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Marketplace: Monday, July 26, 2004
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DOW .30 (.00%) ;
NASDAQ 10.07 (.54%) ;
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Google Inc. said on this July 26th that its highly anticipated initial public offer could value the company at more than $36 billion. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Google estimated it would sell its shares for between $108 and $135 through an online auction expected next month.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. And if you can't join 'em - join 'em anyway. That's what we've learned today about the strategy at RealNetworks. You've probably encountered Real Audio when downloading a sound file on the internet. Now RealNetworks says it's developed a technology that will allow songs purchased from its on-line music store to be played on Apple's popular iPod player.
The issue of illegal downloads of music and movies - and the proliferation of illegal copies of software - has been a major issue for the U.S. Washington is constantly complaining to countries like Russia that they ought to clamp down on intellectual property rights. So this item in the New York Times this morning caught our attention. According to the Russians, the U.S. needs to clamp down on illicit knock-offs too. In this case, machine guns.
On a day when a trade association reported sales and prices of existing homes hitting new record highs in June, there was a report about mortgage denials for minorities. The report says minority applicants were slightly more likely to be turned down in 2003 -but that home lending in minority and poor neighborhoods was sharply up last year. That, according to an umbrella group of regulators called the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council.
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Voting technology on the rocks
Remember the hanging chad? Problems with punch-card ballots in Florida during the last Presidential election postponed the final count. Indeed, the legal challenges have been slow in coming, too. The first trial challenging the punch card voting system opened today in Ohio. Since that fateful November, there's been a good deal of talk about the inherent business opportunity here - particularly for companies that make electronic alternatives to the butterfly ballot. But security questions have been a drag on adoption of the new technology.
Commentator: Amelia Tyagi
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 Hazey Jane 1 - Nick Drake
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A smarter 'man's best friend' ...
Some food for thought. Literally. Proctor and Gamble today introduced a new dog food that's supposed to make your puppy smarter. Perhaps a few smart puppies will take special note of where the company chose to make its big announcement.
Reporter: Hillary Wicai
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Butterfly - The Verve
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From the Convention: Who are the rank and file?
Democrats kick-off their orchestrated event in Boston. Tonight's conductor - former president Bill Clinton. His job -- and that of the convention - is to remind swing voters why they might choose the Democrats this year. And to inspire the rank and file to get out and vote. But who are these 'rank and file'?
Reporter: Helen Palmer's
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Pueblo Puppy - Coyote Zen
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Packaging a President
It is a phrase that's commonly invoked every four years or so. And it's happening again now. We've been hearing a lot about the packaging of the Presidency, as if politics can be reduced to a kind of commodity. As if the rules of the marketplace apply to how we pick our Commanders in Chief. On the one hand, those of us who care about policy see this as an over-simplification. On the other hand, it may be that the persistence of the metaphor points to something very real about how commercial values have overtaken political values.
Q + A: David Brown, with Andrew Zolli
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? vs Rahzel - The Roots
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