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Apple Earnings and the Value of Old Tech

Posted: January 25, 2012 at 6:37 am

Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) extraordinary earnings and the size of its iPhone sales helped move its market cap well above $400 billion. The press constantly reminds readers that this is greater ...
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Yahoo! and the Temptation to Merge with a Major Media Firm

Posted: January 25, 2012 at 6:37 am

Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) earnings were weak, which raised the matter of a business combination with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or Aol (NYSE: AOL) again. A more suitable merger would be with ...
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Nokia Falls on Weak Supplier Outlook (NOK, STM, ERIC, MSFT)

Posted: January 24, 2012 at 2:03 pm

Shares of Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) are tumbling today following a glum forecast from one of the company’s main chip suppliers. ST-Ericsson, a joint venture between STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM) ...
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Microsoft 1, Google 0

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 8:43 am

It was no accident that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings were good and Google’s bad (NASDAQ: GOOG). The assumption that search is one of the best businesses in the world has ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (1/20/2012) Android Falters, GM’s U.S. Aid

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 8:41 am

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares stumbled after it released fourth-quarter earnings. Revenue rose 25%, but net income barely rose to $2.7 billion. The markets were puzzled about why Google now has 32,467 ...
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Microsoft Escapes Earnings Hangman (MSFT)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 4:27 pm

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has posted its earnings after the close and the tempering of estimates before earnings seems to have been more or less the right call. The software ...
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Noting Facebook as a Potential RIM Acquirer? (RIMM, GOOG, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT)

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 9:11 am

Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) has been the ongoing subject of takeover rumors and that has put in at least a near-term floor after the death spiral took away ...
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Yahoo! Forces Out Jerry Yang (YHOO, MSFT, CSCO)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 5:29 pm

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is surging in the after-hours session on news which many investors have been hoping would come for years.  Jerry Yang has finally resigned from Yahoo!  The ...
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HP New Strategy Officer Focus: Software Over Hardware (HPQ, MSFT)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 4:59 pm

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) may have decided that it will not jettison its PC business after all, but the company's strategy appears under new CEO sure appears to be a strategy ...
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Top Brands in 2011 (KO, IBM, MSFT, GOOG, GE, MCD, INTC, AAPL, DIS, HPQ, NOK, CSCO, TM, AMZN, F, HMC, DE)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 9:24 am

Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers.  ...
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The Most Innovative Companies in the World

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 6:48 am

Each year, the U.S. Patent Office and Trademark Office awards hundreds of thousands of patents to American and global companies. Last week, IFI Claims Patent Services, a producer of patent databases, released ...
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Major Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (C, WFC, EBAY, GS, XLNX, AXP, BAC, GOOG, INTC, IBM, ISRG, MSFT, UNH, GE, SLB)

Posted: January 16, 2012 at 10:27 am

This shortened week is the first week full of many major companies reporting earnings season.  We will have a clear direction for the financial leaders and many of the technology ...
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Media Digest (1/16/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 16, 2012 at 6:20 am

S&P downgrades of a number of EU nations, as well as difficult talks about a Greek bailout, put pressure on the euro. (Reuters) The foreign minister of Germany says he ...
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The 10 Most Hated Companies in America

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 6:46 am

Customers, employees, shareholders and taxpayers hate large corporations for many reasons. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a lengthy list of corporations for which there is substantial research data to choose the ...
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In Layoff Wave, a New Threat of Economic Retreat

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 6:43 am

The public and the press usually measure unemployment one month at a time as data from ADP and the federal government are issued. The jobs market can also be tracked ...
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