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Investing
Dow 30 Winners and Losers
(DD, MCD, BA, CAT, KFT, AA, HPQ, MSFT, BAC, CSCO, VZ, T, IBM, CVX, TRV, KO, PG, MRK) For the calendar year through August 30th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down…
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Telecom & Wireless
Cisco May Buy Skype
The media is full or rumors that Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) could by Skype. Cisco has a history or M&A, and Skype would fit with its move into consumer voice and video communications.…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 33
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
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Media
Paul Allen’s Patent Case Against Apple, eBay, Facebook, Google, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo (AOL, AAPL, EBAY, GOOG, NFLX, ODP, OMX, SPLS, YHOO)
Patent wars in technology are nothing new. Sometimes they are promising, sometimes they are just noise-making events. Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing LLC has filed a complaint today in the U.S. District Court…
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Media
The Cost Of Phone Calls Is Headed Toward Zero
Skype, which offers free voice calls from PC-to-PC and cheap calls from phones has about 400 million subscribers. More than 25 million of them use the service at any one time. The…
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Technology
Yahoo! Search Finally Intergrates With Bing, Challenges Overseas May Be Too Great
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) says it has finally integrated its search function with Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Bing, part of the deal that the two companies set over a year ago. The two search…
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Media
Media Digest (8/25/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) reported strong profits and now faces questions from its investors about Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters: Global economic problems will shadow a big Fed meeting. Reuters: FEMA sees…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 32
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
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Investing
Why Apple Won’t Buy GM
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) can afford to buy GM. The No. 1 US auto firm makes a fair amount of money, has nearly 20% of the American car market, and is the largest…
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Jobs
Frugality Returns To Corporate America
Several retail analysts pointed out that Walmart’s (NYSE: WMT) earnings and those of Home Depot (NYSE: HD) were helped by rigid cost controls. This is not the first time during the earnings…
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Investing
A Research Case Builds Against Google (GOOG, MSFT, YHOO, AAPL, RIMM, ORCL, VZ)
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) earned an ‘underperform’ rating and a $525/share price target from Wedbush Securities as the investment firm started coverage on the world’s leading search engine. Wedbush cited strong competition from…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 31
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the 32 most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
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Apps & Software
As Oracle Sues Google, Tech IP Issues Are Too Close For Comfort
There have been for some time a collection of companies that gathers patents and then uses them to sue large technology firms. The issues are often unclear enough and cost of litigation…
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Media
Microsoft Xbox 360 Sales Surge Ahead OF Wii
Nintendo just announced that sales of its Wii game console had reached 30 million units in the US, and had reached that level faster than any other console in history. The celebration…
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Media
Media Digest 8/13/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: The GM CEO will leave as the company has its IPO. ‘Reuters: Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) sued Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) over Android. Reuters: Germany raised its forecast for the second half…