Word: deal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provide Ma Bell with up to 10 million set-top boxes preloaded with a stripped-down version of Windows. AOL missed out, and its stock went into a brief tailspin. But broadband is not a zero-sum game--at least, not yet. Case quickly countered with his own new deal, to have Hughes Electronics' DirecTV offer AOL via satellite to its 7 million customers. The resulting product will be called AOL TV. Microsoft, of course, is still pushing its own interactive television service, Web TV. And here too the battle lines are drawn...
Everywhere, of course, must include cable. Why? Because cable modems are so fast--almost twice as speedy as DSL and a full eight times as fast as satellite, at least in theory. "AOL still needs to deal with the cable guys," says Tom Wolzein, Internet analyst at Sanford Bernstein. "It has to be worried about getting locked out entirely, especially when Microsoft wants to be in everyone's online space...
...Suharto ran the show. There were afternoons of golf with the ruler and friendships with his family and business cronies. Indeed, Suharto interests own a multimillion-dollar stake in the Grasberg mine, which surely did not hurt Moffett's effort to maintain mining rights there on favorable terms. The deal was so sweet, in fact, that Freeport has long been the world's lowest-cost producer of copper, a key industrial metal...
...time lows. Freeport's profits have gone down the shaft, with earnings off 33% in its last quarter, to $129 million. Perhaps that's one reason why Moffett and other senior executives skipped the company's annual meeting last month. Certainly he's used to confrontation, having had to deal with vociferous environmental and social activists who in years past have carried picket signs proclaiming JIM-BOB MOFFETT KILLS FOR PROFIT...
...know, I know, lots of people are putting in longer hours, and as a highly paid Wall Streeter I should just shut up and deal with it. After all, trading stocks has become the national pastime, and as in the case of its predecessor, day games just don't draw enough crowds. Night sessions will open up a huge West Coast market and add those individuals who can't day trade because their bosses won't let them. If the exchange doesn't harness this audience, competing entities certainly will...