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Daily Archives: August 21, 2007

Tough Days For Verizon And Comcast: Broadband Growth Slows

Posted: August 21, 2007 at 6:32 am

Verizon (VZ) and Comcast (CMCSA) along with all of their other telecom and cable friends have been hoping that the broadband growth party would never end. VZ has put $23 ...
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Local.Com Private Placement Holders Register Shares After 3 Weeks (LOCM)

Posted: August 21, 2007 at 6:22 am

Local.com (NASDAQ:LOCM) last night had an SEC Filing that was registering 3.393 million shares for sale, although many of these aren't going to be hitting the market based on conversion ...
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Europe Markets 8/21/2007

Posted: August 21, 2007 at 5:42 am

Markets in Europe were slightly down at 6.40 AM New York time.The FTSE fell .3% to 6,058. Barclays (BCS) fell 1.6% to 624.5. Vodafone (VOD) rose .4% to 155.9.The DAXX ...
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Adobe Flash Goes HD Web Video

Posted: August 21, 2007 at 5:23 am

Adobe (ADBE) will launch a version of its video software which will allow high def streaming over the internet. It will use the H.264 MPEG standard. The ADBE Flash player, ...
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Microsoft And Cisco: Friends Forever

Posted: August 21, 2007 at 4:55 am

Microsoft (MSFT) and Cisco (CSCO) want to make it clear that, although they compete, they are friends. According to Reuters, even though the two companies both make "unified communications" systems ...
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Another Little Blow For Sony

Posted: August 21, 2007 at 4:41 am

Sony (SNE) is not having its best year. As a matter for fact, it is not having its best decade.Already troubled by slow sales of its PS3 game platform, SNE ...
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MTV: Another Futile Run At Apple

Posted: August 21, 2007 at 4:29 am

MTV, a division of Viacom (VIA) is teaming up with RealNetworks (RNWK), the music distribution company, to compete with the Apple (AAPL) iTunes product. The new offering will have the ...
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Google Leads In Search Again

Posted: August 21, 2007 at 4:08 am

According to the new comScore measurements, Google's (GOOG) share of the US search market is still growing, which does Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO) no good. In July, GOOG share ...
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Media Digest 8/21/2007

Posted: August 21, 2007 at 2:57 am

According to Reuters, Countrywide (CFC) sought to calm investors about it future as it laid of mortgage workers.Reuters reports that Nasdaq's (NDAQ) failure to buy the London Stock Exchange makes ...
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Asia Markets 8/21/2007

Posted: August 21, 2007 at 2:32 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was up 1.1% to 15,901. Honda (HMC) was up 2.2% to 3870. Toyota (TM) was up 2% to 6,580.The Hang Seng was up ...
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