We get frequent requests for GPS pet finders specifically for cats. As far as we have been able to establish, there still aren’t any such products available on the market for the reason that cats are too small to carry around the GPS device.

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. released its fourth-quarter report this morning and it shows some improvement. Sales more than doubled compared to the fourth quarter in 2005. Last year Sirius notched sales for $193.4 million compared to $80 the year before. Last year’s fourth quarter loss was $245 million compared to $311 million in 2005.
Sirius ended [...]

XM Satellite Radio announced its fourth-quarter erning this morning (Sirius will do the same tomorrow). For all of 2006, XM lost $732 million compared to $675 million. Q4 losses, however, were lower in 2006 than in 2005.
[Update: Barron's has a blog post with more numbers, analysis, and comments from XM's conference call. You can listen [...]

Here are links to some of the past weekend’s stories on the XM - Sirius satellite radio merger. For the record, I’m shifting from mildly positive towards the merger to decidely sceptical. I don’t see why two failed management teams should be allowed to take the path of least resistance and blatantly monopolize a market. [...]

Time for another round-up of commentary and thoughts on the proposed XM-Sirius merger.
There’s much excitement over at OrbitCast over SEC filings by CBS and other owners of terrestrial radio stations that claim that they do in fact compete directly against XM and Sirius, thus supposedly stripping them of the ability to claim that an XM-Sirius [...]

The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania’s business school and widely regarded as one of the very best in the country) has an online magazine called Knowledge@Wharton. Yesterday the magazine interviewed Gerald Faulhaber - Professor of Business and Public Policy, Management, and Law, and formerly Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission - about the proposed [...]

On Nielsen Media Research’s blog Follow The Video, Larry Gerbrandt, the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Nielsen Analytics, looks at how the XM-Sirius takeover/merger compares to a potential merger between satellite television providers DirecTV and Dish Network. While the satradio companies are now looking for FCC approval, the two sattv companies have already [...]

Are XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio merging, as they claim, or is Sirius acquiring XM, as many newsreports claim? Reuters “mergers and acquisitions reporter” Michael Flaherty tries to explain what’s causing the confusion. It’s complicated enough to have made different analysts reach different conclusions and Sirius and XM have contributed to the confusion [...]

If you did bet on a Sirius/XM merger, you could be a winner!
Yesterday’s announcement that Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio are looking to merge hardly came as a shock after months of speculation that the two struggling companies would do exactly that. Together, the two companies will have almost 14 million [...]