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Bloomberg, Comcast in 'neighborhood' brawl

Bloomberg Television is still stuck in Siberia in the Comcast channel lineup, and it's right to ask the FCC to step in.

FORTUNE -- One of the main worries surrounding Comcast's (CMCSA) merger with NBC Universal was that Comcast would use its cable platform to favor its own programming at the expense of competitors. From the beginning, the financial news organization Bloomberg has issued perhaps the loudest complaints about the situation. MORE

Roger McNamee loves the iPad

The founding partner of Elevation Partners has changed his tune about Apple

Remember Roger McNamee? He's the founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners -- a major investor in the Palm Pre -- who predicted on the two-year anniversary of the original iPhone that nobody who bought it would be using an iPhone a month later.

"Think about it," he said, in a remark I suspect he immediately regretted, "if MORE

CNBC's anti-Apple crusader

Erin Burnett has hit on what she must think is a winning formula

I don't spend a lot of time watching CNBC, but I've seen enough of Erin Burnett's coverage of Apple (AAPL) to see the pattern.

Last fall, it was an interview with Tiger Management's Julian Robertson in which she tried -- and failed -- to get him to call Apple's rising stock price a "bubble." (See How not to interview MORE

How not to interview a hedge fund legend

If CNBC's Erin Burnett weren't born yesterday, she would know that when Julian Robertson likes a stock, he really likes it. When he ran Tiger Management, one of the early hedge funds, his motto was "find the 200 best companies in the world and invest in them, and find the 200 worst companies in the world and go short on them."

But she was born yesterday. So she began her Robertson MORE

A good time to bet against Apple?

When the stock sets new record highs, the naysayers come out of the woodwork

As a rule of thumb, never take investment advice from a hedge fund manager who posts his predictions on Twitter.

On Thursday morning, BAM Investor's J.G. Savoldi used the microblogging service (and a follow-up press release) to warn investors that Apple (AAPL) was about to crash and could hit $45 a share -- perhaps as early as this MORE

Sifting through the thin MacBook rumors

The Apple (AAPL) rumor sites have been buzzing for months about the new thin MacBook they expect Steve Jobs to unveil Jan. 15 at Macworld Expo 2008. Now, with the company's annual showcase for new products less than six weeks away, the talking heads of cable business news have started to pick up the scent.

Yesterday was CNBC's Jim Goldman's turn. In a breathless report that aired shortly after noon (video, MORE