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Google Offers More Cloud-Based Services
The cloud, a way for people and businesses to store information on remote servers instead of locally on PCs and other devices, has become a part of the product offerings of every…
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What’s Important in the Financial World (2/7/2012) New Nokia Phone, Toyota Recovery
Greece continues to demonstrate that it can teeter almost indefinitely between austerity and the grant of aid packages without a short-term resolution to its sovereign debt crisis. The latest development is that the ruling coalition…
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Special Report
America’s Shrinking Corporate Giants
It is rare for one of America’s largest companies to lose a third or more of its sales in a brief time. When it happens, it is usually either because of market…
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Telecom & Wireless
HTC: The Latest Victim of Smartphone Wars
HTC posted fourth-quarter earnings that were less than impressive. It also forecast a disastrous first quarter. These are signs that HTC is the latest company to succumb to the success of Samsung and Apple (NASDAQ:…
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Sprint to Offer $100 Tablet (S, AMZN, GOOG)
Sprint Nextel Inc. (NYSE: S) has decided to take a swipe at Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and its Kindle Fire table with a deal offering a 7-inch 3G-compatible tablet for $100 with a…
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SolarCity Preparing Third Quarter IPO (FSLR, STP, YGE, RSOL, WEST, KYO, BAC, GOOG)
Solar systems installer SolarCity is reported to be preparing an IPO in the third quarter of this year. A Reuters report notes that Goldman Sachs will be the lead underwriter for the…
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The Downgrades Continue For RIM (RIMM, AAPL, GOOG)
Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is enduring yet another downgrade this morning. Today’s cut came from Jefferies & Co., who cut an already cautious rating of “Hold” down to the rating…
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Apple Loses German Court Fight To Motorola
Apple continues to win a few and lose a few as it fights to hold its lead in the smartphone and tablet businesses. One of its advantages has been it cloud computing…
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Google Gets Tough with Android Hackers (GOOG, AAPL)
Since sometime last year, Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been automatically scanning apps at its Android Market for malicious software that could compromise personal information for users of its Android operating system…
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Media
Media Digest (2/3/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
The U.S. indicts Swiss bank Wegelin on tax evasion charges. (Reuters) Fed president Richard Fisher says there is no need for QE3. (Reuters) Panasonic posts a quarterly loss of $2.6 billion. (Reuters)…
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Samsung Trumps Apple, For Now
Samsung claims a Germany court has blocked Apple’s request to stop the sales of the South Korean company’s tablets and smartphones in the European nation. The action is part of a wrestling…
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Media
Media Digest (2/2/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Glencore and Xstrata are in merger talks. (Reuters) A federal mortgage deal with banks over mortgage fraud would give states enforcement power. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) expects a $2.9 billion loss. (Reuters) Long-term…
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Social Media ETF Is Running and Does Not Even Own Facebook Yet (SOCL, SINA, YNDX, GOOG, RENN, LNKD)
Global X Social Media Index ETF (NASDAQ: SOCL) is a clear beneficiary of the social media craze with a proposed Facebook IPO paperwork coming any time. What is funny is that this…
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Facebook Valuation Alerts!!! (MS, GS, GOOG, GSVC)
Everyone is awaiting an S-1 Filing from Facebook. It is the talk of the entire financial community and it is going to be one of the most anticipated IPOs ever rather than…
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Media
Another Losing Runner in the Online Content Race
Many of the companies that have entered the online content business have stumbled. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has a service. So does Walmart (NYSE: WMT). There are already several leaders, including crippled Netflix (NASDAQ:…