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...Bezos has watched it grow into one of the Internet's powerhouses, with everything from a new search engine to a "screening room" for downloading short films. He sat down with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner in Amazon's Seattle headquarters, a refurbished veteran's hospital, to talk about books, stock prices and bird spikes...
First the newly public DreamWorks Animation appears to have mishandled first-quarter earnings information. In May its shares fell 5% just before the company disclosed disappointing results. The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into whether there was any insider trading, and six shareholder lawsuits stemming from the stock drop have been filed. The company botched forecasts for home-video sales of Shrek 2 not once but twice, blowing its credibility on Wall Street and prompting the company to scrap a planned $500 million stock sale. "Are they rookies? Do they have any controls?" asks analyst David Miller at Sanders...
...company told analysts that it expected to sell 55 million Shrek 2 videos--a figure it has lowered to about 40 million. That's still a phenomenal number. But investors had pushed up DreamWorks Animation shares, expecting an additional $50 million of profit that won't materialize. The stock, once as high as $42, now sits...
...June public offering on the Frankfurt stock exchange set off a stampede by investors. The shares were more than seven times oversubscribed, not least because MTU's sales are rising briskly and its cash flow more than doubled in the first quarter as the aircraft industry picked up again. KKR's total equity investment in MTU was $326 million. Following the IPO, KKR has returned $590 million to its investors, and it continues to hold a 29% stake, valued at $390 million. KKR tripled its money in 19 months...
...Judging by the number of billboards, Senegal's best-selling food product is stock cubes?but if you're persistent, you'll encounter plenty of zesty meals there without instant bouillon. And if you're a soul-food fan, you're in luck: by virtue of the slave trade, Senegalese cuisine was one of the key influences on African-American cooking. Senegal's Atlantic coastline ensures an abundance of seafood?grouper, monkfish and sea bream are common?while peanuts, millet and cassava are harvested from the central savanna area. Given Morocco's proximity, couscous is almost as widespread as rice...