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...revenues to Google and Yahoo. By consolidating their websites into a mammoth network, they could sell ads across the board. Hooking up would be a defensive play too. Google raised $4.1 billion in a stock offering last week and has been encroaching on Microsoft's most precious turf, the computer desktop. Microsoft is worried about falling further behind Google in the Web-search races and would love to get AOL to replace its Google search engine with Microsoft's. The AOL unit could fetch as much as $20 billion on the market, and spinning off a piece in a joint...
...INVESTMENT Our government must put billions of dollars into aviation infrastructure, from airports to air-traffic control to security. This needs to be done in a rational way, without rhetoric, turf wars and political pork. We need real leadership at the national level to set a game plan and stand up to members of Congress who want to waste money on local boondoggles...
...Hindustan Times, an English-language newspaper, and two magazines?listed on the Bombay stock exchange on Sept. 1 after raising about $90 million through a public stock sale. The IPO marked the climax of an extraordinary year for the Indian newspaper industry, which has seen new editions launched, turf wars fought and sensational stories broken. All this exuberance is a heart-warming sight for newspaper publishers. In most countries, sales and profits of dailies have been declining for years, a slide that has been hastened recently by a surge of fresh competition from the Internet and TV. That...
...newspaper war in their country's history. Until recently, most cities have been dominated by one major English-language newspaper. Bombay, for example, was Times of India territory. A handful of families controlled India's major newspapers, and a gentleman's agreement largely kept them off each other's turf. Not anymore. In Bombay, a new English newspaper called DNA (as in Daily News and Analysis) has launched an advertising blitz, buying dozens of giant billboards around the city, as it prepares to take on the Times of India. At the same time, the Times launched a new tabloid...
...Putting Blame Where it Belongs” (Sep. 12), Mark A Adomanis asks the question, “Why did Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco not declare a state of emergency immediately after the hurricane hit, instead becoming embroiled in an administrative turf war with the federal government?” In truth, Gov. Blanco declared a state of emergency well before the hurricane’s landfall...