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Diebold: A New Beginning (to the First Step in E-Voting Terror)

in News on August 17, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Though it tried for more than a year, Diebold has been unable to sell off the electronic-voting subsidiary that is transforming its brand into a synonym for flawed electronic-voting systems. And so the company is doing the next best thing–renaming it. “Diebold and its financial consultants have been actively engaged with a number of strategic [...]

The Fruit Basket? It's From Carl Icahn, Sir.

in News on July 17, 2007 at 12:35 pm PT

Lousy historical analogies aside, Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons’s ill-conceived comment in early May on the current media landscape (in which he compared Google to Custer) was in some ways an apt one. After all, one could say that Time Warner has long been an organization with “too many chiefs and not enough Indians.” Too many working parts, too, according to some who’d like to see the company sell off a few.

The Fruit Basket? It’s From Carl Icahn, Sir.

in News on July 17, 2007 at 12:35 pm PT

Lousy historical analogies aside, Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons’s ill-conceived comment in early May on the current media landscape (in which he compared Google to Custer) was in some ways an apt one. After all, one could say that Time Warner has long been an organization with “too many chiefs and not enough Indians.” Too many working parts, too, according to some who’d like to see the company sell off a few.