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Daily Archives: November 16, 2009

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Amazon (AMZN) And MasterCard (MA) Turn To Social Networks For Holidays

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 5:54 am

The use of social networks to sell products and services gets more complex by the day. The latest scheme to tap into the swarms of people who congregate at Facebook ...
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Cisco’s (CSCO) Tandberg Gamble That Video Quality Pays

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 5:35 am

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) has decided to gamble that it can get reluctant Tandberg shareholders to support a buyout of their company by raising its offer to $3.4 billion. That is a 10% ...
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Japan GDP Moves Up At 4.8% Annual Rate

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 5:12 am

 By Douglas A. McIntyre Japan's GDP rose at an annual rate of 4.8% in the quarter ending September 30th. Most analysts had forecast a figure below 3%. It is not ...
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Sony (SNE) Throws Cold Water On The Holidays

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 5:00 am

Sony (NYSE:SNE) expects its holiday sales to be poor. That is terrible news for the consumer electronics and PC industries. Sony is a nearly perfect proxy for those sectors. It sells PCs, ...
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GM Will Start To Repay US And Continue Installments Next Year

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 4:46 am

GM will make a $1.2 billion payment to the US and Canada on its $6.7 billion senior note from the Treasury and Canadian government, probably in December. The $6.7 billion is the ...
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Media Digest 11/16/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 4:00 am

Reuters:   The Ohio Attorney General is suing a number of Wall St. firms. Reuters:   GM will start to repay part of its debt to the US. Reuters:   Citigroup (NYSE:C) will ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (11/16/2009)

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 3:26 am

Most markets in Asia rose sharply. The Nikkei was up .2% to 9,791. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) fell. The Hang Seng rose 1.7% to 22,944. The Shanghai Composite was up 2.7% ...
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Google (GOOG) Settles With Authors, Publishers

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 3:19 am

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), book authors and publishers had until midnight to provide a federal court with a plan to settle their differences on how the search engine digitizes and charges for ...
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Apple: Court Rules Psystar Cannot Sell Mac Knock-Offs

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 3:15 am

In a court case that began last year, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) charged the young upstart Psystar, which makes Mac knock-offs, with a host of copyright and trademark violations. The venerable computer ...
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