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Overall, the Apple Computer (AAPL) announcements were in line with my expectations. I almost got right the new wireless device that will get the video you download to iTunes over…
NTL Incorporated (NTLI) CEO Stephen Burch made a presentation at Jefferies 4th Annual Communications Conference. The company made no comments and took no questions related to the status of negotiations…
Sometime later today, Apple will unveil its long awaited new products and services. Consensus seems firmly to predict that new higher capacity iPod nanos with new outside covers will be…
Today’s news that Telecom Italia plans to sell its mobile phone unit and focus on media investments reminds me that despite multiple compression and secular challenges, the media business is…
After seven months signaling value, Northlake’s Style model shifted to growth for September. There were no changes in any of the underlying factors this month. Rather, the two month rolling…
I subscribe to a blog written by Bob Lefsetz. Bob writes about the music business and has done so for more than 20 years. His posts often touch on the…
Here are some further thoughts on the Cruise-Paramount split (Part 1). This post takes to look at Tom Cruise as a business by comparing the profitability of his two most…
Apparently, Ronald Lauder has decided to pay for his $135 million acquisition of Gustav Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer I by monetizing half of his 15.8% stake in Central European Media Enterprises…
Given all the publicty created by the split between Tom Cruise and Paramount, I thought I'd offer some impressons from the perpsective of the stock market. The following post is…
Last week saw a flurry of acquisition and divestiture activity in the radio industry including news that the buyer of Disney's radio assets, Citadel Broadcasting, wants to renegotiate to lower…
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