| AT&T launches 3G wireless in Rome (Rome News-Tribune) |
| With the official launch of AT&T’s 3G wireless broadband network in Floyd County, local mobile consumers can get access to services previously available only in the state’s larger metro areas, the company said in announcing the service Tuesday.“It gives you the feel of a personal computer on the go,” said Kirk Baker, retail data manager for AT&T. Users of 3G-capable handheld devices and laptop ... |
| 12/03/2008 |
| Realogy’s Creditor Wars (New York Times) |
| For those who believe in corporate karma, there was a cosmic chuckle Tuesday when the suit filed by Carl Icahn’s High River against Realogy , the company owned and controlled by Apollo Management Group , was made public . In classic litigator form, the lawsuit was filed in Delaware Chancery Court the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving; this no doubt ruined someone’s holiday. |
| 12/03/2008 |
| An End Run Around Realogy’s Lenders (New York Times) |
| It was as badly timed a takeover as there was during the private equity boom. At the end of 2006, Apollo Management , the private equity firm headed by Leon Black, agreed to buy Realogy , a conglomerate with a number of franchised real estate businesses, among them Century 21 and Coldwell Banker, for $7 billion in cash. |
| 11/28/2008 |
| Another Crisis, Another Guarantee (New York Times) |
| Guarantees that could not be honored thrust the world financial system into its worst crisis since the Great Depression. Now, The New York Times’s Floyd Norris asks, will a guarantee by the United States government finally restore confidence in the American financial system? |
| 11/25/2008 |
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