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- Pay Caps Make It Tough to Hire Execs: GM Chairman
- By Jim ForsythSEGUIN, Texas (Reuters) - General Motors Co GM Chairman Ed Whitacre on Tuesday urged the Obama administration to give the automaker less restrictive pay caps and said it was too early to discuss the timing for the automaker to become a public company again.Ed Whitacre, who became chairman...
- News items 2009-11-11
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- Telcos and TV don't mix: recent history says Ed Whitacre steers clear of DirecTV.(Editorial)
- No. No. No. Not for a New York minute do I believe that SBC Communications will mount a bid for DirecTV. Why? Because nobody knows better than SBC chief Ed Whitacre that the big telephone companies have no business in show business. Ed has been the ...
- Research articles 2003-02-17
- ADVISORY/Photo of Ed Whitacre, Kathryn Hall, and Cathy Bonner is available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and Business Wire's Web Site
- Photo/ Lifestyle/Feature Editors ADVISORY... --BUSINESS WIRE The photo is BW7 on AP PhotoExpress. The photo is on Business Wires Web Site at URL: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.092700/bw7 Photo caption reads: Ed Whitacre, Chairman and CEO of SBC Communications, right, greets Kathryn Hall, U.S. Ambassador to Austria,...
- Research articles 2000-09-27
- New GM Ad From McCann Spurs Backlash; Can Ed Whitacre Sell Cars?
- General Motors appears determined to ruin the one good idea it has emerging from bankruptcy: a 60-day guarantee on its cars. Instead of touting that offer next to alluring examples of its new products, GM and McCann Erickson have wheeled out ... Ed Whitacre, the former chairman of AT&T, who...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- GM Chairman Whitacre Has Angel in One Ear, Devil in the Other
- The short-term devil one one of Ed Whitacre's shoulders says Whitacre should slash prices and jump-start sales. The long-term angel tells the GM chairman he should be patient. by Jim Henry
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- McCann's New GM Ads Indulge Chairman Whitacre; Actual Car Ads Coming Later
- General Motors will waste more of its money on ads that promote the image of new chairman Ed Whitacre rather than its cars. Why McCann Erickson indulging the client with this nonsense? by Jim Edwards
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Whitacre On Keeping Opel, GM IPO and Repaying Bailout
- GM Chairman Ed Whitacre makes keeping Opel sound like an easy decision, even though GM's decision reversed months of negotiations and embarrassed governments that supported the sale. by Jim Henry
- Blog posts 2009-11-12
- GM may pay on its loans soon
- General Motors Co. could pay back U.S. taxpayer loans sooner than expected, the automaker's new chairman said Tuesday evening, even suggesting payments might start this year. "There is a sense of urgency at GM to repay the money we owe as soon as possible," GM Chairman Ed Whitacre told an...
- News items 2009-11-11
- GM to repay U.S. early
- General Motors Co. is expected to fully repay the $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans on its books by 2011, four years earlier than required, because its sales have exceeded expectations and its costs have been lower than planned, according to people close to the talks between GM and the...
- News items 2009-11-16
- SBC signs deal to bundle EchoStar package. (In the Loop).
- SBC Chairman Ed Whitacre has scrapped just about every video venture the telco has been involved with, from a takeover of Cox Communications to a Midwestern cable overbuild. But he says he's really, really serious about video this time, cutting a $ SBC Chairman...
- Research articles 2003-07-28
- Southwestern Bell, how do you do? (Southwestern Bell to buy Hauser Communications Inc.) (Editorial)
- The way the winds are blowing in telephone land, don't be surprised if the NCTA one day hands out one of its coveted Vanguard awards to Ed Whitacre, chairman and CEO of Southwestern Bell Corp. And why not? ...
- Research articles 1993-02-15
- Phonezilla!(telcos entry into cable industry's business allowed)
- By John M. Higgins AT&T, BellSouth deal creates a giant, but cable isn't scared Just three days after cutting a $67 billion deal to buy BellSouth last week, AT&T Chairman Ed Whitacre got a precious gift...
- Research articles 2006-03-13
- No-brainer: Keep the AT&T brand.(Viewpoint)(Brief Article)
- There's only one right choice for the name of the merged SBC/AT&T: AT&T. Too bad SBC chief Ed Whitacre couldn't come up with the name last week when he pitched the deal to Wall Street. There's only one right choice for the name of the...
- Research articles 2005-02-07
- Telecoms must stay net neutral.(Viewpoint)
- AT&T's pitch: "Your world. Delivered.'' CEO Ed Whitacre's view of the Internet: "Our world. Deal with it.'' His deal to buy BellSouth Corp. makes it all the more pressing for Congress to pass legislation to ensure that consumers keep u AT&T's pitch: "Your world. Delivered.''...
- Research articles 2006-03-13
- GM Still Wants State Aid For Opel Restructuring
- By Christiaan Hetzner and Angelika GruberFRANKFURT (Reuters UK) - General Motors GM reaffirmed on Friday it wants state aid to help overhaul European arm Opel after a newspaper quoted GM's chairman as saying the U.S. carmaker will not ask German taxpayers for help.The topic is politically sensitive since GM this...
- News items 2009-11-13
- GM Still Wants State Aid For Opel
- By Christiaan Hetzner and Angelika GruberFRANKFURT (Reuters UK) - General Motors GM reaffirmed on Friday it wants state aid to help overhaul European arm Opel after a newspaper quoted GM's chairman as saying the U.S. carmaker will not ask German taxpayers for help.The topic is politically sensitive since GM this...
- News items 2009-11-14
- Source: GM to begin repaying aid by year-end
- WASHINGTON - General Motors Co. will begin paying back $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans by the end of 2009 and could pay off that full amount by 2011, four years ahead of schedule, according to a person familiar with the matter. The government debt represents about 13 percent of...
- News items 2009-11-15
- Warning to Whitacre: Don't dump AT&T name; Strong brand image.(Ed Whitacre)
- Byline: ALICE Z. CUNEO Byline: ALICE Z. CUNEO
- Research articles 2005-02-07
- AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre to Deliver Keynote Address at Inaugural TelecomNEXT Event; Whitacre Keynote to Address Key Technology Trends, Developing Opportunities for the Communications Industry
- WASHINGTON -- AT&T Support of TelecomNEXT Also Includes Large-Scale Demonstration of Network Disaster Recovery Tractor-Trailers on Exhibition Floor
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Telecoms in turmoil: America's landmark telecommunications law of 1996 isn't working. Does this matter?(Leaders)(Editorial)(Brief Article)
- America's landmark telecommunications law of 1996 isn't working. Does this matter? AS ED WHITACRE announced SBC's planned $62 billion takeover this week of a neighbouring Baby Bell, Ameritech, it wasn't just the deal's size-the second biggest in history-that got it talked about. ...
- Research articles 1998-05-16
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