Acquisitions

It's strange how the Internet changes every day and changes our lives too. It's become a place for business, for finding information, meeting friends, or advertise whatever you want to sell. It's also a place where idealists meet and come up with new ways to make this world a better place. Such a man is Jim Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, an encyclopedia with articles written and edited by a community of volunteers and is therefore, free. Wales now intends to release a search engine also based on a community's input, because he thinks the results from this type of site selection would be much more relevant. He wants the engine to be called Search Wikia and has already employed the help of people like Jeremie Miller, the creator of Jabber, to create a platform for different search engines to work together. It's not sure whether Wikia is intended to be specialized in certain areas, or will deliver general results, and it's also unclear how Mr. Wales will keep the results correct and relevant, or how many people will be interested in taking the time to review hundreds of millions of websites. Because the founder's ambition is high: he wants to rival Google, so he needs many results for each search. Still, he is aware that this type of endeavor will take a while to become popular and that it won't be of much importance from the beginning. Wikia will be released in the fourth quarter of this year and has recently acquired its very own Web crawler called Grub from LookSmart Ltd.

related story: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135171-c,searchengines/article.html

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SunRocket Inc. used to be the second biggest U.S. supplier of Internet phone services. A few weeks ago it appeared to have shut down without notifying more than 200,000 clients.The customer service line offered costumers a short recorded message: "We are no longer taking customer service or sales calls. Goodbye."SunRocket was formed in 2004 at attracted customers with the fee of $199 for unlimited phone calling for one year in Canada, USA and Puerto Rico.As I was looking for information about TeleBlend- a small Internet-phone service company based in Maine which entered the agreement to acquire certain strategic assets of the Vienna company I found a discussion on the Broadbandreports forum(http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r18701325-Who-the-f-is-TeleBlend). People were furious. They were wondering who TeleBlend is and how can those guys imagine they will sign up for a contract with them, considering their web domain was only two days old and they were already sending emails on behalf of SunRocket to promote themselves.I find it hard to believe to because you don't need to much brains to see they don't look like a serious company.Even their slogan is copied. Remember "The future's bright, the future's Orange."?Well..."Change is good and with TeleBlend the future is brighter than ever."How does this sound you: "We have already been successful in getting your services restored and ready to go. Included is a special offer only available to SunRocket customers. Until the end of your annual contract, TeleBlend will give you the exact same services you know and love for only $12.95/month."Maybe they should do a little web searching and read the reactions they've caused and then revise their PR strategy because SunRocket clients won't buy it. I don't see why they should.

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SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models

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These times we are living in an era of winning or loosing. Couple of years ago there were no supermarkets or shopping malls. People used to gain necessary goods in small shops, owned by one person, who was mainly also working in it. Then came these huge shopping buildings, where people could buy anything they needed under one roof, and the existence of smaller shops and little entrepreneurs was sealed.Like this it looks daily also with another businesses. Smaller one is overtaken by bigger one, or more successful one, which than is in charge of most events, running in this smaller company.Similar incident occurred also in ChoicePoint Inc., data company, offering private intelligence service to government and industry. It collects and analyze personal information of consumers and then sell them to the government and private sector. In last years, ChoicePoint had several difficulties, they worked hard to remove them, even though, they are now being bought by Reed Elsevier, parent of LexisNexis. The cost of this acquisition has been defined to $3.6 billion.Reed Elsevier is a world's leader in publishing information and solutions for professional users, who are operating in markets of Science& Medical, Business and Legal. Their goal is to become unthinkable partner to their target customers- lawyers, scientists and businessmen. To reach this aim Reed Elsevier wants to combine ChoicePont's data and analytics assets with LexisNexis' technology."A sale of more cyclical Business Information divisions and acquisition of the US data services group ChoicePoint, moves the company further into the arena of more defensive support services," said Reed Elsevier.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_bi_ge/reed_elsevier_choicepoint;_ylt=AkaW0aWHdBHB3oloComL0ims0NUE

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Two billion takeover bid was offered last Monday by Electronic Arts to Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., the American developer of a popular game series Grand Theft Auto. Messianic EA declares that it is only matter of time, when Take-Two will announce its premium offer. Troubled company, whose former representatives including Chairman and CEO Ryan A. Brant, pleaded guilty in 2007 to falsifying business records in connection with a probe into backdated stock options, manages to react to the offer till April, 30, hopefully the successful release of the last issue of Grand Theft Auto IV. Series has sold out more than 65 million copies and scores as one of the most successful games in the history.EA, the American developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of computer and video games, that established its name by promoting the designers and programmers responsible for their games and the franchiseowner of the Sims, Need for Speed, Medal of Honor, Command and Conquer offered two billion after less than a year shareholding in Take-Two. As a matter of fact, Take-Two bid would be EA' s biggest buyout.Looking behind the curtain of PC games business we must mention planned mergering of French media and telecom giant Vivendi SA with Activision Inc., a developer of "World of Warcraft" and "Guitar Hero", by the way the main rival of EA. That EA hopes to advance its position on market is clearly enough, yet its representatives urges Take-Two to accept the bid as soon as possible, the most useful it would be before releasing new volume of Grand Theft.Whether EA success to gain brothers Housers, the creators and leaders of Take-Two Games Label seems to take longer time. Nevertheless they signed up the contract lasting till 2009. EA' s analysts Michael Pachter and Wedbush Morgan assured that Housers don' t make a big difference to a deal."If they choose to go independent, EA will be their first customer," he decared.

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Thomas Hobbes, one of the major english philosophers of the 17th century was convinced that people innate the instict of self preservation. Everybody has this instict, we always want to have more and more and in order to get it and to survive we` re able and ready to do anything. Its a state of war- everyone against everyone.Transforming from 17th century back to present we can see that the world didn`t change. It just works a little bit different than in the past. Instead of just killing or beat up someone, we cheat and intrigue.And we try to do it faster than the others and not always necessarily by holy means.The world is like e-Bay. People sell, buy and try to be better and to have more than the others.You can read everyday in the papers which company is buying another company, wants to buy another company..If you don`t buy, you get bought. Thats how it works.Today we can concentrate on a certain company called UTC (stands for United Technologies Corporation) which wants to buy another company called Diebold Inc.UTC is a mixed affiliated group which owns e.g. helicopter manufacturers, elevator and escalator specialists, heating and air conditioning systems and many others. They want to buy Diebold Inc., offering the company almost 3 billion dollars. Diebold is specialized on ATM, security systems, voting machines and cash registers. They don`t want to be bought by United. The offer was unwanted and clearly undervaluated. So its probably gonna be more of a hostile acquisition than a peaceful fusion. The Diebold shares rised at more then 60 %. since the announcement though. I guess thats more then good.Maybe they `ll change their mind after all.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080303/ap_on_bi_ge/united_technologies_diebold;_ylt=AvXjuMBcyC2KrnI.PPIXPHms0NUE

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Decisions, decisions, it is so hard to make up your mind and Yahoo Inc. is best fit to talk about it. As everyone knows, on February 1, Microsoft made a public offer to buy Yahoo at $44.6 billion and now the latter one is trying to merge with AOL in order to prevent its takeover. They wouldn't have refused Microsoft's offer, but it was too low to meet up their expectations. However, there is still hope. Yahoo has not yet nominated the candidates to its board and has postponed it until after March 14; that is after the annual shareholder meeting. Therefore Microsoft has a small chance to fulfill its desire of takeover by helping its supporters to get on Yahoo board and facilitate a deal. Nevertheless, it should hurry, because Yahoo is preparing a defense strategy that might just well make it the leader of third-party network businesses. If it is indeed true what Wall Street Journal reported, then Yahoo and AOL are talking the possibility of a merge. Time Warner Inc. (with whom they talked even 3 years before) has 25 percent of AOL and it is more likely to ask a third of the resulted company. Google who owns 5 percent of AOL might oppose due to the competition that it would actually represent by becoming very attractive to advertisers. Others say media conglomerate News Corp who owns MySpace would be another option. Both AOL and Yahoo have better chances and would have more profit by joining forces than if they standalone. Yahoo would reduce costs like technology, distribution, and the combined company would have a stronger share engine. Stay connected and see if the rumors are true or not. Until now neither Yahoo, nor AOL, did not comment on the matter, thus it did not confirm it, nor denied it.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080305/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_board;_ylt=AucMhOoYFANgy2YkOd9SNBas0NUE

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Decisions, decisions, it is so hard to make up your mind and Yahoo Inc. is best fit to talk about it. As everyone knows, on February 1, Microsoft made a public offer to buy Yahoo at $44.6 billion and now the latter one is trying to merge with AOL in order to prevent its takeover. They wouldn't have refused Microsoft's offer, but it was too low to meet up their expectations. However, there is still hope. Yahoo has not yet nominated the candidates to its board and has postponed it until after March 14; that is after the annual shareholder meeting. Therefore Microsoft has a small chance to fulfill its desire of takeover by helping its supporters to get on Yahoo board and facilitate a deal. Nevertheless, it should hurry, because Yahoo is preparing a defense strategy that might just well make it the leader of third-party network businesses. If it is indeed true what Wall Street Journal reported, then Yahoo and AOL are talking the possibility of a merge. Time Warner Inc. (with whom they talked even 3 years before) has 25 percent of AOL and it is more likely to ask a third of the resulted company. Google who owns 5 percent of AOL might oppose due to the competition that it would actually represent by becoming very attractive to advertisers. Others say media conglomerate News Corp who owns MySpace would be another option. Both AOL and Yahoo have better chances and would have more profit by joining forces than if they standalone. Yahoo would reduce costs like technology, distribution, and the combined company would have a stronger share engine. Stay connected and see if the rumors are true or not. Until now neither Yahoo, nor AOL, did not comment on the matter, thus it did not confirm it, nor denied it.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080305/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_board;_ylt=AucMhOoYFANgy2YkOd9SNBas0NUE

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Rupert Murdock's media conglomerate News Corp. has finally managed, after 3 months, to purchase Dow Jones in a deal valued at $5.6 billion.It appears Murdoch is planning to a lot of changes and new investments in the newspaper and the other Dow Jones enterprisesMagician with the arts of public relations, Murdoch will be ready to roll immediately with some bold steps ...It is strange though that a spokes person from the Bancroft family refused to confirm this news and said this sort of conclusions are a little premature.Taking over Dow Jones gives Murdoch the support of financial information he needs before launching a new TV channel dedicated to business- release which is scheduled for this year's last trimester.Murdoch's company, News Corp. had an income of over $26.73 billion last year, while Dow Jones income in 2006 was $1.78 billion.The negative stock evolution of Dow Jones in July negatively influenced the Japanese stock market, Nikkei going down with more than 2,4%.Some voices said it was the worst crisis the American economy suffered this year but the American economy is very strong and well balanced even if investors show precaution on the financial market and it's going to take a lot more than this to shake it badly.Let's all be happy for Rupert Murdoch because his 3 month wrangling is finally over and let's wait to see if the changes he's planning will have a positive impact on the Wall Street Journal.

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These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

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The Dow Jones, publisher of financial publication legends like The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch, is about to be acquired by Rupert Murdoch. The name might sound familiar as he is the proud and rich owner of News Corp. so the recent purchase will place the Dow Jones publications alongside other important brand names like 20th Century Fox or Daily Telegraph. This may also be the beginning of a long series of changes for the newly purchased newspapers, as Murdoch is renowned for influencing the content of articles; still his new employees' award-winning writing should be a big enough incentive for him to let them the job they know best. The media mogul intends for the Wall Street Journal to contain more general news and become more popular in Europe and Asia; globalization is coming to media channels and as usual, it brings its own kind of change. Antitrust investigations, a frequent problem with any type of big corporations, will not disturb Murdoch and his crew, as studies shows that his TV stations and newspapers don't act on the same local markets. Still, the transaction will be supervised by several commissions and will need the approval of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. News Corp. was established in the US in 1980 and bought half of 20th Century Fox the next year. It established the Fox network which has been criticized for not having impartial news, so fears of Murdoch meddling with his journalists' work are not unfounded. Hopefully he will understand the importance of keeping brands like WSJ true to their readers, otherwise the future of good journalism is in great danger.

related story: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/91b3bc28-4062-11dc-9d0c-0000779fd2ac,dwp_uuid=e8477cc4-c820-11db-b0dc-000b5df10621.html

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SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

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Now that Rupert Murdoch succeeded in taking over the Walt Street Journal, it is considered to be a threat to Britain's business news sources, the Financial Times.The newspaper will now face a great competition from Murdoch's newest acquisition, in Asia and Europe. They want to explore TV deals to win or survive in the "business". According to Pearson's chief executive, Dame Marjorie Scardino, the FT has been in talks with a number of potential broadcasting partners."We are still talking to CNBC and others about whether they might be a good channel for us," she said. "We have kind of had a talk with everybody. We got very involved with CNBC because they are trying to beef up their business news just as we are trying to find new ways to deliver business news."She is very confident that the Financial Times will be able to compete with The Wall Street Journal, considering that the British newspaper is a worthy competitor.CNBC has an agreement with the Walt Street Journal to use it's journalist on air, but Murdoch owns his financial news cable channel, Fox Business, and analysts think he will withdraw from the deal, to use the reports for his own channel. That leaves open space for Financial Times, analysts considering this as being the obvious option."If there's one body that might be very much looking into the implications of this deal, it's CNBC," said Richard Hunter, head of U.K. equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers.

related story: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/01/business/EU-GEN-Britain-FT-vs.-WSJ.php?page=1

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SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

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Whenever a big corporation buys a company or brand, the newspapers make a terrible fuss, like it is the deal of the year. It is no surprise then if for the sale of Dow Jones & Co. to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. the New York Times, New York Daily News and The Wall Street Journal offered Page One coverage. The only thing that raises questions is why the Post, Murdoch's only U.S. daily, would write about the deal only at the business column. Due to the fact that they represent one of the contractors, they should have advertised it even more. The main reason in my opinion is that the deal wasn't as important as everyone else tried to make it and the fact that Dow Jones & Co will be folded into the global reach of News Corp, according to Paul Tharp and Peter Lauria, the authors of the Post article. Once the new acquisition will be incorporated, there is no other reason to advertise it and then it would have been like they show off if they make a big fuss over the entire deal. However, when the secrecy is too on the open, it must be something going that the Post owners don't want to reveal. Until someone decides to go public on the secrets of the contract and its terms, all we will have is the supposition and a big ability to create theories of what lies behind the curtains. Stay connected and click some more, who knows when you will see a breaking news about everything. Enjoy!

related story: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003619358

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SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

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Now that Rupert Murdoch has finally managed to acquire Dow Jones for $5.6 billion we should expect very interesting things to happen. Or at least some things should happen...How will the Wall Street Journal change and most importantly how will it adapt to the media and entertainment empire, News Corp?I don't think we can expect a more entertaining influential chronicler of the American economy though. At least I hope not.We should think about this deal in terms of great advantages for the journal. It will have access to News Corp's huge global operations and this will only make the Wall Street Journal more successful and more effective globally.To expand in Europe and Asia the journal will have to reach out to News Corp's pockets.I wouldn't want to see some sort of malicious association between MySpace and WSJ though. I know MySpace is extremely powerful globally but...thinking of it having something to do with a respectable journal makes me nausea.They could use some of News Corp's money to improve their European Web site. It isn't very attractive when you look at the main page and you see big red letters asking you to subscribe...it doesn't look serious. It just looks like "Give us your money". No matter the quality of a publication it's not a very good image tool to start your relationship with your readers(then customers...) by talking about money from the beginning.

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SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

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I should pay attention to my advices more often. I gave some more clicks and found out news about the sale of Dow Jones & Co to Murdoch's News corp. After facing strong opposition from the Bancroft family that owned for generations Dow Jones, the deal was finally sealed and made public Wednesday morning (rumor has it that it was around 5 billion dollars). The purpose of Murdoch was to expand the already massive global media and entertainment empire by acquiring one of the great trophies of US journalism. The Bancroft family was divided by the whole deal. Some members have resigned before it was completed. They feared that the quality and integrity of the newspaper will suffer. Although it was believed that Bancroft will not sell after the market established his price of $60 per share they gave a favorable answer to the industry mogul. Murdoch intentions are to invest in the new acquisition and expand its domestic readership (the business and power elite) by buying two more US national newspapers, The New York Times and Gannett Co's USA Today. Also Wall Street Journal will be an opponent against other publication like Pearson PLC's Financial Times, by expanding its publication overseas. Murdoch hopes Dow Jones' news resources and brand name will help to start and promote a business-themed cable news channel he plans to release. After assuring the employees union that he will not interfere in the paper's newsroom, the new owner made a five-member board with members from News Corp. and Dow Jones with the task to hire and fire senior editorial officials. So all the doubts about why the Post hasn't made a big fuss over the deal are clarified because the situation is already unsteady and there is no time to brag. Nice to know that clicking is getting you somewhere, down to the bottom of the truth. Enjoy!

related story: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/International__Business/Murdoch_seals_Rs_5_bn_WSJ_deal/articleshow/2249449.cms

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SigEx Ventures's matrix of properties are quickly becoming leaders in digital telebroadcasting, free content delivery allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, video blogs and SMS. SigEx Ventures invests in projects deploying "free" to add-on royalty revenue models

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

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Nokia, the world's largest phone makers, announced Monday that it plans to buy digital mapmaker Navteq Corp. for $8.1 billion.The Finland-based company said that Navteq will continue to support its existing customers, continuing to operate independently, but it will be organized as a Nokia group company.Nokia President and Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said that Nokia "will be able to bring context and geographical information to a number of our Internet services with accelerated time to market."It's not the first acquisition of the year for Nokia, they recently bought Gate5 a small company based in Berlin that makes navigational software applications for cellphones, and Enpocket, a mobile advertising company based in Boston."This is not just about 'the Internet goes mobile,'" said Richard A. Simonson, Nokia's chief financial officer. "We're not just trying to replicate the Google or Microsoft experience online. The consumer won't come unless we give them something that is rich."Chicago-based Navteq was formed in 1985 creating map devices, and now it creates digital maps of cities and other locations worldwide for Internet mapping services offered by Mapquest and Google.Shares for Nokia fell after the announcement with 4 percent, but they closed up to 3 cents, at $37.96 a share on the New York Stock Exchange."This is a very high valuation for the U.S. company, so yes, this is a high price to pay," said Mats Nystrom, an analyst at SEB Enskilda Bank in Stockholm. "But navigation is a hot area and fits well with Nokia's strategy."

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071001/ap_on_hi_te/nokia_navteq;_ylt=AkDrGjbYQFKiFlNgYYXJ0XSs0NUE

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Posted by: Maria Vidlickova

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Microsoft is about to make its way in the social network market soon, by purchasing 5 percent of Facebook's stock. The networking site of over 42 million members is going public in 2008 or 2009, and it looks like Microsoft in interested in investing around $500 million. Facebook's value has been estimated around $10 billion and the whole company currently belongs to its creator, Mark Zuckerman, who has repeatedly stated he doesn't intend to sell it. He refused a buying proposal of $1 billion from Yahoo last year, so we shouldn't be expecting a major acquisition any time soon. As for future plans, Facebook intends to make its profiles widely available on search engines, a radical shift from the site where everyone knew their personal information was safe. Privacy on social networking sites was already a hot topic, and things look like they are about to get hotter. Sites already functioning as people browsers are already boasting millions of results for searches, Wink currently having 217 million in its index. The purpose of these sites is to provide online advertisers with specific user profiles for custom-made ads, while sites like Upscoop look through one user's list of friends to find the sites they regularly visit. Google is also expected to join the bidding game for the site, as it had rivaled before with Microsoft for a 5 percent stake of AOL. Google won then, but now it might be time for Redmond's giant to emerge as the victor, especially since stakes are higher for them this time.

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Edited by: Katarina Bosanska

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Wendy's is a net of restaurants in the United States and abroad too. The first opening of Wendy's was in 1969. Dave Thomas opened the first Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers Restaurant in U.S. and thought that he created something really new. For Dave quality was very important and he put in the logo of the restaurant "Quality is our recipe". In 1978 there were about 1000 Wendy's in Tennessee location. And people loved them. Today Wendy's owns more than 6,600 restaurants in the United States and abroad too. Its bigger rivals are McDonald's and Burger King Holdings Inc. Wendy's is today the third biggest hamburgers restaurant in the United States and abroad too. Who really don't know the logo with the girl with nice plaits of hair and the bubble that says "I deserve a hot, juicy burger."? People are satisfied with these restaurants, but there is another problem.Wendy's need a higher bid. Investor Nelson Peltz submitted an offer to buy Wendy's International Inc. with the net of 6,600 restaurants, but the proposed is below what he said before. And it is something like a shock for Wendy's. The third biggest hamburger net in U.S. has a really good name and lot of customers and it is shame to take such as bid. David Karam, president of Cedar Enterprises Inc., the owner of 134 Wendy's restaurants said, he also wants to make a bid for Wendy's. There are other investors, that want to buy Wendy's too, but no one would like to offer really good price. So destiny of Wendy's is unambiguous.

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by Claudia Sonea

The instability of the stock market showed slide of the AT&T share price, but after the new acquisition it is definitely on the wave. BellSouth Corp brought a 42 percent higher income in the third quarter than the same period last year. Therefore stock rose 85 percent, closing at $42.2 percent on Tuesday- the day of the acquisition official announcement. That was an outstanding achievement, from the 71 cents that analyst expected, according to a survey by Thomson Financial. Furthermore, last year the third-quarter earnings brought 56 cents per share. Another record was the 2 million subscribers added to other 63.7 million, being the third highest increase in the AT&T's history. Also a smart move was the launching of the iPhone this June that 1.4 million of them were sold in the US according to Apple Inc. Chief Financial Officer Richard Lindner stated that wireless growth was excellent due to the increasing use of data of customers. And the list goes on with other successes like its own television service, called U-verse, delivered over high-speed Internet grew five times more from 2006. However on this matter they have experienced some problem on Sunday which Zachary Investment Research analyst Patrick Comack confesses to be troublesome. But Rich Dietz, AT&T's senior vice president for investor relations contradicts him and says it will get better now after the expansion despite the outage. All other acquisitions that AT&T might be interested in were not confirmed, including that of EchoStar Communications Inc., the operator of DISH Network. Their main priority is for the time been U-verse with the prospect of a satellite filling in. Finally, an overview of the company's progress this year reveals that AT&T revenue reached $88.6 billion from the $47.2 billion last year. Well done, touch down for them. Keep going and surprises for the best. That is, don't introduce preferential treatment and respect the Net Neutrality, because all the success it's owed to it.

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Posted by: Jana Kalicka

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by Barbie Kunkelova

Microsoft is being successful lately: its Internet shares rose from $31.25 to $31.47, it knows how to approach other developers and create crucial, beneficial relationships. Whereas Google co-founder Sergey Brin stated for Yahoo! News Google doesn't need to acquaint every stronger company on the Internet, Google's shares dropped to $675 from a higher $675.82. Maybe thanks to Brin's friendly statement, it was Microsoft, who triumphed in the last task. On Wednesday, October 24, after many weeks of negotiations, Facebook founder Mark Zuckenberg decided to sell a 1.6% stake to Microsoft for $240 million. The estimate value of Facebook is $15 billion which is a stunning price for now a 4-year-old project started out of boredom by a regular Harvard graduate. Kevin Johnson, the president of Microsoft, put it in his own words; he believes this deal is a strong statement of confidence in this partnership and in Facebook. Zuckenberg's acceptance surprised the public;, the most recent offer to share a stake of Facebook (for $1 billion by Yahoo) has been rejected. Zuzkenberg also said for MSNBC that he'd like to spend at least the next two years without sealing any more acquaintances. He said he was not comfortable with the idea of cooperating with Google & because Google was not being secretive about its future plans: to build a social network on its own. Facebook's major rival, MySpace, has in comparison much more users, but Facebook is growing more rapidly. To support its growth, 400 more employees (to current 300) are planned to be hired. This deal also shows the world that Microsoft is becoming more understanding about the Internet of today.

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Posted by: Jana Kalicka

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by Claudia Sonea

After Wall Street session on Tuesday and the stocks plunging, there were rumors of Countrywide Financial being on the edge of bankruptcy. Even though, the mortgage lender denied it, analysts say that regulators are accepting its buyout precisely to avoid bankruptcy. On the site of The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times there is mentioned that Bank of America Corp. is in talks to acquire Countrywide, the country's largest mortgage lender that lost a lot of money due to the sluggish housing market. After announcing that the country would falter if they don't get $4 million infused in their capital, Sean Egan, managing director of independent ratings firm Egan-Jones Ratings Co., said that the buyout is the only reasonable solution. Nevertheless, such a transaction requires Fed's approval and the bank regulators refused to give any comments on the matter. Furthermore, the federal law prohibits for any bank to make acquisitions that would increase a bank's market share to 10 percent of U.S. deposits and the increase of Bank of America market share would be 9.88. Bart Nater, a San Francisco-based senior analyst with consulting firm Celent, expressing the opinion of banking industry experts, stated that it is no one's responsibility to solve the problems of the largest mortgage originator in the country. Regulators are concerned of the implication of Countrywide's collapse and who's going to collect the mortgage for millions of US home loans. There are no clear or sure news of such talks being held between the two mentioned previously, both Bank of America, which took last summer a 16 percent stake in Countrywide, and the mortgage lender refused to give any comments. On Thursday The New York Stock Exchange asked Countrywide to issue a public statement explaining the unusual trading activity that changed from plummeting its stock's price into raising it. Until now, there are mere speculations, therefore, stay connected this sound promising.

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Posted by: Maria Vidlickova

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The world's leading video game publishers are about to unite in a single company. According to the computer magazine Game Developer's chart of 20 video game publishers published every year, which is an evaluation of several factors, such as revenue, number of titles, reputation and other factors, Activision ranks the third in this chart, whereas the company that intends to buy the 52 per cent share of it & Vivendi Games & ranks 13th. (http://www.gdmag.com/archive/oct07.htm). Why would a third want to join in with the thirteenth, is the question here? Possibly to beat the competitors & the largest and most powerful game publisher these days Electronic Arts (which, by the way ranked second in the aforementioned chart of the Game Developer). The representatives said the joined company would have revenue of $ 3.8 billion this year, while Electronic Arts will have a revenue of "only" $ 3.1 billion this year. (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/02/technology/acti03.php#end_main). Another strong reason and argument for Activision to settle for the business is to move towards the online game market, since Vivendi specializes in multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft. In fact, Activision felt they needed an outside element for getting into the area of internet "to address the industry", as said by Robert Kotick, the chairman and chief executive of Activision (http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/02/technology/acti03.php#end_main).

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Edited by Zuzana Tylkova

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FIFA, Need for Speed, Sim City or The Sims, that are the names of the most popular games produced by Electronic Arts, famous American game developing company. Celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, EA has signed the deal of their history. For two software studios they will exchange $ 860 millions.EA is the world number one in producing videogames. In other field of game pop culture, such as role playing, action and adventure games, they are not so enlarged. By this move of acquiring two new studios, which are specializing in this sphere, everything will be different. Since the two new studios, BioWare Corp. and Pandemic Studios, are developing ten games, EA will occupy a strong competitive position.The acquisition will close in January. By this time EA will pay to Elevation Partners, which was the former owner, $ 620 million in cash. Another part of the money will come in form of equity to some of the company's employees. The largest financial transaction before this deal was in 2006, when the EA bought a mobile games publisher Jamdat Mobile Inc. for $ 680 million.Current revenue of EA in 2006 was $ 2.951 billion. The employ 7,200 people worldwide, with the two new studios it will be 8,000. This new deal will affect the position of EA on stock market, but the company is already counting on it. They expect in 2008 they will earn up to 40 cents less per share. But until they will produce games that will be so highly saleable as now, the shares will grow again.

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Edited by Iveta Nagyova

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In the business world, relations and hierarchies are never meant to last forever. Big fish eat the little fish, and it takes great skill to know when you should sell your company if running it becomes too difficult. This is the case in the software business as well, where "middleware" company BEA is up for sale and it's been getting offers from database giant Oracle. For now, Oracle's offering $17 per share and BEA's been refusing to sell, but as analysts think it could get up to 3 more dollars per share, maybe waiting isn't such a bad choice after all. Other companies interested in the bid were initially IBM and SAP but the latter has recently announced it has lost interest and would not even be able to accomplish the purchase financially, having had announced its intention to buy Business Objects SA for $6.8 billion. For IBM, it could be a matter of pride to buy a company more oriented to the Web 2.0 and also get something right from under Oracle's nose. IBM and Oracle are long-time rivals in the database market and a battle between the two would prove the best especially for BEA. Prices on its stock have already begun to rise as investors expect a massive price from its buyer, but it's likely they will have to wait a while before it gives in. Oracle is patient though, and known for getting what it wants; the 2004 story of the PeopleSoft purchase speaks volumes about its determination.

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Beliefnet Web site dealing with faith communities is being sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. media conglomerate. News Corp. phrased on Tuesday, December 4th, that it would buy faith-based Web site Beliefnet. The amount of money for the Beliefnet is not known, is still undisclosed. Beliefnet has been founded in 1999 in New York. This Web site offers various editorial content, such as blogs, news, religious reference, or even a message boards and non editorial things, such as photo gallery or various social-networking items. Beliefnet Web site is not dedicated to any specific religion, it's content is addressed to religion in general, also politics or social and family life as well as any other trend of modern life. Beliefnet Web site is visited by more than 3.1 million visitors per month and about 7.6 million of subscribers.Beliefnet is planned to become a part of Fox Digital Media. Don Fawcett, a Fox Digital Media President, said: "Beliefnet has garnered respect for its commitment to quality, editorial strength and unbiased approach to faith and spirituality from a broad range of consumers, religious and political leaders, journalists and advertisers." Mr. Don Fawcett also phrased what is Fox Digital Media up to: "leverage these characteristics across a broader media canvas and provide programming, production, advertising sales, technology and marketing expertise."News Corp. also runs the popular MySpace Web site, which is ruled through Fox Interactive Media and owns several different resources focused on religion as well. These are for instance National Geographic Channel with it's programs on religious history, Fox Faith, a faith-based filmmaker, and many others.

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TV Guide magazine is decreasingly profitable on the market in recent period. It is 54-years old magazine which is loosing readers and also money, because it is not able to adjust to new requirements, especially technological. Nowadays, people have usually no problem with access to Internet and so they find all the information about TV program there, when they need it and practically for free. Therefore TV Guide magazine started to concentrate more on writing about the people and characters from movies, serials and shows. That was surely a good step, but still not enough to ensure a position on a market which would be sufficient. Macrovision, which is a company providing copy protection, digital rights management, electronic licensing and software asset management technologies, is interested in buying TV Guide. Macrovision is planning a project of combining those companies and therefore its customers will be able to find out information about TV shows, have their space for photos, music library, and generally access to entertainment through different electronic devices. The price which offered is $2.8 billion. But it is still not clear what will happened if Macrovision buys TV Guide, nor weather it will actually be sold.

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Honestly, I don't like football (for our American buddies, soccer). I'm a proud member of "I Have Got No Idea What The Hell Is Going On There" club. Even though I consider myself a self-sufficient woman who doesn't distinguish between "men" and "women" activities or a social role, our club members are mainly women. It's little bit surprising because my father is a huge football fan who never missed any match of his favourite football team (Liverpool F.C., to be specific), wearing "The Reds" T-shirt every time he watched them playing on TV (however, I'm not absolutely sure if it really counts because he usually fell asleep after 30 minutes). Although I was surrounded by football as I was growing up, I couldn't quite get it. What so thrilling about 22 sweaty boys running up and down through the football pitch like idiots trying to catch the ball? Or twenty minutes there was nothing going on and suddenly, boom bang, the player started moving oddly, screaming, he scored! And the coach of rival team started to shout rude words and was getting red. Although I'm not a football fan, there are plenty of them in this world. And they love their game and their favorite football club so much that they want to buy it. Seriously, the obsessed Liverpool's fans want to buy the team because they just cannot stand the fact that it's being owned by some Americans (and openly, deserve somebody who calls football soccer the right to keep the most successful club in the history of English football?). Whatever, I'm going to ask my dad how much money he would bid.

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First day of the week is always full of events, Intuit Inc just announced that for a price of $170 million has acquired Homestead Technologies Inc with the purpose of getting more online tools for their clients- small business. The acquisition is scheduled to close early in 2008. Intuit Inc is an American software company that develops financial and tax preparation software and related services for small businesses, accountants and individuals with the headquarters in Mountain View, California. The founder is Scott Cook, while Tom Proulx is initial developer and Steve Bennett is the company CEO. Its revenues of $2038 billion are expected to decrease slightly due to the new acquisition, but that can be seen only at the end of the fiscal year in July 2008. The main goal of the purchase is to help Intuit's effort to diversify beyond its popular Quicken and TurboTax programs, which are already popular with small businesses. Quicken is a personal finance management tool, with a vast array of features. There are several versions of Quicken including, but not limited to: Quicken New User, Quicken Basic, Quicken Deluxe and Quicken Premier. Also, TurboTax is a U.S. tax software package offering different versions, including TurboTax Deluxe, TurboTax Premier, available for both Federal and state income tax returns. In conclusion the small businesses are in advantage and can benefit on the new acquisition. Furthermore, is good in case you don't really know what'all about the tax system. Enjoy!

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These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

edited by Barbora Matulova

Labels: Acquisitions, CantellTV, Chris Cantell, Christopher Cantell, digital broadcasting, SigEx Foundry, SigEx Telecom

In 21st century is water becoming the most important liquid and wasting any drop of this is reckless. And the French energy and environment group Suez on Monday said it would draft a master plan for the management of water, waste and energy services in the development zone. And this company in statement said it would also expand its waste water management plant northeast of Chongqing in Tangjiatuo. The Suez want to enlarging its capacity to 450,000 cubic meters a day from 300,000cubic meters. "We could acquire an interest" in Chongqing Water, said Gerart Mestrallen, Suez chief executive in interview with the French radio station Europe 1. Suez manages the water supply for 13.5 million Chinese residents as well as 14 million in France at the moment. And this company has been selected as a partner in an economic and residential development project in the city of Tianjin near Beijing. The announcement coincided with the French President's Nicolas Sarkozy visit in China. Nicolas Sarokzy on Monday oversaw the signing of about 30 billion dollars in aviation, nuclear and other deals in what he described as unprecedented day of trade with China. The two major agreements unveiled on the 2nd day of his visit were contracts for European aerospace giant Airbus to deliver 160 aircraft and French firm Areva to build two nuclear reactors.

related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071127/tbs-france-china-water-venture-company-s-5268574_1.html

by Eva Zelenakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

edited by Barbora Matulova

Labels: Acquisitions, CantellTV, Chris Cantell, Christopher Cantell, digital broadcasting, SigEx Foundry, SigEx Telecom

SEATTLE - After Web retailer Amazon.com Inc declared on Thursday, one of the greatest world known internet shops is going to buy its long term partner Audible Inc., the online audio book seller. The shop can complete the online services offering movies, video and music tracks by sale of e-book s and audio-books. This exclusive case just remarks the necessity of full service online internet portals. More than 3,000 000 people are daily connected to the internet world wide, for many purposes. Except of communication, internet has become the golden field of electronic market. As a matter of fact, the popularity of portals broadcasting information, music, video and pictures, as well as selling those products intensely increase. In the past, you had to buy one device allowing one way of entertainment . The markets sold out TVs, DVRs, PCs, cell phones, cameras and music players. This way you have spent a lot of money for selected way of using the same products and information. Consequently with the progress of technologies, the possibilities of numerous networks move further. Indexes show, that the consumers prefer to visit one full service portal, instead of never ending surfing among thousands of links. They prefer to buy one device, allowing all the features of cell phones, PCs, DVRs etc!The international company named SigEx , is one of the spreading ones providing digital streaming and social network technologies. SigEx combine revolutionary broadcasting services from big media players with enhanced telecom capacity, including video-rooms, four-way video-conferencing, integrated phone services, SMS communications delivering social network partners' social grids to the user. There is no doubt that SigEx holds on with the rhythm of new market strategies, by providing full service networks and services. It tries to make their clients and partners content continuously online & literally broadcasted around the world. Simply create a unique model for converting TV viewers to actual global clients!

related story: http://sigex.com/pr/EU_SuperPBX.pdf

by Milota Sidorova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

PocketNews is a new real-time news broadcaster delivering the latest and hottest news right to your pocket ! With global clients who want to be kept up to date, PocketNews is everyone's way of keeping in touch with the World.

These news are brought to you by CantellTV, its technology partner SigEx Telecom and its founder Chris Cantell. CantellTV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with enhanced communications, allowing people to easily control, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface. CantellTV has relationships with a growing network of international clients delivering millions of videos per day with more than 50,000 new videos uploaded and 200 hours of new TV shows broadcasted daily to a wide range of viewers, from 5 to 7 year olds of LiveCartoons; to 16 to 24 year old active social users of MyJumps; to fortune 50 corporate clients utilizing enhanced broadcasting services. CantellTV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers. Chris Cantell retains consulting arrangements with several pre-IPO companies.

Edited by Zuzana Tylkova

Labels: Acquisitions, CantellTV, Chris Cantell, Christopher Cantell, digital broadcasting, SigEx Foundry, SigEx Telecom