahoo."

    This works for me, as a Yahoo CUSTOMER. Yahoo search-- who cares? I DID care about MSFT acquiring Yahoo Mail and Flickr, because those services would certainly suffer under the direction of Ballmer and his nitwits (witness how MSFT destroyed HoTMaiL).

    "But lawyers said that the kind of legal requests being issued by the Justice Department in this case - "civil investigative demands" - are not routine."

    It will be routine; there are no credible antitrust issues here. MSFT bribed a few buddies in Washington, no doubt, to raise a ruckus, the the current, corrupt administration gets its walking papers on 1/20/09.

    "Massive downsizing at Starbucks." What took so long? Downscale Dunkin Donuts makes better coffee, at half the price. Starbucks has always brewed way too dark.

    "Blockbuster (BBI) officially withdrew its offer to buy Circuit City Stores (CC)" Tying to "loser" companies together is rarely a recipe for success. Time Warner/AOL. MSFT/Yahoo, had it gone through.

    "Ford said June sales were limited due to tight supplies of small cars."
    Gee, they could have planned for this, say, 15 years ago when I took my first trip to Europe and was amazed by all the really cool FUEL EFFICIENT cars you could buy. In the States, you had little choice then but monstrous SUV's. I had a Corolla then-- and excellent car-- but not as efficient as many of the models I saw in Europe.

    "Senior Pentagon officials say there is an increasing likelihood Israel will attack Iran,". Perhaps you differ in this, Eli, but I'd rather have you guys do it than us.

    Jul 02 09:13 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Under The Radar News - Friday
    Hmmm. I bet the airlines will be unable to sue the FAA regarding the agency's negligent inspections.

    As for Blockbuster taking on Apple with a hardware device: that can't end well for Blockbuster, I would think. But maybe it does validate Apple's idea of where the movie rental biz is going to end up -- download from home.
    Apr 11 13:40 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Netflix & Microsoft Move On; Blockbuster Still Stuck in the '80's
    If Netflix and MSFT are teamiong up, that means one thing: stark terror.
    Smells like a shear panic play. Which is funny because nobody owns the movie downlaod market yet--though Apple is best positioned at this time.
    Feb 24 16:18 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Apple's Entry into Movie Rentals Is Good for NetFlix and Bad for Blockbuster
    NetFlix's DVD in your mailbox scheme makes a lot of sense, but they will fail big time in downloadable content, just like WalMart.
    Jan 17 11:27 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Blockbuster Chooses Sony's Blu-ray Over Microsoft's HD DVD
    No surprises. All the "players" back Blu-Ray.
    Jun 21 20:52 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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