Challenges In The News 06/05/08

Our opposition is much weaker than those in Iran or Venezuela, where critics have challenged authoritarian governments.

For value managers, the challenge is knowing what a company is really worth, and to do that a manager has to understand exactly how a company makes money – and can sustain those earnings.
This is a very challenging external environment, reflecting a seismic shift in consumer preferences.

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Garmin Ltd., a maker of personal navigation devices, is facing a sea of challenges.

Both UBS and Deutsche Bank said market conditions deterioriated in March. Conditions have become significantly more challenging during the last few weeks.”

Big Record Labels, MySpace Challenge iTunes – While MySpace has cleared the hurdle of finding a way to collaborate with the major record labels, it faces a number of potential challenges, including heavy competition, changing music-listening habits and the fact that unauthorized free downloads through file-sharing services continue to be wildly popular.

It’s an incredible frustration that’ I’ve got some of hte most decent, hard-working, honest, passionate, straight-shooting, non-ideological people who just want to tell the damn truth, and how to get this pas this image that we’re just middlebrow , you know, a magazine that your grandparents get, or something, that’s the challenge. And I just don’t know how to do it, so if you’ve got any ideas, tell me.

In an interview, Mr. Ferguson said the company has “changed quite a bit” and recognizes the greater competitive challenges it faces. I don’t think we’re a poor man’s anything.

The challenge over the next year or so is to move toward accelerating the growth of the organization.

The effort significantly adds to the legal forces that over the past seven years have challenged the administration’s plan to run an offshore court that provides defendants fewer rights than civilian trials or courts-martial.