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Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 12:14 AM | February 27,2009
Microsoft has a well-experienced legal team and plenty of rivals. Perhaps Ballmer’s learnt more from the RCA example than he’s letting on
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Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 12:57 AM | January 28,2009
The company currently has net cash and the combined firm will have some $31 billion of Ebitda to pay off its obligations
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Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 09:58 PM | January 12,2009
In return for handing over up to $13.4 billion in emergency loans, the US Treasury is calling for GM to wipe out two-thirds of its unsecured debt by swapping it for equity
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Hugo Dixon and Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 10:05 PM | December 03,2008
One key number, which Pandit let slip in an interview on the Charlie Rose television show last week, is that the original value of this bundle of assets was between $340 billion and $350 billion
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Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 11:05 PM | November 30,2008
Close to 20 firms, ranging from Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. to Vanda Pharmaceuticals, are in this odd situation, and many more aren’t far away
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Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 10:55 PM | November 20,2008
The recent ban on shorting financial stocks severely wounded many convertible arbitrage funds
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Jeff Segal and Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 01:02 AM | November 01,2008
Last month AC/DC agreed to let the maker of the popular Rock Band video game create an updated version based entirely on its songs
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Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 10:22 PM | October 23,2008
Even with talk of $200 oil only recently faded, the current $70 oil is by no means a floor
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Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 12:13 AM | August 22,2008
AIG’s share have lost almost two-thirds of their value this year. Yet even tough-sounding analysts take relatively sanguine views of the company’s troubles
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Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 10:48 PM | May 25,2008
There is no doubt mark-to-market valuation isn’t perfect, mainly because it is procyclical
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Robert Cyran / Breakingviews.com 11:52 PM | December 02,2007
Brown, who replaces Edward J. Zander as chief exec on 1 January, has the luxury of low expectations. Investors might grant him time to unveil his plans and a period for them to pan out
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Robert Cyran / Breakingviews.com 01:26 AM | November 30,2007
The search group is now investing in green technology because it sees renewable energy becoming a cheaper alternative than fossil fuel
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Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 01:53 AM | October 29,2007
The initial slow demand for Vista may have hurt Microsoft, but it wounded personal computer (PC) makers and grievously hurt computer component makers
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Robert Cyran / Breakingviews.com 12:26 AM | October 15,2007
Of the eight rivals that Oracle had wanted to acquire three years ago, only three remain independent currently
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Robert Cyran / breakingviews.com 12:59 AM | June 22,2007
Yahoo missed the boat on social networking—and MySpace is the leader in the field
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