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Companies Where Shareholders Have No Power — At All

Posted: June 4, 2012 at 6:40 am

Publicly traded companies, by definition, have many shareholders. The company’s management is supposed to be accountable to those shareholders. As it turns out, however, in some cases shareholders have limited power, ...
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The Least Powerful CEOs in America

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 6:50 am

It is not unusual for large American public companies to be controlled by a founder, a founding family or a corporation that bought out the large majority of shareholders at ...
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Dish Network Stumbles (DISH, DTV, VZ, T, NFLX, AMZN, SATS, CMCSA)

Posted: November 7, 2011 at 9:16 am

Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) came close to meeting consensus estimates on earnings and revenues, and in this case, close may be good enough. The company lost 111,000 subscribers in ...
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Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (CEPH, DISH, SATS, TEVA, TIVO, SPPI)

Posted: May 2, 2011 at 8:56 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Monday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Cephalon, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEPH), Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH), Echostar (NASDAQ: ...
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Ten Hidden Gems in the Netflix Annual Report (NFLX, TWC, CMCSA, DTV, SATS, T, VZ, AAPL, AMZN, GOOG, BBY, WMT, CSTR)

Posted: February 22, 2011 at 7:45 am

Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) recently joined the waves and waves of public companies which filed their 10-K annual reports with the SEC.  We often dig through these and other reports ...
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AT&T Deal for Dish Network Still Okay After EchoStar/Hughes Merger? (SATS, HUGH, DISH, T, VZ, DTV, CMCSA, TWC, CVC)

Posted: February 14, 2011 at 12:27 pm

EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS) has agreed to acquire Hughes Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: HUGH) for about $2 billion, including debt, in a deal that would give EchoStar, which makes set-top boxes ...
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TiVo’s Focus Beyond Lost Money: Shrinkage (TIVO, DISH, SATS)

Posted: November 24, 2010 at 10:27 am

TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO) is one of those companies that has many loyal subscribers and it almost fits into being a cult stock.  The shares are lower after earnings and ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (SATS, FSLR, LVS, MCP, MWW, NIHD, NUVA, HOT, VVUS)

Posted: October 29, 2010 at 8:13 am

These are some of this Friday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. First Solar, Inc. ...
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Tivo’s (TIVO) $200 Million Payday

Posted: September 5, 2009 at 8:21 am

Tivo (TIVO) has moved further down the road in collecting huge penalities from Dish Network (DISH) and Echostar (SATS) for violating the little DVR company's patents. The United States District ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades (AMGN, CELL, ELON, SATS, KR, QLGC, MBI, PETM, S, YUM)

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 7:58 am

These are the top  10 pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning: Amgen (AMGN) Started as Buy at RBC. Brightpoint (CELL) Raised to Buy ...
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Media Digest 6/4/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 4, 2009 at 3:00 am

Reuters:   GM and Chrysler said closing dealers was essential to their restructuring. Reuters:   The Justice Department is probing big tech employee recruiting. Reuters:   Medical bills underlay 60% of American bankruptcies. ...
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Tivo’s (TIVO) Best Day, Ever

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 6:50 pm

Tivo (TIVO) got its start as the original digital video recording device company. Consumer electronics hobbyists bought Tivos by the hundreds of thousands to put on top of their TVs ...
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DISH & EchoStar Confuse On Earnings (DISH, SATS)

Posted: March 2, 2009 at 8:22 am

DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) and former partner EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS) have both reported earnings this morning. DISH (DISH) earned $0.48 EPS on a 1% decline in revenues to ...
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Can.. Or Will John Malone Save SIRIUS? (SIRI, SATS, LINTA, DTV)

Posted: February 12, 2009 at 9:39 am

If you thought that the SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) situation couldn't get more complex, it could. It has.  Reports of it getting ready for bankruptcy, and then ...
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Tivo (TIVO): More Trouble It Can’t Afford (DISH)(SATS)

Posted: May 31, 2008 at 6:10 pm

Tivo (TIVO) was such a promising consumer electronics start-up. The firm owned the digital video recorder business and then that was taken away from it by the cable companies, satellite ...
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