In response to Microsoft’s (MSFT) plan to sell $2.25 billion of bonds in maturities of 2015, 2020, and 2040, Bloomberg’s Sapna Maheshwari and John Detrixhe this afternoon write that the offering signals 2011 is, “more the year of the shareholder than the year of the bondholder,” citing money manager Tom [...]
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Interesting piece by Ari Levy and Brian Womack of Bloomberg today stating that private money trading in technology companies, including Groupon, Twitter, and Facebook could surge by 51% this year, to $7 billion, citing data from Nyppex.com, a research firm.
A need for liquidity is rising as startups stay private longer, [...]
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“Longer-term, AIG shouldn’t exist,” Golub said in an interview airing today on Bloomberg Television’s “In the Loop with Betty Liu.” [Bloomberg]
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Spain’s cabinet of ministers today cut $6 billion from subsidies to power plants using solar panels over the next three years, part of a broader effort to trim energy costs.
As Bloomberg’s Ben Sills and Todd White report, the cut in subsidies for photovoltaic energy production are “a massive blow against [...]
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Interesting piece today, in case you missed it, on Bloomberg about Facebook: the company is on track to make $2 billion in revenue this year, about double what it made last year, writes Brian Womack, citing three anonymous sources.
You can connect that with a recently reported $55 billion valuation being [...]
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Interesting piece by Matthew Campbell and Jonathan Browning over at Bloomberg this morning, who write that European telecoms are demanding that Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), Facebook and their ilk must help the phone companies pay for the “billions” needed for network upgrades to support the flood of traffic their goods [...]
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And now, folks, for another exciting episode of “Bloomberg Game Changers,” the short, to-the-point prime-time bio series Bloomberg TV runs on major business personalities. Past targets have included Steve Jobs and Henry Kravis.
Tonight’s hour-long feature, starting at 9pm, Eastern, is on Oracle (ORCL) CEO Lary Ellison, the man from Chicago [...]
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Anthony Effinger has a nice profile on Bloomberg this morning of John Kinnucan, the tech industry analyst approached by Feds in the insider probe of the last several weeks who said he refused to wear a wire.
Kinnucan, Effinger writes, has made two appearances on cable television and written a piece [...]
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Google (GOOG) will open an e-book store this year, writes Douglas MacMillan of Bloomberg this morning, citing an anonymous source.
The source tells MacMillan publishers are negotiating different revenue-sharing arrangements. Which makes one wonder: will pricing be wildly varied as well?
This is not the first time we’ve heard tell of a [...]
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Interesting piece with an odd headline on Bloomberg this morning: Timothy Homan and Anthony Feld dip into the slowdown in sales of durable goods that’s taken place in Q3 of this year.
But the title, “Need for QE2 Seen in Electronics Manufacturing Services Pause” kind of sounds a bit grandiose: the [...]
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