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Newspaper Industry Gets Torn Up Again

Warren Buffett may be the only newspaper owner in American who wants to support the business. In addition to his ownership of daily newspapers in Omaha and Buffalo, he recently ...
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What Will Yahoo! Do with Its Billions?

Alibaba will buy back 20% of its shares held by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). The consideration Yahoo! will get is $7.1 billion. That sum is “composed of at least $6.3 billion in ...
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Warren Buffett Tries To Save The Newspaper Business

It is no secret that the newspaper business has not been a good sector over the last decade.  Subscriptions declined about as fast as the number of smokers did in ...
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Big Changes to Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to Z

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings for the Berkshire Hathaway empire. This cut off date is as of ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/8/2012) Buffett’s Newspapers, Facebook Road Show

For some reason, Europe’s largest stock markets have shrugged off election results in Greece and France. Many indexes are down, particularly in Greece. But the markets the world watches most ...
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Buffett Buys Newspapers

Warren Buffett surprised investors when he said Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) may buy more newspapers. It already owns the daily in Buffalo and recently bought the paper in Omaha, which ...
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Vringo Registers to Sell Stock, Announces Merger (VRNG, GOOG, IACI, GCI, TGT)

Vringo Inc. (AMEX: VRNG) has filed a Form S-3 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission announcing the sale of 2.76 million shares of the company’s stock on behalf of ...
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AP Hires Worst CEO in Newspaper Industry

The Associated Press hired the worst CEO in the newspaper industry as its 13th chief executive. Its board of directors should be ashamed, as should anyone who works at the news ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARMH, AVB, GCI, DECK, FSLR, FST, MNST, MAR, NBR, POL, RRGB, SUN, CRM, TGT, TSL)

These are some of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. ARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARMH) Started as Overweight at Piper Jaffray. AvalonBay Communities, ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to K (BRK-B, BRK-A, AXP, BK, KO, CVS, CDCO, COP, COST, DVA, DG, GCI, GE, GSK, INTC, IR, IBM, JNJ, KFT, XOM)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of December 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken ...
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Trouble for Online News Sites

One of the challenges traditional news media face is that advertising has begun to move online. As its turns out, the news media does not do much better on the internet than ...
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Media Digest (2/13/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Greece’s parliament passes austerity measures as people riot. (Reuters) President Obama’s new budget plan will be based in part on taxation of the rich. (Reuters) Olympus forecasts a $412 million ...
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As Facebook Ad Share Surges, Smaller Sites in Danger

New data from online research firm Comscore shows Facebook had 27.9% of the U.S. display advertising market, up from 21% in 2010. Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) share was 11%. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (K, SPLS, TWX, AAP, AZO, JPM, GCI, SIFY, WEN, ONB, GTXI, PBY, TNB, CTIC, PMC)

All three major indexes opened lower again today on weak markets in both Europe and Asia. European markets continued to be weighed down by the lack of a firm agreement ...
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Gannett, When Beating Earnings Does Not Matter (GCI)

Gannett Co. (NYSE: GCI) is still one of the Warren Buffett media investments,  but that is not helping the reaction from Wall Street to the Main Street newspaper (and media) ...
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