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RBS Plans $23.7 Bln Share Sale To Bolster Capital
2008-04-22 06:13:14
LONDON - The Royal Bank of Scotland on Tuesday said it planned to raise 12 billion pounds ($23.7 billion) through the sale of shares to existing investors in an attempt to bolster its shaky capital position. The sale, known as a rights issue, will be the biggest ever for a U.K. company and is needed to balance the impact of the ABN Amro acquisition and possible further pretax write-downs of 5.9 billion pounds in 2008. It also puts RBS second in the European capital-raising league table. Top of the table is Swiss giant UBS , which has raised around $28 billion through a rights issue and the sale of a stake to investors in Singapore and the Middle East since the credit crisis began. RBS also said it hopes disposals -- likely including its insurance
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Will Newspapers Tempt Another Billionaire?
2008-04-21 16:28:44
Despite their troubled state, newspapers keep luring some of the world's most successful businesspeople. Their next catch could be billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Newsweek reports that Bloomberg's top associates are encouraging the New York mayor to acquire The New York Times. Shares of the Times rose 40 cents, or 2.1%, to $19.59, in Monday trading. Newspapers are struggling as readers and advertisers increasingly turn to the Web. Earnings have plunged; growth rates are negative. Investors have fled in droves. You wouldn't guess it though from the interest they are drawing from billionaires. They seem to be the only people left interested in buying them. Rupert Murdoch, fresh off his $5.6 billion acquisition of The Wall Street Journal, is now eyeing Newsday. The paper could fetch as mu
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2008-04-21 11:21:52
Clickbank Business Guide - eBayeBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide. In addition to its original U.S. website, eBay has established localized websites in thirty other countries. eBay Inc also owns PayPal, Skype, and other businesses.Origins and early historyThe online auction web site was founded in San Jose, California on September 3, 1995 by French-born Iranian computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb, part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus. The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder


Automakers View China As One Of The Top Markets In World
2008-04-20 10:05:50
BEIJING (AP) — Automakers issued ambitious forecasts Sunday of up to 65 percent sales growth in China 's booming market this year — a striking contrast to the gloom in the United States and elsewhere.Sales of some individual models to newly prosperous Chinese drivers soared by up to 100 percent in the first quarter over the same period of 2007, said executives speaking at the Beijing auto show.Toyota Motor Corp. expects to sell 700,000 vehicles in China this year, up 40 percent from 2007, executive Yuzo Ushiyama said."As the 40 percent (target) is much bigger than the overall market growth, this is challenging," Ushiyama told reporters. "But we want to try (700,000 vehicles) as our goal."Automakers are looking to China to drive sagging sales at a time when demand in the United States is
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Luxury Auto Rivals Daimler, BMW Discuss Sharing Components
2008-04-20 04:58:37
BEIJING (AP) — Daimler AG, the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, is discussing sharing components and technology development with rival BMW AG, Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche said Sunday.The luxury automakers see each other as direct competitors and the possibility of cooperation reflects the intense pressure on automakers to cut costs amid slow sales growth in the United States and Europe."We are discussing potentially sharing components. And this might make sense specifically in regard to new technologies," Zetsche told reporters at the Beijing auto show.Daimler, based in Stuttgart, and BMW, in Munich, might consider jointly investing in basic research but no agreements have been reached, Zetsche said. He gave no other details.China, the world's second-largest auto market, has been a bright spo
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Google
2008-04-19 17:20:59
Clickbank Business Guide - Google Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE:GGEA) is an American public corporation, earning revenue from online and mobile advertising related to its Internet search, web-based e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google's headquarters, the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California, and the company has 16,805 full-time employees (as of December 31, 2007). It is the largest American company (by market capitalization) that is not part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (as of October 31, 2007). Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were students at Stanford University and the company was first incorporated as a private


Alliance Data to Sue Blackstone for $170 Million Fee
2008-04-19 10:59:46
April 19 - Alliance Data Systems Corp. plans to sue Blackstone Group LP to collect a $170 million break-up fee after the buyout firm failed to complete its takeover of the credit-card processor. Blackstone is liable for the fee because the New York-based firm refused to accept ``reasonable and customary'' regulatory requirements and prolonged negotiations with regulators over the $6.6 billion transaction, Alliance Data said yesterday in a statement. The deadline for the deal to close expired April 17. Alliance Data, which plans to file the lawsuit in New York Supreme Court, said Blackstone denies that it breached the contract. Dallas-based Alliance Data said it terminated the acquisition agreement, which was originally announced in May. Blackstone `


Email Marketing
2008-04-18 11:37:18
Clickbank Business Guide - Email Marketing Email marketing is a form of direct marketing which uses electronic mail as a means of communicating commercial or fundraising messages to an audience. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. However, the term is usually used to refer to: Sending emails with the purpose of enhancing the relationship of a merchant with its current or old customers and to encourage customer loyalty and repeat business.Sending emails with the purpose of acquiring new customers or convincing old customers to buy something immediately.Adding advertisements in emails sent by other companies to their customers.Emails that are being sent on the Internet (Email did and does exist outside the Internet, N
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AT&T To Cut About 4,600 Jobs, Sees $374 Million 1Q Charge
2008-04-18 10:49:39
NEW YORK - AT&T Inc. on Friday said it plans to cut about 4,600 jobs, or 1.5 percent of its work force, to shift resources to growing parts of its business. The nation’s largest telecommunications provider said most of the layoffs will be among managers, particularly in wireline operations, including local phone service and service for large corporate customers. Jobs in corporate functions in like finance will also be cut. "Even with the reductions announced today, we expect our head count overall to remain stable this year as we hire additional employees to support growth areas like wireless and TV," said spokesman Michael Coe. The San Antonio-based company said in a regulatory filing that it plans to take a $374 million first-quarter pretax charge against earnings due to t


Google Results Shush Critics
2008-04-18 04:45:59
Google Inc. quieted its critics Thursday as its first-quarter earnings showed stronger-than-expected revenue growth. Its stock soared 18 percent in after-hours trading.Google also reached a notable milestone, as 51 percent of the search giant's revenue in the quarter came from international markets. That's up from 47 percent in the year-ago quarter and 49 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007. In a conference call, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the achievement shows Google is "a truly global company."But he also noted that the quarter's strong performance indicates that "paid-click growth is much higher than has been speculated by third parties."That was a clear reference to a ComScore Inc. report Tuesday that showed Google's paid clicks grew by only 2.7 percent in March compa
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Bank of America Plans to End Private Student Lending
2008-04-17 17:00:24
April 17 - Bank of America Corp., the second- largest U.S. bank, said it will no longer make private student loans, as lenders exit the business amid rising borrowing costs and investor disdain for related securities. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank will continue providing government-backed loans, which made up more than 85 percent of its $6 billion in student lending last year, Bank of America said today in a statement. Bank of America joins Citigroup Inc., SLM Corp. and other lenders in tightening loan criteria or exiting parts of student lending in recent months. Increased borrowing costs, cuts in government subsidies for loans and a lack of investor demand for securities backed by loan assets have made the business unprofitable for some lenders.
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U.S. Initial Jobless Claims Rise 17,000 to 372,000
2008-04-17 10:58:53
April 17 - More Americans filed first-time jobless claims last week and the total number receiving benefits rose to the highest level in almost four years, a sign the labor market continues to weaken. Initial applications for unemployment insurance increased by 17,000 to 372,000 in the week that ended April 12, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The number of people on benefit rolls climbed to 2.98 million, the most since June 2004. Housing-related businesses are paring workers while others are reluctant to hire as evidence builds that the U.S. is in a recession. Consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of the economy, may keep slowing as rising joblessness hurts Americans already burdened by lower home prices and higher fuel costs.
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Holiday
2008-04-06 07:07:54
Dear Clickbank Business Guide readers,I am going on holiday on 7th of April (Monday), and I will be back on 17th of April (Thursday).Unfortunately, I won't be able to update my blog during the holiday. So would like to let you know, that I will update my blog as soon as I come back.Thanks for understanding and good luck,Steven Blackman
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$35 Million To Ford Execs
2008-04-05 12:00:01
Ford Motor Co.'s top five executives received more than $35 million in salary, bonuses and other pay for their performance last year as the automaker narrowed its losses to $2.7 billion by closing plants, slashing jobs and working to integrate the company's global product plans in a toughening economy.Ford posted a record $12.6-billion loss in 2006.In another development, the Free Press has learned that Ford missed its goal of reducing 8,000 hourly workers in the latest wave of buyout and early-retirement offers. "We fell significantly short," said a Ford official, who did not want to be named.In all, Ford CEO Alan Mulally received $14.15 million, according to the company's proxy, which was filed early Friday and outlines the company's 2007 performance as well as other issues to be aired w


Dollar Rises Against Yen, Euro on Eased Credit Market Concern
2008-04-05 11:25:45
April 5 - The dollar rose the most against the yen since November and advanced versus the euro on speculation global banks will withstand what the International Monetary Fund has called the worst credit crisis since the Great Depression. The euro declined this week against most of the major currencies on speculation European economic growth will slow. The dollar pared its weekly advance versus the euro yesterday after a U.S. government report showed the economy lost jobs for a third straight month in March. ``The dollar is bottoming from here,'' said Benedikt Germanier, a currency strategist at UBS AG in Stamford, Connecticut, who's buying the dollar against the euro and yen. ``Trust is coming back in the market.'' The dollar rose 2.2 percent this w
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Fox Interactive Media To Miss Revenue Target
2008-04-05 06:32:04
News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media said it would fall short of Chairman Rupert Murdoch's target for revenue of $1 billion this fiscal year and announced a reorganization of the unit designed to drive growth."It wasn't one smoking gun. It was a series of things that were a little late to come to market," said Michael Barrett, who will step down as chief revenue officer at Fox Interactive after a two-month transition period.Fox Interactive, the unit that runs the MySpace social-networking website, said it would create a division for advertising by combining its ad technology operations with the sales department. Murdoch said in August that he would be surprised if the unit's revenue for the year ending June 30 "did not exceed a billion dollars with margins well above 20%."Sales will probably
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Electronic Commerce
2008-04-24 07:03:39
Clickbank Business Guide - Electronic CommerceElectronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily since the spread of the Internet. A wide variety of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at some point in the transaction's lifecycle, although it can encompass a wider ran


Yahoo-Microsoft Fight Heads for a Deadline
2008-04-26 04:59:32
Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. remained in a standoff Friday as a threatened Microsoft deadline for a hostile acquisition attempt approached.The two companies and their advisers have been talking in recent weeks, but achieved no breakthroughs that would lead them to a friendly deal by Saturday, said people familiar with the matter. That's the day Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has set as a deadline for Yahoo to reach a friendly deal before Microsoft goes hostile, threatening to lower the price in that case. The people familiar with the matter said that, as of late Friday, no meetings between the two companies were planned for the weekend and they were skeptical that any friendly accord could be reached before Monday. The issue of price has been a main sticking point, with Microsof
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