NBC News Appointment
Date: 11 May 2001
NBC names Neal Shapiro president of NBC News, replacing Andrew Lack (S)
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11th of May 2001 News
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Free Speech For Publisher, Not the Help
Date: 12 May 2001
By Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman NYC column draws parallel between Daily News Publisher Mortimer Zuckerman's request that laid off employees agree to be silent about newspaper, lest they lose severance benefits, and his being admonished to give up column he writes about Middle East and Israel for US News & World Report during his tenure as chair of Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; says he resents idea of censorship, but, Haberman points out, it is tantamount to what he asks of his dismissed employees (M)
Candidates in Italy Test TV's Muscle
Date: 11 May 2001
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Silvio Berlusconi, conservative media tycoon running for prime minister of Italy, is interviewed on one of three networks he owns, and is given four uninterrupted minutes to outline his program; his liberal rival, Francesco Rutelli, is grilled for 12 minutes by news anchor of another station owned by Berlusconi; news anchor assures Rutelli that Berlusconi would get same undeferential treatment in next interview; equal time was mandated by law passed last year to ensure that Berlusconi does not take advantage of his control of networks; most Italians seem indifferent to how television is being used and abused (M)
World Briefing | Asia: India: Troops Beat Journalists
Date: 11 May 2001
By Barry Bearak (NYT)
Barry NYT
Seventeen journalists covering funeral in Kashmir are beaten by Indian paramilitary troops (S)
OPENWAVE TO ACQUIRE AVOGADRO FOR $99.6 MILLION
Date: 11 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Openwave Systems Inc acquires telecommunications software developer Avogardo for about $99.6 million in stock (S)
CLOROX TO GET 50% STAKE IN BRAZILIAN CONCERN
Date: 12 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Clorox Company agreed to pay $175 million for a 50 percent stake in a unit of Bombril S.A. of Brazil, resurrecting a transaction that it says will help build its presence in Latin America. Clorox will acquire half of Detergentes Bombril, a unit of Bombril, the Brazilian company said. The two companies agreed to talk again after Clorox pulled out of the transaction on April 6, Bombril said. In January, Clorox, based in Oakland, Calif., said it agreed to pay $200 million to acquire 50 percent of Detergentes, a new company. Bombril, which makes steel wool, detergents and other household products, was supposed to transfer assets including trademarks, three production plants and about 1,900 employees to the venture.
JOHNSON & JOHNSON GETS APPROVAL FOR ALZA PURCHASE
Date: 11 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Johnson & Johnson receives early antitrust clearance for its planned $14 billion stock purchase of Alza Corp (S)
DEL WEBB AND AMERICAN NEVADA WIN LAND IN AUCTION
Date: 11 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Del Webb Corp and American Nevada Corp win 1,900 government-owned acres in Las Vegas land auction with $47.2 million bid; land will be used to build homes (S)
INSTINET GROUP ADVANCES ITS PROTRADER GROUP BID
Date: 12 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Instinet Group, seeking to enhance its services for individual investors, reached a preliminary agreement to acquire the ProTrader Group for about $150 million. ProTrader, based in Austin, Tex., provides electronic brokerage services that give customers direct access to stock trading. The company's chief customers are private individuals, according to Jim Herbold, ProTrader's chief information officer. Similarly, Instinet, based in New York, operates an electronic marketplace that permits clients to enter their own orders to buy and sell stocks traded on the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. The company, a unit of the Reuters Group, has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise almost $400 million through an initial public offering.
MORTON'S TO CONSIDER BUYOUT BID FROM FLORIDA COMPANY
Date: 11 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Morton's Restaurant Group will consider buyout offer made by BFMA Holding Corp with backing from Carl C Icahn; BFMA owns 9.3 percent of Morton's and has bid $28.25 per share to acquire rest (S)