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Tuesday, June 3, 2008 |
The Folks at Tata Comm
Tata Comm Goes Live With Content Delivery Network. While there is no official announcement yet, this is big news for the video market. We had earlier reported Tata Comm and BitGravity, a CDN solutions provider based out of California, partnering to resell the technology platform in Europe and Asia. The service is now live with Tata entering the market currently dominated by Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) and recently intruded on by edge distribution competitor Limelight (NSDQ: LLNW). Sources indicate video traffic from India has jumped tremendously in recent times causing top tier content delivery networks to invest heavily in capacity. Ripe time for price competition considering the current environment is seeing prices just a year old being cut by more than half.
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[contentSutra.com]
9:07:10 PM 
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Springing Forward
BB DAKOTA - FROM SPRING TO FALL 2008.  While many of us are stuck in the humdrum of a lukewarm spring forcing us to delay breaking out our favorite sandals, there is one class of people thinking far ahead of us. As we're demanding summer to approach, our favorite designers are putting the finishing touches on their fall lines. Fall, you say?
Well, it's not too early to begin thinking ahead when you're referring to the hipster styles of BB Dakota. Especially when this year's spring/summer fashions transition into fall as fluidly as BB ... READ MORE >>  By Ivy. [Grooveeffect]
8:55:24 PM
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More from Common Cause Blog
Politicization at NASA and NOAA. Since taking office the Bush administration has made clear its distaste for regulating air and water pollution, even in the face of global warming. What is now coming out is how they took their political beliefs and forced them upon important government agencies charged with developing scientific analyses of these dangerous problems. Today, the Inspector General reports that political appointees in the NASA press office altered the agency's findings on global warming. Yes, at the press office. The world's most powerful country -- and its biggest polluter -- has some of the most talented and respected scientists anywhere, and yet from the fall of 2004 through 2006, the report said, NASA's public affairs office "managed the topic of climate change in a manner that reduced, marginalized, or mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public." It noted elsewhere that "news releases in the areas of climate change suffered from inaccuracy, factual insufficiency, and scientific dilution."
Officials of the Office of Public Affairs told investigators that they regulated communication by NASA scientists for technical rather than political reasons, but the report found "by a preponderance of the evidence, that the claims of inappropriate political interference made by the climate change scientists and career public affairs officers were more persuasive than the arguments of the senior public affairs officials that their actions were due to the volume and poor quality of the draft news releases." The arm of the White House under this overreaching executive can apparently extend into any agency, on any subject, and bend it to their political will. The reason we have career staff at government agencies is to handle such issues without political interference -- the exact opposite of what's happening now, as this story shows. (h/t TPM) [Common Cause Blog]
8:51:18 PM
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Beverages
Anheuser Busch on the block?
The most notable news of the past week for beer drinkers has been talks of a bid by global beer company InBev for US beermaker Anheuser-Busch. It is though that InBev (#2 in the world in volume) and the #1 US company could link up, with a megabusiness that would control one out of every beers sold in the world as well as over half of the US beer sales. InBev, which originated the 2004 union of two other beer giants, Belgian-based Interbrew and Brazil-based AmBev, owns such brands as Beck's, Bass, Labatt, and Stella Artois, and has a truly global reach, Originally a merger of equals, control of InBev has decidedly gone over to the Brazilians.
Beer is already very concentrated, with five companies controlling two-thirds of the beer sold worldwide. A series of mergers, most recently the divvying-up of Scottish & Newcastle between Heineken and Carlsberg, keeps making for ever more beer consolidation.
At the same time, InBev is also considering buying SABMiller, the #2 US brewer and the #1 by volume in the world.
Anheuser-Busch, with an estimated price of $45 billion, won't be sold off without a fight. With an iconic US brand (whatever you think of their beer), the company, there is likely to be both a popular outcry, strong labor resistance, and perhaps even some real antitrust regulation> InBev has had serious labor problems in Belgium, where it has tried to increase work hours and close plants. On the other hand, InBev has a very small current share of the US market, which might blunt antitrust action.
It's another case of the decline of the dollar making a US company very affordable for a company that has a non-dollar income.
[Oligopoly Watch]
8:45:21 PM
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