You are partly correct. <Who (ATHM) is the king of BB? Who knows how to make it fly?>
IMO, You are wrong about most of the rest of your concerns in your recent posts.
<ATHM will participate proportionately, but so what? >
Plenty of what;
1) Most important is that winning at the finish line (making money) is what matters, not how you got there or what name or number you were wearing around your neck or on your hinder.
2) Excite/Chello 50% owned by ATHM seems great to me. This will allow ATHM to concentrate on North America. The company will not have to spend mega tons of money fighting worldwide for market share. This battle is only just beginning. ATHM will not have to expense the cost of fighting a battle worldwide the company will show profitability higher earnings growth much sooner. This is good for the short term stock price because many so called investors can't see beyond their nose, they want short term results.
3) The new company will be controlled by "T" anyway.
From Bloomberg.com
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Malone, the largest individual shareholder of AT&T, will sit on Excite Chello's board. Mark Schneider, son of UnitedGlobalCom Chairman Gene Schneider, will be co-chairman of Excite Chello with his counterpart at Excite At Home, George Bell, the person said. The combined company will have 300,000 subscribers, with operations in 15 countries, from Australia to Japan and the U.K.
Mark Schneider is chairman of Amsterdam-based United-Pan Europe Communications NV, which is majority-owned by UnitedGlobalCom and is Europe's No. 2 cable-television provider
Liberty agreed last month to merge some international cable franchises with UnitedGlobalCom in a $4 billion transaction to create the largest cable company outside the U.S. in exchange for boosting its voting interest to 82 percent.
UnitedGlobalCom shares have risen 32 percent since Liberty agreed to boost control of the company on June 26. Liberty rose 1 percent during that time.
UnitedGlobalCom is based in the Denver area, also home to Liberty Media. Malone and Gene Schneider have known each other for more than 30 years.
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This following yahoo post made me think of you for some reason <g>
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hmmmm shorting????
by: psbewithu (32/M/michigan) 7/17/00 11:44 pm
Msg: 229315 of 229370
I would surly bet there is money to be made, and even possibly a chance to feel as though you are persuading others to sell via posting on message boards, but if you are to do so you need more intelligence, also actual links to back up your inferior opinion of @thm oh my I just realized that there is no potential to how much you lose shorting a stock. lol sleep tight all shorts, you win some, you lose some, but you cannot degrade positive news.
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My good buddy Ahhaha, your concerns make you sound like you are worried. Fessup, you have been caught bent over with your pants down, in the shorting phase of the "Ahhaha ATHM Oscillator" <g> |
