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Daily Archives: September 12, 2007

VMware Stock Options Being Used For Stealth Stock Ownership (VMW, EMC)

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 7:52 am

VMware's (NYSE:VMW) stock options trading has been almost as exciting and puzzling as watching the stock in this post-IPO frenzy since EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) launched its partial spin-off in last ...
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Amgen Set To Run (AMGN, JNJ, BIIB)

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 7:25 am

Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN) is seeing shares trade up another 2% pre-market after yesterday's decision where an FDA panel rejected a proposal to set a specific target for red blood-cell levels ...
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Pre-Market Stock News (September 12, 2007)

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 7:03 am

(AMGN) Amgen trading up another 2% after vote from FDA was not to put additional caps on company.(BRLC) Syntax-Brillian rescheduled earnings from yesterday's close to today's close.(CATT) Catapult Communications said ...
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August Business Website Numbers: Small Lead For Yahoo! While BusinessWeek And Motley Fool Fade

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 6:40 am

August audience figures from comScore show that Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance maintains a lead in unique visitors over rivals AOL Money (TWX) and MSN (MSFT) Money, but that the large pageview ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Calls (September 12, 2007)

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 6:34 am

AAPL started as Mkt Perform at Morgan Keegan.ALV raised to Buy RWBaird.AMGN raised to Neutral at UBS.AUDC raised to Outperform at CIBC.BBT started as Outperform at Credit Suisse.CYN started as ...
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The Patent Masters Go After Cell Carriers

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 6:03 am

NTP, the same company that filed patent suits against RIMM, has filed claims against Verizon Wireless, AT&T (T) and Sprint (S). NTP won a $612.5 million judgment against the Blackberry ...
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Europe Markets 9/12/2007

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 5:51 am

Markets in Europe were narrowly mixed. The FTSE fell .2% to 6,269. Barclays (BCS) was down 1.1% to 601. Diageo was down 1.6% to 1042. Vodafone (VOD) was up 1% ...
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Car Companies See Counterfeits in China

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 5:38 am

BMW is suing Chinese car maker Shuanghuan Automobile for producing an SUV called the CEO, which the Germany company says is a copy of its X5.And, that may not be ...
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Intel: More Antitrust Charges

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 5:25 am

The European Union has been looking into whether Intel (INTC) employed unfair practices to gain market share and shut out smaller rival AMD (AMD). According to the FT the European ...
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VW Pick-Ups To Come After Toyota And GM

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 5:15 am

Detroit's big profit machine is the SUV and pick-up markets. Even through sales in these categories have fallen off, the margin per unit has stayed strong. Unfortunately, Toyota (TM) has ...
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The Death Of Starbucks Growth

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 5:08 am

According to Bloomberg rising sales of McDonald's (MCD) coffee prompted Marc Greenberg, a Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. analyst in New York, in June to reduce his Starbucks stock-target price by ...
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GlaxoSmithKline Continues Down A Dangerous Path

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 4:56 am

Two more studies show that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) blockbuster diabetes drug Avandia has significant health risks. According to The Wall Street Journal "the Food and Drug Administration is considering whether Avandia's ...
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Yahoo! Moves Further Into A Bad Business

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 4:47 am

Yahoo! (YHOO) got the deal to sell display ads for big UK social network Bebo. The site has 11.6 million unique visitors in the two geographic areas that Yahoo! will ...
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Mass Marketing Foreclosed Homes

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 4:38 am

Almost 700 homes in foreclosure will be auctioned off in Detroit later this month. Most of the buyers will probably be investors who have no intention of ever moving in. ...
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Media Digest 9/12/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s

Posted: September 12, 2007 at 3:19 am

According to Reuters, Sony (SNE) will begin to launch new versions of it Blu-ray recorders in it battle against the HD DVD format.Reuters writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) has won exclusive ...
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