chrysler
President Obama announced today that Chrysler would seek bankruptcy protection and enter into an alliance with Fiat. The president told reporters that a "small group of speculators" made up of hedge funds and other investors held out in the hopes that the US government would bail them out. That didn't happen.
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Sirius XM
This week, Sirius XM began consolidating its channels. In reality, this mostly meant jettisoning XM channels wherever there was a tenuous overlap with something Sirius already offered, which is bad news for anyone with a favorite station on XM who woke up Wednesday morning to find it missing. Alex wrote in to tell us that the four Spanish music channels have been condensed to one without regard to genre, and that the uncensored "urban music" station Hot Jamz has been cleaned up, rechristened "The Heat," and now leans toward radio-friendly R&B.
The Motley Fool suggests that the new lineup may drive people to
downgrade their subscription—it's "an incentive to downgrade to the cheaper plan that costs $6 less a month and lets users cherry-pick 50 stations."
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cingular
AT&T will begin the "folding" the Cingular brand into itself like a tiger eating its young as early as Monday according to their website:
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cingular
With the merger between AT&T and BellSouth, AT&T has total control over Cingular wireless. What does this mean to you?
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merger
AT&T
really wants to merge with BellSouth. From Yahoo!:
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Consumerist
mergers and acquisitions
