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Media Digest (5/23/2012) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg

Merkel and Hollande will fight over stimulus for the eurozone at the EU summit. (Reuters) The OECD expresses concerns that Europe could slip into a deep recession. (Reuters) The EU debt crisis ...
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Social Media Drag Down, Does Web 1.0 Rule? (GSVC, SVVC, SINA, LNKD, RENN, SOCL, YHOO, AOL, GOOG)

It is no shocker today that the social media shares are heading lower this morning.  The Facebook shenanigans with its shares now down over 4% at $36.50 on almost 8 ...
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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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Google’s YouTube: The One Horse Race In Online Video

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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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/16/2012) New Greek Elections, Oil Prices Fall

It appears increasingly likely that concerns about the future of Greece will depress equity markets worldwide. Politicians in the country have failed to set a coalition government, despite several efforts. ...
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What Yahoo! Will Buy To Expand Its Content Franchises?–The List

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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The Rise of AOL’s Tim Armstrong

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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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AIG, COP, HSY, PSX, DMD, AOL, AGU, DTG, M, MPEL, TM, SODA, AMCX, MT, ESRX, MCP, JWN, NUAN, HNR, KSS, PEIX, CPWM, AMRS, ACI)

The major US stock indexes opened sharply lower again this morning as investors consider Greece’s commitment to the austerity measures it had previously agreed to. Renegotiating the deal seems out ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (F, WYNN, COF, BP, SYNC, CHTR, HL, OMX, THC, WEN, RST, PDC, AOL, CTL, AGU, DTG, M, MPEL, NWS, CSCO, TSLA, TM, PCLN, FOSL, DNDN, AVL)

The major US stock indexes opened sharply lower this morning as weak performance in the European markets as traders try to figure out what last weekend’s elections mean. Crude oil ...
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AOL’s Resurrection

AOL (NYSE: AOL) will release its earnings on May 12. No matter how well they match or fail to match consensus estimates, the company looks nothing like it did a ...
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Will Google Dump Google Finance?

When Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) launched Google Finance on March 21, 2006, a number of observers believed the search company was set to compete with the largest financial sites -- Yahoo! (NASDAQ: ...
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Media Digest (4/24/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg

Facebook reports that its revenue grew to more than $1 billion and its membership to 900 million. (Reuters) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) sells some of the patents it bought from AOL ...
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Facebook’s Q1 Growth Concerns Show Up Before IPO (FB, MSFT, AOL, ZNGA)

Facebook's IPO is probably coming in the middle of May, and now we have more data on Facebook's earnings and its internal metrics from its amended S-1 filing today from ...
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Facebook to Share AOL Patents with Microsoft (MSFT, AOL, YHOO)

Social media giant Facebook Inc. (FB) will acquire about half the patents that once belonged to AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) until they were acquired by Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) last ...
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As Internet Video Activity Grows, the Search for Profit Continues

Online data research firm Comscore reports that the viewership of video online continues to rise rapidly. Video Metrix service showing that 181 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 37 billion online content ...
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