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Explaining the 40% Upside Call for Yahoo!

Posted: September 27, 2012 at 9:59 am

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) was reinstated with coverage with a Buy rating at Goldman Sachs this morning. It is not just the Buy rating that matters. What matters the most is ...
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Microsoft Unveils Office 365 Preview — Just Wait for Windows 8

Posted: July 16, 2012 at 4:34 pm

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced the release of its official preview version of Windows Office 365. Like competitor Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) with Google Apps, Office 365 is cloud- ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — July 13, 2012: Market Jumps on Financials, Hopes for China

Posted: July 13, 2012 at 4:08 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning following the release of Chinese GDP and other data. The Middle Kingdom’s GDP grew at a rate of 7.6% in ...
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Groupon, Zynga at Post-IPO Lows

Posted: July 12, 2012 at 11:49 am

Recently public companies Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) and Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) rose sharply following their IPOs, but have taken a turn south that has taken shares off post-IPO highs ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — July 11, 2012: More Profit Warnings, No Easing Keep Shares Down

Posted: July 11, 2012 at 4:05 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened slightly lower this morning ahead of the release later today of the minutes of the last FOMC meeting. Asian markets were mixed overnight ...
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Nokia Goes After Pre-Kindergarten Market

Posted: July 9, 2012 at 11:52 am

Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) hit a new 52-week low of $2.00 last Thursday and have continued to slide since then. Shares are down -8% just before noon this ...
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How Low Can Nokia Go?

Posted: July 5, 2012 at 2:40 pm

Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) set a new 52-week low of $2.00 today. The one-time leader in sales of mobile phones did not have any news, but the company’s ...
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Samsung Leads Smartphone Market

Posted: July 2, 2012 at 3:01 pm

The latest rankings are out from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) on the US smartphone device and platform markets. Samsung Electronics (OTC: SSNLF) leads the device makers with a 25.7% market ...
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Coming Soon — Mozilla’s Smartphone OS

Posted: July 2, 2012 at 1:44 pm

The non-profit Mozilla Corporation, maker of the Firefox web browser, today said that it would issue a smartphone operating system platform as the Firefox OS. The platform has been known ...
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Google Debuts New Tablet, Social Streaming Media Gadget (GOOG, AAPL, NVDA, AMZN, SIRI, P)

Posted: June 27, 2012 at 2:59 pm

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is nothing if not determined to slice off a share of Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) dominance of the market for personal media. At the company’s I/O ...
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Web’s Top Properties the Usual Suspects (GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, FB, AOL, AMZN, WMT, TGT)

Posted: June 22, 2012 at 4:10 pm

Internet research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) today released its rankings of the top web properties for the month of May. The top 5 of the 50 sites ranked by ...
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Social Media a “Must-have” for Companies (FB, LNKD, GOOG)

Posted: June 20, 2012 at 1:31 pm

New research from consulting firm InSites Consulting reveals a high level of social media usage in the US, much higher than in Europe. Some 80% of US companies use Facebook ...
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Microsoft, B&N to Unveil Tablet? (MSFT, BKS, AAPL, AMZN, GOOG)

Posted: June 18, 2012 at 9:30 am

At a hastily arranged event scheduled for today at 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to announce a new tablet device to be built by its ...
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Samsung Denies Interest in Acquiring Nokia (NOK, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, SSNLF)

Posted: June 11, 2012 at 8:58 am

Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) rose more than 12% last week, about half that on Friday as rumors swirled that the company might be acquired. Nokia, now partners with ...
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Apple-Motorola Suit Dismissed: Judge is Not Impressed (AAPL, GOOG, ORCL)

Posted: June 8, 2012 at 8:49 am

US District Court Judge Richard Posner has decided, for the moment, to dismiss two-year old patent litigation involving Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Motorola Mobility, now merged with Google Inc.(NASDAQ: ...
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