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Walmart (WMT) Earnings Show Ability to Tackle Amazon (AMZN)

Posted: May 17, 2013 at 6:44 am

Wall Street considered almost all the news from Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s (NYSE: WMT) earings as bad. U.S. comp sales declined 1.4% in the 13-week period from Jan. 26 to April 26, 2013, ...
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Amazon Adds NBCUniversal Video to Prime Offerings

Posted: May 16, 2013 at 11:25 am

In another move to boost subscriptions to its Prime Instant Video service, Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today said that it has signed a licensing agreement with the NBCUniversal division of ...
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Google Takes a Swipe at Pandora and Apple, Launches Internet Music Service

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 1:41 pm

In one of the worst-kept secrets around, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of its streaming music service, Google Play Music All Access, at its I/O developers’ conference. ...
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Media Digest: Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 6:39 am

Data show that economic activity in Germany slowed sharply in the first quarter while France fell into recession. (Reuters) Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) starts to deliver the 787 Dreamliner again. ...
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YouTube Paid Content Will Fail

Posted: May 10, 2013 at 6:24 am

YouTube, the video operation of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), will enter a field in which it has no business being. It will offer consumers paid channels of premium video content. ...
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Stock Market in Which Bad Companies Thrive over Good Ones

Posted: May 10, 2013 at 6:22 am

One of the effects of the current record stock market levels is that companies that are poorly run and post poor results have done as well, if not better, than ...
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Media Digest: Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 10, 2013 at 6:22 am

Nissan's fiscal fourth-quarter profit rises 46%. (Reuters) Carl Icahn and Southeastern will offer an alternative to the Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) buyout. (WSJ) ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) earnings are hit by ...
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Tesla, Groupon, Sony Face Earnings Challenge

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 6:20 am

Several companies announced earnings recently, and each one has to withstand suspicions that their successes will be short lived. Based on what some investors can see in the numbers, the ...
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J.C. Penney Trouble Beyond Repair

Posted: May 8, 2013 at 7:03 am

J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) traded up a little after the retailer gave details about results for its latest quarter. The investors who stepped in made a mistake. The ...
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Will Cialis and Levitra Sell Online?

Posted: May 7, 2013 at 6:51 am

Now that Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) has started to sell Viagra online at Viagra.com, can Cialis.com and Levitra.com be far behind? These two other drugs face the same black market ...
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YouTube Promotes Audience Size, but Sales Are Wanting

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 6:30 am

The Wall Street Journal reports that the management of Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) giant video site -- YouTube -- has started to promote its audience size. What management does not say is ...
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J.C. Penney “Comeback” Commercial Will Not Work

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 6:11 am

J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) has decided to waste money on a television commercial that asks customers to "come back." Why? "We heard you." Put another way, J.C. Penney has ...
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Global Tablet Shipments More than Double in First Quarter

Posted: May 1, 2013 at 2:49 pm

Tablet makers shipped 49.2 million tablet devices in the first quarter of 2013, led by rising demand for the smaller screen devices like the iPad mini from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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Google Barely Tops Yahoo in Top U.S. Web Properties

Posted: May 1, 2013 at 1:11 pm

Digital media research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) has released its ranking of the top 50 U.S. web properties for March and the list is topped, once again, by the ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — Friday: Markets Open Low, Close Mixed

Posted: April 26, 2013 at 4:06 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning after hearing that U.S. GDP growth in the first quarter came in at 2.5%, well below the expected 3.1% (more coverage here). U.S. ...
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