Mobile ESPN's End Casts Big Shadow Over Other Startups      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Jumping into the wireless phone business turned out to be a bad idea for Walt Disney-backed Mobile ESPN. Now the question is, will other mobile phone service upstarts soon bite the dust?
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ESPN is closing down its cell phone company for sports fans after less than a year, planning instead to forge deals with other wireless operators to offer Mobile ESPN's multimedia content, the majority-owned subsidiary of Walt Disney Co. announced Thursday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Insult is about to follow injury. It's bad enough that you've had to put up with a so-so year of market performance. Now you have to brace for an expected rise in stock fund capital gain distributions.
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Should investors connect with this troubled telecom?
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Big valuation, leaky moat, and a large shareholder fleeing. Any takers?
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roundup Plus: The company also expects to meet or exceed analyst estimates...Salesforce.com reports subscriber surge...RealNetworks signs up Red Flag Linux.
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Twenty-five years ago this Tuesday, a brash startup cable channel with a strange name began broadcasting. Its goal: Provide sports programming 24 hours a day. The concept behind ESPN was solid, but the execution was shaky in those early days of bouncing a signal off a satellite from a half-built building in a muddy field in then-rural Bristol, Conn. Today, ...
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Investor's Business Daily - Media Bias: A press baron who putatively leans right bids for the Wall Street Journal, and the media tut. A tycoon who has no experience in the industry but has a leftward bias gets involved, and the press sees a savior.
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Everyday investors ponder both sides of satellite radio's bad boy.
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Investor's Business Daily - The buzz in wireless is that 2008 is the year of the smart phone, and that has sparked a hive of activity by makers of cell phone chips.
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Investor's Business Daily - A Cambridge, Mass., research firm stirred up a hornet's nest this week with a report that indicated collapsing sales at Apple Computer's iTunes online music store.
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Investor's Business Daily - Until recently, hearing aid wearers had to manually switch modes on their devices when they used a cell phone.
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Walt Disney Co.'s DIS.N ESPN  sports television network is launching its own brand of mobile  phone service in a deal with Sprint Corp. FON.N intended to  lure new users with sports news sent over a next-generation  network, the companies said on Wednesday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Recent data suggest the game is over in the Web-based social networking field, but that isn&#39;t stopping new new players from joining in.
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Investor's Business Daily - When Cingular completes its purchase of AT&amp;T Wireless, it'll leapfrog Verizon Wireless to become the nation's No. 1 mobile phone company by the most common measures -- subscribers and sales.
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Investor's Business Daily - Nokia, Pioneer and Garmin International sell different types of consumer products -- cell phones, high-definition TVs and personal navigation devices.
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Here&#8217;s a nice overview piece &#8212; together with the requisite &#8220;who will win?&#8221; dramatic elements &#8212; from BusinessWeek, covering mobile search:  The emergence of Internet-connected mobile phones, or what&#8217;s known as the Mobile Web, is turning the wireless search business into a horse race&#8212;one that&#8217;s too close to call. Unlike its dominant role in search [...]