Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Rivals Southwest, Delta strike plane deal  | ajc.com - Kelly Yamanouchi - Southwest Airlines may be fighting Delta Air Lines for Atlanta passengers, but behind the scenes the two have struck a deal for Southwest to hand off 88 jets to its larger rival .


http://www.ajc.com/business/rivals-southwest-delta-strike-1443628.html


Secret Service Agents to Appeal - The Daily Beast - Four Secret Service members who were dismissed following the Colombia prostitute scandal are planning to fight the decision to strip them of their jobs. The agents are set to argue that the agency is making them scapegoats for behavior they say the Secret Service has long tolerated.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/05/22/secret-service-agents-to-appeal.html


Zuckerberg Bombshell: Did Facebook Bankers Quietly Slash Forecasts Before IPO? - The Daily Beast - In the wake of a disastrous stock offering comes what looks like an enormous scandal for the social-media giant. It's time for us to finally wake up and see how awful Facebook truly is, says Dan Lyons.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/22/zuckerberg-bombshell-did-facebook-bankers-secretly-slash-forecasts-before-ipo.html


Facebook CFO Increased IPO Shares - The Daily Beast - offering last week, and now we may know why. It appears that less than 72 hours before the company went public CFO David Ebersman decided to increase the number of shares that would be offered by 25 percent after officials at Morgan Stanley assured the company that there would be plenty of demand.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/05/22/facebook-cfo-increased-ipo-shares.html


Video: On the SEC, the Big 12 and their confusing bowl game | Mark Bradley - AJC


http://blogs.ajc.com/mark-bradley-blog/2012/05/22/video-on-the-sec-the-big-12-and-their-confusing-bowl-game/?cxntfid=blogs_mark_bradley_blog


Melinda McClendon Wins Houston County District 4 with 52% :: RickeyStokesNews.com!


http://www.rickeystokesnews.com/article.php/breaking-news-mcclendon-wins-houston-county-district-4-with-52-32695


SEC looking at cable channel as media rights talks with CBS, ESPN near - Sporting News - John Ourand and Michael Smith, SportsBusiness Journal


http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2012-05-21/sec-espn-cbs-media-rights-deal-cable-channel


Report: SEC considering its own network to start in 2014 - USATODAY - Erick Smith


http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2012/05/southeastern-conference-start-own-network-2014/1#.T7wfHI6BBok


How Alcatel-Lucent just made the Internet 5 times faster - CNNMoney


http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/21/technology/alcatel-lucent-fastest-router/index.htm?iid=Popular


Facebook plunges 18% below IPO price - CNNMoney


http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/22/markets/facebook-shares/index.htm?iid=Popular