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Time Warner (TWX) Finds Sure-Fire Way To Get Stock Price Up

- 4 hours and 39 minutes ago

p style="padding-left: 30px;"a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idINN0151494720081201?rpc=44"img class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=48567ec2796c7a0f00aece9fmaxX=372maxY=226" border="0" alt="bewkespauliewalnuts.jpg" title="bewkespauliewalnuts.jpg" width="372" height="226" /Reuters:/a Time Warner is asking its shareholders to vote for a reverse stock split, in a bid to boost its languishing market price and improve the shares' liquidity, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.span/spanspan/span/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The media company, which owns cable news network CNN and movie studio Warner Bros among its media properties, is proposing the split after it separates from its Time Warner Cable Inc unit early in 2009./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"span/span/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"A special meeting of stockholders will be held on Jan. 16 at its New York headquarters. It said in a proxy filing that stockholders will be asked to vote on a reverse stock split in a ratio of either 1-for-2 or 1-for-3, as determined by the board./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"span/span/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Time Warner owns 84 percent of Time Warner Cable and its shareholders will receive a special one-time dividend of $10.9 billion when it separates from the cable unit./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"span/span/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The media company said its board believes that following the separation, the market price and trading ranges for Time Warner stock may be significantly lower than the current market price due to the fact that Time Warner will have distributed all of its Time Warner Cable shares to Time Warner shareholders./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"span/span/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The board said it believes that increasing Time Warner's absolute share price will make it a more liquid and marketable stock. It said some institutional investors and investment funds are prohibited from investing in lower-priced stocks./p pAnother benefit: The new stock price will be less embarrassing./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/P0ZOQZkfQj72oCqEfsMG79f-n00/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/P0ZOQZkfQj72oCqEfsMG79f-n00/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=v8cd0iiC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=v8cd0iiC" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=oeCFweQa"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=gfYZPeVG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=tXPtVUo8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=tXPtVUo8" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=rIbUJW8e"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=dIF4KHee"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=xOxSUoaR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=pipBivyP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/H4aLj0H8MxQ" height="1" width="1"/

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UAW wants executive pay to be limited

Autoblog

- 7 hours and 37 minutes ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/plants-manufacturing/" rel="tag"Plants/Manufacturing/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/chrysler/" rel="tag"Chrysler, LLC./a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/ford/" rel="tag"Ford/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/gm/" rel="tag"GM/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/earnings-financials/" rel="tag"Earnings/Financials/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/uaw-unions/" rel="tag"UAW/Unions/a/ppa href="http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN3047458820081130"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/detroit_3_450.jpg" //abr /br /The president of the United Auto Workers union, Ron Gettelfinger, said in a recent CNN interview that U.S. automakers need to tell Congress they will limit corporate pay, bonuses and severance packages in return for more a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/24/house-passes-25-billion-loan-for-domestic-automakers/"government loans/a. Gettelfinger also said that the Detroit Three only need the loans to hold them over during these tough times. While the first statement from the union's top player seems like basic common sense, the second seems highly optimistic... especially when one considers the size of the industry and the depth of its issues. While no single event (or loan, for that matter) will likely turn around the downslide, all of those affected by the auto industry's potential demise will be interested in tomorrow's events. That's because Dec. 2 is the day House and Senate leaders told the automakers that they need to a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/aw-snap-congressional-democrats-undercut-compromise-bailout-bil/"submit a "credible restructuring plan"/a that's convincing enough to get Congress to open its wallet when it reconvenes next week./p p[Source: a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN3047458820081130"Reuters/a]/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/01/uaw-wants-executive-pay-to-be-limited/"UAW wants executive pay to be limited/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:32:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/01/uaw-wants-executive-pay-to-be-limited/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1386797/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/01/uaw-wants-executive-pay-to-be-limited/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/6kX0B5pjuOPL3hP9fwpCuge_nfY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/6kX0B5pjuOPL3hP9fwpCuge_nfY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=XN3dUxPy"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=XN3dUxPy" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=R30M54Y1"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=R30M54Y1" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/8BeLQXN4TPM" height="1" width="1"/

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Analyst Roundup: Black Friday pretty good for Apple

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

- 8 hours and 9 minutes ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/apple-financial/" rel="tag"Apple Financial/a/ppa href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/indieman/5858851/"img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/12/roundup-438537592.jpg" alt="" //aApple met or beat analyst expectations for sales over the weekend, a href="http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/analysts_apple_one_bright_spot_in_otherwise_lackluster_black_friday/"selling 13 Macs and 3.4 iPhones every hour/a, according to one Piper Jaffray estimate./p pa href="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/d13179e4705a23da181f1133cc8e03bc.htm"Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu/a said that Apple's Black Friday promotions helped drive retail store traffic, according to reports from distributors. Wu also noted that the iPod touch is sold out at Amazon.com, which leads him to believe that Apple could sell $10 billion worth of products this quarter./p pThomas Weisel Partners' Doug Reid got the impression that Apple sales were up from last year. He was less optimistic about Dell's retail performance at Best Buy locations, noting that salespeople there were not strongly recommending Dell models at 35 stores they checked./p pWeisel analysts expect Apple to sell 2.4 million Macs during the fourth quarter./p pa href="http://www.streetinsider.com/Analyst+Comments/Analysts+Weigh-In+On+Apples+(AAPL)+Black+Friday+Results/4200713.html"Deutsche Bank analysts/a also conducted their own checks over the weekend, and found demand to be "solid," considering the current global economic woes. They expect Apple to sell 5 million iPhones this quarter, and reiterated their "buy" rating and price target of $150 per share./p pa href="http://finance.google.com/finance?q=aapl"AAPL/a was down slightly in morning trading./pp style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/01/analyst-roundup-black-friday-pretty-good-for-apple/"Analyst Roundup: Black Friday pretty good for Apple/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/analysts_apple_one_bright_spot_in_otherwise_lackluster_black_friday/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/01/analyst-roundup-black-friday-pretty-good-for-apple/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1387201/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/01/analyst-roundup-black-friday-pretty-good-for-apple/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/WtU35ifnwXeJm7-4N-bg6nykUVs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/WtU35ifnwXeJm7-4N-bg6nykUVs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=lOVz3ZFP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=lOVz3ZFP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=aArhzk6t"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=aArhzk6t" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/qLMgw4ee5kg" height="1" width="1"/

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AP Boss: CNN Wire Service Is "Remarkably, Abysmally Written"

Silicon Alley Insider

- 9 hours and 10 minutes ago

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=47a93c2f4b543772005f996fmaxX=155maxY=43" border="0" alt="cnncom.png" title="cnncom.png" width="155" height="43" /Editors from 30 newspapers are a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/business/media/01cnn.html?_r=2adxnnl=1ref=businesspagewanted=alladxnnlx=1228100453-5RiN0q6DDRtHKI4p1yLkAA"going to Atlanta to hear about CNN's new wire service/a, which is supposed to be a cheaper alternative to the Associated Press./p pDuring a Webcast for employees, AP president and CEO Tom Curley identified CNN Wire -- and the trend it represents, that is, customers becoming competitors -- as one of the three main challenges facing the nonprofit corporation, along with the economy and newspapers' ill-health./p pBut if CNN (TWX) takes AP business, it won't be because it's a better project, Curley told employees./p p'The current CNN wire, if you look at it truly is still, and remarkably, abysmally written,' said Curley. 'However, they're interviewing A.P. people, we know, and that can be transformed. And if you have enough money and you have enough ego and enough desire, you can fix that in a hurry.'/p pCNN Wire, as the service will be called, will also compete with Bloomberg News and Thomson Reuters. It will syndicate Web videos, columns and TV transcripts, but unlike the AP, not photos./p pstrongSee Also:/stronga href="../../2008/11/huffington-buckley-and-hamill-politely-scream-about-the-future-of-media-clip-"br /William Kristol and Pete Hamill Scream About The Future Of Media (Clip)/abr /a href="../../2008/11/got-a-cheap-media-company-to-sell-call-ge-ge-"Got A Cheap Media Company To Sell? Call GE (GE)/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/3jHxM7PehbSUm5q5JUu0gh_rChM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/3jHxM7PehbSUm5q5JUu0gh_rChM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=iucnVkCK"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=iucnVkCK" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=I7uOdd9h"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=nE0GY37O"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=9OoGOyNG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=9OoGOyNG" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=13thv6WF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=dhZR78aZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=b6LGXO0f"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=yR8c55tr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/AVNcUPRY4mo" height="1" width="1"/

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