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...“We have to adapt,” said JJ Abrams at CinemaCon, to what he called the “age of piracy, digital technology and disruption”....
...In the Netflix world, Comcast et al still deliver the content, but they need to find a new way of getting paid....
...The “back end” of the network – the part where Netflix connects to Comcast et al – would be a tightly-regulated telecoms service....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...Just because, you know, not everyone was around during Dotcom bubble V.1. Beenz.com TAKEOFF From a trade rag called Revolution, (June 9, 1998): “Don’t say loyalty, say currency,” says Letts....
...And although people say they like new things, often what they want is merely for existing things to work better. Innovations must be bought repeatedly if they are to succeed commercially....
...Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (2006) was, arguably, the work that brought climate change into mainstream conversation....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...Abrahamson et al find evidence that “strategic pricing” (implicit collusion) is as strong as ever in the US IPO market....
...“They should have seen the writing on the wall when the iPhone came out,” said Al Hilwa, an analyst at IDC, a technology research firm....
...Across Washington, meanwhile, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke basked in the market’s positive reaction to the central bank’s intention to begin quantitative easing....
...In the US, print advertising fell 18 per cent last year, according to the Newspaper Association of America....
...US stocks dropped on Friday after a third consecutive positive week put the benchmark S&P 500 index on course for its highest monthly rise since 1991....
...Bank of America, one of Monday’s heaviest fallers, gained 13.1 per cent to $6.82, while Citigroup rose 9.5 per cent to $2.53 and Wells Fargo picked up 6.5 per cent to $14.24....
...Powerchip Semiconductor gained its daily limit of 6.8 per cent to T$4.71, while Promos Technologies gained its 6.8 per cent daily limit to T$1.41....
...The Court has stayed all but the first-filed ERISA class action case (entitled Alvidres v. Countrywide Financial Corp., et al.)....
...Association of America (ITAA)....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...The popularity of non-fiction films has exploded, thanks to filmmakers such as Michael Moore and the Oscar success of An Inconvenient Truth, the call to action on global warming from Al Gore....
...Bad news for leading drug makers Merck and Schering-Plough undercut positive sentiment Monday....
...MedImmune Inc. v. Genentech, Inc. has an enormous bearing on the intellectual integrity of patent licenses. This saga starts with the famous 1969 decision in Lear v....
...It’s a positive sign that it bounced back like this.”...
...Consider technology stocks in 2000, energy stocks last year and even Chinese banking stocks today. Is objectivity even possible in valuation?...
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...The prince was also part of a consortium that bought the UK Savoy hotel group, adding to hotel interests such as the George V in Paris. Meanwhile, Sanyo?...
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