FX network FXX, start target younger viewers,

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News turns to Corp-owned FX from a new cable network targeting young adult viewers.

Start Sept. 2, FXX will join big brother FX together with the film-oriented FXM. All three networks share the same sensibility, FX Networks President John Landgraf said announcement to make on Thursday. It is a way of thinking, covered by the brand new slogan, "Fearless".

"All in all, the three networks in the next few years 25 original series air," he added comparable to calling this illustration of a large broadcasting networks.

The lineup for FXX consists of the original series, movies and acquired series for adults 18 to 34, a slightly younger than the 18-up 49 audience, which attracts FX, demographic Landgraf said. FXX will initially be available in 74 million TV households.

The new channel will be anchored by the comedy "It's always sunny in Philadelphia" and "The League", two veteran series coming up now on FX. Also moves "Legit" FXX and the FX-late-night series "totally biased with W. Kamau Bell," which expands after a five nights a week.

FX is a new drama series titled "The bridge" July of this year. Actor Demian Bichirs and Diane Kruger, it focuses on two detectives, the hunt for a killer on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

The pilot for a different future series, "Bully" will be set by two-time Oscar-winner Ang Lee this summer.

And FXs first limited series are "Fargo", inspired by the prestigious 1996 film of the same name. These are 10-episode drama, which is a whole new story to tell, from the film creator, Joel and Ethan Coen-produced.

In a further notice to the company that this fall of FX Networks his FXNOW app launches cable and satellite subscribers on the FX suite of channels access programming.

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As fans wait for iPhone 5, Apple misses earnings target

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(18:03 Aktualisiert ostlichen) Menschen konnen nicht ihre Hande auf iPads schnell genug, aber es scheint, dass sie bereit sind, zu halten und warten auf die nachste Version des iPhone, obwohl Apple keine Details daruber offiziell anerkannt hat noch keine.

Apple verkauft 8,50 Millionen weniger iPhones im dritten Quartal und fiel unter den Erwartungen der Analysten wenn es das Ergebnis fur das dritte Geschaftsquartal seine, berichtet kommt mit $35 Milliarden Umsatz und Gewinn je Aktie von $9,32 fur das Quartal endete am 30. Juni. Das war hoher als Apples eigene Leitung von ca. 34 Milliarden $ Umsatz und Gewinn je Aktie von etwa $8,68, wahrend die Stra?e $37,20 Milliarden Gewinn und Gewinn je Aktie von $10.35, erwartet nach Daten von FactSet.com.

Das Lager geschlossen fur den Tag an $600.92, um etwas weniger als $3 pro Aktie.

Die Rohertragsmarge sank von 47,4 Prozent im zweiten Quartal auf 42,8 Prozent, aber war hoher als die 41,7 Prozent verdiente Apple im dritten Quartal 2011.

Fur das laufende Quartal projiziert Apple einen Umsatz von $34 Milliarden und Ergebnis je Aktie von $7.65. Cashflow lag auch aus dem Vorquartal $14 Milliarden, um $10,20 Milliarden.

Im dritten Quartal kamen 62 Prozent der Apples Umsatz aus internationalen Markten. Europaische wirtschaftliche Schwierigkeiten belasteten das Unternehmen, und dieses Problem darstellen konnte eine Herausforderung geht weiter, wie die anhaltende Starke des US-Dollar, konnte, wenn es stark bleibt.

Das iPhone bleibt das Unternehmen gro?ter Hit trotz der Verlangsamung. Apple propagiert seine 28 Prozent Wachstum gegenuber dem dritten Quartal 2011, obwohl die 26 Millionen verkaufte im dritten Quartal war ein Tropfen aus der 35,10 Millionen verkaufte im Vorquartal. Raymond James Analyst Tavis McCourt sagte in einer Mitteilung, dass der Ruckgang nicht unerwartet war. Neue iPhone Aktivierungen sowohl auf AT&T als auch auf Verizon fielen unter Raymond James Schatzungen fur das Quartal.

"Insgesamt scheint es iPhone Aktivierungen am AT&T und Verizon kombiniert lag der Umsatz nur 8 Prozent im Jahr" McCourt schrieb, eine Abkehr von 29 Prozent Jahr uber Jahr Anstieg Aktivierungen im vorangegangenen Quartal.

Analysten zugeschrieben weit verbreitete Geruchte uber ein iPhone 5 sein Debut noch in diesem Jahr weitgehend mit weicher iPhone Verkaufe. "Wir glauben, dass Verbraucher iPhone Einkaufe vor der kommenden Aktualisierung verzogern werden," schrieb William Power, Analyst bei Robert W. Baird & Co., in einer Research Note. Macht hingewiesen Kaufer moglicherweise besonders motiviert fur die nachste Version zu halten weil es erwartet wird, zu einem gro?eren Bildschirm und die Fahigkeit, auf LTE-Hochgeschwindigkeitsnetze Beforderungsunternehmen ausgefuhrt haben.

CEO Tim Cook die "unglaubliche Vorfreude fur zukunftige Produkte" erwahnt, aber keine Besonderheiten bieten.

Je nachdem, wann das (technisch nach wie vor hypothetische) Telefon startet konnte die Zahl der in diesem Quartal verkauft iPhones niedriger, vor allem, wenn die neue Version naher an den Feiertagen und wahrend Apples nachste Geschaftsquartal debutiert. "Wahrend"wir immer noch glauben, dass das iPhone 5 liefern in der zweiten Halfte September, ganzer Volumes scheinen unwahrscheinlich bis Oktober starten, schrieb Ben Reitzes, Analyst bei Barclays Capital.

Wahrend iPhones ein langsamer Viertel hatte, waren Dampf iPads Abholung. Apple verkauft 17 Millionen iPads im dritten Quartal, bis aus der fast 12 Millionen, die es im zweiten Quartal um 84 Prozent auf ein Jahr auf Jahresbasis verkauft. Apple hatte einen spaten Start das neue iPad in China zu verkaufen; Es ging auf Verkauf in diesem Monat nach eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Namen des Gerats besiedelt war.

Apple sagte das iPad wurde mehr Geschaftsbenutzer anzuziehen, und das das billigere iPad 2 war beliebt, vor allem im Bildungsmarkt K-12.

Rob Wilson, Analyst bei Tiburon Research Group, zeigt in einer Notiz, dass wachst aber margenschwacheren iPad Verkaufe Gewinnspanne Apples fur dieses Geschaftsjahr vor allem Druck konnte Karte, wenn sie in Verbindung mit sinkenden Umsatzen des iPhone, einem hoheren Margen-Produkt auftreten.

Die 4 Millionen Macs verkauft war flach mit den Zahlen des zweiten Quartals. Apples neue MacBook Pro und MacBook Air Notebook Modelle, dass kam letzten Monat auf insgesamt gute Kritiken, aber sie ging auf Verkauf nur drei Wochen vor Ende des Quartals. Mittelamerikanischer Power wies auch darauf hin, dass es mehr als ein Jahr, seit Apple seine desktop-Angebote aktualisiert und sagt voraus, dass eine Aktualisierung ist "gleich um die Ecke."

IPods verzeichnete zu fallen. Apple verkauft 6,80 Millionen im dritten Quartal, ein Ruckgang von 10 Prozent ab dem dritten Quartal letzten Jahres und weniger als die 7,70 Millionen im zweiten Quartal verkauft. Barclays' Reitzes vorgeschlagen, dass die Aussicht auf ein kleineres iPad Tablet einen positiven Spill-over-Effekt auf den Musik-Player haben konnte. "Das Produkt auch sein konnte nutzlich, erweitern die Funktionen des iPod Touch in einen gro?eren Formfaktor wie es scheint, dass das Produkt etwas an Fahrt verloren hat", schrieb er.

Blick auf die Zukunft erwarten die meisten Analysten auch iPad Umsatzsteigerung auf Geruchte uber einen sieben-Zoll "iPad Mini", die sowohl in den USA und im Ausland gegen billigere, sieben-Zoll-Android-Gerate von Apple-Konkurrenten wie Samsung und Google konkurrieren konnte.

Es gibt auch einige Spekulationen uber die Aussicht auf Apple startet ein iTV, entweder am Ende dieses Jahres oder Anfang 2013. "Wir erwarten AAPL einen noch starkeren Sto? in Cloud-basierte Dienste uber iCloud, machen die AAPL dann moglicherweise als Einstiegspunkt in das Wohnzimmer nutzen konnte," Peter Misek, Analyst bei Jefferies, schrieb in einer Research Note. Apple Fuhrungskrafte sagte iCloud 150 Millionen Nutzer.

CNBC Gary Kaminsky und Peter Boockvar, Miller Tabak wiegen in auf Apples Gewinn Miss.

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Greece to miss deficit target imposed by lenders

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ATHENS, Greece — Greece won't meet 2011-2012 deficit targets imposed by international lenders as part of the country's bailout, the Finance Ministry said Sunday.

The country's deficit this year is expected to reach 8.5 percent of gross domestic product, or €18.69 billion ($25.2 billion) — higher than the targeted €17.1 billion ($23.1 billion), which would have been 7.8 percent of GDP, the ministry said.

Greece has been reliant since May 2010 on regular payouts of loans from a €110 billion ($150 billion) bailout from other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund. It was granted a second €109 billion package in July, but details of that deal remain to be worked out.

The Finance Ministry said the missed target was because of a deeper-than-expected recession, with the economy contracting by 5.5 percent instead of the 3.8 percent estimate made in May. It implied the deficit could even exceed this level by the end of the year unless all new austerity measures were implemented.

"The final estimate for a deficit equal to 8.5 percent of GDP can be achieved, if there is a proper response by the state authorities and the citizens themselves, on whose stance the country's financial ... and social future depends," the announcement said.

Story: Stocks get brief US relief but Greece fears linger

The announcement reflects the government's frustration with tax collection, which they blame on tax inspectors' lax performance, and its fear that citizens, angry at seeing their wages shrink and, at the same time, having to pay an increasing amount of one-off taxes, would refuse to pay.

There are already widespread calls not to pay a property surcharge, to be included in the next batch of state electricity company bills, despite the fact that delinquent payers are threatened with having their houses disconnected from the grid. The government hopes that revenue from the property levy will raise about €2 billion ($2.7 billion) in 2011 and a similar amount in 2012.

The 2012 budget is projected to reduce the deficit to €14.68 billion ($19.82 billion), or 6.8 percent of GDP, up from the 6.5 percent target agreed with Greece's lenders. Excluding serving Greece's debt, the budget is projected to have a primary surplus of €3.2 billion, or 1.5 percent of GDP, meaning that Greece's debt will stop growing, as a percentage of GDP.

The Cabinet also decided up to 28,000 public sector employees will be placed on "reserve" — that is, suspended with reduced pay, by the end of 2011.

The program falls short of the 30,000 reduction demanded by Greece's creditors and, with few exceptions, it is actually an early retirement program on full pensions. Those affected will be paid a fraction of their actual salary for a period of one to two years, but will be able, at the same time, to hold jobs in the private sector, if they can find them.

"The approved proposal is the result of lengthy and difficult negotiations with (the lenders) who insisted that placing employees on reserve should have been a step towards firing them and not an early retirement" program, government spokesman Elias Mossialos said.

The government expects savings of €300 million from the plan in 2012.

The cabinet committed itself to reducing civil service jobs by 150,000 within four years.

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Disturbed Hong Kong trading, such as hackers target site

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - the Hong Kong stock exchange had to suspend, trading in shares, including HSBC Holdings, after hackers broke into the Exchange Web site on Wednesday, that prevents investors from during the lunch break of company news.

"Our current view, that this has been hacking, by a malicious attack from the outside" the Chief Executive of Hong Kong exchanges & Delete (HKEx) Charles Li told reporters, after the company announced interim results.

In a previously released statement, HKEx had said, it took half a day (a trading session) to announce suspension policy for issuers, during the lunch break price-sensitive information.

Other systems on the stock exchange were unaffected and its securities and derivatives markets operated trade normally, the Exchange said.

The site will remain on Thursday, the Exchange Bulletin Board for the dissemination of information used unstable, but not exposed to the stocks, said Mark Dickens, head of the listing on the HKEx.

Dickens added that suspend the switch to trade part has a contingency plan of the territory approved regulator.

LIS statement comes after Internet security company McAfee said last week that it discovered a five-year long campaign of cyber-attacks on the networks of Governments, organizations and companies.

Other targets were the United Nations, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the International Olympic Committee. and an array of companies from the defense contractor for high-tech companies.

HKEx had suspended its own shares after it reported a rise in the second quarter profits by 19.5 percent. Other stocks that have been suspended for the day included Cathay Pacific and Dah Sing financial also reported the intermediate results.

"It was the first time a suspension due to one such technical problem and with so many companies," Alfred said CHAN, Chief dealer of cheer Pearl investments in Hong Kong.

HSBC, comprises 15 percent of Hong Kong benchmark, confirmed the sale of its underperforming U.S. credit card business and retail services unit, capital one financial during the lunch break.

All in all shares to the 18 percent the Hang Seng index weight act not during the afternoon session.

Suspend conversion to hit trading volumes on the stock exchange in the afternoon session as the most liquid names traded include HSBC and HKEx in Hong Kong.

Shares of HSBC last traded by 3.9 per cent, but only 0.1 percent could have compared as 1030 GMT became the trade listed equities gains in the afternoon session in the light of their London.

(Additional reporting by Donny Kwok;) (Editing by Anshuman daga)

Copyright 2011 Thomson Reuters.

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Google target the EU Microsoft antitrust protest

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SEATTLE/Brussels - Microsoft Corp intensified his rivalry with Google Inc., antitrust regulators that in its first complaint, that Google Internet search competition is systematically thwarted.

The formal complaint, European Commission regulators marked a role change for Microsoft, the target of the antitrust action two decades in the United States and Europe.

"The filing of this complaint reflects one of the greatest ironies of the antitrust history", chance, said Thomas Vinje, global head of antitrust practice with Clifford a coalition led won EU fines against Microsoft.

"Microsoft has learned from his own unpleasant experience how one lead maximum for his competitors of competition law."

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

The complaint highlights the erosion of Microsoft in the close monopoly of the PC market as Apple Inc. has it in revenue outgrown. Google controls over 90 percent of the Internet search advertising market in Europe, also from Microsoft Bing. And Web browsers such as Firefox and Google chrome to the leadership of Microsoft Internet Explorer have eaten.

In its complaint on Thursday, Microsoft claims that Google committed impede the unfair competition is in a "pattern of action".

Google is under investigation by the European Commission one of them owned by Microsoft already after complaints by three small companies.

Google indicates that it was not too by the complaint. "We are not surprised that Microsoft has done this, because one of their daughters was one of the original complainants," said Google spokesman Al Verney.

"For our part we continue the case with the European Commission discuss and we look forward, for anyone explain how our business works."

EU Commission spokeswoman Amelia Torres said in an e-mail statement, that "The Commission takes note of the appeal, as the procedure, will inform Google and will questions for his views on it." "Receive no further information."

"Microsoft always a formal complainant make investigation into Google, running a difference in the Commission", said Christopher Thomas partner at law firm of Hogan Lovells, citing the company's "Resources and determination."

The "complaint will throw a wrench in Google efforts to reach an agreement with the Commission," added Vinje of Clifford chance. "Even the necessary preliminary examination likely to delay such a complaint, any possible settlement of at least six months seems."

A source with the case trust last month told of Reuters that Google and the Commission in the solution of the problem were interested but there were no concrete proposals on the table.

Microsoft said it felt, it was to time Google directly for legal reasons.

"As worrying, because the situation in the United States is, it is worse in Europe,", said Brad Smith, Microsoft's top lawyer, in a blog on the company's website.

"Therefore our submission today focuses on a pattern of actions, that has made Google, hide to his dominance in the markets for online search and search advertising to the detriment of European consumers."

The complaint charges that Google does competition by "Walling off" hurt on content their YouTube page, so that other search engines, display accurate results makes it difficult for Microsoft's mobile software to YouTube videos show; Block access to content owned by book publishers; not let advertisers their own data about customers gathered from Google to use other websites. Blocking Web sites using competing "search fields"; and it is expensive for potential competitors to Google, to advertise online.

Google "be allowed, should not follow practices that restrict others from innovation and offer competitive alternatives," said Microsoft's Smith on his blog.

Copyright 2011 Thomson Reuters.

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