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...Such an expansion, which Amazon itself has not confirmed, would position it as a competitor to booksellers such as Barnes & Noble....
...Top shareholdings: Coca-Cola; ConocoPhillips; DirecTV; GlaxoSmithKline; General Electric; IBM. Portfolio Value: Berkshire’s equity portfolio was valued at $103.3bn at the end of June....
...Yet a string of recent deals, in which Liberty Media spun off the Starz channel, took control of Sirius XM satellite radio, built a stake in Barnes & Noble and returned to cable distribution by buying 27...
...the few people ever to have bested the News Corp chairman, having covertly built up an 18 per cent holding in the Murdoch-controlled conglomerate before exchanging it for News Corp’s controlling stake in DirecTV...
...The anti-tax message in that 1992 decision, Quill v North Dakota, is not as clear-cut as Amazon’s friends let on....
...Draw your own conclusions, but Spring Design, which launched the Alex on the eve of Barnes & Noble’s Nook, now says it has filed a lawsuit alleging “Barnes & Noble misappropriated trade secrets and violated...
...And a silver gilt double coaster table trolley by noted silversmiths Edward Barnes & Sons, c. 1829, is offered by Robin Butler at £325,000....
...I like Barnes Group. You can’t find a more boring company. I can’t even describe what they do here or I’ll lose you....
...Wolf was a consultant to Comcast when it bought AT&T’s cable television systems and to Rupert Murdoch during his drawn-out battle to buy DirecTV....
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