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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...
...Florida, prostate-cancer specialist Dr. Jay Friedland uses the system at Naples Radiation Oncology, where he has treated 243 patients since the end of 2004. Only two had the cancer recur, an outstanding result. "The beauty of this is that it's five treatments in five days," says Friedland. Other radiation therapies require as many as 45 treatments over nine weeks...
...untimely death, it seemed suspiciously well timed. Last September, while awaiting sentencing on a federal extortion conviction and just days before he was to be indicted on fraud charges, former New Jersey State Senator David Friedland was reported to have drowned in a scuba-diving accident near Grand Bahama Island. Last week the missing politico's attorney received a phone call with a taped message: "I am alive and in fear for my life," it began. Friedland hinted that he had evidence of other possible crimes, implying that he might cut a deal with authorities...
...Friedland, 47, a state senator from 1977 to 1981, was convicted in 1980 of taking $360,000 in kickbacks to arrange a $4 million loan from New Jersey Teamsters Local 701 to a shady West Coast businessman. To reduce his imminent prison sentence, Friedland agreed to act as a federal informant. Meanwhile, he apparently headed a plan to defraud Local 701's pension fund of 520 million. In Friedland's hometown, few who knew the wheeler-dealer raised an eyebrow at his scuba scam. "We're from Jersey City," Lawyer Jack Russell told the New York Daily News. "We understand...
...Feng moved to Canada, eventually earning a Ph.D. in math from the University of Toronto. His first business venture back in China, which made him a millionaire at 26, created joint ventures in gold and diamond mining and then sold them through a deal with multibillionaire mining financier Robert Friedland...