8 April 2011 — We have received a mountain of emails asking about the competing NYSE Euronext deals so we thought we’d provide a summary. Deutsche Boerse made the first offer.  Under that deal Deutsche Boerse shareholders are set to own 60 percent of the combined company with NYSE Euronext shareholders taking a 40 percent [...]

Reported by:  Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. (with special thanks to Johann Jurgens who is a telecom analyst for a hedge fund and is an advisor to The Posse List on the telecom industry)  21 March 2011 — Late yesterday AT&T and Deutsche Telekom announced an agreement for the sale of T-Mobile USA for $39 billion in cash and [...]

8 September 2010 — Being the 800-pound gorilla in the search-engine space … and seemingly everything else internet related … Google is probably at the top of the list of most government regulators all over the world.  As well as anybody competing against Google.  And as the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times have [...]

  30 November 2009 For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they’ve come a long way:  Today, the vast majority of the nation’s two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to Monsanto company patents.  Ninety-three percent of soybeans. Eighty percent of corn. The seeds represent “probably the most [...]