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The Empires of Apple Media

Posted: April 19, 2012 at 6:27 am

Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) stock occasionally rises above $600 a share and its market cap above $600 billion. Its sales almost certainly will pass $100 billion this year, based on extraordinary revenue ...
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AOL Adopting TV Model for Online Video Ads (AOL, GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, CMCSA, NWS, DIS, TWX)

Posted: April 17, 2012 at 10:29 am

AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) will soon make advertisers an offer it hopes they can’t refuse. The company will give advertisers the opportunity to buy online advertising using the same model ...
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Media Digest (4/17/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 17, 2012 at 6:46 am

Argentina may take control of huge energy company YPF. (Reuters) Spanish debt costs continue to rise. (Reuters) The International Monetary Fund will try to raise $400 billion, much less that previously ...
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Media Digest (4/11/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 11, 2012 at 6:37 am

Spain’s industrial production falls 5.1% on an annual basis in February. (MarketWatch) U.S. brokerage firms pay increasingly higher bonuses to get top producers. (Reuters) Alcoa (NYSE: AA) has a surprising ...
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Media Digest (4/10/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 10, 2012 at 6:47 am

Charles Blahous, a George Mason University research fellow, reports that the new health care law could add $530 billion to the deficit. (Washington Post) Fed Chairman Bernanke says many banks ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AAPL, LNKD, DIS, MJN, GOLD, WDFC, GBX, SVU, AA, AOL, MSFT, CKSW, WOLF)

Posted: April 9, 2012 at 4:07 pm

Markets opened lower this morning on the first trading day in the US following last week’s poor report on non-farm payrolls. Higher-than-expected inflation in China also caused led some observers ...
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AOL Sells Patents To Microsoft For $1.1 Billion, Will Return Some To Shareholders

Posted: April 9, 2012 at 7:21 am

The promise that AOL's (NYSE: AOL) patents have value was quickly realized as the firm sold Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) $1.1 billion worth of patents. The patents numbered about 800. The ...
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Facebook Admits Yahoo! Problem in Filing

Posted: March 27, 2012 at 6:33 pm

Facebook filed a new document in its move toward its IPO. In that document, it admitted that Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) patent claims are a risk to its business. That means that ...
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YouTube Crushes Online Video Competitors (GOOG, NFLX, YHOO, VIA, AOL, MSFT, CMCSA, NWS, DIS, TWX)

Posted: March 16, 2012 at 1:51 pm

Not only is Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) the 600-pound gorilla in the search business, the company’s YouTube streaming video service holds a similar position in the streaming video business. According ...
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As Expected, Yahoo! Sues Facebook

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 5:28 pm

Almost everyone in the online and legal industries expected it. After weeks of rumors and news report that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) had accused Facebook of patent violations, the portal has ...
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America’s 10 Largest Websites

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 6:34 am

The 10 most-visited websites in America may share a few characteristics, but interestingly enough, none are in the same business, with the exception of two portals. Each has a different ...
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Do Web Layoffs Work? (YHOO, GOOG, AOL, MSFT)

Posted: March 5, 2012 at 3:12 pm

Investors usually reward companies for announcing layoffs.  Getting more from fewer workers adds to margins and hopefully to net income.  The more serious question is what a new round of layoffs means ...
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Media Digest (2/28/2012) Reuters, NYT WSJ, Bloomberg

Posted: February 28, 2012 at 6:36 am

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) threatens a patent suit against Facebook, citing a number of violations. (Reuters) TransCanada (NYSE: TRP) cuts the length of its Keystone XL pipeline in the hopes of ...
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America’s Shrinking Corporate Giants

Posted: February 6, 2012 at 6:48 am

It is rare for one of America’s largest companies to lose a third or more of its sales in a brief time. When it happens, it is usually either because ...
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Mid-day Movers (AMZN, WHR, AOL, JDAS, UIS)

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 12:03 pm

Among the major movers at around noon today are Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN, Whirlpool Corp. (NYSE: WHR), AOL Inc. (NASDAQ: AOL), JDA Software Group Inc. (NASDAQ: JDA), and Unisys Corp. (NYSE: ...
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