These included Weststar, the Malaysian firm with which talks broke down at the last minute a week ago.
Nothing would more clearly illustrate the new pragmatism at Boeing than to link up with a European firm which is part of the Airbus consortium that has recently done so much to damage its profits.
One reason is cost, says Abhigyan Sengupta, an analyst with consultancy firm MarketsAndMarkets, which recently published a global study on flexible displays.
The sale will sever the US government's last ties with the Detroit firm, which it rescued from bankruptcy in 2008-09.
Firms' pitches were often little more than a table, the almost mandatory Apple laptop and an easel to which a card with the firm's logo was affixed.
The first transatlantic coupling could be an alliance of Thomson, a partly privatised French defence-electronics group, and Raytheon, America's fourth-biggest defence firm, with which it already collaborates on air-traffic-control and other systems.
But they were stunned into silence on 23 minutes when Billy Sharp curled in a deep cross from the right which Quinn met with a firm header back across Richard Wright and into the net.
Microsoft would love to come to a similar deal with the European Commission, which last month ruled against the firm, and with RealNetworks, another software rival that is suing it.
After losing a key contract with Apple, which hit its earnings, the Edinburgh firm has turned round its fortunes with a deal to supply Blackberry.
Steven Katleman, a lawyer with the Greenberg Traurig firm, which represents a number of television actors, writers and producers, says the major worry should be oversaturation.
He will be allowed to remain associated with his hedge fund firm, which is required to give back cash to its investors that have asked for their money as quickly as possible.
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The move gave the firm permanent capital with which to expand, but exposed it to the vicissitudes of stockmarkets and, some felt, loosened the ties that had bound the firm's leaders closely together.
Generous compensation plans and perks might be put in place because buyout firms need to maintain good relationships with corporate managers, who choose which firm will take them private and then eventually public again, says Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger professor of business and professor of Law at Stanford University.
Daimler, which effectively had to pay Cerberus to take its 80.1% Chrysler stake in 2007 and which sparred with the private equity firm late last year about the true value of its remaining holding, may consider selling the rest of its stake to Fiat, meaning that the Italian carmaker would get 20.0% of its Chrysler stake from Daimler and 15.0% from Cerberus.
It is now a UK holding company with a British bank account into which the firm's revenues are paid.
Officials said the government would work with the departments concerned and the firm which administers the pension scheme to improve record-keeping and administration.
For the entrepreneur there is a buyer beware and attention that needs to be taken on selection on which venture firm to go with.
The project is being managed by Wireless Philadelphia, a city-sponsored nonprofit group which plans to contract with a private firm to build and maintain the network, and then will rent access to service providers.
Which is why a firm with a good boss does everything in its power to hang on to him and why some of the most successful chief executives, such as the late Roberto Goizueta of Coca-Cola, spent years in the job.
There's a tax cost, though: If title is transferred, the leasing firm no longer has depreciation with which to shelter income from tax.
His growing firm, which he owns with his ex-wife Kathy Gore, the president, is in talks with more than 30 prospects for assignments as far out as 2015, he says.
On the fifth of this month, the Wangcheng district government signed a contract with Broad Group, a local firm, which promised to put up the 838-meter tower in seven months.
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DeCode (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ), which is collaborating with Swiss drug and diagnostic firm Roche Holding (otc: RHHBY - news - people ), hopes to have a test based on the finding available as soon as next year at reference laboratories.
One large fund says it stopped working with Russell earlier this year after the firm repeatedly pushed for lucrative money management assignments, which would have created a conflict with its existing role as a supposedly objective adviser.
Meanwhile, in March Mitsubishi ended its 20-year alliance with Proton, which bases its cars on the Japanese firm's designs.
In July, the union filed a complaint with the Ethical Trading Initiative against the firm, which is a signatory.
On April 2nd Dan Loeb, a hedge-fund boss, launched valueyahoo.com, which brims with proposals for reviving the struggling web firm.
This too may have something to do with Google, which recently bought a display-advertising firm in order better to attack Yahoo!'
To see which score best with the public, market research firm the Marketing Arm measured awareness, appeal and likability among sports mascots.
In addition to the Abacus deal, the SEC has sought information about other CDOs the firm was involved with, without disclosing which deals are being investigated.
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