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...ugly, but Amazon doesn't expect to bleed much more. Its annual debt service is $150 million. No wonder the company is quietly shifting gears in the drive toward profitability. Eagle-eyed analysts have seen a slow, steady price rise on high-profit stuff like electronics. And the enormous premium that Greenlight.com is paying for placement on the site could be a sign of things to come, says Mike May, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications. "Increasingly, retailing is a Trojan horse for high-margin business like advertising," he notes...
Confused? So was the Securities and Exchange Commission, which last Thursday set forth a rule designed to take the premium out of analysts' direct access to management. From now on, the SEC decreed, companies may not disclose material information to Wall Street--that means the analysts at mutual funds, institutions, and brokerages--without releasing the same information at the same time to the public via a press release, webcast or other means...
George W. Bush must have been pleased with himself Sunday as he sat in his ranch with the doors closed, the chattering classes voluble but unconfident, and in real suspense. The man who puts a premium on loyalty (or fealty) has also put a premium on control - control of the pace and pitch of information, and thus of speculation, surrounding his vice-presidential choice. And in waiting not for a mere announcement or a leak to be confirmed (that would seem spinnish, and besides that comes later) but for The Man to Decide, we are supposed to think of this...
...distribution channels thirsted for. Talks between the two men heated up in January following word of the AOL-Time Warner deal. But the discussions nearly collapsed last spring, before both companies settled on a stock swap that would value Seagram at about $75 a share--a roughly $25 premium above its recent price...
...companies are not required to respect e2e; they are allowed to discriminate. Unlike telephone companies, they get to choose which "new ideas" will run on cable's network. They get to block services they don't like. Already many limit the streaming of video to computers (while charging a premium for streaming video to televisions). And this is only the beginning. The list of blocked uses is large and growing...