United Online (UNTD) Looks For Redemption
United Online (UNTD) is in a crummy business. It sells dial-up internet service to about five million online customers. It is the business that AOL exited last year. Broadband has made it obsolete. The…
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Starbucks (SBUX) Fires Back At Dunkin’ Donuts
Earlier in the week, Dunkin’ Donuts made a big deal about its new plan to team up with Procter & Gamble (PG) to sell its coffee at retail outlets like Wal-Mart (WMT) and Kroger…
Mattel (MAT): More Dangerous Toys
Mattel (MAT) appears to be ready to recall more toys made in China, based on reports from Dow Jones and Reuters. The company is taking a $30 million charge for about one million toys…
AOL Finance Catching Up To Yahoo! (YHOO): MSN Money Buried
Based an analysis of highly detailed ComScore data cover the last five quarters, AOL Finance has virtually caught Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance as MSN Money (MSFT) has lost significant ground. Among unique visitors, Yahoo! Finance…
Yahoo! (YHOO): No Profit In Customer Satisfaction
The new University of Michigan American Consumer Satisfaction Index shows that people like using Yahoo! (YHOO) better than they do Google (GOOG), at least in the US. According to Reuters, satisfaction with Yahoo! rose…
Wal-Mart (WMT): Time To Leave Japan
Japan would appear to be a promising market for big-box retail, but not for Wal-Mart (WMT). Japan is one of the world’s largest economies and wealthiest nations, but too few people want to shop…
Media Digest 8/14/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, profits at UBS rose to $4.7 billion in Q2, but the bank said the difficult markets could hurt second half results. Reuters writes that Wal-Mart’s (WMT) Japanese unit, Seiyu Ltd, will…
Dow Jones (DJ) Advertising Dives In July
Dow Jones (DJ) had an awful month in July. Advertising revenue at the print Wall Street Journal decreased 7.2% in July on a 20.9% decrease in advertising volume. An increase in financial advertising volume…
Asia Markets 8/14/2007 Shanghai Makes New Record
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was up .3% to 16,845. Sony (SNE) wsa down 1% to 5670. Toyota (TM) was down .1% to 7060. The Hang Seng was up a fraction at…
VMware IPO Price: Almost At 24/7 Wall St. Pricing Projection (EMC, VMW)
EMC Corp. (NYSE:EMC) has finally done it. The VMware (NYSE:VMW) partial spin-off and initial public offering has priced. On Monday morning we gave a projected pricing of $30.00+. We were close, but it priced…
The 52-Week Low Club
Thornburg Mortgage Asset (TMA) Mortgage company and real estate investment trust gets downgraded by S&P. Falls to $13.81 from 52-week high of $28.40. Pope & Talbot (POP) Forest products company has big Q2 loss…
Financial Website Rankings For July: WSJ Digital, No Murdoch Goldmine
It appears that the speculation about Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NWS) making the WSJ online edition free to expand its audience may not make sense. Based on measurements from Net Ratings, Wall Street Journal…
Will Nintendo Go After The Apple (AAPL) iPhone?
TechCrunch is reporting that Nintendo has filed a patent for a handheld device with a sensor control. That would mirror a key function of Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone. And, Apple is already working on adding…
Top 25 Financial Websites For July, Big Increase At TheStreet.com
Notable changes this month start with the large drop in the MSN Money, down 22% to 10.3 million unique visitors. The Street.com (TSCM) had an unusually large increase of 51% BusinessWeek, SmartMoney, and Nasdaq…
VMware IPO Pricing Projection: $30.00+ (EMC, VMW)
EMC’s (NYSE:EMC)partial spin-off of VMware (NYSE:VMW) in the long-awaited IPO should price later today for a Tuesday pricing, although some reports had indicated a Monday trade over the weekend. As of 9:10 AM EST,…
Qualcomm (QCOM) Lieutenant Walks The Plank
Qualcomm’s (QCOM) legal strategy for defending its intellectual property has been a mess recently. It lost a key ruling with the ITC. The agency said that because the company infringed on certain Broadcom (BRCM)…
Intel (INTC) Puts Another Nail In AMD’s (AMD) Coffin
AMD (AMD) hope to this day that its new Barcelona quad-core chip will get it back in the game of taking server chip market share from Intel (INTC). The four cores allow the chip…
Sears (SHLD) Shows What A Poor Retailer It Is
The head of Sears (SHLD), Ed Lampert, may be a good hedge fund manager, but he is an awful retailer. (He has appointed another poor soul, Aylwin Lewis to be CEO and market whipping…
Pre-Market Stock News (August 13, 2007)
(BEAS) BEA Systems trading up 6% pre-market on 3 upgrades: Raised to Buy at B of A; raised to Buy at UBS; raised to Outperform at Bear Stearns.(BX) Blackstone earned posted revenues $975M vs…
Blackstone (BX) Earnings: A Walk-Off Home Run
Blackstone’s (BX) earnings tripled and the stock is up almost 10% in the pre-market. Net income hit $774 million up from $224 million a year ago. The earnings were more than a normal quarterly…