Feb 17 Cingular Wins Battle for AT&T Wireless By PBS News Hour Cingular Wireless won a bidding war for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. on Tuesday, offering nearly $41 billion in cash and beating out the highest offer from British telecommunications giant Vodafone. Continue reading
Feb 17 Disney Board Rejects Comcast's Buyout Bid By PBS News Hour The Walt Disney Co. board of directors late Monday unanimously rejected Comcast's $54 billion, all-stock offer to take over the company, saying the offer was too low. Continue reading
Feb 17 Watch Wireless Revolution The proposed merger between Cingular and AT&T Wireless may reshape the fiercely competitive cell phone market. Ray Suarez discusses the proposed union between the second and third largest U.S. wireless carriers with industry analyst Charles Golvin of Forrester Research. Continue watching
Feb 11 Comcast Makes Unsolicited Bid for Disney In a move that could transform the media industry, Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable operator, launched an unsolicited bid Wednesday to merge with troubled entertainment behemoth Walt Disney. Continue reading
Feb 09 U.S. and Australia Agree to Free Trade Pact By PBS News Hour The United States and Australia reached a free trade agreement Sunday that supporters said would increase U.S. manufacturing exports to Australia by $2 billion a year. Continue reading
Feb 02 Pres. Bush Proposes $2.4 Trillion Budget for 2005 By PBS News Hour President Bush sent Congress a $2.4 trillion election-year budget Monday that focuses on the war on terror, homeland defense and the economy and also lays out a plan that seeks to cut the projected record deficit of $521 billion. Continue reading
Jan 26 Watch In The Red The Congressional Budget Office released a report today that said the federal budget deficit is expected to climb to $477 billion this year and rise as high as $2.4 trillion over the next ten years. Margaret Warner crunches these numbers… Continue watching
Jan 14 Watch Fastows Reach Plea Deal in Enron Case Former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy Wednesday in connection with the collapse of that energy company in 2001. Jim Lehrer discusses the case with New York Times correspondent Kurt Eichenwald and former… Continue watching
Jan 07 Watch Parmalat Probe An Italian journalist discusses the investigation into the collapse of Italian food conglomerate Parmalat, which is facing an investigation into whether its founder Calisto Tanzi invented paper assets, funneled money to family companies and used extensive fraud to disguise growing… Continue watching
Jan 02 Watch Holiday Shopping The winter shopping season was merry for upscale stores but disappointing for discount retailers like Wal-Mart. Jeffrey Brown explores the trends behind the statistics with online retail analyst Patti Freeman and Evans Kurt Barnard of Barnard's Retail Trend Report. Continue watching