ClusterStock:
Here's the latest in the FHA's ongoing parade of horrors.(In case you missed it, the agency tasked with keeping the housing bubble alive has been undewriting subrpime-quality loans, and helping broke dudes by apartment buildi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Nick Cohen suggests that Nacro, the crime reduction charity, no longer criticises government policy because it "has become dependent on the state" ("How the government buys the silence of charities", Comment). He argues that (Read More)
paidContent.org:
» Five ex-Googlers are putting working full time on what they hope will be the next big thing, Brizzly. [LA Times]» Hoping to be the Canadian Pandora, Listen.fm buys up the re (Read More)
Xconomy:
IT, deals, Finance Wade Roush wrote: TheNextRound, a Framingham, MA-based startup that makes software for private equity and alternative investors, has been acquired by Windsor, CT-based SS&C Technologies for an undisclo (Read More)
New York Times:
Manny Pacquiao’s 12th-round technical knockout of Miguel Cotto Saturday night generated 1.25 million pay-per-view buys, with gross revenue of $70 million, HBO said Friday. (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Barclays Capital said Friday that it has formed Crescent Real Estate Holdings LLC with Goff Capital to buy Crescent Real Estate Equities from Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funding II. It has als (Read More)
Reuters: Deals:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Motorola Inc said on Friday it is buying privately held RadioFrame Networks' iDen wireless technology business to combine it into its own network equipment unit.
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Reuters: Mergers News:
NEW YORK, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Motorola Inc said on
Friday it is buying privately held RadioFrame Networks' iDen
wireless technology business to combine it into its own network
equipment unit.
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Reuters: Deals:
ZURICH (Reuters) - Petroplus , Europe's largest independent oil refiner, may have to shelve an acquisition drive and save money in the face of tough trading conditions -- and could even find itself a takeover target.
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New York Times:
Supermarket mogul Ronald Burkle and his investment arm, Yucaipa, have purchased a large amount of U.S. luxury retail chain Barneys New York's debt, The Wall Street Journal reported. (Read More)
Reuters:
(Reuters) - Supermarket mogul Ron Burkle and his investment arm, Yucaipa, have purchased a large amount of U.S. luxury retail chain Barneys New York's debt, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter (Read More)
The Guardian:
David Cesarani (A frisson of conspiracy, 18 November), is absolutely right that our investigation for Channel 4, Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, was followed by a deluge of pretty horrible antisemitic comment on a range of web (Read More)
Engadget:
This writer is on record saying that gaming is the real killer app for 3D, and while we wait for 3D movies to find a home distribution method and start throwing some weight around, that continues ring true. Luckily, the ASUS (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Kid Dynamite submits: Most people are familiar with the concept of risk-free return. Today I want to tell my personal anecdote about return-free risk and how I should have seen the liquidity bubble forming back in 2006. Don (Read More)
mediabistro.com: AgencySpy:
AT&T lost its first legal argument against Verizon Wireless, a blow that was only made worse when juxtaposed with their first rebuttal advertisement an ad that more or less falls flat compared to Verizon's campaign. Hop (Read More)