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Focus on Yahoo! Assets and Plans Over Past Earnings (YHOO)

Posted: January 24, 2012 at 4:16 pm

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) earnings are out and we again stress that the focus needs to be on the company's strategy for the next year or two rather than just ...
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Google Drops The Ball On Earnings (GOOG)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 4:06 pm

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is out with earnings for its fourth quarter.  The internet search giant reported earnings of $8.22 EPS (but $9.50 EPS adjusted) and $8.13 billion in revenues.  ...
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DVD/Blu-ray Rentals Fall, Netflix Leads Streaming Market (NFLX, AMZN, CSTR, DISH)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 12:13 pm

Nearly a third of US consumers now watch movies and other videos on Internet streaming services such as those offered by Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). About ...
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eBay Delivers… Offers Full 2012 Guidance (EBAY)

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 4:28 pm

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is out with earnings for its fourth quarter.  The online auction giant (and PayPal winner) turned in earnings of $0.60 EPS on sales of growth of ...
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Yahoo! Forces Out Jerry Yang (YHOO, MSFT, CSCO)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 5:29 pm

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is surging in the after-hours session on news which many investors have been hoping would come for years.  Jerry Yang has finally resigned from Yahoo!  The ...
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HP New Strategy Officer Focus: Software Over Hardware (HPQ, MSFT)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 4:59 pm

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) may have decided that it will not jettison its PC business after all, but the company's strategy appears under new CEO sure appears to be a strategy ...
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Walmart’s E-commerce Woes Cannot Be Solved by a New Online CEO

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 6:44 am

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) added a new CEO to oversee its e-commerce operations. The general perception is that this business should be more competitive with Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). That will be hard to ...
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Letting Pandora Take Control Of Your Car (P, SIRI, DISH)

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 9:32 am

Internet radio company Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) has announced 23 agreements with automakers and after-market suppliers to include the company’s radio player in their product offerings. Pandora also claims ...
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True Convergence: Taking Speech To TV (NUAN, AAPL, MSFT, CMCSA, TWC, T, DTV, DISH)

Posted: January 9, 2012 at 12:54 pm

Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is getting a much less of a reception than you might expect following on news that it is taking its Dragon speech recognition to the ...
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Netflix & UK Launch, Driving on the Left Side of the Road (NFLX, AMZN, VMED)

Posted: January 9, 2012 at 9:47 am

Battered video provider Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is launching its streaming video service in the UK and Ireland today with a one-month free trial for customers who sign up through ...
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The 17 Most Important IPOs To Watch In 2012

Posted: January 6, 2012 at 10:04 am

The initial public offering market  in 2012 is likely to be much stronger than many anticipate. Despite the lingering uncertainty and the underperformance of many popular IPOs in 2011, this ...
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Netflix Shares Rise on Rumor, Report (NFLX, YHOO, AMZN, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 2:36 pm

Shares of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) have risen about 7% today and it’s hard to say whether the main cause is speculation that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) might buy the ...
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Yahoo! Confirms New CEO (YHOO, EBAY, GOOG)

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 9:11 am

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has confirmed that it has appointed Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer.  He will take over with an effective date of January 9, 2012.  At that ...
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The 13 Worst Big Stock Stories Of 2011 (BAC, DMND, FSLR, GMCR, HPQ, IPSU, SLV, KV-A, EGPT, MCP, NFLX, RIMM, SHLD)

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm

2011 was more or less a wash for stock performance when it was all said and done.  There were several great stories and there were many duds.  24/7 Wall St. ...
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More Caution For Netflix (NFLX, AAPL, AMZN)

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 10:53 am

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) went from Wall Street's darling in 2011 to being Wall Street's whipping boy.  The company's efforts under Reed Hastings could easily become the classic case study ...
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