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Is Amazon That Good?
Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock is up 40% this year. That is not as good as Apple Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) nearly 60%, but it thrashes the 5% rise in Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG).…
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Media Digest (9/6/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi will set his bond-buying plan, which may be one of the most critical moments of the EU crisis. (Reuters) Samsung faces holding customers because Apple Inc.…
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Telecom & Wireless
Google Nearly Doubles Android Activations Since December
Speaking at an event to tout Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Motorola division, the company’s chairman — Eric Schmidt — said that Google is now activating 1.3 million Android-based devices every day. Of…
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Telecom & Wireless
Make-or-Break Day for Nokia (NOK, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG)
In what to many investors must seem like a slow-motion effort to revive the company, Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) today will introduce its latest smartphones running the Windows Phone 8 operating system…
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Retail
Starbucks, Living Social Join Up for Gift Card Offer (SBUX, GRPN, GOOG)
The world’s largest coffee store chain, Starbucks Inc. (NASDAQ: SBUX) will offer customers a $10 store gift card for $5 through daily-deal company Living Social, a competitor to Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN).…
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Telecom & Wireless
RIM Market Share Heading Toward Zero
Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) just cannot win in its competition against Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and other phone makers using the Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android operating system. The company’s…
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Media Digest (9/4/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Samsung will review 250 suppliers for labor violations. (Reuters) Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) will ask a court to review copyright damages against SAP A.G. (NYSE: SAP). (Reuters) Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) is likely…
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Services
Another Tech IPO in the Hopper (GOOG, KMB, FLEX, ORCL, SAP, PANW, NOW, SPLK)
Business software maker Workday Inc. has filed an initial Form S-1 saying it plans an initial public offering to raise up to $400 million. No date or share price is included in…
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/31/2012) Apple and Google Patent Talks
Updated throughout the day on the 24/7 Wall St. Wire: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and a group of publishers have offered EU antitrust officials a possible settlement. (Reuters) Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)…
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Media Digest (8/31/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times
Samsung beats Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in an intellectual property case in Japan. (Reuters) The CEOs of Apple and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) meet to discuss patent issues. (Reuters) J.P. Morgan Chase…
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Telecom & Wireless
China Surpasses U.S. in Smartphone Volume
The American media and consumer electronics research groups tend to focus on the state of the smartphone market in the United States. Reports cover the market shares of firms that compete in…
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Apps & Software
Google Shares Well Short of All-Time High
The stock prices of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reach all-time highs almost every day. The third member of the club of tech companies that is often mentioned…
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Telecom & Wireless
Google, Apple Talking About Patents — Reuters
The CEOs of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) have been holding private — and so far, secret — conversations on a range of intellectual property issues, and including…
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New Directions for Mobile Advertising (MM, SCOR, AAPL, GOOG)
Mobile ad network Millennial Media Inc. (NYSE: MM) has release a report on mobile advertising spending, and while the company clearly has a dog in the hunt, the survey data compiled by…
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Consumer Electronics
Kindle Fire Sold Out (AMZN, AAPL, GOOG)
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), said this morning that the company is sold out of its Kindle Fire tablets and that the device has captured 22% of the U.S.…