Are you ready for even more football? ESPN certainly hopes so. The top cable sports channel, which this season took over the venerable Monday Night Football franchise, inked a five-year broadcasting deal this month with the …
Archive for December, 2006
Yugo’s Bricklin will bring a Chinese-built car to the US — eventually…maybe
by James Bryant, December 22, 2006, 7:00 amSome months back I wrote in this blog space about when the US might see a Chinese car land on its shores. It looks like the wait, at least for one potential importer, just got longer.
Yugo mastermind Malcolm …
Letting the chips fall where they may
by Jeff Dorsch, December 21, 2006, 7:00 amWill it be a year of “que sera, sera” for the semiconductor industry in 2007? Not likely.
The chip business is settling into a period of mature, smooth growth. It’s too soon to say the boom-or-bust days are over for good, but the recent trend is for steady …
ABN AMRO banking on Second Life
by Patrice Sarath, December 20, 2006, 7:00 amHumans. Ten thousand years of civilization and stunning technological advances, and when they go online where their wildest dreams can come true, it turns out all they want to do is pay their mortgages.
Sort of.
Companies as diverse as Dell, …
Congratulations! You are the person of the year
by Daysha Taylor, December 19, 2006, 7:00 amIn a bold move, Time Magazine has dubbed “You” as its “Person of the Year.” In the end, though the opportunistic attempt to align the magazine’s image with the buzz surrounding the Web 2.0 craze may prove to be the next source …
Take a wild ride with the subprime mortgage industry
by Vanita Trippe, December 17, 2006, 1:35 pmLooking for a career in a dynamic and exciting industry? It might be a great time to take a look at becoming a subprime mortgage lender. (Those in search of career stability need not apply.)
If you already know what subprime lending is, skip this paragraph. If you …
Seminoles ‘Rock’ the leisure industry
by Anne Law, December 15, 2006, 7:00 amThe Seminole Tribe of Florida, which took the first bold step into Native American gaming back in 1979, has once again made history with a deal to purchase …
Side-stepping health care reform for now?
by Elizabeth Cornell, December 14, 2006, 7:00 amWith the mid-term US elections behind us, the politically minded are wondering whether the Democrats will tackle the contentious issue of health care reform. Some legislators have decided the country is ripe for new policy, and they’re not waiting for their cohorts to argue otherwise at the national level. They’re taking the issue to …
Next! Who’s next here?
by Jeff Dorsch, December 13, 2006, 7:00 am2006 brought a crop of mega-mergers, spin-offs, and buyouts in the semiconductor industry. The popular parlor game now is: Which is the next company to be acquired?
The year has seen Bain Capital’s $3 billion buyout of Sensata Technologies from Texas Instruments, Infineon Technologies’ …
A deal rated ‘I’ for inexplicable
by Larry Bills, December 12, 2006, 7:00 amI’ve heard a lot of bad ideas during my time covering the entertainment industry for Hoover’s (“Hey, let’s merge AOL with Time Warner!”), but a recent business deal between …
