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Political Fodder… Private Equity Firms Are Hiring!

Posted: February 8, 2012 at 9:55 am

Private equity firms are bad and evil because they fire workers to juice profits for billionaires who get to pay low tax rates!  Is that the right logic?  What if ...
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Micron CEO Dies In Plane Accident (MU)

Posted: February 3, 2012 at 2:05 pm

Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) was halted pending news.  Most investors would have assumed it was about a lawsuit or around an earnings warning.  It is far worse.  Micron has ...
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Can New CFO & Split Structure Save The Bank of Ireland? (IRE)

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 11:52 am

The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) may have been a dead stock (or ADR) by most counts.  The recapitalization and dilution process here has been almost as uncanny as the bailouts ...
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New Sony CEO, No New Future

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 6:48 am

Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) revenue fell 9% in the September quarter and the company posted a loss, one of a long series. The Japanese firm also said that its P&L problems ...
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Ron Johnon’s Magic, When 20% Stock Gains May Be Enough (JCP, AAPL)

Posted: January 26, 2012 at 3:05 pm

It was just on January 5 that we called the news on J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP)... Bad News Is Good News!  Our take was that the company big ...
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Why Not an Apple Executive for RIM’s CEO Job?

Posted: January 23, 2012 at 6:44 am

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) did not pick Bob Mansfield, Apple’s head of hardware operations, to act as its new CEO. It did not pick Philip Schiller, Apple’s long-time marketing ...
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RIM Replaces CEOs, but Too Late

Posted: January 23, 2012 at 3:42 am

After a series of management mistakes that cost Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) its lead in the global smartphone business, and over 80% of its market value, the firm’s long-time co-CEOs ...
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Wal-Mart Makes Big Management Changes, Women Moving Up The Ranks (WMT)

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 9:51 am

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is making a series of management changes today.  While this is not the CEO level of the whole company, CEO Mike Duke noted, "Current Sam's ...
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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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News Break: Fannie Mae CEO Steps Down

Posted: January 10, 2012 at 4:54 pm

CNBC is reporting that Mike Williams, CEO of Fannie Mae, is stepping down from the GSE. Whether he was forced out or not is not known, but let's just say ...
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Kodak Reorganizes Ahead Of Probable Chapter 11

Posted: January 10, 2012 at 8:49 am

Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) believes that, for some reason, a major management and structure re-organization will save it from also certain Chapter 11. It took the odd step of making ...
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Obama Appoints Chairman of Consumer Panel

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 1:24 pm

President Obama will appoint former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray as the head of the Consumer Finanicial Protection Bureau today, invoking the president’s authority to make appointments when Congress is ...
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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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Co-Chairs May Finally Lose Their RIM Jobs (RIMM)

Posted: January 3, 2012 at 12:12 pm

It was just on Friday that we named Research in Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) as being one of the thirteen worst big stock stories of 2011.  This case is one ...
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