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Media Digest (4/27/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 27, 2011 at 3:59 am

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) will buy Synthes for $21.9 billion (Reuters) S&P cut the Japan sovereign rating outlook because of the earthquake (Reuters) The Sony (NYSE: SNE) Playstation network ...
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M&A Watch: Questioning The Answers.com Rival Deal (ANSW)

Posted: April 11, 2011 at 12:04 pm

Internet acquisitions have been few and far between of late when it comes to public companies.  Answers.com Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) may still be worth more... Or it may not.  The ...
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Facebook’s Valuation Warning: When Yahoo! Was Worth More Than Intel, Verizon, And Pepsi

Posted: March 22, 2011 at 5:02 am

Are investors forgetting the lessons of the dot-com bust of the 1990s?It would seem to be the case. Just like in the Clinton administration, companies with uncertain prospects are attracting ...
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The New Generation Of American Monopolies

Posted: March 22, 2011 at 4:53 am

A monopoly is either what the government says it is or what a dominant company’s competitors claim. The government’s opinion is the only one that counts, however, as Sprint will ...
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Yahoo! Layoff Rumors: Is The Old Internet Dying? No More Than Anything Else

Posted: November 12, 2010 at 5:38 am

There is a rumor that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will layoff 20% of its workforce or 20% of the workforce in one of its divisions. Neither may be true. Yahoo! has ...
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Twitter Sells Ads

Posted: November 2, 2010 at 4:55 am

Twitter has begun to sell ads. These will appear in the streams of tweets that go back and forth between subscribers. Twitter faces the same questions that Facebook does now ...
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Digg, Once The Darling Of Web 2.0, Near Death

Posted: October 26, 2010 at 6:07 am

Digg.com was once so important to web 2.0, the spread of information and social media behavior that its executives were often interviewed about the future of news on the internet. ...
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Yahoo! Japan To Use Google Search Technology

Posted: July 27, 2010 at 4:59 am

Yahoo! Japan will use the Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) search engine technology. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) has a stake in the Japan operation, but is not the controlling shareholder. The decision ...
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Yahoo! Cuts Deal With Zillow For Real Estate Listings

Posted: July 9, 2010 at 5:32 am

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will outsource its real estate section to  Zillow, a popular listings site. The transaction calls for Zillow.com to oversee a network that will place home listings and ...
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Media Digest 7/8/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 8, 2010 at 4:04 am

MarketWatch:   The IMF expects slow growth this year and next. Reuters:   The battle between the oil industry and government on drilling regulations continues. Reuters:   The Gulf leak could be plugged ...
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