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What About That Nokia Merger with RIM?

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 6:53 am

A merger between Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) will never happen. RIM's BlackBerry runs its own operating system. Nokia has an alliance with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) to run ...
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Target Dumps Kindle Devices (TGT, AMZN, AAPL, BKS, MSFT, GOOG)

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 12:39 pm

Retailing giant Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) will discontinue selling the Kindle family of tablets and e-readers by this summer. The Kindle devices are made by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), and ...
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The Most Powerful CEOs in America

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 6:49 am

Several CEOs and founders of well-known American companies have complete control over their companies. Through voting power, they control the boards and strategic decisions of these corporations. The best current ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/2/1012) Dow at Four-Year High, Facebook IPO Roadshow

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 6:44 am

There are rumors that the Facebook “roadshow” to present the company’s prospects to investors will begin this week and that the initial public offering of the social network will come ...
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DJIA, At Four-Year High, Will Rise Further

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 6:07 am

The DJIA reached the level where it last was at the end of 2007, the year when the index peaked. At the close, the Dow was 13,279.32. Its all-time high ...
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Is LG Turning Its Back on Microsoft? (MSFT, GOOG, NOK, T)

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 10:36 am

Some fast backpedaling by Korea’s LG Electronics has apparently stopped the claim by a Korean newspaper that the electronics giant is ditching Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the US company’s ...
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Can Microsoft Save Cursed Barnes & Noble? No

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 6:38 am

Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) decision to invest in the e-commerce arm of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) will do nearly nothing for the bricks-and-mortar book company. The challenge the two companies ...
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Media Digest (5/1/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 6:34 am

China’s PMI rises to a 13-month high. (Reuters) BP (NYSE: BP) profits fall as it sells some assets to pay for the Gulf spill. (Reuters) New York state pension funds ...
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First Quarter Stock Indexes Retreat

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 6:10 am

The S&P 500 was down slightly last month as was the NASDAQ. For each, it was the first drop since November. The DJIA rose a tiny amount which kept its ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/1/2012) Financials Lift DJIA for Q1, Bank of America Layoffs

Posted: May 1, 2012 at 6:07 am

BP’s (NYSE: BP) profits fell as it continues to struggle with the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. The incident and subsequent oil spill may cost the UK company as much as $20 billion ...
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Nook, Windows 8 Pairing Doubles B&N Stock Price

Posted: April 30, 2012 at 8:11 am

Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) announced this morning that the two companies were forming a “strategic partnership,” called ‘Newco’ for purposes of the announcement, ...
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American Companies with the Most Customers

Posted: April 30, 2012 at 6:37 am

Last week, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced that it sold 35.1 million iPhones worldwide in the latest quarter. The figure is large, but not extraordinary. Some consumer products and consumer electronics ...
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Nokia, Left For Dead, Cut To Junk By S&P

Posted: April 27, 2012 at 8:40 am

N9kia (NYSE: NOK), already almost without a pulse, was downgraded to junk by S&P. The agency said Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that it had lowered its long-term corporate ...
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Samsung Passes Nokia as Handset Leader, Its Earnings Rocket

Posted: April 27, 2012 at 6:34 am

Samsung passed longtime global handset leader Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the first quarter, according to Strategy Analytics. Global handset shipments reached 368 million units for the period, and the South ...
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Sell In May And Go Away? A 2012 Primer (BAC, JPM, GE, AA, CAT, MSFT, INTC, AAPL, XOM, CVX, DD)

Posted: April 26, 2012 at 7:08 am

It is that time of year again.  It is time to ponder the theory of pricing in a summer slowdown, whether it actually happens or not.  In short, is time ...
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