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...Meanwhile, the government is continuing its efforts to find a buyer for Satyam and to save some of the jobs of its 53,000 employees. In a statement released on Feb. 2, Satyam claimed to have retained 95% of its top 20 clients and to have won 15 new contracts in January. At least four groups including Indian construction and engineering giant Larsen & Toubro have shown interest in acquiring a controlling stake...
Even without doing the math, you probably get that the government's financial-rescue effort is failing. The signs are hard to miss. Your friend in finance got pink-slipped. A house sale down the street fell through because the buyer couldn't get a mortgage. A local bank is closing a nearby branch or maybe shutting down altogether...
...burdened its debt load. "What's hurting them more than anything is that they've got lots of debt on their balance sheet," says Betty Chen, a retail analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities. Talbots has shuttered its men's, kids and U.K. businesses, and is shopping for a buyer for J. Jill. Good luck finding one in today's market. Earlier this month, investors received some encouragement when the company secured a $150 million credit line from three Japanese banks. In 2008 Talbots also secured a $50 million credit facility from Aeon (U.S.A.) Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan...
...internet, in all its democratizing, transparent, instantly gratifying glory, is fundamentally changing the rules of business. Bloggers are usurping the role of the media élite; eBay and Amazon are forever altering the relationship between buyer and seller; a single disgruntled customer with a website can ruin a company's reputation. Google, which now handles some 70% of U.S. Internet searches and has become one of the world's most trusted brands, sits at the nexus of these changes. If beleaguered captains of industry hope to survive in the Internet age, Jarvis argues, it's worth considering what Google might...
Some former Agriprocessors workers like Lopez hope to remain and work legally, although they long to be reunited with relatives sent back to their native lands. Many townspeople hope a responsible buyer will revive the plant. "We'd like to see somebody who buys it and makes it an honest business," says Radloff...