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...help sell iPods. Apple says sales of the music-storing, high-profit-margin palm-size gadgets almost quadrupled between the quarters before and after iTunes' launch. Apple's approach borrows from a proven business tactic. "Westinghouse created radio shows to sell radios," notes Lee Black, an analyst with Jupiter Research. AOL Music takes a cut from songs sold through MusicNet, but its ka-ching comes from the 16 million visitors it delivers each month to advertisers like Coca-Cola...
...billion charge against earnings for its scandal-marred military business, and former stalwart Loral Space & Communications filed for bankruptcy. Then in August a launch disaster in Brazil killed 21 technicians and jeopardized that country's program. "Unquestionably, the commercial-satellite market is depressed right now," says Chris Mecray, an analyst at Deutsche Bank. From 1996 to 1998, satellite sales grew 49.4%, but they have shrunk 2.4% in the past four years. Worse, hurt by the telecom bust and tough export rules, U.S. market share has plummeted from 64% in 1998 to 36% in 2002. How long will the industry...
...boards of Ford, Intel and two News Corp. subsidiaries, British Sky Broadcasting and Hughes, the parent company of DirecTV. (Star TV, also owned by News Corp., is one of two Western stations broadcast into China.) "He's looking forward to slowing down a bit," says Jeffery Harte, a brokerage analyst at Sandler O'Neill & Partners, "but I expect him to be an active and involved board member...
...chapters, allowing you to skip to your favorite scenes, and comes with an editing package that can set your 1987 high school graduation to Eminem's Slim Shady. The Movie Writer is one of 158 products HP launched this summer, and it's generating the most buzz. Notes technology analyst Rob Enderle: "Those videotapes don't age well...
...digital technology, to offer more channels and support interactive services. The plan seems to have paid off: in August BSkyB reported a pretax profit of $418 million on sales of $5.13 billion in the year ended June 30. Financial success, however, doesn't necessarily mean consensus, and analysts have been probing for an explanation for Ball's rumored departure. One theory is that Ball wanted to pay a dividend on BSkyB stock, rewarding shareholders who saw the company through its long and costly digital conversion, and that Murdoch nixed it; he would rather use the cash to fund his expensive...