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Intense discussions are currently under way at NBC, which wants to lay off the staffs of both the Tonight show and Late Night With Conan O'Brien by the end of the week, according to network insiders. An NBC spokesman wouldn't comment, except to say that the shows are in reruns until further notice and that the staffs have been told that layoffs are a definite possibility...
George Polk has rattled cell-phone carriers once before. The American, 42, runs a network of wi-fi hot spots called the Cloud that allows laptop and gadget users to surf the Web for around $8.50 an hour or $17 a month at 7,500 cafés, hotels, pubs, airports and other public places in Britain, Germany and Sweden. That's a service that cell-phone companies like Vodafone and Orange are struggling to sell via their 3G mobile-phone networks. Wi-fi, which uses low-cost, wireless Internet connections, has stolen some of the thunder. "I wanted to build...
...Polk volleyed in July, when he partnered with VOIP champion Skype (now part of eBay) to allow Skype software users to call anywhere from hot spots through headset-equipped laptops. If just some of Skype's 66 million registered users connect via the Cloud instead of a mobile network, mobile operators will lose revenue. The Cloud could siphon off even more mobile dollars next year when handset giants Nokia and Motorola start selling dual-mode phones that let users call via the Net or mobile networks, without Skype's software...
Back then, viewers had only four channels to choose from and no cable, and all the channels were required to include some socially redeeming content: BBC1, home of the BBC's most popular output; the more esoteric BBC2; the commercial network ITV; and Channel 4, then only four years old and set up to break the duopoly...
...aggressive bank in expanding across borders. In April it completed a merger with Denmark's Unidanmark three years after Merita joined forces with Sweden's Nordbanken. The deals have made Merita the largest bank in Scandinavia. "We see ourselves as a pan-Nordic bank with a very powerful distribution network," says Vesa Vainio, who became chairman in April...