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The Force: Star Wars Franchise Worth Over $30 Billion and Growing

Posted: February 10, 2012 at 4:17 pm

24/7 Wall St. has decided to calculate the total value of the Star Wars franchise ahead of the release of the 3D film "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" and while ...
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After Taleo, Looking at Other Cloud M&A ‘Hopefuls’ (SKYY, TLEO, ORCL, EQIX, AKAM, RAX, TDC, NTAP, CRM)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 11:03 am

It is a bit surprising that First Trust ISE Cloud Computing (NASDAQ: SKYY) is not trading higher than it is after a 'cloud acquisition' even if it is a thinly ...
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Caesars, A Sham Of An IPO… Beware The Ides of March (CZR, APO, GS, WYNN, LVS)

Posted: February 8, 2012 at 11:41 am

Caesars Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: CZR) is beyond weird when it comes to initial public offerings.  This was one of our TOP 17 IPOS TO WATCH IN 2012.  We also make ...
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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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Facebook Full IPO Filing Details (FB, MS, GS, MSFT, TROW, ZNGA, GSVC, IPG)

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 5:29 pm

Facebook, Inc. has now filed its paperwork with the SEC which will allow the social networking giant to conduct an initial public offering.  It should be no real surprise that ...
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Alternative Investing: Two T206 Honus Wagner Cards For Sale In Same Month (CLCT, EBAY, MSFT, AAPL)

Posted: January 30, 2012 at 12:18 pm

Almost all investments rise and fall in price through time, and the same is true over the value of sports collectibles and baseball cards.  The 'investing' rule in sports collectibles ...
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Gores Group Acquires Pep Boys (PBY, AZO, AAP, ORLY)

Posted: January 30, 2012 at 8:29 am

Auto parts retailer The Pep Boys - Manny, Joe & Jack (NYSE: PBY) has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm The Gores Group for $1 billion cash, or ...
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FTC Sues To Block Omnicare/PharMerica Merger; Express/Medco Next? (OCR, PMC, MHS, ESRX, T)

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 5:31 pm

The Federal Trade Commission is suing to block the merger between Omnicare, Inc. (NYSE: OCR) and Pharmerica Corporation (NYSE: PMC), where Omnicare is seeking to acquire the rival pharmacy provider PharMerica.... It ...
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High-Premium Biotech M&A Continues (AMGN, CELG, MITI, IBB)

Posted: January 26, 2012 at 5:08 pm

Thursday brought yet more merger and acquisition news in the ongoing buyout trends in the biotech sector.  Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) announced that it is going to acquire Micromet, Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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Yahoo! and the Temptation to Merge with a Major Media Firm

Posted: January 25, 2012 at 6:37 am

Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) earnings were weak, which raised the matter of a business combination with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or Aol (NYSE: AOL) again. A more suitable merger would be with ...
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Faltering Kinross Gold May Be Buyout Target (KGC, NEM, ABX, GG, AU, GLD)

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 12:17 pm

Earlier this week, Kinross Gold Corp. (NYSE: KGC) released a preliminary statement on 2012 production, mining costs, and a writedown a portion of $4.6 billion in goodwill on an African ...
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Risks Abound In Express Scripts & Medco Merger (MHS, ESRX, T, CHSI, MNA)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 3:04 pm

The Medco Health Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MHS) and Express Scripts Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) merger saga is one which may go down in the financial history books for one of the ...
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AT&T Looking Again at Dish? (T, DISH, DTEGY, VZ, VOD, CMCSA, TWC, PCS, LEAP, S)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 1:09 pm

Will AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) finally make an offer for Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) now that the merger with the T-Mobile USA unit of Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC: DTEGY) ...
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Slot-Machine Maker Buys Facebook Casino Gamemaker (IGT, ZNGA)

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 1:53 pm

With the Facebook IPO bus scheduled to leave the station sometime this year, there is very likely to be rush to get onboard. Slot machine maker International Gaming Technology (NYSE: ...
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Carlyle Remains On Track for 2012 IPO (CG, BX, KKR, ACAS, OZM, FIG, PSP)

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 11:44 am

The Carlyle Group L.P. is still planning to be one of the top private equity initial public offerings of 2012.  We even named it as one of the Top 17 ...
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