Michael Liedtke

September 04, 2007 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - A year ago, it seemed like just about every major U.S. city was drawing up ambitious plans to build wireless Internet networks so more people, both rich and poor, could have online access wherever they wanted.Now, economics is blurring the Utopian vision as city leaders and the companies proposing to build the Wi-Fi networks haggle over whether the projects make financial sense.

By Michael Liedtke

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September 12, 2011 | Daily Report Online

By Michael Liedtke

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September 17, 2009 | Daily Report Online

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. AP - Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.As part of a deal announced Thursday, Google is opening up part of its index to the maker of a high-speed publishing machine that can manufacture a paperback-bound book of about 300 pages in under five minutes.

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE

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January 12, 2012 | Daily Report Online

By Michael Liedtke

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January 21, 2011 | Daily Report Online

If investors were as visionary as Steve Jobs has proved to be during his 35 years of tech wizardry, they might be able to figure out whether Apple can still thrive if its founder and CEO doesn't return from his indefinite medical leave.But Jobs' prescience is a rarity, which is why doubt and anxiety will probably hang over the company until his fate is clearer.

By Jessica Mintz and Michael Liedtke

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June 16, 2010 | Daily Report Online

BP is being vilified from the Louisiana marshlands to the White House as its leaking oil well pollutes the Gulf Coast, raising doubts about whether the company can survive the backlash."There are no magic bullets for something like this," said Tony Jaques, a crisis management consultant in Australia.Past corporate crises teach us that it might be too late for BP to recover from the worst oil spill in U.

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE

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June 11, 2007 | Daily Report Online

By Michael Liedtke

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August 14, 2007 | Daily Report Online

WHEN LINDA MARTIN refinanced the mortgages on three different houses nearly three years ago, she thought the lower monthly payments would help her save more money for retirement.Instead, the Lakewood, Colo., skin-care specialist is sinking in financial quicksand amid a widening mortgage morass that's pulling down home prices and threatening to drag the U.

By Michael Liedtke

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January 29, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAN FRANCISCO AP - Cable television upstart Current Media Inc. plans to go public later this year, giving investors a chance to assess the entrepreneurial skills of its co-founder, Al Gore.In documents filed Monday, the San Francisco-based owner of the Current TV cable channel set a preliminary fundraising target of $100 million for the initial public offering of stock.

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE

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September 21, 2011 | Daily Report Online

The CEO of Netflix said he was sorry for mishandling a recent price increase that caused customers to cancel the service in droves. But the apology was drowned out by a decision that angered subscribers all over again.The company will split into two services-one with an odd new name that offers the familiar discs in red envelopes and another for online streaming of TV shows and movies.

By Michael Liedtke

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