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RIM Replaces CEOs, but Too Late

Posted: January 23, 2012 at 3:42 am

After a series of management mistakes that cost Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) its lead in the global smartphone business, and over 80% of its market value, the firm’s long-time co-CEOs ...
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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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Media Digest (1/18/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 6:48 am

Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) founder and former CEO Jerry Yang leaves the company’s board. (Reuters) The World Bank sharply cuts global growth forecasts. (Reuters) Greece and private creditors race to settle ...
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Media Digest (1/17/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 6:43 am

China’s economy expands at a better-than-expected 8.9% in Q4 and area markets soared. (Reuters) Walmart (NYSE: WMT) appoints a former CBS (NYSE: CBS) digital executive as head of its digital operations. ...
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Media Digest (1/13/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 6:39 am

TPG may invest $1 billion in troubled Olympus. (Reuters) President Obama to ask for a $1.2 trillion increase in the national debt ceiling. (Reuters) China’s foreign currency reserves drop to ...
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LG: Even Third Place Is a Hard Place to Be

Posted: January 12, 2012 at 6:28 am

South Korean electronics firm LG is the third-largest manufacturer of wireless handsets in the world. Nevertheless, the company has struggled to make the business successful. It will not pull back from ...
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Nokia Pushes for U.S. Comeback

Posted: January 10, 2012 at 6:55 am

The three partners in the launch of the new Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Windows-powered Lumia 900 smartphone -- AT&T (NYSE: T), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia -- were effusive about its chances ...
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The Gap Between Handset Makers Widens

Posted: January 6, 2012 at 6:40 am

The gap between the top tier and bottom tier of handset makers continues to widen. Taiwan-based HTC posted is worst quarter in two years. But Samung’s smartphone sales pushed its fourth-quarter profits higher. ...
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Todays’ Best Market Rumors (1/4/2012) Yahoo! CEO, RIM Chairmen

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 8:14 am

Updated throughout the day PayPal President Scott Thompson will become Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) next CEO (AllThingsD) MF Global sold some of its assets to Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) before it ...
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Media Digest (1/4/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 6:42 am

  Bill Gross’s PIMCO Total Return Fund has $1.4 billion in outflows in December, according to Morningstar. (Reuters) MF Global sold some assets to Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) before its collapsed. ...
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Co-Chairs May Finally Lose Their RIM Jobs (RIMM)

Posted: January 3, 2012 at 12:12 pm

It was just on Friday that we named Research in Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) as being one of the thirteen worst big stock stories of 2011.  This case is one ...
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The 13 Worst Big Stock Stories Of 2011 (BAC, DMND, FSLR, GMCR, HPQ, IPSU, SLV, KV-A, EGPT, MCP, NFLX, RIMM, SHLD)

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm

2011 was more or less a wash for stock performance when it was all said and done.  There were several great stories and there were many duds.  24/7 Wall St. ...
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The Worst Product Flops of 2011

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 6:35 am

A number of incredible new products were launched this year. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the iPhone 4S -- a phone with voice command -- and Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner ...
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Google Tablet to Menace iPad?

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 6:34 am

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) chairman Eric Schmidt says his company will launch a new tablet PC in 2012. The product will run on the firm’s Android OS mobile platform. Google likely ...
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Media Digest (12/27/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 6:31 am

Retailers hope that “mega Monday” sales continue a string of strong retail results. (Reuters) The MF Global disaster prompts requests that the systems for grain trading to be changed. (Reuters) ...
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