Wall Street Journal:
Morgan Stanley closed the book on its disastrous $6.5 billion acquisition of Crescent Real Estate Equities by handing the keys to lender Barclays. (Read More)
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Author : Brandt WilsonBuying baby clothes and accessories can be so much fun, especially when you're shopping for a baby shower gift for somebody you love! Baby clothes make wonderful gifts for new parents Baby outfits fro (Read More)
New York Times:
The J. M. Smucker Company nearly tripled its profit in the second quarter as the addition of Folgers coffee improved its lineup.
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VentureBeat:
Brizzly, an application for managing messages in Twitter and Facebook, expanded its beta test today — now you don’t need an invite code, so anyone can use it.The application was created by San Francisco-based Thing Labs, and (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
Ockham Research submits: On Wednesday we wrote a piece talking about the strange upgrade of Pulte Homes (PHM) by an analyst at Citigroup (C). At that time (Upgrade Trumps Macro-Economics for Homebuilders), we reiterated our (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Bloomberg L.P. plans to close its Bloomberg Press operation, a small unit that publishes books, following its acquisition of BusinessWeek magazine, spokeswoman for the parent company said on Friday a (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Coming soon to a science fiction plot near you: with the right software, a plain-jane webcam can be a 3D scanner. It's a project from Qi Pan, a PhD candidate at Cambridge University Engineering Department. ProFORMA: Probabili (Read More)
Just Another Mobile Phone Blog:
SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) announced the acquisition of RadioFrame Networks’ iDEN business. RadioFrame is a provider of lower cost, power efficient iDEN technology. Terms of the transaction were not disclos (Read More)
FOXBusiness.com:
Congress to grill Bank of America leaders on threatening to walk away from Merrill Lynch acquisition. And the GAO questions the accuracy of the stimulus jobs numbers. (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Earlier this week, we wrote a post called "Who's Who in Google New York." It was a quick look at some of the top execs in the office, and what people are saying about them.One of the powerful executives we mentioned is a risi (Read More)
New York Times:
Morgan Stanley is handing over Crescent Real Estate Equities to Barclays Capital, winning forgiveness of a $2 billion loan that financed its acquisition of the real estate business in 2007. (Read More)
WSJ.com: What's News US:
Morgan Stanley closed the chapter on its disastrous $6.5 billion acquisition of Crescent Real Estate Equities by handing the keys to lender Barclays.
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Mashable!:
Brizzly is a web-based Twitter and Facebook client that has been gaining some momentum and buzz over the past couple months. It has some slick features like being able to view photos and videos in-line in your Twitter stream (Read More)
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Adds Billboards and Signs to the Invicta Marketing ServicesInvicta Group, Inc., (Pinksheets: IVIT) has acquired specific assets related to the Target Marketing Company. The acquisition includes multiple driving billboards/sig (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Morgan Stanley closed the chapter on its disastrous $6.5 billion acquisition of Crescent Real Estate Equities by handing the keys to lender Barclays. (Read More)
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How can a firm that never loses money be so totally wrong?Just this Monday, Goldman Sachs helped to gap the markets higher at the open in low-volume futures trading with the following pronouncement: "Goldman Sachs resumes cov (Read More)
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The European Union’s formal objection to Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun has evidently transformed the database giant’s intransigency into a grudging agreeability. The EU has extended the deadline or approval of the $7.4 (Read More)
Kolkata -Cities-The Times of India:
Land acquisition for the 105-km Tarakeswar-Bishnupur railway line has evoked mixed reactions. The process started on Thursday in this politically sensitive area. (Read More)
Lifehacker:
There's an eyebrow-raising rumor that Google's toying with a cellphone that could work on any data network and make phone calls through its Gizmo5/Google Voice package. Are you ready to leave standard voice channels behind fo (Read More)