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Monthly Archives: December 2010

Facebook’s Meaningless Redesign Of Profile Pages

Posted: December 5, 2010 at 7:38 pm

Some Facebook users will be able to redesign their profiles pages beginning today. These sections of Facebook accounts are essentially the front porch to the online presences of countless numbers ...
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E-Commerce Giants Flatten Smaller Competition

Posted: December 5, 2010 at 7:26 pm

Analysis of Spending Growth Among Top 25 Online Retail Sites Nov. 1-29, 2010 vs. Corresponding Days in 2009 Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations Source: comScore, Inc. Spending Growth Dollar ...
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Gas Prices Close In On $3

Posted: December 5, 2010 at 7:11 pm

The traffic on the nation's roads may be a little light this Christmas. Gasoline prices has spiked up. The average price for regular gasoline at U.S. filling stations rose 3.92 ...
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Has Holiday Shopping Activity Started To Falter?

Posted: December 5, 2010 at 7:01 pm

The rate of e-commerce sales growth for this holiday season has begun to slow. And, there is some reason to believe that the problem will become worse. comScore reports that ...
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Google Chrome Netbook Coming Soon?

Posted: December 4, 2010 at 12:04 pm

A number of sources are reporting today that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is set to announce a Google netbook next Tuesday, December 7th. The netbook reportedly uses Google's Chrome operating ...
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Groupon Slips Through Google’s Hands

Posted: December 4, 2010 at 8:23 am

Groupon, the online discount coupon company, did not sell itself to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).  Many media  including The Wall Street Journal, AllThingsD, and The New York Times reported that the ...
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Car Salesmen And Members Of Congress At Bottom Of Trust Ratings

Posted: December 4, 2010 at 8:08 am

Americans do not trust car salesmen, members of Congress and lobbyists. That list not unusual. Nor is the list of the most trusted professions--nurses, military officers and pharmacists. A new ...
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IAC’s Day Of Reckoning Will Come

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 4:16 pm

IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ:IACI), Barry Diller's Internet empire, says on its website that "our mission is to harness the power of interactivity to make daily life easier and more productive for people ...
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Short Seller Makes His Case Against Netflix (NFLX)

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 3:21 pm

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is a cult stock stock which often defies gravity.  While shares have soared, many analysts have missed the boat.  It is one of those stocks which ...
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Google Android Phenomenon Continues (SCOR, MOT, RIMM, NOK, GOOG, AAPL, MSFT)

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 3:01 pm

Research firm comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) has released its October report on the US mobile phone industry. The top device maker is Samsung, with 24.2% of the market, up ...
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Wikileaks Opens New Domains After Shutdown

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 2:33 pm

As you are probably aware, Wikileaks has had its website closed down in the U.S.  Amazon closed the .org and .com sites after DNS attacks  and after requests for it ...
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TrimTabs Challenges Such Poor Jobs Data From BLS

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 1:32 pm

The Labor Department's report of 9.8% Unemployment and the dismal +39,000 non-Farm Payrolls data was so bad and so far under estimates that we have some questions about the accuracy ...
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Can QUALCOMM Challenge Intel in PC Processors? (INTC, AMD, QCOM, ARMH, MU, AAPL, GOOG, RIMM)

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 12:17 pm

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has an extreme dominance when it comes to the market share of processors inside of personal computers, generally referred to as about 80% depending upon your ...
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Wal-Mart’s Best Selling Holiday Items (WMT, AMZN, AAPL, EK)

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 11:40 am

What's driving holiday sales at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT)? We took a look at some of the best sellers at Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) yesterday, and thought it would ...
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Deficit Panel Fails in Super-Majority Vote, Actually a Partial Victory in the Loss

Posted: December 3, 2010 at 10:54 am

The Deficit Panel has failed to reach a super-majority that would be enough to trigger a vote in Congress.  That is the bad news, but frankly we already expected this.  ...
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