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Date: 13 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
EchoStar Communications Corp and General Motors Corp are in preliminary talks about possible merger of EchoStar and Hughes Electronics' DirecTV unit; EchoStar would vie with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which is in talks to buy GM's Hughes stake and merge it with its Sky Global unit (S)
Date: 14 June 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
In attempt to win back advertisers, New York Daily News publishes four-page advertorial with flattering coverage of supermarket industry; this follows damning investigative series in which it contended city supermarkets were too dirty to meet state standards; supermarkets responded to series by pulling advertising (M)
Date: 13 June 2001
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges
Public Lives column profiles Mark Crispin Miller, author and editor of several books on mass media; photo (M)
Date: 13 June 2001
By Patrick McGeehan
Patrick McGeehan
E*Trade Group and other financial firms are racing to enhance their Web sites by adding video clips of interviews with executives, stock analysts and mutual fund mangers; are also transmitting newscasts provided by financial Webcasting companies; other efforts to combine Webcasting with financial services noted; photos (M)
Date: 13 June 2001
By Celia W. Dugger (NYT)
Celia Dugger
Editor and two publishing executives of Nepal's largest newspaper, Kantipur, will be held until June 15, when government is required to file formal charges against them for publishing article by Maoist rebel who asserted that massacre of royal family on June 1 was foreign-inspired conspiracy (S)
Date: 14 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Danaher Corp agrees to buy Microtest Inc for $74 million, expanding its line of equipment that monitors computer networks (S)
Date: 13 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Warren E Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway acquires MiTek, maker of roofing components, for $378 million, from Rexam PLC (S)
Date: 13 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Automatic Data Processing agrees to invest as much as $50 million in Exult, which is developing service that will help large corporations use Internet to manage human resources; two companies form venture to jointly sell their human-resources services (S)
Date: 14 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
US Bankruptcy Judge Peter J Walsh rules that Finova Corp can proceed with $7.35 billion recovery plan proposed by Warren E Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc and Leucadia National Corp; overrules objection by GE Capital Corp and Goldman Sachs Group, which offered their own plan (S)
Date: 13 June 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Equifax says its board has approved plan to spin off company's credit card processing and check-transaction business; will distribute shares of unit, named Certegy, on July 7 as dividend to shareholders (S)