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Media Digest (5/21/2012) Reuters, WSJ, Financial Times

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 6:31 am

Alibaba buys back a 20% share held by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) for a combination of cash and preferred shares worth $7.1 billion. (Reuters) The heads of Samsung and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ...
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Google’s YouTube: The One Horse Race In Online Video

Posted: May 19, 2012 at 11:26 am

The argument that Hulu can become a company which can be valued in the billions of dollars or that portals can completely change, for the positive, the value of ad dollars ...
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Facebook Shares as Collectibles for Decades from Now

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 6:26 am

Some individuals and institutions will buy Facebook shares because they believe the stock will rise sharply. Others look at the investment as a proxy for the prospects of Web 2.0, the ...
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Media Digest (5/17/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 6:24 am

The European Central Bank no longer offers help to Greek banks it believes are insolvent. (Reuters) Some brokerage firms stop taking orders for Facebook shares. (Reuters) Japan’s gross domestic product ...
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Google Launches “Next Generation of Search”

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 5:38 pm

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced that it will launch “The Knowledge Graph,” which it describes as the “next generation of search.” This is only the case for users who are not ...
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Mobile Phone Sales Fall in Q1 — Gartner

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 8:07 am

High-tech industry research firm Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) reports this morning the worldwide sales of mobile phones unexpectedly fell -2% in the first quarter of 2012, to a total of ...
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JCPenney and Nokia — When a New CEO Fails

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:30 am

It is rare, but some new chief executives fail early -- just after they begin their new jobs. That leaves boards with impossible decisions. How will the stock market react to the ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/15/2012) New Apple MacBook

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 8:50 am

Rumors persist, most recently reported by Bloomberg, that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch a new super-thin line of laptops. The latest version of the MacBook will be powered by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) ...
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The 18 Big Risks To Consider In The Facebook IPO

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 7:14 am

It seems as though almost everyone wants a piece of the Facebook IPO.  The social networking giant is set to come public this Friday in what will be one of ...
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Facebook IPO Range Raised

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 6:22 am

The price of Facebook's IPO is likely to be between $34 and $38. That is above the previous forecast level of $28 to $35. Of course, this means that demand ...
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Apple More Deeply Joins Line Of Shutterfly Threats… More To Come

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 1:56 pm

Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY) gets a bash whenever there is news that another player is going to come more into the cloud photo services.  Reports that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) ...
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What Yahoo! Will Buy To Expand Its Content Franchises?–The List

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 1:49 pm

New interim CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Ross Levinsohn, needs to make his mark quickly. After firing 2,000 people, his predecessor had plans to move the Internet portal into e-commerce, ...
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Almost Nothing Can Save Nokia, Except Maybe Widespread Poverty

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 11:00 am

Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) has been on a multiple-leg flight.  Destination: Hell.  Now it seems that any stop in Purgatory may be short-lived.  This downgrade may feel a bit late, ...
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Shutterstock IPO Filing… Taking Aim At Getty Images & Corbis

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 10:35 am

Shutterstock Inc. has just joined the wave of online companies planning to come public via an initial public offering.  This company is an online stock photo website that gets its ...
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America’s Hottest Brands

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:18 am

24/7 Wall St. asked CoreBrand to identify America’s hottest brands. We wanted to know the biggest brands that were the best known and most well regarded. Read: America's Hottest Brands ...
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