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Business Spin
by Jack Flack

Posted: Oct 24 2008 11:25AM EDT

Jack Flack Says Thank You.

Humble blogger finally expresses appropriate appreciation ... Continue

Posted: Sep 29 2008 10:51PM EDT

Lobbyist Wars: May the DOJ Be With You

Google and Microsoft battle for the Galaxy ... Continue

Posted: Sep 24 2008 10:51AM EDT

Google Is Steaming Into an Antitrust Swamp

Is the world's smartest company is about a learn painful lesson that "antitrust" is about much more than just the law? ... Continue
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Posted: Sep 22 2008 9:06AM EDT

Parsing Goldman Sachs: All Hail Market Sentiment

Nothing like acclerating your long-term strategy by a decade or two ... Continue

Posted: Sep 19 2008 1:12PM EDT

Parsing Paulson: All Aboard. Now.

Hank hammers down ... Continue

Posted: Sep 15 2008 2:30PM EDT

Parsing Bank of America: Crisis Is Our Friend

Just prepare for seven years, and then press the button ... Continue

Posted: Sep 8 2008 10:00AM EDT

Parsing Paulson: It's a Systemic Thing

It's not really anybody's fault ... Continue

Posted: Sep 2 2008 8:42AM EDT

Dear C.E.O.: Write Your Own Obituary

The draft obituary Bloomberg accidentally published last Wednesday surely came to the attention of its subject, the still-very-much-alive Steve Jobs. Hopefully, it also caught the eye of a lot of other C.E.O.'s. Some corporate bosses already knew that virtually ... Continue

Posted: Sep 2 2008 7:09AM EDT

Parsing Google: You Needed Another Browser Choice

A new front opens up in the Microsoft-Google war to become the sole provider of choice ... Continue
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Posted: Aug 25 2008 10:22AM EDT

Not for Sale: Massive Media Conglomerate

Okay, the Beijing Olympics are over. We can all now get back to speculating about G.E. selling NBC Universal ... Continue

Posted: Aug 8 2008 6:45PM EDT

Parsing John Edwards: Can We Get This Over With By Monday?

Edwards uses three text-book scandal-management tactics. Go on a Friday. Go exclusive. Go away ... Continue

Posted: Aug 4 2008 10:57AM EDT

G.E.'s Stealth Strategy: Do What Everyone Wants, but Don't Admit It

The standard spin practice for most corporate turnarounds is to announce that you've developed a bold, winning strategy, and then do your best to convince everyone that you're executing it well. If good numbers follow quickly, you attribute it ... Continue

Posted: Jul 28 2008 4:08PM EDT

The 10 Dumbest Lies of the Micro-hoo-gle-cahn Saga

Once promising to be the most-scrutinized corporate governance event in history, this Friday's meeting of Yahoo shareholders will now likely unfold in anticlimactic fashion, diffused by the forced-coziness between Carl Icahn and Yahoo's board. (Take our poll and vote on ... Continue
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Posted: Jul 23 2008 5:22PM EDT

Parsing Icahn: What the Hell is "Brobdingnagian?"

Citizen Icahn fires up the blog, while Glass Lewis goes 18th Century ... Continue
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Posted: Jul 21 2008 10:54AM EDT

Parsing Yahoo: Hey, This Guy Carl Is Not So Bad After All

With both feeling compromised by the looming proxy fight, Yahoo and Carl Icahn do a little compromising with each other ... Continue
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Posted: Jul 17 2008 10:11PM EDT

Parsing Yahoo: $33 Is More Than $28

Channeling its inner Icahn, Yahoo offers up the ripest parsing material yet ... Continue
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Posted: Jul 14 2008 10:44PM EDT

Parsing Microsoft: Easy Dude, I Was Only Reaching for My Zune

The MicroHooGleCahn record gets set straight one more time ... Continue

Posted: Jul 13 2008 8:53AM EDT

Parsing Yahoo: It's Yours for $33

For $33, you can drive it off the lot today. (But I'll have to check the papework with my manager.) ... Continue
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Posted: Jul 7 2008 8:41PM EDT

Parsing Yahoo: We Find Rejection Very Attractive

What do you do when your two enemies finally gang up on you? Feign cooperation, of course ... Continue
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Posted: Jul 7 2008 1:59PM EDT

Parsing Microsoft: A Vote for Carl Will Get You a Deal

After Carl Icahn did the heavy lifting, Microsoft quickly confirmed that voting in the new board is the only way to revive acquisition talks ... Continue
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