M2 PRESSWIRE-26 March 2008-STRATEGY ANALYTICS: Strategy Analytics: Motorola Break-up is Step in the Right DirectionC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26032008 Strategy Analytics: Motorola Break-up is Step in the Right Direction Boston, MA -- According to Strategy...
Sep 19, 2002 (Herald Sun - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian mining group WMC may not get approval for its planned break-up before the end of 2002. New demerger legislation has been referred to an Australian Senate committee until 22 October 2002, which will delay...
EUROPEMEDIA-C2002 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - http://www.vandusseldorp.com/ Research groups NetRatings and Jupiter Media Metrix have decided to break up. Media and information company VNU, which holds a 64 per cent stake in NetRatings, announced that the two companies were terminating...
E.ON sent shockwaves through the European power industry yesterday when it became the first major continental power company to propose a break-up of major parts of its network, handing a victory to the European Commission in its efforts to break the stranglehold the Continent's dominant players have on the market....
LOS ANGELES AFP — Rumored real-life lovers Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn scored big this weekend as their feuding-couple comedy "The Break-Up" topped the US and Canada box office, early figures showed. Meanwhile, former US vice president Al Gore's forceful documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" about global warming cracked the...
SEATTLE AP -- Microsoft filed an unexpected brief in federal court on Monday, expanding on its argument against the U.S. Justice Department's plan to break up the software giant due to antitrust violations.
LOS ANGELES AFP ? Diva Liza Minnelli's estranged husband David Gest, who accused her of beating him, said he would reveal details of the odd couple's acrimonious break-up in a television interview. Concert producer Gest, who in a lawsuit last year accused "Cabaret" star Minnelli of beating him with...
The controversial London hedge fund TCI has trained its guns on one of Europe's biggest banks by seeking to force a break-up of ABN Amro. Patrick Degorce, one of the fund's founders, has written to chief executive Rijkman Groenink and chairman Arthur Martinez calling for a break-up...
Washington - The FBI is investigating a failed romanticrelationship involving Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in 1978 when the bombing spree began, a source close to the case said. The source said Mr Kaczynski's family brought the difficult break-up to the attention of the bureau. But an FBI official expressed...
8 BARRY DILLER A break-up of Vivendi Universal could leave him in control of a new company comprised of valuable assets from the Universal universe. 8 BARRY DILLER A break-up of Vivendi Universal could leave him in control of a new company comprised of...
Hermes, the activist investor, has joined the campaign to force the insurance giant Prudential to consider a break-up of the company, telling the board it believes such a move could unlock significant hidden shareholder value. In a letter to the insurer's chairman, Sir David Clementi, Hermes suggested...
NFL announcers are done telestrating the same routes again and again, as TV pancake makeup poured off them, until they got them right. Or until a producer told them to turn in their cue cards and take home their hairspray. As TV networks carrying NFL games...
DUBAI AFP — Justine Henin has admitted that the shock of the break-up of her marriage is so great that she has no immediate goal to regain the world number one spot, and can't yet think about anything other than playing tennis over the next couple of months. The...
The Department of Justice on Friday filed its final remedy proposal in the Microsoft [MSFT] antitrust trial. By all reports, it was similar to the DoJ's first proposal, eschewing more-elaborate break-up designs suggested since. The DoJ recommended the company be split into two, one for operating systems...
Prudential's chairman Sir David Clementi yesterday resisted calls from shareholders for a breakup of the under-performing insurance company. Speaking at the annual meeting, Sir David said that the "current composition and structure of the group provide material and operational benefits to shareholders". Prudential has been criticised because of the moribund...
Here's an infallible way to identify the woman in the room who is recovering from a bad break-up. She'll either look crop-haired and fierce like Joan of Arc, the Sword of Castration upright in her hand, or she'll resemble Courtney Love's sluttier sister. No prizes for guessing which look Britney...