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Can Old Media Beat New Media in Ad War?

Posted: February 28, 2013 at 6:39 am

The conventional wisdom is that old media online content gets trumped every time by new media properties, at least when it comes to ad revenue. This does not have to ...
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Pay TV Bundling Challenged

Posted: February 27, 2013 at 2:02 pm

In a lawsuit filed late yesterday in New York, Cablevision Systems Corp. (NYSE: CVC) is taking on Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB) in a move that challenges the media company’s practice ...
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Companies with the Best (and Worst) Reputations

Posted: February 15, 2013 at 6:40 am

No company has a better reputation among American consumers than Amazon.com. The online retailer pushed Apple out of the the top slot this year, according to a recent survey conducted ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — February 13, 2013: Markets Get No Direction Today (CLWR, GE, GRPN, CLF, PM, RATE, BWLD, CLWR, RAX, CMCSA, DF, DE, TOT, AMAT, CAR, CTL, CSCO, CLD, IPI, KGC, MET, NTAP, PXD, TRIP, Z, ANR, ABX, DTV, PEP, RSOL, BBRY, PPHM)

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 4:06 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a closely watched report on U.S. retail sales came in about as expected (more coverage here). U.S. business inventories rose less than ...
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Why at Least One Analyst Really Likes GE/Comcast NBCU Deal

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 10:35 am

Many times on Wall St., blockbuster deals make analysts at big investment banks nervous. The deal is risky, the debt burden is stifling, the culture at the corporations that are ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AVP, BBVA, RATE, BPL, CLWR, CLF, CMCSA, CXO, DELL, FOSL, GE, GRPN, PM, PXD, SD, ZMH )

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 8:35 am

These are some of this Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Avon Products Inc. (NYSE: AVP) raised to Neutral at UBS. Banco Bilbao ...
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Media Digest (2/13/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 6:37 am

Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) will buy the portion of NBCUniversal that it does not already own from General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) for $16.7 billion. (Reuters) The S&P 500 almost reaches ...
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GE Unloads Rest of NBCUniversal to Comcast, Share Buybacks and Dividends Await

Posted: February 12, 2013 at 4:49 pm

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is about to be entirely without its former NBCUniversal media unit. After the close came word that Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has decided to acquire ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — February 12, 2013: Markets Close Mixed in Another Yawner (CHK, FB, LVS, RGLD, DD, LGF, AVP, CPLA, FOSL, HERO, LVLT, KORS, RAI, KO, MHP, TRP, RATE, BWLD, CLWR, RAX, CMCSA, DF, DE, TOT, ZNGA, LDK)

Posted: February 12, 2013 at 4:03 pm

U.S. equity markets opened about flat this morning on another day devoid of significant data releases. In Asia, markets in China and Hong Kong remain closed for the holiday, but ...
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Dish Network, Disney’s ESPN Go to Court

Posted: February 11, 2013 at 9:20 am

A lawsuit filed in 2009 by Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) against sports network ESPN, which is owned by The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), goes in front of a ...
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AT&T Pays $1.9 Billion to Verizon for More Spectrum

Posted: January 25, 2013 at 11:14 am

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announced this morning that it is acquiring wireless spectrum in the 700 MHz B band from Verizon Wireless for $1.9 billion. The spectrum covers 42 million ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMGN, ARMH, BBVA, CHTR, CMCSA, GLW, DTV, DO, DISH, ET, FE, JCP, LRCX, LIFE, LNKD, PBF, SCHS, SLB, SYMC, TIF, TWC, WCC)

Posted: January 22, 2013 at 8:14 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse. ARM ...
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Netflix Outage — Blaming Amazon Will Not Help

Posted: December 26, 2012 at 6:31 am

Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) management said the reason part of its service was out on Christmas Eve was that the technology and hardware owned by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), which powers the video firm's streaming product, were ...
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Best CEOs of 2012

Posted: December 18, 2012 at 6:18 am

Best CEO lists can be based on dozens of factors. For public companies, the best metric is usually share price. It is hard for chief executives to be considered very ...
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Hulu Video Streaming Service Revenues Up 65% in 2012

Posted: December 17, 2012 at 2:42 pm

Hulu, the streaming video company jointly owned by The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA) and News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS), expects revenues of $695 million in 2012, ...
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