January 31st, 2008 at 09:20pm Under Soccer
From the cold-blooded capitalism of the leveraged buy-out to a socialist utopia of a club owned by its fans in one fell swoop.
That will be the result if a group of influential Liverpool supporters succeed in getting 100,000 fans of the club to raise 500 million pounds in a “Barcelona style” member share scheme.
England is […]
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January 31st, 2008 at 09:20pm Under Dealzone
Reuters correspondent Jonathan Stempel reports that whenever the dust settles from turmoil in the bond industry, there’s likely to be one familiar winner sitting atop the debris.
Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett is well-positioned to cash in whether bond insurers get rescued as regulators seek possible new sources of capital for them, or suffer credit rating downgrades […]
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January 31st, 2008 at 09:20pm Under Dealzone
The BHP-Rio Tinto saga is heating up again, with a growing consensus among investors that BHP will issue a sweetened offer by next Wednesday’s “put up or shut up” deadline set by Australia’s Britain’s Takeover Panel. Rio Tinto shares surged 7.6 percent and BHP climbed 2.6 percent. “I just expect them to come back with […]
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January 31st, 2008 at 09:20pm Under Soccer
A no-nonsense figure like Fabio Capello was never going to let the issue of one cap for one player get in the way of his thinking.
Although he has trained at Arsenal, David Beckham has not played a competitive game since November and if that had been the case for any other player, they too would […]
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January 31st, 2008 at 09:20pm Under Shop Talk
Check out American girls continuing to shun Barbie, despite Mattel’s attempts to revitalize the once-dominant brand with sleek, new products.
Since coming to market in 1959, Barbie has played a key role in Mattel’s profits. But that may be changing as Mattel posted a profit despite another decline in U.S. sales of the flagship line.
“Innovation has been lacking, in our view, […]
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January 31st, 2008 at 09:20pm Under Hardware
Swedish authorities have been threatening this since last month. They kept their promise.The Swedish prosecutor Hakan Roswall has announced the charges against four individuals involved with The Pirate Bay. The four, aged 23 to 37, are being charged with “assisting copyright infringement” of 4 software applications, 9 films and 22 music tracks.“The operation of The Pirate Bay is financed through advertising revenues. In that way it commercially exploits copyright-protected work and performances,” said
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January 31st, 2008 at 09:20pm Under Hardware
Garmin’s backing into the cellphone business in a big way. They’ve already got the GPS navigation thing down pat, so why not add voice, websurfing, MP3 playback, a camera, and a touchscreen to their devices, and save customers from lugging two, three or four items around instead of one? Meet the Nuvifone.The Nuvifone includes two features relatively new to Garmin navigation — a “where am I” button that tells the user the nearest address, intersection and nearby emergency facilities, and another that can
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January 31st, 2008 at 09:20pm Under Hardware
Gateway’s newest and most powerful gaming and media desktops were introduced yesterday. The GM 5664 and the GT5662 use AMD Phenom quad core processors, and have DirectX 10 supported ATI Radeon DH 2400XT graphics cards with 256 MB of on-board memory and HDMI output. And since we haven’t made up our minds about HD DVD or Blu-ray yet, neither has Gateway — the GM 5664 will play both formats. With the ability to watch live TV and breeze through the most intense media demands, the Gateway® GM Series of
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January 31st, 2008 at 09:20pm Under Hardware
Software updates and delays have walked hand-in-hand in the industry since day one, and Apple certainly isn’t any exception to this rule. The latest Apple product to be plagued by software delays is the updated software that will enable Apple TV customers to rent videos.Rumors of Apple testing rental software and encountering numerous bugs go back to before the product’s initial launch. Video rentals were rumored to be a launch feature, but a few too many bugs supposedly caused the rental feature
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January 31st, 2008 at 09:19pm Under E-Commerce
Dell announced Wednesday it will shutter its retail kiosks in shopping malls across the U.S. as it continues with its six-month-old retail store and direct-sales strategy. Dell launched the Direct Store kiosks in 2002 as a way to give consumers who may have been unfamiliar with its computers the opportunity to touch and try out the systems before making a purchase.
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