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Daily Archives: July 13, 2009

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BBY, CPLA, GS, HGSI, MAR, SNDK, SGMS)

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 6:50 am

These are the top pre-market upgrades and downgrades seen early this Monday morning ahead of the earnings season rush: Best Buy (BBY) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer. Capella Education (CPLA) ...
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MySpace To Become Entertainment Site

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 5:18 am

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. MySpace, which has lost the crown as the world's largest social network to Facebook and fired about a third of its ...
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Its Fortunes In Tatters, BusinessWeek Goes Up For Sale

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 5:06 am

It was only a matter of time before major American magazines, flagships of the national media business, began to close or be put on the auction block. BusinessWeek is for ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) Plans To Stop Google (GOOG) In Its Tracks

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 4:54 am

The world of Google (GOOG) is a world where PC software applications run on the Internet with the heavy work being done by Google's servers. The latest Google software, Chrome, ...
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Businesses May Rejects Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 7

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 4:36 am

A number of businesses and government enterprises elected not to upgrade to Vista, the current Microsoft (MSFT) computer operating system. It was considered a flawed product and the cost of ...
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The Case For Unavoidable Increases In The Stimulus Package

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 4:21 am

The San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote that only $9.4 billion of the $50 billion earmarked for the state has made it to the treasury. California has to wait for the ...
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A Tax On The “Rich” To Remake American Healthcare

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 4:10 am

Having money is not what it used to be. According to several media reports, the billionaire mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, lost millions of dollars in the market ...
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China Resorts To Old School Tactics After Rio Tinto Rejection

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 4:04 am

It is possible that several employees from global mining company Rio Tinto (RTP) were spying on the Chinese to gain an advantage through access to secret iron ore price information ...
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Media Digest 7/13/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 3:10 am

Reuters:  Social media such as Twitter may not be worth as much as many people believe because of challenges they face in bringing in revenue. Reuters:   The arrests of Rio ...
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Asia Markets 7/13/2009 (CHU)(AAPL)

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 2:26 am

Markets across Asia dropped sharply The Nikkei was off 2.6% to 9,050. The Hang Seng was down 2.6% to 17,241. China Unicom (CHU) fell because a handset deal with Apple ...
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