Word: ownerships
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...octopus to do? Don't fear: looser rules passed this month in the U.K. permitting some foreign ownership of media assets might offer Viacom a welcome distraction. Taking Stock - And Selling It Fiat stock tumbled for a day last week after one of its biggest shareholders, Deutsche Bank, declined to put up fresh money for the beleaguered Italian automaker, which is asking shareholders for a capital increase. It was the latest sign of a policy shift by Deutsche CEO Josef Ackermann. For decades, Deutsche amassed a huge portfolio. But now Ackermann, who has been indicted for alleged breach of trust...
...documents obtained by TIME show that, even as courts were trying to sort out the ownership issues, German authorities made several deals with Karstadt or firms now owned by it, handing over at least €200 million in Wertheim property and cash. Among the transactions: Berlin authorities gave a triangle of land in central Berlin next to Potsdamer Platz to the retailer for free, on the understanding that it would build a corporate headquarters on it. The company promptly sold the land for about €150 million. The federal government allowed Karstadt to keep for almost a decade about...
...alleged 1951 fraud. But Principe does stand to gain if the Jewish Claims Conference wins, as it usually gives a percentage of any settlement to surviving relatives. This sort of legal morass was exactly what the Germans hoped to avoid after reunification. The government deliberately decoupled unresolved ownership questions from use of the property itself, which enabled large swaths of eastern Germany to be developed even as title to the real estate remained contested. And in a move to protect German companies from U.S. lawsuits relating to the Nazi era, the government in 2000 made a deal with Washington that...
UserLand Software, of which Winer was CEO until 2002, had owned the copyright. It transferred the ownership of the specifications when it found itself in competition with other companies using the format. Being both guardian of the format and a software developer resulted in an “uncomfortable situation,” Winer said...
Winer says Harvard has become a leader in blogging technology and is “doing something good for the Internet” by taking ownership of the specifications...