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If You Can’t Win in Court, Take Your Broadcast Network to Cable

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 2:41 pm

Broadcast TV networks have failed twice to get the courts to stop a start-up called Aereo Inc. from capturing the networks’ broadcast signal on an antenna leased to a subscriber ...
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Deutsche Bank Lists Stocks to Buy Now, Even If You Missed the Bull Market (CBS, DD, DIS, HON, IBM, LYB, MCD, SLB, WYNN, AA)

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 8:30 am

The first-quarter earning season begins today with the quarterly ritual of perennial lousy, or at least lackluster, earnings leading off the deluge of reports, from aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Larry Ellison, Highest Paid CEO of 2012

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 6:55 am

CNN Money released its list of the 20 highest paid chief executive officers of 2012. It was refreshing to see some of the CEOs that have led their companies to ...
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What Is Important in the Financial World (4/8/2013)

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 6:40 am

Portugal Austerity Ruling The highest court in Portugal ruled that some of the austerity measures to be employed by the government to curtail deficits are not constitutional. In reaction, the ...
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Another Loss in Court for TV Networks

Posted: April 1, 2013 at 11:55 am

A federal appeals court today denied the appeal from a group of broadcasters including CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS), The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), which owns the ABC television network, ...
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Picking Winners in Streaming Media (INTC, AAPL, GOOG, NFLX, AMZN, P, MSFT, SNE, DIS, CBS, CMCSA, VZ, CSTR, TWX, VIAB, NWSA)

Posted: March 26, 2013 at 1:21 pm

This might be one of those times that’s it difficult to tell the players even with a scorecard. The battle for control of the living room is about to be ...
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Media Digest (3/26/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 26, 2013 at 6:25 am

Carl Icahn may join Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) in a joint effort to buy Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL). (Reuters) The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 begins test flights after ...
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J.P. Morgan’s Top 15 Picks to Buy Now (CAG, IBM, DIS, GPC, MMM, FISV, PAYX, PPG, SYY, SIAL, UNP, UTX, PX, L, XRAY)

Posted: March 15, 2013 at 9:20 am

The stock market has come a long way since the dark days of March 2009. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been up 10 days in a row. The last ...
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Beware of the Coming Activist Bubble

Posted: March 8, 2013 at 6:31 am

You have heard of all sorts of bubbles in the financial world. There are instances like the housing bubble, a bond bubble, the dot-com bubble, the tech bubble, the private equity ...
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Media Digest (3/7/2013) Reuters, WSJ, Bloomberg

Posted: March 7, 2013 at 6:30 am

Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) will spin off its Time Inc. publishing unit. (Reuters) The National Transportation Safety Board will release a report on Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner ...
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Disney Owes Its Latest Fortune to the Future of Star Wars

Posted: March 6, 2013 at 4:15 pm

It was back on October 30, 2012 that we first covered how The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) was getting a steal by acquiring the wonderful Star Wars franchise from ...
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Hulu Will Never Be the Next Big Thing

Posted: March 6, 2013 at 10:17 am

by Jon Friedman Once upon a time, Hulu had a golden opportunity to transform our viewing habits, the television industry and the Internet. Now, you're more likely to associate Hulu ...
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Media Digest (3/1/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT

Posted: March 1, 2013 at 6:15 am

China's PMI slips to a slow 50.1 in February, a signal of slacking demand for manufactured goods. (Reuters) Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) fires its CEO after poor financial performance. (Reuters) ...
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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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Apple’s Weak Board

Posted: February 22, 2013 at 6:13 am

For a company of its size and prominence in the global business and tech world, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) does not have much of a board of directors, in terms of ...
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