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Already Google has said it will participate along with nearly 200 other registered bidders, including industry giants like Verizon and AT&T as well as surprise contenders like Chevron and Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, through his Vulcan Spectrum LLC. A more robust playing field would mean heightened competition in the consolidated telecom industry, benefiting consumers with more inventive technologies and potentially lower prices...
...fact-finding exercise with a coordinated series of raids. The inquiry could lead to companies being fined up to 10% of their turnover or taken to court. In the past year alone, it has imposed fines of over €3 billion ($4.5 billion) on firms such as Microsoft that had broken competition...
...were very well attended.”Kreisberg points out that other popular employers, such as Google and Yahoo!, have similarly not been affected by alleged unethical business practices.“Yahoo! has just apologized for giving the Chinese police the names of dissident bloggers, and Google and Microsoft have been accused of the same collusion, but students still favor those companies because they are hip,” he says.SUBPRIME PUBLICITYThe major banks have also received negative attention as a result of this summer’s subprime crisis, an embarrassing stretch for Wall Street firms in which...
None of this would have happened, however, without a spark of venture capital. That came from Martin Tobias of Seattle-based firm Ignition Partners. A restless ex-Microsoft executive, Tobias thought software had maxed out, and by 2004 he was looking for the next big thing. He found it in the emerging clean-tech sector - which encompasses renewable energy, environmental efficiency and water - and discovered the struggling start-up Seattle Biodiesel, which had just been launched by a former airline pilot. Tobias injected badly needed capital, eventually buying 20% of the company and becoming CEO of the renamed Imperium Renewables...
...XOXO, Gossip Girl: Lowell can’t get enough of that show. But seriously, isn’t that a problem we all have? 5) DAPAs aren’t very popular in Winthrop. We want booze, not chips and salsa. 6) Those Kirklanders argue about the new Microsoft Word font. Times New Roman is so last millennium. 7) Lowell got a bit too excited about their freshman shirts…LOLhouse Lowellcats? 8) Remember last year’s Risk game? Well PfoHo won, and it has the list thread to prove it. 9) We hate...