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Daily Archives: June 1, 2007

Google (GOOG) Boosts Ad Operation By Buying FeedBurner

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 7:24 pm

Google (GOOG) has bought RSS feed giant FeedBurner. The company serves 400,000 publishers by feeding their content to desktops and wireless devices. Feedburner works extensively with blog sites.Google may be ...
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Avaya (AV): About To Be Sold

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 7:13 pm

It appears that Avaya (AV), the enterprise telecom equipment maker, is about to be sold to Nortel (NT) or private equity firm Silver Lake. The stock trades at about $16 ...
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Labopharm (DDSS): The 52-Week Low Club

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 6:56 pm

Labopharm (DDSS) Drug being delayed by FDA review. Stock down by more than half to 52-week low of $2.83 from 52-week high of $9.07.Point Therapeutics (POTP) After putting drug trial ...
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Einstein Noah Coming Back As a Stock Next Week?

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 3:59 pm

Stock Tickers: NWRG, BAGL, PNRANew World Restaurant Group, Inc. (NWRG-PINKSHEET) is back to the old Einstein Noah Restaurant Group, Inc. name and will trade under the ticker "BAGL" on NASDAQ ...
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Cramer’s Making Tech Picks (EMC, DELL, NOK, SHLD)

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 1:58 pm

On today's STOP TRADING segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer focused on Dell inc. (DELL) again.  He is very positive on the company and he thinks Michael Dell is the real ...
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Toyota (TM) and GM (GM): May Car Sales And The Price Of Incentives

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 1:47 pm

The headlines were about unit sales. The critical issue was incentives.GM's (GM) May vehicles sales in the US rose almost 10% to over 371,000. The company showed increases in cars ...
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CKX, Inc.: Taking American Idol, Elvis, Ali Mostly Private (CKXE)

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 12:32 pm

It is very frequent that 'going private' transactions are bad for shareholders, or at least not rewarding enough.  That does not appear to be the case today in CKX, Inc. ...
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Wal-Mart Proves ‘Less Bad’ Is Really Good (WMT)

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 12:04 pm

Wal-Mart (WMT-NYSE) finally remembered that they are a public company today because they have held their annual shareholder meeting.  This proves that the company is truly owned by the investors ...
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Dendreon Kicked By Banc of America

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 9:05 am

Banc of America has noted that yesterday's 'positive data' is actually not new and that the interim data will not be available until the second half of 2008.  Mitchell Gold, ...
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Labopharm (DDSS) What Goes Up, Must Come Down

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 8:38 am

Labopharm (DDSS) supplies yet another demonstration of investing in small biotechs. Information given to the FDA on painkiller tramadol was viewed as insufficient. As The Associated Press said: "The FDA ...
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Sirius and XM, Lowering Expectations of a Deal (SIRI, XMSR)

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 8:25 am

Stifel Nicolaus has issued a broker research note calling the expectations for a successful and approved merger between Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio (XMSR) as now being ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (June 1, 2007)

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 7:44 am

(AAPL) Apple noted as a “sell some of the position by Cramer on his Sell Block” on CNBC’s Mad Money last night.(BKC) Burger King announced a 4100M share buyback plan.(BOT) ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (June 1, 2007)

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 7:21 am

ALV cut to Neutral at Prudential.BYD raised to Outperform at Wachovia.CELL started as Outperform at Piper Jaffray.CPLA started as Outperform at BMO.CPK cut to Neutral at Baird.DRH cut to Neutral ...
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RealNetworks (RNWK), CBS (CBS): Financial Blog Comments

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 5:37 am

Business 2.0 writes that the new RealPlayer (RNWK) will make it easier for consumers to share big media video files, out-doing YouTube. TechCrunch writes that EMI music videos will begin ...
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Europe Markets 6/1/2007

Posted: June 1, 2007 at 5:20 am

Markets in Europe were higher at 6.15 AM New York time.The FTSE rose .3% to 6,641. BP (BP) fell .4% to 562.5. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) dropped .9% to 1298. Vodafone (VOD) ...
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