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The Myth About Online Ad Sales Growth

Posted: April 14, 2011 at 5:06 am

The Internet Advertising Bureau, anxious to prove the effectiveness of its media, distributed a report which says online ad revenue reached $7.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, up ...
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Moody’s Japan Outlook And The Price Of Oil

Posted: February 22, 2011 at 5:24 am

Moody's put the rating of Japan's debt on credit watch. The outlook was cut to "negative" from "stable." The government of Japan's current rating is Aa2. Moody's said, "The rating ...
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Deepwater Commission: “Complex Systems Almost Always Fail In Complex Ways”

Posted: February 18, 2011 at 5:46 am

The seven members of The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling might as well have stayed at home instead of venturing out to examine why the ...
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Online Ad Spending Passes Newspapers

Posted: December 20, 2010 at 5:32 am

Many people have read so much about the death of the newspaper industry that they might believe that online ad spending passed newspaper ad spending years ago. That is not ...
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The iPad Erodes Newspaper Print Subscriptions

Posted: December 10, 2010 at 3:06 pm

First, video killed the radio star.  Now, it looks like the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad is causing the same sorts of disruption to newspaper publishers. According to a survey of ...
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Barry Diller, Sidney Harman Could Care Less if Daily Beast-Newsweek Ever Makes Money

Posted: October 11, 2010 at 2:27 pm

Good thing that Barry Diller and Sidney Harman don't work for the CIA because the two media tycoons are doing a terrible job in keeping word of the potential merger ...
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Blockbuster’s Chapter 11 May Be Inadequate

Posted: September 23, 2010 at 6:01 am

Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 as expected. The rental chain declared that  it reached agreement with a group of bondholders holding approximately 80.1 percent principal amount of the company's 11 ...
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UBS Makes A Good Call On The New York Times

Posted: September 22, 2010 at 11:25 am

Too often, most Wall Street analysts are a day later and a dollar short.  UBS analyst John Janedis, however, managed to get it right about the New York Times Co. ...
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The Ten American Industries Which Will Never Recover

Posted: September 7, 2010 at 4:52 am

It has become clear that jobs in some industries may never come back or if they do it will take years or decades for a recovery. 24/7 Wall St. examined ...
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Eight Of America’s Most Secretive Companies

Posted: August 27, 2010 at 7:54 pm

Secrecy is critical to more businesses than most people might imagine. Entire industries are based to some extent on the process of creating goods and services and then putting them ...
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Barnes & Noble: The Titanic Goes On Sale

Posted: August 3, 2010 at 7:39 pm

Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), a slightly younger brother to Blockbuster in the retail industry, has gone up for sale. The book store firm's stock moved up 30% after hours ...
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Who Will Replace NBCU’s Jeff Zucker?

Posted: August 2, 2010 at 1:18 pm

Jeff Zucker's departure as GE's (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal CEO is among the worst kept secrets in the history of Hollywood.  What remains a mystery, however, is who would want ...
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Latest Oil Collection Hope Is For “The Whale”

Posted: July 4, 2010 at 7:54 am

The US Coast Guard and BP plc hope that a massive Taiwanese tanker fitted with special oil collection equipment can skim massive amounts of crude from the surface of the ...
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The E-Reader Business Is No Business At All

Posted: June 21, 2010 at 7:12 pm

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) cut the price of its basic Kindle e-reader to $189 from its current price of $259 and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) cut the price of ...
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BP: Oil Consumption In 2009 Dropped First Time Since 1982

Posted: June 9, 2010 at 5:35 am

BP plc (NYSE: BP) has found a place in the oil business beyond being one of the largest polluters in the industry's history. The company released extensive numbers on the ...
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