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...shopping spree? In part, it's a self-perpetuating cycle. Once a few big companies in an industry join forces, everyone else feels compelled to hook up. (In consumer products, the betting now is that Kimberly-Clark and Colgate will be next.) The buying binge is also being fueled by rising stock prices--and the loads of cash piling up on corporate balance sheets. The S&P 500 is up 40% from its 2002 low, and companies in the index are sitting on $2.3 trillion in cash. Writing dividend checks is one way to spend the largesse. Microsoft paid...
...These allegations are a major embarrassment for Seoul, which has downplayed human-rights concerns in the interest of improving relations with Pyongyang. North Korea engineered a spree of abductions in the 1970s and '80s, seizing South Koreans, Japanese and a handful of other foreign nationals. In 2002, North Korea's dictator Kim Jong Il apologized to Japan for kidnapping 13 of its citizens and later released five surviving abductees...
...took yet another case to the office of New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, who was in the midst of a spree of high-profile fraud prosecutions. Spitzer's experts contacted the FBI, and after Minkow agreed to wear a wire and record phone conversations with the purported scam artists as they solicited new money, the agency verified that the suspects were using an offshore shell company to bilk hundreds of millions of dollars from investors by pledging annual profits of more than 38% and an eight-year rate of return in excess of 1,000%. TIME has confirmed that...
...discouraged the state-run People's Daily, which two weeks ago urged more companies to follow TCL abroad and "make China a strong country." Ma is worried that history could repeat itself. During Japan's economic bubble in the 1980s, cash-rich Japanese companies went on a U.S. buying spree, only to see their high-profile investments sour when the bubble burst. "We don't want to end up like the Japanese," Ma says. Sometimes it's better to stay home than...
...calls Fresh's latest service, which is available in New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the "try-and-buy" approach to marketing: book yourself for any one of five face treatments and three body treatments (from $75 to $185), and you'll receive a free in-store shopping spree to the equivalent price of the service. Now that is bliss...