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Shareholder Carl Icahn tries to force Yahoo! to accept Microsoft b... 2008-05-18 06:01 - Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist investor, has launched a boardroom coup
against Yahoo!, threatening to oust its founder and seeking to force the
online search engine to accept a $47 billion ($£24.1 billion) offer from
Microsoft.
Ben Verwaayen waves goodbye to BT from his starting point 2008-05-18 06:01 - Ben Verwaayen went out with a characteristic flourish yesterday, pulling some
better than expected numbers out of the hat for his last set of results as
BT’s chief executive.
Why is there no investigation into dodgy phone-ins? 2008-05-18 06:01 - Whether it’s The Bill or Ashes to Ashes, police work, as seen on the telly,
looks terribly exciting. There’s lots of running about, for a start, and in
general terms the police seem pretty busy trying to catch criminals, of
which there appear to be, in any given week, hundreds, thousands if you
include Eighties daytime reruns and late night movies. It’s tiring just
watching this stuff, so perhaps it is time for a slower-moving cop show,
Snooze Squad, a brand new series in which a group of fraud investigators
spend a lot of time looking at very complicated spreadsheets before going
down the pub to do not very much. Tough work, but the graphics would be
amazing.
Computacenter screens for weaker period 2008-05-18 06:01 - Fresh evidence emerged yesterday that the credit crisis is hitting companies’
technology budgets and jobs as a leading IT services firm said it was
bracing itself for far tougher times.
Top estate agents firm close to collapse after credit crunch 2008-05-18 06:01 - One of Britain’s largest estate agents has fallen victim to the slowdown in
the housing market, prompting fears for thousands of jobs around the
country. Shares trading was suspended in Humberts, which has 80 branches
from Central London to Hampshire, amid doubts about its viability.
Las Vegas’s bank broken on wheel of fortune 2008-05-18 06:01 - As the ultimate expression of the American Dream, it is fitting that Las Vegas
should lie at the centre of the US housing nightmare.
Japan’s silos key to relieving rice shortage 2008-05-18 06:01 - The United States and Japan are poised to strike a deal that will remove one
of the most widely reviled distortions in global rice markets and could send
prices plummeting in the coming weeks.
Time to change sectors? Not quite yet, figures show 2008-05-18 05:26 - It is a sad fact for investors and tipsters alike that, just as no siren
sounds when stock markets peak, no bell rings at the bottom, either.
Las Vegas economy looks like busted flush 2008-05-18 05:26 - On the surface, the Las Vegas economy looks dangerously like a busted flush.
Qualcomm fights to set mobile TV standard 2008-05-18 05:26 - Qualcomm, the American wireless technology developer, has entered the battle
to set the standard for mobile television in the UK by buying spectrum from
Ofcom, the communications regulator.
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