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Daily Archives: December 23, 2009

Drop In Mass Layoffs Masks Trouble At Small Businesses

Posted: December 23, 2009 at 5:28 am

The Labor Department says that "mass layoffs", job cuts of 50 more more people simultaneously, hit a 16 month low in November. Incidents of big downsizing fell to 330 from 1,797 ...
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Hollywood Races Toward It First $10 Billion Year

Posted: December 23, 2009 at 5:10 am

The movie theater business was supposed to be ruined by TV. Then the VCR was supposed to draw audiences from movie houses, then DVDs, VOD, cable, and internet video. None of that has ...
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Apple (AAPL) iPhone Does Well In Bogus Nielsen Survey

Posted: December 23, 2009 at 4:55 am

Nielsen says that the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone is the No.1 mobile phone in the US, with a market share of 4%. The number is flawed because the iPhone number includes ...
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Media Digest 12/23/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 23, 2009 at 3:57 am

Reuters:   US  business investment is rising. Reuters:   Another outage shut down RIM's (NYSE:RIMM) BlackBerry network. Reuters:   Geithner said tight lending could hurt US economy. Reuters:   Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) lost an appeal ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (12/23/2009)

Posted: December 23, 2009 at 3:24 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei did not trade due to the holiday. The Hang Seng rose 1.1% to 21323. China Life (NYSE:LFC) rose sharply. The Shanghai Composite was ...
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