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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/24/2012) MSNBC.com, Toyota’s New Markets

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 6:20 am

Toyota (NYSE: TM) announced it would move more aggressively into emerging markets. The Wall Street Journal reports that: Toyota, Japan’s biggest car maker by volume, plans to sell more than ...
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Short Sellers Hit Internet Stocks

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 6:17 am

For the two weeks that ended on May 15, short sellers hit old and new Internet site companies alike. Among firms that had IPOs recently, the short interest in Zynga (NASDAQ: ...
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Media Digest (5/25/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 6:15 am

Four market markers involved in the Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) IPO lose $100 million combined. (Reuters) EU concerns push the euro to close to a two-year low. (Reuters) Goldman Sachs (NYSE: ...
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Yahoo!’s Browser “Axis”

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 6:09 am

For some reason, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) wants to be in the crowded web browser sector. Its new product is called "Axis". It is meant to compete with Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, ...
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Social Media Drag Down, Does Web 1.0 Rule? (GSVC, SVVC, SINA, LNKD, RENN, SOCL, YHOO, AOL, GOOG)

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 9:31 am

It is no shocker today that the social media shares are heading lower this morning.  The Facebook shenanigans with its shares now down over 4% at $36.50 on almost 8 ...
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What Will Yahoo! Do with Its Billions?

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 6:33 am

Alibaba will buy back 20% of its shares held by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). The consideration Yahoo! will get is $7.1 billion. That sum is “composed of at least $6.3 billion in ...
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Media Digest (5/21/2012) Reuters, WSJ, Financial Times

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 6:31 am

Alibaba buys back a 20% share held by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) for a combination of cash and preferred shares worth $7.1 billion. (Reuters) The heads of Samsung and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ...
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Alibaba To Buy $7 Billion Stake From Yahoo!

Posted: May 20, 2012 at 7:54 am

Rumors once again that Alibaba, the China e-commerce firm, will buy a $7 billion stake of its own equity from Yahoo!  (NASDAQ: YHOO) This would be about half of Yahho!'s ...
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Google’s YouTube: The One Horse Race In Online Video

Posted: May 19, 2012 at 11:26 am

The argument that Hulu can become a company which can be valued in the billions of dollars or that portals can completely change, for the positive, the value of ad dollars ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/18/2012) Samsung Galaxy III, China’s Property Falls

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 6:33 am

Property prices in China fell again last month in most of the 70 cities the National Bureau of Statistics measures. Forty-six cities had declines, a trend which has gone on for ...
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More Yahoo! Management Change

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 6:23 am

The trend of never-ending executive changes at Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) continues. New interim CEO Ross Levinsohn fired some of the people predecessor Scott Thompson hires. The most notable of these ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/16/2012) New Greek Elections, Oil Prices Fall

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:43 am

It appears increasingly likely that concerns about the future of Greece will depress equity markets worldwide. Politicians in the country have failed to set a coalition government, despite several efforts. ...
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JCPenney and Nokia — When a New CEO Fails

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:30 am

It is rare, but some new chief executives fail early -- just after they begin their new jobs. That leaves boards with impossible decisions. How will the stock market react to the ...
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As Board After Board Fails, Governance Takes a Beating

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 6:26 am

Many Americans, and some politicians, have attacked the boards of major U.S. corporations for paying their CEOs too much, not holding management to tough earnings goals and lining their own ...
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Thompson Leaves Yahoo! With No Severance

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:16 pm

As many lawyers and corporate governance experts expected, Scott Thompson left Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) without any severance benefits. It was widely believed that the misleading parts of his resume and ...
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