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Rumor Mill Moves Back To Brocade (BRCD, DELL, HPQ, IBM, CVLT, CSCO)

Posted: January 9, 2012 at 1:16 pm

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD) is running higher on buyout speculation.  The move is only about 18 months too late if it is even true.  Reuters reported that Brocade ...
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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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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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Shame on Them… Proposing A Verizon Wireless & Vodafone Merger (VZ, VOD, CMCSA, TWC)

Posted: January 6, 2012 at 10:00 am

In early December, Verizon Wireless, a joint venture between Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone Group plc (NASDAQ: VOD), paid $3.6 billion for wireless spectrum licenses owned SpectrumCo LLC. ...
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Will Sony Buy NOOK? Big Value For Barnes & Noble

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 9:48 am

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) lost 29% of its market cap on news that it might spin-off its NOOK e-reader operations. The book company is now worth only $850 million. ...
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Private Equity Value for Best Buy (BBY, GME, WMT, AMZN)

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 7:35 am

After losing about a third of its value in the last year, Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) may start to be thrown around as a private equity takeover name.  A ...
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United Tech May Be The Best DJIA Conglomerate Stock In 2012 (UTX, GE, MMM, GR)

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 2:10 pm

United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX) may actually be the best stock in 2012 out of the three conglomerates which are in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  While we have had ...
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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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Ten Stocks Unlikely To Survive 2012 (ALIM, AMR, APP, EK, ENER, FFN, NRTLQ, PNCL, RDDY, YRCWD)

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 8:15 am

Calling on the death of a company is no fun task.  Some companies cannot get it right and it is amazing how some companies can hold on to a status ...
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Chesapeake Sells Marcellus Pipeline System to Subsidiary (CHK, CHKM)

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 8:59 am

As part of its efforts to raise cash and pay down debt, Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) has sold its Appalachia Midstream Services subsidiary to Chesapeake Midstream Partners L.P. (NYSE: ...
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Could Sears Be Broken Up?

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 6:28 am

What Eddie Lampert put together in 2005 could be broken into pieces again, and that might be the only realistic way to “fix” Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD). Lampert engineered a ...
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Enterprise Exits Energy Transfer Equity… Distribution Hike Machine To Continue (EPD, ETE, AMJ, AMLP, KYN)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 9:11 am

Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) is cleaning out of its position in Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. (NYSE: ETE).  The MLP has announced that it has agreed to sell 22,762,636 ...
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Deutsche Telekom’s Windfall May Come Up Short (T, DTEGY, S, VZ, VOD, AAPL)

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 1:17 pm

When AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) killed the $39 billion deal for T-Mobile USA it had agreed to with Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC: DTEGY), the $4 billion break-up fee going to ...
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Amazon (AMZN) Approaches RIM About Buyout? How About Nokia And Micrososft?

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 6:34 pm

Update: The Wall Street Journal reports that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MFST) may also have consider a join bid. The rumors that a company would offer to buy ...
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AT&T Kills $39 Billion T-Mobile Offer

Posted: December 19, 2011 at 4:55 pm

AT&T (NYSE: T) has ended its quest to buy No.4 US cellular company T-Mobile for $39 billion. It will pay T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom a $4 billion break-up fee. The ...
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