As you know from our earlier segments, Pandora has been on the verge of death more often than not. Now its survival is threatened again, despite strong growth and a thriving 14 million-plus base of users. Blame online music’s recurring nemesis, the Record
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Pandora was started in 2000, just before the Nasdaq bubble burst. It was a great time for Internet sites to fundamentally change the music industry forever, but not such a great time to build a business as Kazaa, Napster and the rest can attest.
But P
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Dow Chemical Co’s Chief Executive Andrew Liveris said deal premiums are funny things to write about, so we at DealZone had to take him up on it.
Dow agreed to buy Rohm and Haas for $15.3 billion, marking a 74 percent premium over Rohm and Haas’s closing stock price on Wednesday and a 24 premium over […]
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Bottom fishing in the financials has been a fool’s errand this year, as shareholders of Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are learning (again) today. The Fed’s
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Rohm and Haas had been a resistant takeover target for its nearly 100-year history. That is, until recently.
When the financial advisers for the Haas Family Group, which owns about 30 percent of the specialty chemicals company, suggested they diversify their holdings, Rohm and Haas finally went up for sale.
That put the $9 billion company up […]
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Could investors in Seattle-based Fisher Communications be getting a little restless? The small broadcasting company recently disclosed it had received an unsolicited takeover offer from an unnamed party, which it turned down saying it wasn’t in the best interests of its shareholders.
Soon after, FrontFour Capital, a large shareholder, made public a stiff letter it sent […]
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Pandora thought it was launching a new iPhone application tomorrow, but when mercurial Apple moved up the date like developers everywhere Pandora had to do a little scrambling. But that was a minor inconvenience compared to how long it has taken the Inter
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You don’t have to be real estate legend Barbara Corcoran to know it’s a buyer’s market. …
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