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Hulu is No Longer for Sale (NWS, DIS, CMCSA, YHOO, GOOG, DISH, AMZN, NFLX, AAPL)

Posted: October 14, 2011 at 11:17 am

Streaming video provider Hulu LLC has been taken off the auction block by owners News Corp. (NYSE: NWS), Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA), among others. Rumored ...
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Yahoo! Could Still Slip Into The Arms of Microsoft? (YHOO, MSFT, AOL, GOOG)

Posted: October 5, 2011 at 3:56 pm

Reading news stories about the next possible buyer for Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) resembles nothing so much as a game of Whack-a-Mole. First there was Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) back ...
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Against the Grain: Early Morning Movers (EK, YHOO, NFLX, FMCN, NEM, NAK, GDX, GDXJ, GLD)

Posted: October 3, 2011 at 10:36 am

The markets opened in the red this morning but have recovered after the ISM Manufacturing data favored very low growth rather than recession.  There were a number of stocks getting a ...
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Traffic Trends For Top 50 Web Sites (SCOR, GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, AOL, AMZN, EBAY, WMT, TGT, NYT, GCI, WPO, NFLX)

Posted: September 21, 2011 at 1:53 pm

Web site visitors didn't set any records last month, but they also didn't lose any ground. Among the leading sites, some had small gains and others had small losses. Overall ...
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Why the Yahoo! Rally is Over (YHOO, GOOG)

Posted: September 8, 2011 at 12:13 pm

Shares of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) got a nice boost yesterday on the news that the company's CEO had been fired. But all good things must end, and that's what ...
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After Bartz & Sum of the Parts: What’s Yahoo! Worth? (YHOO, GOOG, MSFT, BX, AOL, KKR)

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 8:21 am

Now that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has fired CEO Carol Bartz about as gracelessly as it could and set out on a strategic review of its business under interim CEO ...
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Yahoo Slide to Continue (YHOO, MSFT, GOOG, AAPL)

Posted: January 26, 2011 at 10:45 am

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) reported better-than-expected revenue and earnings for its fourth quarter, but not that much better. There were some bright spots, including a jump of 14% in display ...
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Mobile eMail Steals Relevance From PC Market (SCOR, GOOG, AAPL, YHOO, AOL, MSFT)

Posted: January 20, 2011 at 2:55 pm

As if any more evidence were needed that the mobile internet is the next big thing, research firm comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) today reported that web-based email usage is declining ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/10/2011) Goldman Hedge Fund, Sara Lee M&A

Posted: January 10, 2011 at 7:49 am

Updated throughout the day. Several senior Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) traders will leave to start a hedge fund (FT) The insider trading probe by the federal government is likely ...
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Media Digest (1/10/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 10, 2011 at 4:06 am

DuPont (NYSE: DD ) will buy Danisco for $5.8 billion to move into food business (Reuters) A number of Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) traders will depart to start a ...
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Microsoft Sells 8 Million Kinects In Sixty Days As Ballmer Rules

Posted: January 6, 2011 at 4:51 am

Steve Ballmer gave his annual address at the Consumer Electronics Show. Among the things that he mentioned was that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) had sold 8 million Kinect video game consoles ...
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Ten Brands Americans No Longer Love

Posted: December 27, 2010 at 6:18 am

Americans do not merely love their favorite and most cherished brands, they love them. Consumers love Apple. They love the Mustang. They love Starbucks, and they once loved The Dallas ...
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E-Mail To Be Marketing Tool Of Preference

Posted: December 27, 2010 at 5:36 am

E-mail will be the target marketing tool of preference for companies that push their products and services online. Its growth in use will even surpass that of social media and ...
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Facebook’s Dominance Of US Online Market Grows

Posted: December 22, 2010 at 6:09 am

Most of the comScore commentary about its November review of the largest US websites and their traffic was devoted to the increase in activity at the large e-commerce destinations due ...
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Why Amazon Expects To Collect More Sales Tax: A Billion Dollar Problem

Posted: December 22, 2010 at 5:06 am

Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) doesn’t charge sales tax to most of its customers.  The company does not expect that to last. The largest Internet retailer supports the Streamlined Sales Tax Initiative, ...
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