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Webs For Storing USPTO ®™© NEED STORY • 108 SpeedDollars, WUG4.com. Webs For Storing USPTO ®™© • Other Title • 108 Speedollars.com. Wug - Web Engines Storing of Finacial Info ®™© • Other Title • 108 WUG4.com. Web Engines Storing of Intelectual Property Rights ®™© • 108 - AOL Buys Huffington Post-$315 Million. • 2011 - July • 108-Related Money Articles Speedollars: • 108- Nortel Sells Patents For $4.5-Billion! • 108-China Owns $1.15 Trillion in U.S. Treasury Bonds. /// • a WebUsersGuild.com Report • 108-Charity Investment Tradeout. The book itself looks beyond the glossy appeals. ••• As tax deadline looms, ex-NPR chief Ken Stern looks at how little donors understand about the needs and the operations of even the most prominent charities 'With Charity for All' looks beyond the glossy appeals. ••• Americans just love feeling philanthropic. In any debate over cutting tax breaks in the income tax system, the deduction for charitable donations is always held sacred -- even more than that other sacred cow, the mortgage deduction. ••• It's a rare political leader who doesn't bow to the role played by charitable foundations in filling gaps left by government services to the indigent, the sick and the elderly, here in the United States and around the globe. The globe-trotting, tent-dwelling relief worker, the doctor without borders, the logistics expert getting food and medicine to camps of war refugees -- all elicit unique reverence from us armchair empathizers in civilized lands. ••• So why, asks Ken Stern in his new book, "With Charity for All," do we spend so little time thinking about the charities we give our billions to? • Stern is a veteran of the nonprofit world -- having spent nine years running National Public Radio, the nonprofit organization with which most of us are more familiar than any other. Thanks to his experience and a wealth of further research, "With Charity for All" makes many important points about how little we understand about the needs and the operations of even the most prominent global philanthropies. The book opens with a telling anecdote about the American Red Cross and its response to the disaster of 9/11. ••• In brief, its response was, well, disastrous. Material and personnel were deployed to the wrong places. Logistics broke down so badly that the organization was unable to get supplies, volunteers, food or cots for first responders quickly to the Pentagon -- which was all of 2 miles from its national headquarters and emergency response center. • What did work to perfection was the -- Red Cross' fundraising apparatus, which collected $543 million for its Liberty Fund to aid the attack's victims. This was far more than could reasonably be spent on direct relief. Yet when Red Cross President Bernadine Healy decided to divert the excess funds to fix what 9/11 had shown was broken -- improving its relief infrastructure, telecommunications and logistics management -- she provoked a firestorm. Congressional hearings, threats of prosecution for fraud, the whole instrumentality of public outrage was deployed against the Red Cross. Healy soon resigned. ••• "The widespread fury," Stern observes, "was both predictable and misguided." Donors large and small don't understand that delivering direct relief requires investing in a sound infrastructure, yet such investments are often derided as waste and featherbedding. ••• Stern makes a strong case that the average American donor has become a sucker for any charity's glossy yarn. That's because almost no system exists for measuring a charity's effectiveness on the ground; the few efforts that have been made to hold charities to account have been overwhelmed by feel-good PR and undermined by the sector's resistance to transparency. ••• Stern tells this story terrifically through the prism of Third World water projects. Beats there a Western heart that hasn't been beguiled by a glossy brochure showing a white charity executive throwing her arms around an African child at the site of a village's gleaming new water pump? Billions of dollars have been thrown into the fight for clean water. It's an inviting cause, because it's cheap to install a brand new pump. But "drilling a well is far easier than maintaining one," Stern rightly observes. Once the drilling is done and the publicity photos snapped, the charity organizers move on. ••• As a result, the proper image of the standard Third World water project, as an expert tells Stern, should be one of a "woman walking slowly past a broken hand pump, bucket at her side or on her head, on her way to (or from) that scoop hole or dirty puddle that she once hoped would never again be part of her life.". • One topic Stern explores is the exploitation-- of tax exemptions by nonprofits that don't resemble charities by any stretch of the imagination. Many are hospitals, which despite their nonprofit status behave with all the chilly inhumanity of a profit-seeking conglomerate -- dunning indigent patients for inflated charges, leaving emergency rooms to fall to pieces while spending lavishly on surgical facilities for wealthy patrons of high-profile specialties -- and, by the way, paying their CEOs in the millions. • Consider the New York Stock Exchange -- which until recently was a nonprofit enjoying a tax exemption and which in 2003 awarded its chief executive, Richard Grasso, a pay package of $140 million. Three years later, bugged to distraction by the attentions of charities regulators, the Big Board reorganized itself as a profit-making corporation. As Stern observes, the Grasso affair "stands for the proposition that some organizations have no business being nonprofits in the first place." ••• Unfortunately, there's no discussion in "With Charity for All" of the latest outrage in this category, the tax-exempt "social welfare" organizations that funneled millions of dollars in donations into electoral campaigns last year. • American Crossroads, founded by GOP -- operative Karl Rove, was the most prominent such outfit, but there were similar groups across the political spectrum. Their designation as "social welfare" organizations under section 501(c)4 of the tax code allowed them to keep their donor lists confidential, but in return for offering anonymity to well-heeled contributors they weren't supposed to engage in electoral politics. It wasn't until June last year that federal and state regulators began taking a look at the C4's, and obviously the probes didn't yield results before the election. • They still haven't. "With Charity for All" -- -- also falters in its most important role: proposing remedies. The answer to underperforming nonprofits is to remake the tax law and empower aggressive regulators to distinguish functional charities from those that are exploiting the exemption for a free ride. Withdrawing the tax break and tossing the creators of bogus "social welfare" groups in jail might do wonders to clean up U.S. politics. Requiring water charities to meet minimum sustainability standards for their projects might cut back their drill-'em-and-forget-'em habits. • But these are minor flaws in a book -- that marks an important advance in educating the donor public. Whether they're writing occasional checks for 50 bucks or making multimillion-dollar bequests, donors too often give to the wrong organizations and for the wrong reasons. "With Charity for All" is a good guide to what makes an effective charity, and how to figure out that the one getting your money meets that standard. • CLICK FOR MORE @ wug4.com/news#108-CharityInvestmentTradeout -- OR • Click For More tviStory 106-s90- CCharity Investment Tradeout /// • 108-T-MobileMetroPCSMerger Approved by the FCC The WebUsersGuild.com reported that: The Federal Communications Commission has approved the merger of T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS. (March 5th - 2013) •••• T-Mobile, with 33.4 million mobile customers, is the nation's fourth-largest cellphone company; MetroPCS is the fifth with 8.9 million customers. •••• The combined company will still be in the No. 4 position behind Verizon, AT&T and Sprint.••••Under the terms of the agreement, MetroPCS shareholders will receive $1.5 billion in cash and 26% ownership in the company, which will have the T-Mobile name. Deutsche Telekom AG, the Germany company that owns Bellevue, Wash.-based T-Mobile, will receive a 74% stake. MetroPCS is based in Dallas.••••Shares of MetroPCS fell 24 cents, or 2.3%, to $10.26 on Tuesday. •••• Wug4.com nalysts have said that the merger would probably result in a more bifurcated U.S. wireless industry, with Verizon and AT&T competing for the post-paid customer segment, and T-Mobile focusing on the lower-end pre-paid segment. •••• T-Mobile Chief Executive John Legere said , "Our combined company will have the products, spectrum, scale and resources to shake up this industry and deliver an entirely new wireless experience." • FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel had "expressed her concern" to the two "SmartPhone" cariers about potential job losses as a result of the merger. •••• "The companies have pledged to me that they have no plans to close any domestic call centers, to move them offshore, to close any retail stores, or to reduce retail positions as a result of this deal," Rosenworcel said in a statement. "They have also assured me that they plan to increase the overall number of "WebUsers" they employ in the United States." •••• The deal was applauded by several consumer groups. John Bergmayer, senior staff attorney at Public Knowledge, said the deal would help "counter the power of AT&T and Verizon." •••• "It would be better if the wireless market was not so distorted that the loss of a competitor is a win for competition," he said. "Nevertheless, that is the case, and given these facts, this particular merger is in the public interest." •••• In 2011, AT&T announced it had agreed to buy T-Mobile USA for $39 billion. But the deal was called off after running into opposition from government agencies that said it would create a less competitive wireless industry and potentially lead to higher prices for consumers. •••• "With the FCC approval, America's mobile market continues to strengthen, moving toward robust a, Europe and revitalized competitors," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a statement. •••• Wug4.com said the proposed deal made in October-2012, would create a stronger "SmartPhone" focused on value of the NBS-TeleKey# franchise. • Click For More tviStory 108-s90- MT-Mobile MetroPCS Merger Approved by the FCC ///  • 108- TVI Magazine Person of the Month, Carlos Slim tops Forbes ranking of billionaires 2013, followed by Bill Gates. • Forbes 10 Top Billionairs 1. Carlos Slim Helu (Telecoms) $73 billion 2. Bill Gates (Microsoft) $67 billion 3. Amancio Ortega (Zara) $57 billion 4. Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway) $53.5 billion 5. Larry Ellison (Oracle) $43 billion 6. Charles Koch (Various) $34 billion 7. David Koch (Various) $34 billion 8. Li Ka-shing (Various) $31 billion 9. Lilianne Bettencourt and family (L'Oreal) $30 billion 10. Bernard Arnault (Louis Vuitton / Bulgari) $29 billion Forbes's 2013 list of the world's richest people includes a record number of 1,426 billionaires, with a total net worth of $5.4 trillion, up from $4.6 trillion in the previous ranking. There are 210 new billionaires from 42 countries, including 27 from the United States. The average net worth of those on full list has risen to $3.8 billion from $3.7 billion. Sixty people have dropped off the list and eight have died. ••••Mexico's Carlos Slim, who has taken a hit from the slump in the share price of his America Movil telecoms group since the list was calculated as of Feb. 14, remained the richest person with a fortune of $73 billion, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates held on to the No. 2 spot with a net worth of $67 billion. ••••Spain's Amancio Ortega, the co-founder of the Inditex fashion group, leapt over Warren Buffett and France's Bernard Arnault to become the world's third richest person on Forbes' 2013 annual ranking of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $57 billion. ••••Ortega's fortune increased $19.5 billion, the biggest gain for any of the billionaires, from the report in 2012. He jumped two places and bumped Buffett, chairman and chief executive of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc with a fortune of $53.5 billion, out of the top three to the No. 4 spot for the first time since 2000. ••••Arnault, of the LVMH luxury goods group, dropped to 10th place with $29 billion. ••••Slim, 73, made much of his fortune in telecommunications but also branched out into retail, commodities, finance and energy. •••• "To see Carlos Slim again broaden his lead and certify himself as the richest man in the world is a statement that wealth truly is global and not an American monopoly like it sometimes felt for many decades," Lane added in an interview. •••• Rising stock markets fueled in part by monetary stimulus by the U.S. Federal Reserve, and robust consumer brands fortified the fortunes of those already on the list and drove many of the 210 new billionaires onto it. •••• Oracle Corp's Larry Ellison, with a fortune of $43 billion, rounded out the top five in the ranking that included a record 1,426 billionaires, with an average net worth of $3.8 billion. •••• Forbes' 27th annual ranking is the biggest ever and has the largest jump in total number of people added in one year. •••• Brazilian mining, energy and shipping magnate Eike Batista, whose net worth fell $19.4 billion, was the biggest loser on the 2013 list. He dropped from No. 7 in 2012 to 100. •••• The total net worth of the world's billionaires is $5.4 trillion, according to Forbes, up from $4.6 trillion in the previous ranking. AMERICA, CHINA, RUSSIA HAVE MOST •••• The United States led the list with 442 billionaires, followed by 386 from Asia and the Pacific region, with 122 in China alone. •••• Europe was close behind with 366, including 110 in Russia. The Americas, not including the United States, had 129 and the Middle East and Africa 103. •••• "There will be more Asian billionaires than American billionaires by the end of this decade, actually by the middle of this decade," said Lane. "That is a statement about where global growth is." •••• Americans captured five of the top 10 spots including brothers Charles and David Koch, owners of Koch Industries Inc, who tied for sixth place with $34 billion each. •••• France's Liliane Bettencourt, of the L'Oreal cosmetics empire, is the world's richest woman, coming in ninth with a $30 billion fortune. •••• Li Ka-shing, who controls the Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa, is the wealthiest man in Asia with a $31 billion fortune, putting him in eighth place. •••• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the founder of financial data firm Bloomberg LP, a competitor of Thomson Reuters Corp , just missed the top 10, rising to 13th place from 20th with a net worth of $27 billion. • Click For More tviStory 108-s90- FORBES Billionaires List 2013 /// • 108-AT&T$14BillionUpgrade The Webusers Guild.com (WUG) reported that AT&T said it will invest $14 billion improving and expanding its wireless and broadband infrastructure, over the next three years. •••• The Texas-based company said $8 billion will be used to improve its wireless network. According to AT&T it plans to expand its 4G LTE high-speed Internet wireless network to cover 300 million people by the end of 2014. •••• That means an improvement over the company's current plan, which would expand the network to cover 250 million people by the end of next year. •••• The latest plan, which AT&T calls Project Velocity IP, dedicates the remaining $6 billion to improving the company's fiber-optic, broadband networks. •••• AT&T will expand its high-speed U-Verse TV, Internet and VOIP service to 8.5 million more customer locations by the end of 2015. AT&T said the investment will boost U-Verse speeds to 75 Mbps, or about three times faster than the fastest service currently offered. •••• Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, called AT&T's investment plans proof that there is a positive climate for investment and innovation in the country's communications sector.  •••• "Extending wired and wireless broadband across America is the 'great infrastructure challenge of the 21st century,'" he said in a statement. "America's 21st century economy and our global leadership depend on meeting this challenge." • Click For More tviStory 108-s90- AT&T's $14Bill Wirless & Broadband Upgrade /// • 108- Sales of Mobile Phones Dropped in 2012 - for first time since 2009, down from 1.78 billion devices sold in 2011 to 1.75 in 2012, according to research firm Gartner. •••• "Tough economic conditions, shifting consumer preferences and intense market competition weakened the worldwide mobile phone market this year," the report says.  •••• One of the reasons for the drop is the weakening demand for feature phones, which possess some smartphone abilities but are limited. While smartphones had record sales and were up 38.3% for the fourth quarter of 2012, feature phone sales fell by 19.3% -- and that decline is expected to continue. •••• Also the report predicts the mobile sales to reach 1.9 billion in 2013 -- with a 1 billion coming solely from smartphones. •••• 2013 will be the year of the third ecosystem, as carriers try to break free from the influence of Apple and Google Android while Microsoft's Windows Phone 8, BlackBerry 10, and others battle it out. •••• "Alternative operating systems such as Tizen, Firefox, Ubuntu and Jolla will try and carve out an opportunity by positioning themselves as profitable alternatives," the report says. • Click For More tviStory 108-s90- Mobile PhoneSale Declined 2012 /// • 108- Comcast's GE Buyout •••• The purchase will end GE's ownership of NBC, which dates back more than 25 years -- •••• and will position Comcast as the nation's most valuable media company. Comcast is buying out General Electric's shares of NBCUniversal for about $16.7 billion -- taking full control of the New York media company. •••• The purchase comes two years after the Philadelphia cable TV operator acquired 51 percent interest in the media company, leaving GE with a 49% stake. Comcast had an option to buy more of GE's interest beginning in July 2014. •••••••• Comcast also will acquire the Manhattan headquarters of NBCUniversal at the legendary 30 Rockefeller Plaza as well as the CNBC headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., for about $1.4 billion.  •••• "Our decision to acquire GE's ownership is driven by our sense of optimism for the future prospects of NBCUniversal and our desire to capture future value that we hope to create for our shareholders," Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said in a statement. •••• The acquisition will be funded with $11.4 billion in cash on hand, largely generated by NBCUniversal's cash flow, proceeds from the sale of its stake in A&E networks and Comcast's sale of wireless spectrum. The company is also using $4 billion in senior unsecured notes and the company will borrow an additional $2 billion. •••• The company's market capitalization is currently about $105 billion, and when the deal closes the NBCUniversal entertainment assets and net income will be fully consolidated onto Comcast's balance sheet. •• "The whole company is healthy and interest rates are at historic lows. We do not have to stress the balance sheet to complete this transaction," Roberts said. "We think this is an attractive opportunity for our shareholders." •••• Fifty years ago Ralph Roberts, father of Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, made his original purchase of American Cable Systems, a 1,200-subscriber cable TV operator in Tupelo, Miss., for $500,000. •••• Comcast's acquisition timing of NBCUniversal looks to be a smart move. In the last two years, media companies' shares have soared: Walt Disney Co. now is valued at $99.2 billion, News Corp. is worth $65.9 billion and Time Warner Inc. is worth $49 billion. (In 2004, Comcast pursued a $54-billion hostile takeover bid for Disney but was rebuffed by Disney shareholders.) The same year GE also engineered the buyout of Vivendi Universal, which dramatically strengthened the media company by diversifying its revenue base by adding the Universal film studio, theme parks and the hugely profitable USA and Syfy TV networks. ••••The deal is expected to close by the end of March, and will put an end to GE's at times, controversial ownership of NBC. After acquiring the company in 1986, GE was criticized for trying to instill corporate efficiency models that worked well in building aircraft engines and windmills but did not apply well to the hit-and-miss nature of the TV and movie business. • Click For More tviStory 108-s90- Comcast Buys Out GE /// • 108-WiTEL™SolarEnergyFinancing •••• Muni-Fed Energy engages in renewable energy development (Solar, Wind, Waste to Energy) energy efficiency integration, consulting and financing. It serves federal, municipal and commercial clients and delivers effective technologies and services to address energy supply, energy demand, infrastructure and financing solutions. • For MORE- GoDirectTo: munifedenergy.com • Click For More tviStory 108-s90- WiTEL™SolarEnergyFinancing /// • 108- KCET announces merger with satellite network Link TV ••• KCET is in plans to merge with Link to form KCETLink, "a powerful new independent public transmedia company that acquires, produces and distributes provocative global programming targeted to a national audience across multiple media platforms." according to a news release. •••• KCETLink will be available in 33 million U.S. homes through DirecTV and Dish Network; that's not including the 5.6 million households that KCET already reaches in Southern California. •••• San Francisco-based Link TV started in 1999 and offers subscribers programming from a global perspective. Its agenda includes the Danish political drama "Borgen," and news and documentary programming. •••• Some of Link's programming will air on KCET in upcoming months, however "Doc Martin" and "So Cal Connected" will remain in place at KCET. •••• Al Jerome, KCET's chief executive, is to run the new entity, with Link's president, Paul S. Mason, becoming chief strategy officer. The combined company will be headquartered at the Pointe high-rise in the Burbank, where KCET already has offices and studio space. •••• Financial terms were not disclosed. •••• "With our combined resources, we are taking a bold step forward to become architects of a new sustainable model for the industry to keep public media thriving as a vital resource in the digital age," Jerome said in a statement. •••• KCET, formerly the Los Angeles area's PBS crown jewel has struggled with fundraising and declining viewership since it left the PBS network at the end of 2010. The station saw a 41-percent drop in contribution and grant funding in 2011. The merger with Link offers the station opportunities to develop new programming that will catch on with viewer audiences nationwide. • Click For More tviStory 108-s90- KCET Satellite Link TVMerger /// • 108- James Murdoch to Run News Corp's Fox TV Rupert Murdoch's second son, James Murdoch is reportedly being lined up to run News Corp's Fox TV business in the US, despite being sharply criticised by British broadcasting regulator Ofcom. The role would put him in charge of the Fox Networks Group, which includes the Fox terrestrial TV network as well as cable channels such as FX and National Geographic. ••••••Ofcom declared BSkyB "fit and proper" to own broadcast licences, but the regulator was highly critical of James Murdoch's handling of the phone-hacking scandal. •••• It found that Murdoch's conduct in relation to News Group Newspapers "repeatedly fell short of the conduct to be expected of a chief executive and chairman" and that his lack of action in relation to phone hacking was "difficult to comprehend and ill-judged". •••• If Murdoch ascends to the new role, there would be a new reporting structure at News Corp with Peter Rice, the Los Angeles-based head of News Corp's lucrative Fox Networks, reporting directly to him. •••• Rice was promoted to this role in July of this year and Murdoch had hoped his father would rubber stamp the deal then. •••• The move gave Rice control of all programming of the Fox Networks Group, including Fox Sports, Fox International and National Geographic channels. However, Fox News, run by Roger Ailes, remains a separate business. •••• In London, the phone-hacking scandal and its fallout will continue to cast a shadow over News International for some time. Lord Justice Leveson's final report on the future of press regulation is still to come, there are several hundred more civil damages cases to settle next year, and the Metropolitan police investigations into alleged criminality at the publisher and any resulting prosecutions could continue for up to three more years. •••• In all, 21 journalists at the Sun have now been arrested. • Click For More tviStory 108-s90- JamesMurdochToRunNewscorp'sFoxTV /// • 108- Warren Buffet $600 Million Dollars Birthday Present To His Family •••• OMAHA, Neb. -- Warren Buffett is celebrating his 82nd birthday on August 30th, by giving each of his three children a big present: about $600 million worth of his company's stock for their charitable foundations. •••• Buffett announced the gifts in a letter made public Thursday, saying he is rewarding his children for the way they've run their foundations. •••• The new contributions, added to previous gifts, mean they'll each receive about $2.1 billion in stock over time. In 2006, Buffett promised to give roughly $1.5 billion of Class B Berkshire Hathaway stock to each of the foundations his children run as part of a plan give the bulk of his fortune to charity. •••• The biggest share of Buffett's $44.7 billion fortune will go to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Another sizable gift will go to the Susan Thompson Buffett foundation that Buffett created with his first wife. He did not change those pledges on Thursday. •••• Buffett said he decided to increase the amount his children will receive because of the progress they've made. •••• Quote- " I'm very pleased about how all three of them have handled the contributions in the last six years," Buffett told The Associated Press. •••• Buffett said he is feeling fine and this decision was not prompted by any concern about his health. Berkshire Hathaway's chairman and CEO has been undergoing radiation treatment for prostate cancer this summer, but he has said his doctors do not believe the disease is life-threatening. •••• Each of Buffett's three children all chose a different focus for their foundations, based on their own interests. •••• Howard Buffett, 57, is helping farmers in impoverished nations produce more to help end world hunger. Susie Buffett, 59, is strengthening early childhood education and looking for ways to reduce teen pregnancy. Peter Buffett, 54, wants to empower women and girls worldwide through education, collaboration and economic development to end violence against women. •••• •Quote- " They've done everything I've hoped for and more with the original gifts," Buffett said. •••• As part of his giving plan, Buffett has always said that all of his Berkshire stock -- which today includes 350,000 Class A shares and 3,770,934 Class B shares -- will eventually go to charity.•The pledges to the five foundations that Buffett outlined in 2006 accounted for about 85 percent of his stock. Buffett said that increasing the amount each of his three children will receive now means that about 90 percent of his stock is spoken for.•Buffett has also been making smaller gifts of Berkshire stock to mostly unnamed charitable foundations. He said those would continue. •••• •Quote- " As the years go by, I will commit more and more to get to that 100 percent," Buffett said. •••• In his will, Buffett has specified that any shares he hasn't already pledged to charity at the time of his death will go to his Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation. And he has requested that all proceeds from his giving be spent within 10 years after his estate is closed. •••• Buffett has been giving each of the five foundations 5 percent of his total pledge annually since 2006 •••• The gradual manner Buffett is giving his stock away makes it more difficult to say how much the gifts are worth because Berkshire's stock price changes. The $2.1 billion estimate is based on current stock prices. •••• Buffett said he estimates that his kids will wind up with roughly double the amount to give away because the change he made. •••• Buffett said he's still never been tempted to give up his day job and become a full-time philanthropist. Instead, he's trusting others to distribute his wealth. •••• •Quote- " They're doing a better job than I could, and I've got plenty to do running Berkshire," he said. •••• Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is an Omaha-based conglomerate with more than 80 subsidiaries, including insurance, manufacturing, railroad, utility, furniture and restaurant firms. It also holds major investments in companies such as Wells Fargo & Co., Coca-Cola Co., Washington Post Co. and IBM. •••• Its holdings also include the Omaha World-Herald newspaper, which first published Buffett's letter outlining the latest gifts to his children's foundation.  • Click For More tviStory 108-s90- Warren Buffet 600MillBDPresentToEachOf HisKids /// • 108- NewsCorp Split - Wirless Vs. Print News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch details plans to split company News Corp.'s board of directors voted late night, June 27, 2012, in favor of a proposal that would separate the media conglomerate's publishing assets from the rest of its entertainment holdings. •••• Publishing has become a handicap for News Corp., in the wake of a devastating investigation into the phone hacking scandal in London. •••• In a teleconference in the morning of June 28, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch outlined plans to split the the media conglomerate's publishing and entertainment operations into two publicly traded companies, a decision he hailed as "the next transformative phase" in his empire's history. •"The decision by the board of directors, culminated three years of planning," Murdoch said. Separating the film and television assets from its news and book publishing groups would unlock the value of each for shareholders, and allow these disparate businesses to continue to grow. •••• The breakup of the company represents a historic move for founder Rupert Murdoch, who built the global media powerhouse from a single newspaper in Australia. In past years, Murdoch has firmly opposed any plans that would separate the publishing group from the rest of the media company. •••• He said the difficult choice to sever the company's news and book publishing businesses from its film and television operations culminates three years of planning. The restructuring, which he hailed as a transformational milestone for News Corp., is intended to unlock value for shareholders, who are attracted to the company's lucrative entertainment assets. •••• During the teleconference, Murdoch said, "We've come a long way in our journey that began almost 60 years ago with a single newspaper operating out of Adelaide. I'm convinced that each of these new companies will have the potential to continue their journey and prosper long as independent entities into the future." •••• Under the plan, the media and entertainment company would consist of 20th Century Fox film studio, the Fox broadcast network, and the company's cable TV group, including Fox News and FX. The online television service Hulu (partly owned by News Corp.) would also be included, as well as the company's home satellite operations. •••• The global publishing company would comprise News Corp.'s newspaper holdings, among them the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, the Sun in Britain, as would its HarperCollins book publishing assets. •••• News Corp. founder, Murdoch (81), presented a spirited defense of News Corp's newspaper business, known to be a longtime passion of his. •••• He said "the standalone publishing company would have a strong balance sheet and be free to pursue investments to grow the business." "The opportunity is so big its single-minded pursuit is the best approach. Our aim is nothing less than this: to create the most ambitious, well-capitalized and highly motivated news and publishing company in the world."   •••• Completing the separation could take up to a year, and would require final board and shareholder approval.  •••• Murdoch would serve as chairman and chief executive of the media and entertainment company, and as chairman of the new publishing entity. News Corp. COO, Chase Carey would continue in that capacity for the entertainment business. •••• Investors have reacted positively to news of News Corp.'s reorganization, driving up the company's stock 11% since initial reports June 26. •••• Wall Street for years has asked for News Corp. to shed its newspaper holdings. • CLICK FOR MORE Rupert Murdoch • Click For More tviStory 108-s90- NewscorpSplitMurdoch /// • SmartBriefs 108-s90 • Money - Mergers - Finance • 108- Nortel Sells Patents For $4.5-Billion To Competitors. .••• • 108- Nortel Sells Patents & Service Marks For $4.5-Billion To Competitors. + A consortium of Six Major U.S. Firms was a neccesary protocol in order to acquire the Canadian firm's Nortel patents package. .••• The Portfolio of over 6,000 were included in the package deal. The total package will have what has been described as a "nuclear weapon" to use against rivals around the globe. .••• "With a description like that," says Troy Cory-Stubblefield, CEO of NBS Wireless Telephone®™© . . . it's a 'Smart Wonder As To Why' . . . the NBS100.com organization shouldn't do the same thing with its own goods, products, and service; '999,9999 WiTEL phone numbers ®™© Service Marks,' and its 2010 Patent pending system. • The Stubbyte.com Facilitators .••• The "NBS Stubbyte System" -- is an anti-theft theft prevention tool . . . that will parlay itself into a user friendly guide for the prevention of the theft of intellectually property rights. .••• Who Will Be the "TRUE OWNER" of the goods; products; services, and individual names, once owned by Nortel, and just sold to the Apple Group for $4.5-Billion, .••• With this in mind," says Mark Anderson, CEO of the Pacific Sunrise Int'l Org, (pacificsunrise.org)."What Will It Take To Purchase the all important NBS WiTEL Service Mark ®™© . . . the serial number package that controls NBS Wireless Telephone®™© devices? • Well . . . I Telephone NorTEL -- for the answer about the Auction.. The first Question was?. .••• Who was the auctioneer mentioned in their Press Release, and the second was: Was the $4.5 Billion amount paid for Nortel's 6,000 Service Marks®™© . . . paid for in cash payment? .••• According to the woman that answered the Nortel's call, the auction was conducted by the same attorneys that represented a few of the fortunate companies that where invited to participate in the North America -- Nortel private auction they refer to as the -- "Stocking Horse Bidding Affair." • Apple • Microsoft • Research In Motion, • Sony • EMC and • Ericsson. - "The Buyers" ••• It was Apple, Microsoft and four others who finally team-up to buy Nortel patents for $4.5 billion .••• Nortel Networks Corp.'s highly coveted mobile tech patents have a new owner and it isn't Google," reported Stubblefield. .••• The six companies teamed up to buy the Nortel patents as a group, together spending $4.5 billion for a cluster of more than 6,000 patents and patent applications that many consider crucial to the future of mobile computing technologies. .••• The patents cover wireless technologies used in phones and tablet computers, wireless 4G data transfer, data networking, optical technologies, voice, Internet, service provider, semiconductors and other highly sought-after patents. .••• The sale of the patents is a coup for the six-company consortium over Google, which is known for having a weaker patent portfolio than many of its competitors that has left its mobile operating system Android, the world's most popular smartphone operating system, vulnerable to lawsuits. And the lawsuits have come for Google, some still ongoing such as Oracle seeking billions of dollars in a dispute over Android. .••• Google made a $900-million bid for the patents that was a starting point in the multi-day auction, which began on Monday. Information on how many other bids were made, and by whom, was not released. .••• "Following a very robust auction, NORTEL was pleased at the outcome of the auction of this extensive patent portfolio", said George Riedel, Nortel's chief strategy officer and president of business units, in a statement. COMING NEXT WEEK -- The Bidding War • Patents • ServiceMarks®™© • What Are They Worth • NorTEL Auction headed by Ernst & Young Law and Accounting firm.. .••• "The size and dollar value for this transaction is unprecedented, as was the significant interest in the portfolio among major companies around the world." • CLICK MORE ABOUT 108- Nortel Patents DEAL . • CLICK FOR MORE CLICK MORE ABOUT 108- Nortel Patents DEAL t 108-S90 tviNews / • Click For NorTEL Offices • • Click For More SmartBriefs 108-s90 • Money - Mergers - Finance /// • • 108-Related Money Articles Speedollars: + Click For: NBS100.com • What Are Stubbytes? - The Stubbyte 187+ Formula ® The WiTEL®™© Logo Means - The Wireless Telephone ®™© Organization - Since 1907 .••• • Protect the theft of your Goods, Products, Services ID with WTQCA Red Flags Rules. .••• (WiFi187.com = 187,000 mph per second - the speed of Ligh and RF Spectrums) .••• RF-300.com - The Wireless Telephone™ Organization .••• (RF-300.com = 300Ghz or 300 Billion RF Spectrums) .••• TVInews • WiFi 187, the WiFiMist- RFiD organization The wireless way to connect the Internet with one or more computers anywhere in your home, office or cafe -- is called WiFi Hotspots. It is also known as 802.11 networking and wireless networking. The chief advantage of a WiFi187 system over ethernet connections is: THERE ARE NO WIRES and the VATS-data Spectrums travel 187,000 mph per second, the speed of light.. • Click for More - http://smart90.com/witelglobal.com/ • www.stubbyte.com / Click For: www.NBS100.com / www.wirelesstelephone.org/ • SmartBriefs 108-s90 • Money - Mergers - Finance /// • 108 - AOL Buys Huffington Post-$315 Million. ••• 8th Wk - FEBRURAY 2011. AOL -- Chief Executive Tim Armstrong announced in early February, (2011), that it had purchased the OnLine magazine/news paper -- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ for $315-million. ••• AOL, in purchasing the 5-year-old news and politics website HuffingtonPost.com, a founded, and developed by Arianna Huffington, plans to reinvent itself as a must-read source for online news, gossip and opinion. ••• AOL, the first Internet organization to jump into the Hollywood scene by the purchase of Warner Bros. stock, and the company that introduced the massive dial-up business, is planing to reverse its mis- fortunes. ••• AOL Chief Executive Tim Armstrong has given some AOL investors a future into the world of Google, Facebook," say tviMagazine - Smart90.com editor, Josie Cory. The latest deal could help AOL pull off a turnaround. ••• Critics of the deal said AOL was taking a risky gamble by agreeing to a price that was more than 30 times the Huffington Post's annual operating cash flow of $10 million. Typically buyers pay 10 to 15 times the cash flow, said Clayton Moran, an analyst at Benchmark Co. ••• "The Price-Tag was quite high," say some experts. ••• AOL expects the Huffington Post's cash flow to be closer to $30 million by 2012 -- a figure that would put the sale price more in line with industry norms. ••• Armstrong, a former Google Inc. executive, is hoping AOL's extensive advertising sales force can help the Huffington Post attract more ad dollars. Armstrong was charge of the U.S. ad business for Google. ••• The Huffington Post is the latest addition to AOL's portfolio of dozens of websites, including the recently acquired technology news blog TechCrunch, the tech blog Engadget, the Moviefone movie listing site and the local news effort Patch. AOL is also affiliated with the gossip site TMZ. • CLICK FOR MORE STORY Q08-s90 STORY /// • 108iii-TrickPoniesOfWiTEL 108 - Money: The Trick Ponies of the Red Flag Rules - 2007 to 2010 / • NBS100's FTC STUDY - The Trick Ponies of the Red Flag Rules - 2007 to 2010 "ID Theft Prevention" - for the Goods, Products & Services Provided by the Wireless Telephone®™© Industry" • Since -1902. • CLICK FOR MORE "TRICK PONIES TO SKIRT AROUND - Service Marks ®™© /// ••• • 108 - Money - The VALUE OF WiTEL®™© Defined: As the name implies, the Wireless Telephone®™© derives its value from the elements, effects of its Service Marks, and other assets, i.e. foreign exchange rates, telephone number prices, and those monthly fees, and draft securities created on unpaid outstanding accounts. • • 108 - Money - CASH FOR FUTURE INVOICED SECURITIES. ••• Although the derivatives produced by the 1907 NBS Wireless Telephone®™© can be incredibly complex, the basic premise was simple: One party agrees to pay another party "money" for the use of NBS Wireless Telephone®™© numbers -- if a certain prediction about the future NBS WiTEL®™© was backed by a governmental regulatory agency. ••• A hog farmer, for instance, can try to partially offset, or hedge against, a future drop in hog bellies prices by buying a derivative AIG policy that pays off if the price falls. Virgin Airlines can buy jet fuel at a set price in the future to offset a possible increase in oil prices. /// /// 108 MONEY - TODAY END • 108g- Extras: RELATED ARTICLES 108-Patent Suit Johnson & Johnson Wins Stint Claims ••• February 2, 2010 / • LITIGATION $1.73-billion settlement in stent suits. Johnson & Johnson said Boston Scientific Corp. would pay $1.73 billion to settle two suits related to patents for medical stents. ••• Natick, Mass.-based Boston Scientific faces additional court challenges to its Promus stent products, including a lawsuit by Cordis Corp ••• Stents are mesh-wire tubes used to hold arteries open after they are surgically cleared of blockages. <108- <108s- • 108g - US vs Secret Swiss Bank Accounts • 108g - GovToxic-IOUs-Flipping.htm • 108g - TelecRejectStimulusMoney.htm • 108brin&PageToSellGooglestock . ••• Google Inc. co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan to sell 5 million shares apiece of their company stock, worth $5.5 billion combined at current prices. ••• According to regulatory documents, Page and Brin will still own 47.7 million shares or 48% of the voting power, combined after their personal stock sales. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt controls nearly 10% voting power. The trio will still continue to control the company. ••• The sales will occur periodically during the next five years and leave the two with 48% of the voting power among stockholders, down from roughly 59% now. A tviNews blog report - January 23, 2010. •108Editor&PublisherRevived. / EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, The one hundred year old publishing company is back in business again. ••• EDITOR & PUBLISHER MAGAZINE, founded in 1901 and merged in 1907 with The Journalist, a weekly founded in 1884 is back in business again, "seamlessly" . . . says Josie Cory, publisher of tviNews. Long the bible of the U.S. newspaper industry, the publication has been revived" under a new publisher just two weeks after Nielsen Co. shut the venerable trade magazine down. ••• Duncan McIntosh Co., an Irvine, CA-based company that ironically publishes FishRap News, and titles such as Boating World, has acquired it for undisclosed terms. ••• Nielsen originally pulled the plug after selling much of its trade magazine division, including titles such as Adweek, Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter, to e5 Global Media. ••• We're going to continue to be the main information source, the main idea source for the newspaper industry," said Mark Fitzgerald, who was named Editor & Publisher 's editor Thursday. "We're all very excited around here about the news." ••• Editor & Publisher, a magazine which has chronicled the US newspaper industry for over a century, was sold, exactly two weeks after being shut down by its owner, the Nielsen Co. ••• Duncan McIntosh, whose company also produces the Newport Boat Show, stated that; "such a critical information source for a newspaper industry so desperately in need of help should not go away." ••• "I've been a reader of Editor & Publisher over the course of 30 years and know its incredible value to readers and advertisers," McIntosh said. ••• During the last several years, Newspapers have been transforming beyond the printed page to all forms of digital media. Imagine loosing the one place where the industry could have a conversation with itself and exchange ideas and best practices for navigating . . . (networking, hypertext) navigating - Finding your way around. Often used of the Internet, particularly the World-Wide Web. ••• Known as the "bible" of the news industry, Editor & Publisher has been closely following the struggles of a US newspaper industry grappling with declining circulation, falling print advertising revenue and the migration of readers to free news online. ••• Editor & Publisher 's new owner said there would be a February print issue of the magazine. E&P's website immediately resumed operations upon the completion of the sale. ••• Nielsen announced last month it was closing Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews, a book review publication which was founded in 1933, and selling several other brands including the Hollywood Reporter and Billboard. • 108s - TelecRejectStimulusMoney.htm / U.S. wants to help the big FIVE WiTEL®™© Telcos expand their Internet VoIP WiFi and WiMAX broadband service, but they refuse to apply for $4.7-Billion offer. ••• Troy Cory, CEO of NBS WiTEL®™© said, "If you want to get the WiMax wired-wirless broadband out into your neighborhood, you have to do it with the organization who brought you to the dance in the first place. In this case, the man that organized the 1902 celebration was, Nathan B. Stubblefield, the inventor, creator, and founder of the Wireless Telephone that registered the NBS WiTEL®™© service marks in 1907. ••• The founder of the NBS Wireless Telephone®™© Organization," said Cory, has, and still maintains the the Service marks. "This is not a basket weaving contest mixing copper wire within RF spectrums. This is really complex and intensive technical stuff that takes a fair amount of area codes and numbering sophistication and scale to be able to do right and to continue to upgrade." • THE PROS AND CONS. August 14th 2009 being the deadline to apply for $4.7 billion in broadband grants, AT&T, Verizon and Comcast won't be going for the stimulus money. • 108s - CLICK FOR MORE TelecRejectStimulusMoney STORY • 108g - GovToxic-IOUs-Flipping.htm <108g - GovToxic-IOUs-Flipping.htm | Loophole in government program to buy toxic securities could cost taxpayers for the potential Wall Street IOU scam. 'Without safeguards, traders in the $40-billion program could use inside information to profit -- and any losses would be largely borne by taxpayers. ••• "It is a conflict by design," said Troy Cory, CEO of NBS WiTEL®™©. "I agree with Neal Barofsky, the special inspector general for the banking rescue program." It was Rarofsky who has been urging tighter controls on the nine trading firms selected to participate for several months. • 108s - CLICK FOR MORE 108g - GovToxic-IOUs-Flipping STORY /// • 108g - USvsSecretSwissAccounts.htm <108g - USvsSecretSwissAccounts.htm • 108s - CLICK FOR MORE 108g - USvsSecretSwissAccounts Flipping STORY ••• U.S. and Swiss reach deal over secret UBS bank accounts. The agreement will end a legal case in which the U.S. sought names of Americans suspected of evading taxes. ••• U.S. and Swiss negotiators have initialed a settlement that averts a legal showdown over the U.S. government's landmark challenge to Swiss bank secrecy, a government lawyer said Wednesday. ••• The U.S. government had sought a federal court ruling compelling Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, to turn over the names of Americans suspected of dodging taxes through the use of 52,000 secret accounts.• 108s - CLICK FOR MORE 108g - US vs Secret Swiss Accounts Flipping STORY • 108g- Google KnowledgeRush • Click For More - • 108-GoogleKnowlegeRush • CLICK Below FOR MORE - Related Stories //// • • 2011 - 2nd Quarter: April * May * June • 108-S90 • Money: Busines • Finance • Legal • 108GoogleSelectsLarryPage-as CEO • 108-ChinaNowOwns $1.15Trillion U.S. Bonds • 108 SpeedDollars, WUG4.com. Webs For Storing USPTO ®™© NEED STORY • 108 SpeedDollars, WUG4.com. Webs For Storing USPTO ®™© • Other Title • 108 Speedollars.com. Wug - Web Engines Storing of Finacial Info ®™© • Other Title • 108 WUG4.com. Web Engines Storing of Intelectual Property Rights ®™© • 108 - AOL Buys Huffington Post-$315 Million. • 108GoogleSelectsLarryPage-CEO • 102 Larry Page, the CEO of Google Reorganizes its Top Ranks ••• SAN FRANCISCO, April 1011 -- Larry Page, who returned as Google's chief executive officer (CEO) this 17 week of 2011, has completed a major reorganization of the management team as part of his attempt to streamline decision-making at the Internet giant, U.S. media reported on Friday. ••• Page, the 38-year-old co-founder of Google with Sergy Brin, has been trying to run the company in the spirit Google had as a start-up between 1998 and 2001, when he was its founding CEO before handing the role to Eric Schmidt, who now assumes the role of executive chairman. ••• • Page promoted six executives in charge of some of Google's most important divisions, who will report to the new CEO directly, The Wall Street Journal said in a report. ••• Four executives were promoted to senior vice presidents, including YouTube head Salar Kamangar, mobile-device software Android chief Andy Rubin, Chrome Web browser and operating system head Sundar Pichai and Vic Gundotra, who is in charge of Google's social-networking initiatives. ••• Susan Wojcicki and Alan Eustace, two current senior vice presidents, will become heads of ads and Web search, a person familiar with the matter was quoted as saying. ••• Google has said that the change of CEO was aimed at streamlining decision-making and creating clearer lines of responsibility and accountability at the top of the company. ••• With the latest management shuffle after Page took charge of Google's day-to-day operations, the promoted executives will be able to act more autonomously and won't have to turn to the company's powerful operating committee on every decision, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. ••• The reorganization puts Page firmly in charge of Google and its performance in much the same way Steve Jobs runs Apple, the newspaper noted. • CLICK FOR MORE Larry Page 108 People Section. / • CLICK FOR MORE Larry Page 108-S90 tviNews /// • 108-China Now Owns $1.15 trillion in U.S. Treasury Bonds. June 20, 2011. China announced it purchase of more than $7.6 billion in U.S. Treasury debt. China, the biggest buyer of U.S. Treasury Bonds, increased its holdings in April, the first increase after five straight declines. ••• The Treasury Department said China increased its holding by $7.6 billion to $1.15 trillion. ••• Total foreign holdings of Treasury securities rose 0.2 % to $4.49 trillion. ••• Japan, the second-largest buyer of U.S. debt, trimmed its holdings slightly by $1 billion, to $906.9 billion. There had been concerns that the March 11 earthquake and tsunami would lead Japan to sharply cut its purchases to use the money for reconstruction. CLICK FOR MORE TCS CHINA NEWS. / • CLICK FOR MORE China 108-S90 tviNews /// • 108 SpeedDollars, WUG4.com. Webs For Storing USPTO ®™© CHANGed • 108 Speedollars.com. Web Engines Storing of Finacial Info ®™© CHANGEd • 108 WUG4.com. Web Engines Storing of Intelectual Property Rights ®™© •108 SpeedDollars, WUG4.com. Web Engines For Storing of Intellectual Property Rights ®™© / • CLICK FOR MORE 108-S90 tviNews GET ARTICLE/// /// /// • 108f- Google KnowledgeRush • 108if -The Virgin Mobile Sells WiTEL to Sprint (See 110i) • 108if - Can't decide? what's the NBS1908 WiTel™ Service Marks worth? • 108f - Nextwave Sells WiTEL Spectrums to T-Mobile For $98 Million • 108f - WHO'S READY TO BE the "Real" WiTEL®™ Company • 108f - The Funding of Future FCC Auctions • 108f - 2008 - 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE Wireless Telephone®™ • 108f - "FINDING THE TRICK PONY" • 108f - The Crash of 2008 . . . and the Bail Outs 2009 • 108f - 10a - One Satisfaction Rule Payoff Game - Q&A • 108f - How much foreclosure relief will Borrowers get from bailout plan? • 108f - 10b FICO The Credit Rating Agencies - Fraudulent FICO SCORES • 108f - 10c - Flipping Real Estate Is Illegal. • 108f - 10d - BackDatingFraud. Former McAfee, Inc. • 108f - MAY 6, 2009 • AT&T Forced To Buy Verizon WiTEL $2.3-Billion. • 108f - JUNE-2009 Pres Obama Demands Credit Relief - SPEEDOLLARS /// 108JockeyClubCityCenterL5BillionOpens - The Forbidden Ciy Project. •• • "The only names retained by the Chinese 'Forebidden City' project are the the words "City" and Mandarin Oriental," says Troy Cory, of the Jockey Club Alliance Group, ••• Thanks to MGM, Dubai World, the massive CityCenter walk, formerly knows as the the 1993 China Expo Las Vegas Jockey Club Forbidden City Boardwalk Project, opend its door on December 17, 1009. ••• TVI's Pete Allman, and the associated press reported Las Vegas "visitors by the thousands" streamed into the newest casino-resort on the Las Vegas Strip on Thursday. ••• Fireworks and fanfare greeted the official opening of the Aria Resort & Casino, the 4,000-room, 61-story centerpiece of the $8.5-billion CityCenter complex. Crowds began swarming through the doors around midnight. • MGM Mirage Chief Executive Jim Murren said that while many experts thought CityCenter would never open, its employees drove the company to make sure it carried through on its grand design. ••• "It was because of [the employees] that we got here, and the promise of 12,000 people that wanted to work hard to provide for their families," Murren said. "It was that promise -- that we didn't want to let them down -- that got us here." •••• Aria's rooms, along with those at CityCenter's Mandarin Oriental and Vdara hotels, increase room capacity on the Las Vegas strip 8.5%, UBS Investment Research analyst Robin Farley said. • MGM Mirage owns the most casinos on the Strip, but Murren believes CityCenter will help, not hurt, the company's other resorts. •••• Competitors worry that CityCenter will force them to lower rates to keep rooms filled. But Murren and other MGM Mirage officials predict CityCenter will help Las Vegas as a whole, spurring visitation and providing a catalyst for long-term prosperity. ••• "This is really 21st century Las Vegas," said architect Cesar Pelli, whose team designed Aria. "This is really setting up very high standards that will be very hard to match -- but I hope they will try." •• • December 11, 2009 / The LA TIMES REPORT ON THE -- massive CityCenter complex on the Las Vegas Strip, set to open officially next week, is a blast from the very recent past. •• • Costing over $8.5 billion, designers including Daniel Libeskind, Norman Foster, David Rockwell, Cesar Pelli and Rafael Vinoly and a staggering 18 million square feet of space inside six towers and a Strip-front shopping mall, the development is a fitting coda to the decade of celebrity architecture and overextended real-estate mania from which we've just emerged.  • CityCenter's true theme is leverage. Ranking as the largest private development in American history, big enough to fill the tallest building in Los Angeles, the U.S. Bank Tower, roughly a dozen times over, the complex is a palace -- a series of connected palaces, actually -- for the age of towering debt and easy credit. They should have put Alan Greenspan's face on the poker chips. • CLICK FOR MORE JOCKEY CLUB Alliance -LV.COM. • 108f - May 1, 2009 - Jockey Club-MGM CityCenter Deal Saved by Dubai World • 108f - Jockey Club MGM Loan Default Mar 2009. • 108f - Dubai sues MGM Mirage over Jockey Club City Center April 2009 • 108f - Jockey Club MGM, Deutshe Bank City Walk Project 2009 • 108f - MGM CEO, Terry Lanni, stepped aside in Nov 2008 • 108f - Flipping Houses • 108iiif - The Trick Pony in the world of WiTEL®™©. • 108f- Extras: RELATED ARTICLES Jockey Club MGM Loan Default Mar 2009. - MGM Mirage Auditors on March 17th 2009 raise doubts about the casino operator ability to pay off JockeyClub MGM Loan Default, which had a $1.15-billion 2008 loss. • NEW - UpDATE / May 1, 2009 / Las Vegas -- Jockey Club-MGM CityCenter Deal Saved By Bell. Jockey Club - MGM Mirage, Dubai World reach deal to finish City Center RETURN TO TOP - Click for More tviNews

• 108iiis - The Trick Ponies in the world of WiTEL®™©. What's the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office . . . for ?
• • "Finding The Trick Pony" to Monetize the Certified USPTO ®, ™ -- and the © Symbol should be simple.
• • The PTO or USPTO is the acronym for the government agency assigned to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The USPTO acts not only as a fiduciary agent for Congress and other government agencies, but for the inventor and other individuals granted Marks pertaining to patents, trademarks, and to the copyrightable effects and elements arising therefrom.
• • "A federally registered mark is presumed valid." The PTO;s mission is to oversee and implement those certain federal laws relating to valid patents, trademarks, and service rights, they've became signatory.
• • By law, when a Patent, Trademark, and/or a Servicemark is granted to an individual, it is considered to be a Certified NOTICE. This Notice of ownership gives everyone living and doing business in the U.S.A. -- to take Notice of propriety.
• • This Notice is also applied to anywhere else in the world where the U.S. has a Treaty or International Bureau, i.e., the Berne or Geneva Convention. It is presumed those signatory members are aware about your use and ownership of the invention, copyright and/or trademark and the meaning of the Mark, ® / ™ / ©. • 108iiis - CLICK FOR MORE 1808 ABOUT SERVICE MARKS.

• 108ig - Can't decide what the NBS1908 Wireless Telephone™ Patent is worth 1408
• 108is - Can't decide what the NBS1908 Wireless Telephone™ Patent is worth 1408? Here's the deal! The new crop of WiTEL's™ arising from the world of Teléph-on-délgreen, Kentucky, are dizzying. But more dizzying is why, when and who owns the NBS1908 Wireless Telephone™ patent, and copyrights?" • 108is - CLICK FOR MORE 1408 STORY | • 108is - CLICK FOR MORE 5800-04 STORY

• 108s - Nextwave Sells WiTEL Spectrums to T-Mobile For $98 Million - T-mobile, U.S.A.'s No. 4 U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile just picked up some more airwaves to use as it builds out its 3G wireless network across the States. The carrier just bought a chunk of spectrum from Nextwave Wireless for $98 million, RCR Wireless News reports. MORE T-Mobile Story

• 108s - WHO'S READY TO BE the "Real" WIRELESS TELEPHONE®™ Company - Since 1908 . . . How Does $30-Billion Sound? #NBSWitelMay2008 / • 108s - MORE NBS LEGAL STORY

• 108s - The Funding of Future FCC Bids - to repurchase the seized RF-300 assets once owned by NBS1908, is a major concern for both the FCC and USPTO. That's why the Wireless Telephone®™ organization through it's NBS Family Trust aims to sell four blocks of its effects linked to its WiFi-187 Legacy assets holdings, now valued at over $30-Billion. CLICK FOR MORE fcc bids STROY

• 108s - The Year 2008 - THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE Wireless Telephone®™ Click For More wirelesstelephone.org

• 108s - What would Yahoo/Microsoft, Verizon or AT&T pay for the NBS1908 Wireless Telephone™. (See Patent -Trademark-Copyright, and 1905 Patent Laws! - CLICK FOR MORE 1808 STORY

• 108s - "FINDING THE TRICK PONY" Some of these organizations have not only monetized their respective companies by issuing paper certificates represented by stocks, bonds, notes, deeds, and licenses, listed on various STOCK EXCHANGES, but have licensed others to use the Effects of their ® / ™ / © -- as a commodity. CLICK FOR More 1808 "Finding The Trick Pony" to Monetize the Certified USPTO Symbol ® / ™ / © |
• 108s - MORE NBS LEGAL.net STORY
• 108s - What is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office . . . for? The PTO or USPTO is the acronym for the government agency assigned to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The USPTO acts not only as a fiduciary agent for Congress and other government agencies pertaining to patent trademarks, and copyrights, but for the inventor and individuals granted Marks. CLICK FOR MORE1808 STORY

• • 108s - The Crash of 2008 . . . and the Bail Outs 2009
108-10aOneSatisfaction
• 108s - 10a - One Satisfaction Rule Payoff Game - Q&A
• 108s - How much foreclosure relief will Borrowers get from bailout plan?
•••It all depends on the "IF" answere: WAS AN INSURANCE COMPANY INVOLVED. Was insurance $$ part of the Payoff. - CLICK FOR MORE BAIL-OUT GAMES.

• 108s - 10b FICO The Credit Rating Agencies - Fraudulent FICO SCORES
•••In D.C., a few congressmen blame Benchmark firms for financial crisis
Congress had a big hand in oversight failures and deregulation, in part through a philosophy of reducing government's role. Rep. Waxman begins hearings today. • 108s - MORE FICO STORY.

• 108s - 10c - Flipping Real Estate Is Illegal. ScamMers of Deeds of Trusts in California were involved high-end house flips on Wall Sreet usesing Deeds of Trust.
•••Lehman Bros. Bank, which last month spiraled into bankruptcy amid the nation's deepening financial crisis, and another lender, RBC Mortgage Co., lost about $42 million on the loans.• 108s - MORE FLIPPING STORY.

• 108g - 10d - BackDatingFraud. Former McAfee, Inc.
• 108s - 10d - BackDatingFraud. Former McAfee, Inc. lawyer is acquitted in stock options backdating trial
•••Kent Roberts, who served as the software maker's general counsel until he was fired in 2006, was accused of tampering with grants to increase his shares' value by $200,000. • 108s - CLICK FOR MORE BACKDATING STORY.

• 108s - 10a / • 108s - 10b - Short Selling, The One Satisfaction Rule Payoff Game - on Wall Street. Short Selling, Insurance and credit swaps Elements of Fraud /Credit-default swaps, conceived by bondholders, allow investors to buy protection against a company defaulting. As the market expanded, speculators started using them to bet on a company's creditworthiness. The contracts pay the holder face value for the underlying securities or the cash equivalent should a company fail to repay its debt.
••• Though it grew a hundredfold in the last seven years, total outstanding contracts in credit-default swaps are dwarfed by other derivative markets, including those that bet on interest rates. Those markets had contracts linked to about $465 trillion as of June 30, the International Swaps and Derivatives Assn. said.
••• The joint probe announced Monday will also examine allegations of insider trading, market manipulation and other forms of fraud, according to a second person.
••• Cuomo and US probe credit-default swaps. The probe seeks to "determine whether any federal laws have ... an earlier inquiry by Cuomo's office, US Atty. ... Cuomo has been probing alleged manipulation of credit Business | October 21st, 2008. • 108s - 10a | • 108s - CLICK FOR MORE 10b - Short Selling, The One Satisfaction Rule Payoff Game - on Wall Street.

• 108s - CLICK FOR MORE - May 6, 2009 • AT&T Forced To Buy Verizon WiTEL $2.3 Billion Dollars.
••• NBS WiTel announced during the Hollywood Digital that AT&T was being forced to purchase Verizon WiTEL assets, because Verizon's Alltel phone system was incompatible with the at&t's WiTEL network.
••• On May 9th 2009 the LATimes, (Associated Press) confirmed the $2.35-billion assignment deal -- that will affect 1.5 million WiTEL subscribers in 79 franchises, in 18 states, including California.
••• The areas are mainly within the Verizon-Alltel, Sprint-Clearwire deal completed and approved by the FCC last year. Most of the Alltel territories overlaped and competed with Verizon's more well-known faster WiMax187 connections. They also include some Verizon territories and areas covered by Rural Cellular, another carrier that Verizon bought last year.
••• Troy Cory-Stubblefield of NBS WiTEL, and ePublisher of TVInews, stated to Yahools Lucas Mast during an interview on May 6th, that, "it appears that Verizon Wireless, one of NBS WiTEL potentials, was forced to sell its NBS WiMax187, to satisfy FCC regulatory conditions of several WiTEL deals Verizon made last year by and between Alltel, and Sprint-Clearwire." • 108s - CLICK FOR MORE About NBS's WiTEL offer to YAHOO.
••• Because AT&T's network isn't compatible with Alltel or Verizon phones, the WiTEL©™ phone numbers would have affected over 1.5 million WiTEL subscribers. All would have needed new phones to use the Dallas-based 2005 AT&T - SBC - Yahoo priorities. • 108s - CLICK FOR MORY About the 2008 Verizon, Sprint - AllTEL 2008 DEAL.
••• The States with the 79 franchised areas included in the deal are Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.
••• The deal is expected to be finished by the fourth quarter. Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications Inc. of New York and Vodafone Group of Britain. • 108s - CLICK MORE ABOUT Ivan Seidenberg - TVI's POM-

• 108s - JUNE - 2009 President Obama Demands Credit Card Relief . . . and Gets It. TeleKey Signet - SPEEDOLLAR FINANCIAL RECAPS - To avoid the Repeating of the financial scenarios of the 30s, 80s and 90s -- Pres. Obama gives aid to those 2009 holders of CreditCards, Guns get a few more Privileges.
••• "Finally, after 10 years of creating money backed by promisory notes, we get a break from the monetizers of comodities," says Troy Cory. Troy is the co-founder, and former head of the Signet Credit Card system, founded in the mid-60s. "An updated credit card law was finially in the making, but the "trick pony" in the law, included in a gun control priviledge allowing people to bring loaded guns into national parks and wildlife refuges.
••• During a May 2009, signing ceremony in the Rose Garden, the president warns that both consumers and card issuers need to act responsibly.
••• On the 22nd of May signing, President Obama warned overeager shoppers and greedy credit card companies alike Friday to act responsibly as he signed into law a bill designed to protect debt-ridden consumers from surprise charges. / CLICK FOR MORE ABOUT TeleKey Group's "SIGNET CASHLESS SOCIETY OF THE 1960 - to 2006. The SIGNET CREDIT CARD Kickoff
••• • NOTES: 1968 - When the TeleKey Group was Formed -- its Cashless Society began. Signet Credit Card Systems and NorthStar TeleKey Group was formed for local and international wireless telephonic numbering system, and numbered Telex banking transactions. What is the Relevancy of the wired/wireless telephone/TV -- to the Internet? -- First stations set to approve trade credit exchanges over the telephone, using dial-tone key pad entry. Main offices, Los Angeles, Switzerland, Munich. *NBSWiTel™© AFact. • 108s - CLICK FOR TVInews 1960 TIMELINE / • Go Back to Top of -JUNE - 2009 Article / • 108s - PacSun - Debt Ficilitators "pacific sunrise.org

• 108s - NEW - UpDATE / May 1, 2009 / Las Vegas -- Jockey Club-MGM CityCenter Deal Saved By Bell. Jockey Club - MGM Mirage, Dubai World reach deal to finish City Center
••• It was reported by Associated Press that the Jockey Club - MGM Mirage, Dubai World Project that started several years ago as the Jockey Club Alliance CHINA EXPO2000 Project, will be partually completed by December this year. The $8.5-billion Las Vegas Strip finananced by the investment arm of the Dubai government, will drop a suit against the company.
••• The pact secures MGM Mirage's payment obligations for construction costs with its Circus Circus Las Vegas casino and adjacent land. The company said CityCenter is now on track to fully open by December.
••• The Jockey Club Alliance Group confirmed the report that Casino operator MGM Mirage, had confired on April 29th, that it had agreed with partner Dubai World and the pair's lenders to finish an $8.5-billion casino complex on the Las Vegas Strip.
••• MGM Mirage Chief Executive Jim Murren said the extension gave the company "more than enough time" to come up with a comprehensive plan to fix its balance sheet. • 108s - CLICK FOR MORE 2007 JOCKEY CLUB STORY.
••• • 108s - Jockey Club MGM Loan Default Mar 2009. - MGM Mirage Auditors on March 17th 2009 raise doubts about the casino operator ability to pay off JockeyClub MGM Loan Default, which had a $1.15-billion 2008 loss.

••• Auditors raised "substantial doubt" about MGM Mirage's ability to continue, the largest casino owner on the Strip said on March 17th 2009, in a regulatory filing. The company also reported a $1.15-billion fourth-quarter loss after writing down properties because of shrinking gambling revenue.
••• Casino Operator MGM Mirage who's in charge of the Jockey Club - Las Vegas City Walk project, won a two-month bank court reprieve to restructure its debts.
••• The auditors' comments increase the likelihood that MGM Mirage will seek bankruptcy protection. Banks granted waivers on the $7-billion bank-loan facility until May 15. The company said March 3 that it was in talks to avert a potential breach of covenants.
••• In exchange for the temporary covenant waivers, MGM Mirage is prohibited from prepaying or repurchasing other long-term debt or selling assets. The company will also repay $300 million of the fully drawn revolving loan, and it accepted a 100-basis-point increase in the interest rate.
••• MGM Mirage, controlled by billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, can also fund construction of its Las Vegas City Center - Jockey Club project only if partner Dubai World also finances its half of the costs, the company said in the filing. The casino company reiterated Tuesday that it would finish the project on schedule.
• 108s - Dubai partner sues MGM Mirage over Jockey Club - City Center in Vegas April (2307).
•••March 24, 2009 Las Vegas -- The Dubai developer building an $8.6-billion complex on the Las Vegas Strip with casino company MGM Mirage Inc. is suing MGM Mirage because it's worried about the project's viability.
•••"What we are attempting to do is complete this project," Dalton said.
•••Dalton said the state-owned company "had no choice" but to file suit.
•••"We're not saying MGM won't be involved," Dalton added. "We're anxious to work with them, but we need to see them come out of their financial problems."
••••"If MGM can't manage its bank debt, how is MGM going to make more equity contributions?" Cohen said. "Maybe the answer is, well, that gives Dubai World leverage, and they want to control much more than half of this joint venture when it's all over." • 108s - CLICK FOR MORE 2307 DUBAI SUIT
• 108s - Jockey Club MGM, Deutshe Bank City Walk Project 2009 - MGM, Deutsche talks said to fail -
••• March - 2009 MGM Mirage and Dubai World failed to reach agreement with Deutsche Bank and talks on a $1.2-billion loan to complete the Las Vegas CityCenter project collapsed, according to five people with knowledge of the matter.
••• Deutsche Bank was seeking equity and debt stakes in the $11.2-billion development on the Las Vegas Strip in return for the loan. MGM Mirage and Dubai World are now holding talks with other parties, one of the people said. -- times wire reports

• 108 - MGM CEO, Terry Lanni, stepped aside in Nov 2008, just as questions continued to swirl about his resume (Kirk).
••• "It's time for a younger generation to take over," Lanni said in a telephone interview. He also cited a desire to spend more time with his family. • 108 - CLICK FOR MORE 0807 CITY WALK JOCKEY CLUB NEWS / CLICK Construction outside the Jockey Club in Las Vegas / MORE 2005 TCS China STORY

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