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...secure other sponsors three months before the Olympic Games," short-track star Apolo Ohno wrote to TIME in an e-mail. "But BIG UP's to Stephen Colbert for his willingness to help out our nation's greatest athletes. I'm personally 100% in support of his show and think that this is a very good thing. NOW can I get on the show? *wink? haha...
...cases, well over a dozen very different businesses that have nothing to do with each other, and many of those businesses are facing very serious and fundamental threats to their well-being that require significant management attention, and management attention is the most scarce resource at any company. I think the right answer is for these businesses to get more focused. That's generally the direction that they're going. Viacom and CBS split up. Time Warner spun off Time Warner Cable and will spin off AOL. This is clearly the trend...
...then, what do you think of the Comcast NBC-Universal Deal? There are parts of the combination that seem to make obvious sense. Including a bunch of fixed costs that you can spread over a big cable company. However, it is, at a minimum, intriguing that the CEOs of the two leading cable companies in the United States [Comcast and Time Warner Cable] have taken diametrically opposite views on whether it is wise or strategic to invest capital into content businesses. [While Comcast considers merging with a content company,] Glenn Britt, CEO of Time Warner Cable, has said he will...
...think servicers are still being slow to modify loans? Foreclosure activity is six times what it was four years ago. Those are numbers that the system really isn't set up to handle. And there are more complications. For example, one of the delays in processing foreclosures right now is that the servicers are trying to make sure that every loan in their portfolio either qualifies or doesn't qualify for HAMP [Home Affordable Modification Program, the Federal Government's attempt to incentivize more modifications]. Even if you've already screened a loan to see if it might qualify...
...well do you think HAMP is working overall? The interim goal of having half a million homeowners in trial modifications has been met. That's a good thing. Unfortunately, for the next couple of waves of foreclosures, the program really isn't optimized to be terribly successful at preventing foreclosures. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...