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Monthly Archives: May 2007

The Incredible Shrinking Tivo (TIVO)

Posted: May 31, 2007 at 5:58 am

Tivo (TIVO) ended the quarter with fewer subscribers than it had a year ago--4.34 million compared with 4.42 million. The company gave a number of reasons why this was a ...
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Europe Markets 5/31/2007

Posted: May 31, 2007 at 5:44 am

Markets in Europe were up modestly at 6.40 AM New York time.The FTSE rose .5% to 6,632. BEA Systems was up 2.5% to 447.25. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) was down .7% to ...
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Glaxo: Why Does The News Come So Late?

Posted: May 31, 2007 at 5:22 am

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has come out with a ton of information that say its diabetes drug  Avandia is safe for the heart.Big companies seem to be masters of releasing key information ...
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CMGI Earnings Preview For June 5, 2007 (CMGI, ICGE, SFE)

Posted: May 31, 2007 at 5:06 am

CMGI, Inc. (CMGI-NASDAQ) has an important few days ahead itself.  The company is reporting earnings next week (Tuesday June 5, 2007, after the close) and every single investor who has ...
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Ebay’s (EBAY) Ad Auction Program Still In Limbo

Posted: May 31, 2007 at 4:00 am

Limbo has sort of been abandoned by the Catholic church which started the whole concept as a place between heaven and hell. But, Ebay (EBAY) has brought it back with ...
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Google (GOOG) Finally Launches Something Important

Posted: May 31, 2007 at 3:48 am

Jobs and Gates got the tech headlines. So did the joint venture between YouTube and Apple (AAPL) TV.But, Google (GOOG) released the star application, one which is likely to change ...
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Media Digest 5/31/2007

Posted: May 31, 2007 at 3:27 am

According to Reuters, Morgan Stanley's (MS) real estate unit will buy Australia real estate firm Investa Properties for $3.9 billion.Reuters writes that Google (GOOG) will introduce software the will allow ...
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Asia Markets 5/31/2007

Posted: May 31, 2007 at 2:57 am

Markets in Asia were up sharply.The Nikkei rose 1.6% to 17,876. Honda (HMC) rose 2.1% to 4280. KDDI rose 4.1% to 1040000. NTT (NTT) rose 2.7% to 573000. The Hang ...
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Wal-Mart Prepares For The Annual Shareholder Meeting (WMT)

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 10:37 pm

Ahead of the upcoming shareholder meeting and webcast to analysts and institutional holders this Friday, Wal-Mart (WMT-NYSE) has some final decisions to make and they could actually decide to be ...
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Biotechs & Pharmas Bracing For ASCO Annual Meeting

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 6:30 pm

This weekend we have the mother of all future cancer treatment conferences: ASCO, or The American Society of Clinical Oncology.  Cancer stocks in the last few weeks have been seeing ...
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Cramer Calls For A Yahoo! & eBay Merger

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 5:13 pm

Cramer came out tonight on CNBC's MAD MONEY proposing that Yahoo! (YHOO) and eBay (EBAY) should get together and merge.  He is calling for this because the growth is slowing ...
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Dow Jones (DJ): T Rowe Prices Wants To Take The Money And Run

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 4:30 pm

The head investment officer of money management firm T Rowe Prices, wants Dow Jones (DJ) to take Rupert Murdoch's money before it goes away. The firm does have some leverage. ...
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Novell Makes A Few Cents, Sort Of (NOVL)

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 4:30 pm

Novell Inc. (NOVL-NASDAQ) has turned in earnings of $0.03 non-GAAP EPS and revenues of $239 million, compared to First Call estimates of $0.01 and $235.1 million.  The company managed to ...
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Apple (AAPL) And YouTube: Another Product No One Wants

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 4:15 pm

Fortune magazine recently called Apple (AAPL) TV a tech dog. The publication listed four pretty damaging short-comings. Today Apple took the somewhat challenged electronics product and said it would now ...
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Yahoo! Loses Its CTO, Unfortunately Not Its CEO

Posted: May 30, 2007 at 3:51 pm

Yahoo!'s (YHOO-NASDAQ) Head of Technology and Chief Technology Officer, Farzad Nazem, is leaving the company effective June 8, 2007.  The filing says he will "continue to provide services including transition ...
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