Monthly Archives: November 2010

A Solution To Google’s Talent Problem–Give Employees Equity Stakes In New Ventures

Posted: November 29, 2010 at 5:40 am

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) keeps losing its top employees to other companies. Some of its senior management and best engineers have departed for AOL, Facebook, TellApart, Cuil, DoApp, and scores of ...
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Media Digest (11/29/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 29, 2010 at 4:04 am

Reuters: ECB executives sought to calm capital markets and assure them that the Ireland bailout should stabilize the euro. Reuters: Online bargain hunting has spread beyond CyberMonday. Reuters: Members of ...
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All Black Friday Estimates Are Wrong–Maybe

Posted: November 28, 2010 at 2:22 pm

There have been several estimates of Black Friday sales both specific and anecdotal. The National Retail Federal added its figures for what many believe is the most critical shopping day ...
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Ireland Deal Done, Ruling Party Likely To Be Gone

Posted: November 28, 2010 at 7:23 am

European finance ministers have signed off on a $113 billion rescue package for Ireland with the question of whether it will be enough still open. It is the second such rescue ...
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New Research: Black Friday Bust May Be Caused By Earlier Discounts

Posted: November 27, 2010 at 6:17 pm

Huge discounts offered to consumers in early November may have hurt Black Friday sales, and the trouble may not be over. Research from ShopperTrak shows that Black Friday retail sales ...
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Black Friday Online Spending Up 16%, Facebook Influence Rises

Posted: November 27, 2010 at 4:24 pm

Online spending rose much more than expected on Black Friday. Should the trend continue, holiday 2010 sales may be stronger than expected, especially if e-commerce is a proxy for overall ...
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Short Sellers Could Drive Portugal Debt To Breaking Point

Posted: November 27, 2010 at 8:44 am

Investors may have begun to aggressively sell off the bonds of Portugal and Spain. They will try to convince international investors that the Portugal and Spain sovereign debt yields are ...
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Black Friday Report: For Amazon, The Kindle Is No Longer King

Posted: November 26, 2010 at 2:23 pm

The Kindle was not the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) flagship product much of Black Friday. Perhaps that is because of suspicions that the world's largest e-commerce site makes little or no ...
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Carbon Trading Lives On In California (ICE, CME, NYX)

Posted: November 26, 2010 at 11:25 am

Last week the Chicago Climate Exchange, which is owned by Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), announced that it would no longer operate the voluntary carbon-trading program it has run since 2003. ...
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Very Mixed Short Interest in High-Priced Leaders (AMZN, AAPL, BRK-B, BIDU, GS, GOOG, IBM, ISRG, MA, NFLX, POT, PCLN, CRM, VMW, WYNN)

Posted: November 26, 2010 at 11:17 am

Short sellers have started to come back into some select names again. While we often look for patterns, it is some of of these high-priced stocks that often offer the ...
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