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• SEC Watch: Harbinger Cuts New York Times Stake To 16.4 Percent

  PaidContent - 2009-09-22

  Harbinger Capital Partners, the activist hedge fund that bought its way into two New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) board seats in 2007, has reduced its stake in the publishing company by nearly one fifth, according to SEC filings. The hedge fund spent more than $500 million to make...

  Tags: SEC, New York Times Co., Harbinger, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Companies, New York Times, Staci D. Kramer

• Dow Closes Below 8,000 For First Time In Five Years; ContentNextDex Drops To Lowest Since '07 Launch

  Content Next - 2008-11-19

  The Dow, with its first sub-8,000 close in five years, wasn't the only index with a record-you-don't-want day: the ContentNextDex, our own index of media, tech, mobile and entertainment stocks, dropped nearly 6 percent to 507.32—the lowest close since we launched it officially in September 2007. Compared with the...

  Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Biz & Fin, ContentNexDex, Harbinger, Information, Marketing, Media, Media General Inc., NSDQ, NYSE Euronext, Staci D. Kramer, The Dow Chemical Co., Yahoo! Inc.

• Cleveland-Cliffs Announces Results for Special Meeting Held on Oct. 3

  - 2008-10-10

  Company Also Sets Record Date for Proposal to Merge with Alpha Natural Resources CLEVELAND -- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (NYSE: CLF), which will be renamed Cliffs Natural Resources in mid-October, today announced results for the special meeting of shareholders held on Oct. 3, 2008. The Company said that, based on the...

  Tags: acquisition, Company, FINANCE, Harbinger, Investment, merger, SEC, shareholder

• Cleveland-Cliffs Shareholders Reject Harbinger's Control Share Acquisition Proposal at Special Meeting of Shareholders

  - 2008-10-03

  CLEVELAND -- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (NYSE: CLF), which will be renamed Cliffs Natural Resources in mid-October, today announced that, based on the preliminary count provided by its proxy solicitor, it appears that approximately 80% of shares voted by holders other than Harbinger Capital Partners, its equity-swap counter parties or other "interested"...

  Tags: acquisition, Alpha, Cleveland, Company, FINANCE, Harbinger, Investment, merger, SEC, shareholder

• Leading Proxy Advisory Firm Glass Lewis Recommends That Cleveland-Cliffs Shareholders Vote AGAINST Control Share Acquisition Proposal on the White Proxy Card

  - 2008-09-22

  All Three Leading Proxy Advisory Firms Recommend Shareholders Vote AGAINST Harbinger's Proposal CLEVELAND -- Cleveland-Cliffs Inc (NYSE: CLF), which will be renamed Cliffs Natural Resources in the coming months, today announced that Glass Lewis & Co., a leading independent proxy advisory firm, recommends that Cleveland-Cliffs shareholders vote AGAINST Harbinger...

  Tags: acquisition, Alpha, Company, FINANCE, Harbinger, Investment, Lewis, merger, SEC

• TerreStar Enhances Nationwide Spectrum Footprint — Finalizes Transactions with EchoStar & Harbinger

  - 2008-06-11

  RESTON, Va. -- TerreStar Corporation (NASDAQ:TSTR) today announced that it has enhanced its nationwide spectrum footprint by obtaining, through separate transactions, certain 1.4 GHz spectrum licenses held by EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ:SATS) and CCTV Wireless I, LLC CCTV. TerreStar has acquired the CCTV 1.4 GHz spectrum pursuant to an assignment from...

  Tags: EchoStar Communications Corp., Harbinger

• Harbinger Capital Partners® Recommends Calpine Corporation Review NRG Energy, Inc.'s Proposed Merger of Equals

  - 2008-05-21

  Calpine's Largest Shareholder Urges Board to Put CEO Search on Hold

  Tags: Calpine Corp., Harbinger, merger, NRG Energy Inc.

• The New York Times Company, Harbinger Capital and Firebrand Partners Agree to Settle Proxy Contest

  - 2008-03-17

  NEW YORK -- The New York Times Company, the Harbinger Capital Partners Funds ("Harbinger") and Firebrand Partners ("Firebrand") announced today that they have reached an agreement under which Scott Galloway, founder of Firebrand, and James Kohlberg, chairman of Kohlberg & Company, will be added to the slate of Class A...

  Tags: Harbinger, New York Times Co.

• Private equity orbits Inmarsat.

  - 2008-03-07

  IC BIDWATCH: Satellite operator sees stakebuilding, plus Melrose's latest offer for FKI and more in property, insurance and mining. Tim Bradshaw Inmarsat's shares got excited with bid rumours before a disappointing set of results dampened things down again. US hedge fund Harbinger Capital...

  Tags: Harbinger, Inmarsat Plc.

• Harbinger Consulting Group and Arrow ECS Partner to Deliver the Industry's Best BI Strategy from Oracle

  - 2008-02-15

  MINNEAPOLIS -- Harbinger Consulting Group HCG is partnering with Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions ECS to implement service and support the Oracle[R] Business Intelligence BI portfolio of technology and applications. "HCG is excited to be partnering with one of the industry's leading distributors of information technology," said Joe Axe, HCG Vice...

  Tags: business intelligence, Oracle Corp., Harbinger