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Sony’s New Portable May Be Success
The first thing that experts in the gaming industry will point out about the new Sony (NYSE: SNE) portable NGP video game console is that it cannot succeed in a market crowded…
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Media Digest 1.27.2011 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) earnings will be hurt by slowing PC sales .(Reuters) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac want to cut the dividend on their preferred shares. The money goes to the Treasury…
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Yahoo Slide to Continue (YHOO, MSFT, GOOG, AAPL)
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) reported better-than-expected revenue and earnings for its fourth quarter, but not that much better. There were some bright spots, including a jump of 14% in display ad revenue…
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Media Digest (1/26/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Obama called for a spending freeze for some government discretionary spending. (Reuters) The Federal Reserve will probably stick to it plans to buy bonds and noted economic improvement. (Reuters) Toyota Motor (NYSE:…
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Media Digest (1/25/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
AIG (NYSE: AIG) said ailing CEO Benmosche will remain through 2012. (Reuters) The Financial Crisis Inquiry Committee has referred several cases of potential law violations from the credit crisis to authorities inside…
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Next Week’s Major Earnings Previews (AXP, AMGN, MCD, VMW, MMM, EMC, JNJ, JNPR, VZ, YHOO, BA, COP, NFLX, QCOM, SBUX, UTX, MO, AMZN, T, GMCR, MSFT, POT, PG, SNDK)
Earnings season is in full swing and we have a back-breaker of an earnings week ahead of us. There are some 11 DJIA components reporting earnings and a whole slew of other…
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11 DJIA Company Earnings Previews For Next Week (AXP, MCD, MMM, JNJ, VZ, BA, COP, UTX, T, MSFT, PG)
Earnings season is in full swing and we have at least 11 of the 30 DJIA components on deck to report earnings. We have given basic previews broken out by day for…
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Google: The Non-CEO As CEO
The press made a great deal of the change in command at the top of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). It is hardly a change at all. The new CEO of the giant search…
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Mobile eMail Steals Relevance From PC Market (SCOR, GOOG, AAPL, YHOO, AOL, MSFT)
As if any more evidence were needed that the mobile internet is the next big thing, research firm comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) today reported that web-based email usage is declining while mobile…
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Sony Game Launch Versus 3D Nintendo (SNE, NTDOY, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG)
A report from Bloomberg this morning has got the online gaming world abuzz. Bloomberg cites “two people with knowledge of the plans” who say that an updated PlayStation Portable, or PSP, handheld…
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The Ten Public Companies Americans Are Most Interested In
There are several ways to rank America’s most widely followed public companies. They could be ranked by annual sales, brand value, market capitalization, number of customers, or profits. Another approach is to…
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No Surprise: China Regulation Hampers US Business There
The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai reported shocking data, at last for companies that have never done business in China. In its 2010–2011 China Business Report, the organization reports that: Issues related…
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Google’s ITA Acquisition Could Launch US Anti-Trust Complaint
The $700 million acquisition of ITA Software by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been opposed by other travel sites practically from the moment it was announced in July 2010. Now, Bloomberg is…
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Kinect Cannot Save The Video Game Industry
The Kinect version of Xbox 360 sold eight million units the first 60 days it was on the market. Kinect sales should have improved as the holiday season progressed. That did not…
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Media Digest (1/13/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
The heads of several major investment banks attempted to sell their services of an AIG (NYSE: AIG) plan to pay off money it owes taxpayers (Reuters) Forecasts from Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) helped…