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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Deals of the Day: Praying for Big Wall Street Bonuses	Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Deal Journal’s homepage is http://blogs.wsj.com/deals. You can see real-time updates of our posts and our favorite deal-related articles on other Web sites through our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/wsjdealjournal. The Game States in the Northeast already are in deep financial crisis. Without the tax revenue from Wall Street pay and bonuses, they...	November 10, 2009
Dual-Screen OLPC Design Binned; Get Ready For The OLPC Tablet	The One Laptop Per Child project has seen mixed success. With competition from similar, but more familiar-looking items from Intel and others, the OLPC found itself suddenly competing in a market it had no intention of entering. But they're out there, they've had some serious orders, and despite some other speed bumps, has certainly lent a hand in increasing computer literacy in the developing world. You may remember that the sequel to the XO laptop, as the OLPC hardware was actually called, wa...	November 03, 2009
Dear Yahoo: You’re Fired	Update: Yahoo Responds As expected, Carl Icahn presented an alternate slate of directors for the upcoming Yahoo shareholder meeting. The letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock says it all: Carl C. Icahn ICAHN CAPITAL LP 767 Fifth Avenue, 47th Floor New York, NY 10153 May 15, 2008 Roy Bostock Chairman Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Dear M...	May 15, 2008
Why the WiMax Deal Is A Disaster, Part II (Or, How Craig McCaw Snookered Eric Schmidt)	The more I learn about the $3.2 billion deal announced earlier this week to salvage Clearwire’s and Sprint’s WiMax businesses by merging them together, the more I am convinced that someone got snookered. And that someone was Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Maybe he just can’t say “No” to visionary billionaires like Clearwire chairman Craig McCaw. Or maybe McCaw got Intel CEO Paul Otellini to lean on his buddy Schmidt. Otellini himself pledged $1 billion of Intel’...	May 09, 2008
Icahn Files 13-D on XO Holdings	Carl Icahn filed an amended 13-D on XO Holdings (XO) tonight. From the Filing:"As of the close of business on March 14, 2008, the Filing Persons may be deemed to beneficially own in the aggregate 129,466,420 Shares constituting approximately 58.95% of the outstanding Shares (based upon (i) the 182,075,035 Shares stated to be issued and outstanding by Issuer, (ii) the 91,913,269 Shares beneficially held by the Filing Persons, (iii) the 10,041,858 Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants ben...	March 17, 2008
Icahn to Enter the Glass House at Motorola?	Carl Icahn may be about to join the big boys. Icahn In spite of his prominence on the corporate scene, and all that wealth, the septuagenarian corporate raider doesn’t have any blue-chip company directorships under his belt at the moment. That may be about to change, after Institutional Shareholder Services delivered a stinging rebuke to Motorola CEO Ed Zander’s argument that because of a lack of technological savvy, Icahn’s bid to join the board of the 79-year old cel...	April 25, 2007
HOT IPO FILING ALERT: INFINERA CORP.	Infinera has filed to come public via an IPO this morning. It lists $150 million as the amount to be raised, but that is solely for filing purposes. It has taken the proposed ticker "INFN" on NASDAQ and the underwriting syndicate is an impressive list: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, JPMorgan, Lehman, and Thomas Weisel. This IPO has a shot at being a HOT IPO because of its sector and clients. Its Digital Optical Network architecture is the world’s only commercially-dep...	February 26, 2007