Word: telcom
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...that hard to get people to be more creative, given the right atmosphere," says the Creativity Lab's general director, Hsueh Wen-jean. "The idea was to create an environment without borders, to explore the love within themselves to be creative." Read "China Mobile to Buy Stake in Taiwan Telcom...
...half its value last year. CDOs based on corporate bonds have performed better. However, Strata sold insurance against high-yield corporate bonds, and those will be the first corporate debts to go bad if the economy gets worse. Indeed, one of the companies in Strata's bond pool, Hawaii Telcom Communications, recently filed for bankruptcy. In mid-January, Moody's put Strata on its list of bonds it was thinking about downgrading...
...that that testifies to man's capacity for creation and also for destruction. Not the sort of place, in other words, that you'd expect to find a $30 million telecommunications concern doing a roaring trade in an ultra-competitive market. Yet, as Mustafa Sheikh, deputy managing director of Telcom Somalia says, the absence of a functioning government for 16 years has been a boon for private enterprise. His firm is one of three in Somalia that provides fixed-line and mobile phones, creating competition so fierce that rates are among the lowest in the world. And business is excellent...
...film's backers say they deliberately aimed to make "wealth enhancement" a major element of the project. "We desired to hit the masses, and money is the number one thing on the masses' minds," says Bob Rainone, a former IBM salesman and telcom exec who now serves as Byrne's U.S. business partner. Wealth enhancement is also part of the The Secret's business plan. Among the spinoff books expected in 2007 are The Secret Workbook and a collection of The Secret Success Stories. Byrne will also begin filming a sequel to The Secret in January, for an August release...
...plans to sever all ties to Alcon, though analysts still expect the food giant to untether the eye-care group eventually. As for Deutsche Telekom, it won't be Europe's first long-distance operator to unload a wireless unit. British Telecom last year spun off mm02, and France Telcom floated a piece of its Orange mobile unit. In addition, the T-Mobile carve-out will help Deutsche Telekom put a small dent in its $54.4 billion debt. Deutsche Telekom also wants to sell its cable assets; regulators rejected a $4.8 billion deal with Liberty Media to do so last...