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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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Jeff Segal and Robert Cyran 10:41 PM | January 15,2009
The company has elected Tim Cook, its chief operating officer, to run its day-to-day operations
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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 12:08 AM | October 25,2008
The US Federal Reserve’s former chairman says he’s in a state of “shocked disbelief” that self-regulation did n0t work in the banking sector
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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 and Jeff Segal / breakingviews.com 11:58 PM | September 03,2008
If it can team the browser up with cool and easy-to-use applications, the software may quickly become popular
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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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Breakingviews.com | Robert Cyran 12:09 AM | June 27,2008
Obesity rates grew after the war, but really took off around 1980
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breakingviews.com | Robert Cyran and Jeff Segal 11:27 PM | June 23,2008
The skills involved in launching a successful company are often quite different from those needed to shepherd a mature one
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breakingviews.com | Robert Cyran 11:52 PM | June 20,2008
Ranbaxy will get a licence to sell another of Pfizer’s patent-protected drugs
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