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Entries tagged "Motorola"Are buyers calling RIM?A recent analyst downgrade has sent Research In Motion shares steeply down, so are strategics Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard calling the smartphone maker with acquisition offers? Good Tech hooks IntercastingMobile enterprise applications developer Good Technology hooks social networking startup Intercasting for an undisclosed sum. Gennum's asset shuffleThe Canadian chipmaker buys Tundra Semi after slimming down. Does morning in America mean a new day for VCs?America may be at the dawn of a new era. No, not the Obama era, but a new era of venture capitalism and entrepreneurship. It may not come immediately, but it will come eventually, much like the earlier great eras of innovation, which sprang forth from the wreckage of an economic crisis.... NY Post: Not even Icahn can beat the bearsNot even billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn is able to beat the market these days. According to a Sunday report in the New York Post, Icahn's hedge funds have fallen on tough times, suffering their first losses since opening in 2004. The losses are expected to show up when Icahn Enterprises LP, the holding company for Icahn's hedge funds and other investment vehicles, reports its second-quarter earnings Tuesday, the Post reported. ... No summer doldrums for Carl IcahnThe battle with Yahoo! management may be over, but Carl Icahn--in some form or fashion-- remains in the news. A quick glance at Monday's stories shows that Icahn remains the prime mover in some of the biggest deal news of the day: ImClone Systems Inc., Motorola Inc. and WCI.... Icahn blasts Obama at investor conferenceDuring the Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference on Wednesday at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City, a packed house of Wall Street's finest with BlackBerries ready eagerly awaited Carl Icahn's next hot stock tip or a big update about his Yahoo! Inc. proxy fight. What they did not expect was for the billionaire investor to use his 15 minute speech to discuss politics, using the forum to vent his not-so-kind views on Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. ... Telecom sector makes M&A connection as markets wallowThe telecommunications sector garnered a lot of attention Wednesday as billionaire investor Carl Ichan increased his holdings in Motorola Inc. [MOT] and Clearwire Corp. [CLWR] and Sprint Nextel Corp. [S] disclosed their long-awaited plan to form a $14.5 billion company to build a next-generation wireless broadband network. Investors, however, waited cautiously on the sidelines as home sales declined and oil prices showed no signs of falling. Overall, the Dow dropped 58.13, or .45%, to 12,961.96, and the Nasdaq declined 8.63, or .35%, to 2,474.38 in Wednesday midday trading.... Roll Call: April 7, 2008Here are some of Monday's news and rumors.Under pressure from Carl Icahn, Motorola Inc. nominates veteran tech dealmaker Bill Hambrecht to its board, reports affiliate Tech Confidential. In other activist hedge fund news, the Clinton Group purchases more shares of Select Comfort Corp. as it agitates for change at the mattress maker, according to SEC Investor.Don't let the headlines about activist investor success fool you. Evidently hedge funds and PE firms are having a hard time, notes Reuters. Newspaper publishers The Journal Register and The Sun-Times, and cable company Charter Communications may be delisted, according to PaidContent.Countrywide Financial Corp. wants to... Did blogger Jackson help Icahn?Two months after Carl Icahn failed to have his nominee elected in a proxy contest at Motorola Inc. in 2007, YouTube video blogger Eric Jackson jumped into the fray. His activism strategy used a YouTube video he dubbed "Plan B for Motorola" and an Internet Wiki to attract support from other micro-investors like himself. Like Icahn, Jackson wanted Motorola CEO Ed Zander gone, much of the board replaced and a new head of Mobile Devices with a clear strategy. ... Icahn's patience paid off with MotorolaWhen it comes to activist campaigns at super-sized technology companies like Motorola Inc., patience is the name of the game, especially when you're Carl Icahn. The megatechnology company said Wednesday it will split into two independent, publicly traded companies, thus separating its struggling mobile-phone business from its broadband and mobility-solutions operations. ... Deal trouble for Clear Channel, Take-Two as markets worsenTwo heavy-hitting deals may have struck out while old-line companies Ford Motor Co. and Reuters Group plc are well under way to scoring a completion to their mergers. Overall, investors withdrew from the market, digesting deal news that included an unexpected slide in February durable good orders. The Dow is trading down 107.38, or 0.88%, to 12,421.72 midday Wednesday while the Nasdaq declined 25.74, or 1.11%, to 2,315.09. Here's a look at the performance of some Deal Stocks that are affecting the markets: ... Top tagsYou have executed a tag search on Dealscape. On the left,you will find a comprehensive list of stories tagged "Motorola." Below are the most-popular tags for Dealscape. On the right of the page you will find a search box to dig deeper into our content.
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