In a note to investors, Oppenheimer analyst Shawn Milne argued that EA would be paying big money for a franchise--"Grand Theft Auto IV"--whose developers could simply walk away.

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If Hartz IV succeeds, Germany will have taken a big step towards helping its army of long-term unemployed off the dole and into work.

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