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...CONS: News Corp and Microsoft may not work well together. In an April 10 report, analyst Jim Friedland of Cohen and Company predicted that the merging of these three companies would not produce a fruitful alliance. Instead of giving Microsoft a needed competitive edge, the merger might actually slow Microsoft's efforts to intensify its battle against Google...
...tech blog, (AOL's Engadget). The cash infusion from Time Warner (in exchange for a 20% stake in Yahoo/AOL), would enable Yahoo to buy back some of its stock, which would likely elevate its stock price. "The chief benefit to Yahoo is the avoidance of a Microsoft deal," notes analyst Greg Sterling...
...What sort of a national leader would Mayawati make? It is difficult to pin down her policies, says political analyst Swapan Dasgupta, "because she has this arbitrary style." Since taking over in Uttar Pradesh again, Mayawati, who has called herself a "living goddess," has ordered half a dozen statues of herself and is building a $100 million park to commemorate BSP founder Kanshi Ram. She also wants to spend billions of dollars on a highway running beside the Ganges and has plans for a shopping mall next to the Taj Mahal. Such huge projects appeal to her supporters not only...
...potential investors as "punters," as if by buying Safaricom shares they were betting on a racehorse, or a particularly promising poker hand. "There has been a lot of education, people are now aware of what it means to own shares," said Rina Karina, a corporate finance and research analyst at Faida Investments, which helped orchestrate the IPO. "But even there, the reason for the purchase of the shares is not for long-term investment but more for quick gains...
...same time, the slowing economy started to dent sales. "They finally got to the point where their customer base was so broad it wasn't recession-proof," says Bear Stearns analyst Joseph Buckley. The summer of 2007 was particularly bad because of consumers' growing boredom with Frappuccinos, which make up about 15% of sales, according to UBS analyst David Palmer. Then, in the quarter ending in September, traffic at established U.S. stores fell 1%, the first drop ever. The next quarter, traffic dropped again--down 3%--and comp-store sales fell 1%, the first time Starbucks had ever swung negative...