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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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Markets Hammered As Major Stocks Falter

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 10:01 am

The DJIA is off over 100 points, 136 points, to 12,686. The NASDAQ and S&P 500 are off by similar percentages. The carnage is particularly severe in a few sectors. ...
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Yahoo! Needs to Keep CEO Ross Levinsohn

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:17 am

Now that Scott Thompson is out as CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Ross Levinsohn is in as interim chief executive, the newly constituted board needs to keep its new ...
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How Many Other Big Company Execs Lied on Their Resumes?

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:16 am

It may only take a few weeks to find out how many senior executives at America’s large public companies have misleading claims in their resumes. There have to be some. The backgrounds of ...
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Media Digest (5/14/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:16 am

Several senior JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) executives will leave the bank in the wake of its $2 billion trading loss. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) ex-CEO Scott Thompson has thyroid cancer. (WSJ) ...
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Thompson Quits as Yahoo! CEO, Replace by Levinsohn

Posted: May 13, 2012 at 2:31 pm

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) announced that embattled CEO Scott Thompson, who was caught lying about his resume just two weeks ago, has resigned. Ross Levinsohn was named interim chief executive officer. ...
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Bing’s Attack On Google Is Working!

Posted: May 11, 2012 at 3:32 pm

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is sometimes referred to as the King of Online Search.  That may be changing if the new data from Experian Hitwise is accurate.  Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: ...
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Media Digest (5/11/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 11, 2012 at 6:50 am

Facebook’s initial public offering is already oversubscribed. (Reuters) JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) books a $2 billion trading loss, and the figure could rise by another $1 billion. (Reuters) China’s industrial ...
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Americans View Businesses as Corrupt

Posted: May 10, 2012 at 6:49 am

Protestors in various cities around the world are “occupying” any parks and streets they can find, to some extent to protest the success of big business as it contrasts the ...
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Media Digest (5/10/12) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 10, 2012 at 6:27 am

Sony (NYSE: SNE) says it will return to profit and will cut its TV unit losses in half. (Reuters) Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) warns about the economy as it releases ...
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The Rise of AOL’s Tim Armstrong

Posted: May 10, 2012 at 6:04 am

By now, it was assumed, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) would have a new “change agent” CEO and Tim Armstrong of AOL (NYSE: AOL) would have been forced out of his job ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/10/1012) German Export Record, Oil Drops to $97

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 6:42 am

Oil has passed $97 on its way down to what some analysts believe will be $90 or less. That would be a reset of more than 15% over two months. ...
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Media Digest (5/9/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 6:32 am

Coalition talks in Greece are unlikely to create a new government, raising the chance Greece could leave the eurozone. (Reuters) GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) will launch a takeover of Human Genome ...
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Corporate Governance Spreads To Yahoo!, Green Mountain, Chesapeake

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 6:27 am

Corporate governance, which is a subject often debated but usually in abstract, has moved to the front pages. Patti Hart, the Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) director who was in charge of ...
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Media Digest (5/8/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 6:30 am

The GAO says the government could make $15.1 billion on its AIG (NYSE: AIG) bailout investment. (Reuters) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg begins the company’s IPO road show. (Reuters) Comscore says ...
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