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Features

A set top in every home

Four years after entering the set-top box market with its purchase of Scientific Atlanta, Cisco plants a flag in China with its purchase of DVN.

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More Features

• The kids are all right
• Waiting to exhale
• What the sponsors saw
• Where have all the lenders gone?
• Back channels

Community

Editor's Note

Editor's letter: Nov. 16, 2009

Beneath the veneer of Wall Streeters beats the same heart, stirred by the same determinants of behavior.


Regulatory

Of politics and pay

How to fix executive compensation rules without breaking the companies.


Industry Insight

Before the honeymoon ends

Thinking differently about conflict resolution.


Judgment Call

The price of R&D

FAS 141(R): A new source of shareholder litigation against innovation-driven companies?



Dealwatch

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Confectioners: Cadbury, Hershey, more

On Monday, Nov. 9, Kraft Foods Inc. formally made a hostile bid for Cadbury plc. Cadbury's management reacted by advising its shareholders to reject the offer.

• AOL

• Restaurants in the hot seat

• Ponzi schemes, fraud and other misdeeds

• General Motors

Dealmakers Slideshow


Deal Video

Mohamad Ali
Avaya Inc.
John Eydenberg
Deutsche Bank AG

Insights

Hard Times

Back to plain vanilla?

CIT's high-growth units built up under Jeffrey Peek contributed to its collapse.


Dealmakers

When Stanley met B&D

Analysts like the deal, which they think could ultimately lead to a spinoff of the security business down the road.


Analysis

Stuck on the sidelines

Conservative retail lenders dominate the European banking sector. When will they be ready to deal?


Follow the Money

A chill from the FDIC

The regulator seems to suggest that if private equity wants to get involved in banking, it better find some healthy banks in which to invest.


Regulatory

The chairman has spoken

Chris Dodd has put forward a tough financial services reform bill. Now he can get started on one that might pass.


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