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Australia open to Qantas and BA merger 
(unknown author) via Financial Times - UK Homepage on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
The UK carrier is exploring a potential merger with its Australian rival via a dual-listed company structure, the boldest move yet considered to accelerate the consolidation of the global airline industry
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'UK Hulu' Kangaroo Ruled Anti-Competitive; Back To The Drawing Board
Robert Andrews via paidContent.org on Wed, 03 Dec. 2008
Project Kangaroo, a Hulu-like UK VOD JV from BBC Worldwide, ITV (LSE: ITV) and Channel 4, would reduce competition and harm consumers, Britain's anti-trust authority ruled Wednesday morning, even before the project has launched. The Competition Commission said the online unification of the UK's three leading broadcasters would see them lock up the market for wholesale and retail VOD TV supply.
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CVS refused to fill my prescription; is this legal?
(unknown author) via apophenia on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
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it's like TSA "terrorist" list. if someone is denied service they should also be put to trial so they can be absolved if that's the case. to be just refused service at face value without reason the companies are just shifting responsibilities.
A week ago, I went to my normal pharmacy to get a prescription filled. When they told me they were out but
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It's Not Liquidity Or Solvency That's The Problem: It's Transparency
Michael Masnick via Techdirt on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
Last month, in writing about the financial crisis, I tried walking through the root causes of how the financial crisis happened and how to prevent it from happening again -- and the point I kept coming back to was the lack of transparency. It wasn't (as some people want to claim) "greed" or a "lack of regulation" that caused
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BA explores merger with Qantas
(unknown author) via Financial Times - UK Homepage on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
The UK carrier is exploring a potential merger with its Australian rival via a dual-listed company structure, the boldest move yet considered to accelerate the consolidation of the global airline industry
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Creation Does Not Equal Ownership
Michael Masnick via Techdirt on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
I'm quite often confused by those who consider themselves big supporters of pure free market capitalism, but who also are adamant believers in the importance of intellectual property. Perhaps the largest group of such folks are the so-called "Objectivist" followers of Ayn Rand. Capitalist Magazine is running an Objectivist defense of the recent Pro
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BA explores merger with Qantas
(unknown author) via Financial Times - UK Homepage on Tue, 02 Dec. 2008
The UK carrier is exploring a potential merger with its Australian rival via a dual-listed company structure, the boldest move yet considered to accelerate the consolidation of the global airline industry
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How to Design a Bailout That Works
Barry Ritholtz via The Big Picture on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2008/11/brad-delong-question-and-how-to-design_24.html
Brad DeLong asks a question which seems obvious enough to me – but seems to elude him.
Le Citi Toujours Dormer…
Why oh why
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Making the case for cash out deals
nic via The Equity Kicker on Mon, 01 Dec. 2008
Don Dodge has a write up from a Microsoft conference last week where he chaired a panel of VCs. His main message is that VCs are still investing (true, but at a much slower pace…). The piece I want to bring out though is the discussion of how to motiv
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After All That, Stock Market Finally At Fair Value
Henry Blodget via Alley Insider on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
From Clusterstock: Gut-wrenching plunges, dizzying sucker's rallies, global economic and financial collapse...and here we are back at the stock market's long-term average.
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The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell
(unknown author) via The Register on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
A guru for the brain dead
Have you ever had the nagging sense that there's something not quite right with the adulation that follows Malcolm Gladwell - the author of Tipping Point? But you couldn't quite put your finger on it? We're here to help, dear reader.…
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A Modest Proposal For The Auto Industry: Stop Building Cars
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Sun, 30 Nov. 2008
Everybody these days has some advice for the beleaguered U.S. auto industry. Bail them out. Break up the unions. Do something about the dealerships. Do something about spiraling health care and pension costs. Design cars people will love. Etc.
There’s always the “be more like Apple” ad
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Off-Topic: Why Citibank Should Vanish
Om Malik via GigaOM on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
After a long day, I returned home to find a mound of junk mail clogging my mailbox. Of note was a letter from Citibank informin
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SEC Outlines Its Reasoning For Shutting Down P2P Lender Prosper
Erick Schonfeld via TechCrunch on Wed, 26 Nov. 2008
Last month, peer-to-peer lender Prosper stopped all new lending on its site because of scrutiny by the SEC.
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The Broken Culture in the Auto Industry: A Comment from a Stanford Student Who Tried to Work at Ford
Bobsutton via Bob Sutton on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
I am a bit overwhelmed by both the quality and the number of comments to the post that I put up on Thursday on The Auto Industry Bailout, which focused on why I believe that GM executives are clueless and suffer from a "no we
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Broadband in the AFR
Joshua Gans via CoreEcon on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
I have a piece today in the Australian Financial Review on broadband (reproduced over the fold). For regular readers, it might strike you as something very new. Put simply, I take as a political constraint that the government is going to invest in high speed broadband. I argue that it should not go halfway (something that I have argued before). Instead, it should build the whole 100Mbp
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Will SIP Make Calling Cards Obsolete?
Andy Abramson via VoIP Watch on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
Michael Graves has a post today on how to save money when making calls to or from overseas. He highlights client Junction Networks and their OnSip service which I use quite a bit when I go across the water, as well as some other neat ideas to save your money for something better than a ph
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Facebook’s Project Palantir: Beautiful Visualization Of People Connecting
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Sun, 23 Nov. 2008
A group of Facebook engineers - Jack Lindamood, Kevin Der and Dan Weatherford - have created a small project called Palantir at a Facebook Hackathon event. The project is named after The palantír of Orthanc, a crystal ball-like object from The
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