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The Great Online Video Hype in China, Still Just Hype (YOKU, TUDO, SOHU, RENN)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 6:15 am

The craze for online video is everywhere. Billions upon billions have been invested by great companies, yet the business model has proven that not all efforts have endless financial return. ...
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Facebook and Amazon Audience Gain as Portals Falter

Posted: December 23, 2011 at 6:27 am

New Comscore data shows the extent to which Facebook and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) have become internet destinations while portals Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) MSN lose ground. The ...
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Google Comes to Mozilla’s Aid, but That May End

Posted: December 23, 2011 at 6:25 am

Is Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just a good citizen, or is there a reason it supports nonprofit operation Mozilla, which operates the Firefox browser? Google has a browser of its own ...
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Busted Zynga IPO Weighs Further On Social Media Shares (ZNGA, GRPN, LNKD, SINA, SOCL, GSVC)

Posted: December 19, 2011 at 10:35 am

Zynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is an initial public offering in trouble.  Whether you call it a busted IPO, a broken IPO, or something else is up to you, but the ...
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Google Chrome Passes Internet Explorer As Top Browser

Posted: December 19, 2011 at 6:47 am

Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Internet Explorer has been the top browser in the world since the company bought Netscape nearly 15 years ago. Mozilla's Firefox gains modest share over the last several ...
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Zynga Becomes Busted IPO In First Day (ZNGA, LNKD, GRPN, SINA, SOCL)

Posted: December 16, 2011 at 11:41 am

Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) was supposed to be attractively priced as far as how the company was given a $7 billion valuation at its IPO price.  Some talk was that ...
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Top Tech Picks for 2012 (ADI, IDTI, AAPL, QCOM, SWIR, TRMB, ROVI, CRM, NUAN, GOOG, Z, VELT, KITD)

Posted: December 16, 2011 at 10:28 am

Canaccord Genuity has joined in with many of the brokerage firms issuing top picks and trends to watch in 2012 from its analysts.  The latest is the firm's "Top Technology Picks for ...
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Zynga IPO Prices! Great Offering, Lousy Voting Rights (ZNGA)

Posted: December 15, 2011 at 5:06 pm

Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is a done deal.  The online social gaming company sold 100 million of its Class A shares at $10.00 per share, which was the top of ...
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200 Billion Videos Watched, and Not a Dime in Sight

Posted: December 15, 2011 at 6:36 am

In October, 200 billion videos were watched online worldwide. The number is immensely impressive until the question is asked whether the online video business makes any money. Research firm comScore released ...
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Forming a New Analyst Consensus in Groupon (GRPN)

Posted: December 14, 2011 at 11:08 am

Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) is now finally off of its post-IPO quiet period and the analyst community, whether a part of the underwriting syndicate or not, is now free to ...
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NTSB Recommends Ban On Driver Phone & Device Use (VZ, T, S, LOGI, AMT, CCI)

Posted: December 13, 2011 at 1:58 pm

Have you been hit or almost been hit by a car driver talking on their cellphone?  Thousands of Americans have died as a result of phone-use related accidents.  Thousands more ...
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Best and Worst Run Companies in America

Posted: December 8, 2011 at 6:26 am

Many American companies have done incredibly well this year. A number posted extraordinary financial results in 2011. Others have launched products that revolutionized markets. Of course, many big public corporations ...
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E-commerce Continues to Set Records, Advantage to Amazon.com

Posted: December 5, 2011 at 6:51 am

Holiday e-commerce sales continue to set records. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN), which is the leader in e-commerce sales by far as a single company, is likely to be among the ...
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Americans Waste Massive Amounts of Time Online

Posted: December 5, 2011 at 6:50 am

There was a time, from the 1960s through earlier in this century, when television was considered a tremendous waste of time for Americans who should have been reading, working or ...
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Cisco and the Zettabytes Internet

Posted: November 30, 2011 at 6:18 am

Almost no one knows what a zettabyte is. Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) uses the term to measure the volume of data center IP traffic. According to the router giant, “Annual ...
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