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...billion offer for the 29% share of France's Wanadoo - Europe's second biggest ISP - it doesn't already own. And on Thursday Britain had its biggest tech IPO since 2000; shares in wireless microchip maker Cambridge Silicon Radio rose 23% in its first day of trading. Investment bankers predict a new wave of consolidation; Goldman Sachs estimates telecom firms will have...
...reference surely comes from someone who has not yet seen House of Sand and Fog, because Shohreh Aghdashloo’s achievement as an Irani expatriate with a fragile command of the English language is about as compelling as acting can get. It’s usually difficult to predict this category, but not when it includes a performance this complete...
...unfortunate side note on this discussion is that people don’t necessarily watch the Oscars because they want to see surprises. The highest-rated broadcasts often feature races that are the easiest to predict; the most-watched show to date was the year Titanic was guaranteed to cast all of its competitors to sea. The audience seems primarily concerned with seeing their favorite movies get big shiny statues, and by that logic, this year’s show will likely garner huge ratings...
...DISNEY ABC has languished in recent years, losing money and falling to fourth place in prime-time ratings. Still, company execs predict a turnaround by next year. Disney remains a broadcast and production power-house with ABC Entertainment, Touchstone Television, ABC News, ABC Sports, ABC Daytime, ABC Kids, 10 TV stations and Buena Vista Television...
With the government still holding many of the strings in China's economy, it is hard to predict when the problems of excess capacity will boil over. While overheated, China's economy isn't close to collapse. Whatever happens, the country will surely remain heavily dependent on exports. Currently the value of what it sells abroad is equal to roughly 30% of its total economy (the figure for the U.S., in contrast, is 10% to 12%). But the pressures are building, and when bomb factories are producing cars financed by an electric-battery company, the future can only be described...