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...foreign companies to buy into state enterprises such as breweries. Sensing new possibilities, SABMiller, owner of the Miller brands, gambled that Beijing might actually tolerate its unprecedented takeover gambit. If it works, "a lot of investors will try to steal a similar march on rivals," says Joe Zhang, an analyst at UBS Securities in Hong Kong. "People have never tried this because they thought the government would block...
...Microsoft began its 30th year last month, investors wondered whether it's a little long in the tooth. "It's clear that Microsoft doesn't see itself as a high-growth company anymore," says Matt Rosoff, a financial analyst with Directions on Microsoft, based in Kirkland, Wash. "The boom days are over." Last year Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer started giving employees stock grants instead of stock options--a sure sign that the share price is flatlining. Ballmer okayed a minuscule dividend for shareholders, but he has resisted calls to let them dip any further into the $56 billion cookie...
...North America. But Sony holds a strong lead in sales of games, which is where the money is. Microsoft has created three flavors of Windows for cell phones, but none have caught fire. "Windows is just a lot more than a cell phone needs," says Simon Yates, an analyst for Forrester Research. And the clunky SPOT watch--a derisive critic said wearing it is "like having a golf ball strapped to your wrist"--has been a commercial disaster...
...Senator Joe Biden, ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee and a supporter of the decision to invade Iraq, characterized the revelations of abuse as the single most significant blow to U.S. prestige in the Arab world over the past decade. Anthony Cordesman, the widely respected defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies was equally forthright: "Those Americans who mistreated the prisoners may not have realized it, but they acted in the direct interests of al-Qaeda, the insurgents, and the enemies of the U.S.," he said. The reason is that they came at a point when...
...Industry analysts are unsure whether many young readers will ever convert to paying customers. But the analysts mostly agree that the freebies add value by increasing market share and attracting new, youth-seeking advertising dollars. The Tribune's RedEye (circ. 85,000), for example, has not turned a profit, but it has attracted 350 new advertisers to the Trib. Plus, since newspaper companies use existing assets like printing plants, journalists and distribution networks, the cost of added operations is incremental, says James Marsh, an analyst at SG Cowen Securities. Most of the free papers are break-even propositions...