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Unhappy Eighth Birthday, YouTube

Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube, which was founded eight years ago, has barely changed, except for the number videos posted at the site. It brings in almost no revenue for ...
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Yahoo! Brilliant Mergers and Acquisition Deal to Buy Tumblr

Yahoo! Inc.'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) $1.1 billion cash buyout of Tumblr already has been criticized because of the large sum involved compared to Tumblr's extremely modest revenue, estimated at $13 million ...
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Can New Google Maps Make Money?

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has updated its Google Maps product, which is among the most popular products the company distributes. The problem with Google Maps is that, like Android and ...
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UBS Internet Stocks to Buy: Google, AOL and More

If there is one group of stocks that typically responds with volatility to first-quarter earnings reports, it is the Internet stocks. History held true during this past reporting season. Almost ...
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Closing Bell for Wednesday on Wall Street: Markets Open Lower, Stock Prices Rise All Day

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning on relatively little economic data. In Europe, Germany reported that industrial production rose 1.2%, while a house price index in the U.K.rose 1.1% ...
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Weakness Emerges in AOL Earnings Report

AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The online media and brand company posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.32 on revenues of ...
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Online Video Ad Prices Hurt by Facebook

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) will hurt the value of online video ads just the way it hurt the value of display ads beginning three years ago. And the effect of ...
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Closing Bell for Tuesday on Wall Street: Share Prices Push Indexes to All-Time Highs

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following an unexpected 0.25% cut in Australia’s key interest rate to a new level of 2.75%. Japan’s Nikkei reopened today after a two-day ...
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YouTube Promotes Audience Size, but Sales Are Wanting

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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Google Barely Tops Yahoo in Top U.S. Web Properties

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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Media Digest (4/29/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

The form of taxation that is applied to a Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) buyout of the 45% of Verizon Wireless that Vodafone Group PLC (NASDAQ: VOD) owns may decide ...
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Online Video Viewers, Ads Post Big Numbers in March

Various sites owned by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), including YouTube, drew nearly 154 million unique viewers in March. Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) clocked in with nearly 64 million unique viewers ...
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Yahoo! Earnings Buzz

A great deal of press coverage has been given to Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) earnings. As the nation's largest portal, based on audience, the interest is understandable. Portals, which also ...
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What Is Important in the Financial World (4/16/2013)

Bad News for Germany Bad economic news has spread from troubled European Union nations to Germany. The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany for April showed: In April 2013 ...
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Media Digest (4/12/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Martha Stewart Omnimedia Inc. (NYSE: MSO) is unable to get a court to dismiss charges by Macy's Inc. (NYSE: M) that it has exclusive rights to some of her products. ...
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