'This could be a win-win situation for both sides since the deal doesn't have to be a zero sum game.' - Lloyd Fischer, assistant director of research at BZW Asia, commenting on possible benefits of a settlement ending Hongkong Telecom's monopoly over the territory's international telephone calls.
'As it happens, we won. We did not receive a 'smack on the bottom'. Nor do we believe that's that.' - A victorious UK mobile telephone network Orange throws back at rival Vodafone the forecast Vodafone made of the outcome of a court case it brought, and lost, claiming trademark infringement by Orange.
'We may become the largest foreign debtor in the world.' - Korea University economics professor Hwang Eui-gak on the possible costs to South Korea of reunification with North Korea.
'Apple's stock price is so low that either [Apple founder and chairman] Steve Job or [Oracle Corp chairman] Larry Ellison could buy the company by putting it on their personal American Express Gold cards.' - Computer-industry consultant Richard Doherty. Analysts say Oracle is sounding out a merger with Apple.