Mitt Romney left private equity firm Bain Capital nearly a decade ago. But if the former Massachusetts Gov. is chosen as McCain’s running mate it could push the industry back into the public spotlight anyway. Romney left the firm in 1999 to take over the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, but he built […]
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Typically reporters have the regular weeks of run up to Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference or MacWorld to
speculate on exactly what wonder device Steve Jobs will unveil. But Apple has sprung an event on us next Tuesday called “Rock On. …
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Richard Bove is really hammering home a point about Lehman Brothers: The investment bank has big problems that it better deal with it soon.
The Ladenburg Thalmann analyst put out a new research note — the second such note in a week –saying Lehman’s management will have to address its issues rather than just “toughing it […]
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The reviews of Google’s new browser Chrome keep coming, but none are as influential or intensive as Walt Mossberg’s. The Wall Street Journal’s personal technology columnist and co-executive editor of AllThingsD.com conducted an exclusive, extended hands-o
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After the pummeling U.S. banks have been taking from the credit crunch, you’d think British bankers would try to learn from the mistakes of their U.S. counterparts. Not so, writes the New York Times’ DealBook. A majority claim they have made no changes to their strategy, according to a survey to come out next week. […]
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From Silicon Alley Insider, Sept. 3, 2008:Now that the format war with HD-DVD is over, the biggest hurdle
getting people to buy Blu-ray players is that they’re too expensive.
And it looks like that problem won’t go away this holiday season:
Sony’s two
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Fannie Mae’s executive shake-up seemed to help build a floor under the tumbling mortgage finance company, with debate still raging about whether the Treasury will take it over. Bloomberg’s report yesterday that Pimco, the manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, was building funds to buy as much as $5 billion in mortgage-backed debt is […]
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From ClusterStock, Sept. 3, 2008:Despite early signs of a turn in the housing market, prices still have a long way to fall. In fact, we’re probably only halfway there. …
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