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Daily Archives: November 25, 2007

E-Commerce Big For Holiday Weekend, May Benefit Sony (SNE) And Amazon (AMZN)

Posted: November 25, 2007 at 3:55 pm

According to comScore, "online retail spending was strong on both Thanksgiving Day (up 29 percent to $272 million) and “Black Friday” (up 22 percent to $531 million), outpacing the season-to-date ...
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Sirius (SIRI) Merger With XM Satellite (XMSR): A Little Sleaze From The NAB

Posted: November 25, 2007 at 1:37 pm

The National Association of Broadcasters and all of its radio station members are against a merger of Sirius (SIRI) and XM Satellite (XMSR). They don't want the satellite radio business ...
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Rio Tinto (RTP) Plans To Fight Off BHP Billiton (BHP) Bid

Posted: November 25, 2007 at 10:52 am

The Times of London reports that metals company Rio Tinto (RTP) plans an all-out attack against suitor BHP Billiton (BHP). According to the paper "Tom Albanese, Rio’s chief executive, will ...
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Will Web Search Ever Play On The Cellphone?

Posted: November 25, 2007 at 10:32 am

Wall St. broadly accepts that the next frontier for online search and web use will be the cellphone. That assumes, of course, the consumers want to use tiny screens to ...
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EU May Try To Nail New Google (GOOG) Model

Posted: November 25, 2007 at 8:37 am

Targeting advertising based on the behavior of web surfers is "Holy Grail" for internet marketing. TV, radio, and print cannot effectively look at past actions and then place ads based ...
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Buffett’s Bershire Hathaway (BRK) May Be Bidder For Northern Rock

Posted: November 25, 2007 at 7:57 am

Northern Rock may be the UK's most troubled financial company. The Bank of England has put 26 billion pounds into the company and would like to get the money back.According ...
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