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Consumer Electronics
Dell Trouble: Giving Out Xboxs
If you are a student you can buy a Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) PC and get a free Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) XBox. The Dell PC can cost as little as $699. Dell makes…
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Banking, finance, and taxes
Six Huge American Companies With Total Revenue Over $250 Billion That Will Never Have An IPO
With all the hubbub surrounding the IPO of professional social networking site LinkedIn, along with rumored deals involving Facebook and Twitter, it’s worth remembering that there are some companies that will probably…
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Investing
Key DJIA Stocks Facing 10% Sell-Off From Highs (AA, CAT, CVX, DD, GE, JPM, XOM, CSCO, HPQ, MSFT, BAC)
Jon OggMany Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks have just recently sold off more than 10% and many are almost at that key 10% sell-off mark. Historically investors have used 10% as the…
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Technology
Sony: It Is Not Our Broken System, It’s The Internet’s Fault
Howard Stringer, the disgraced CEO of Sony (NYSE: SNE), made the remarkably disingenuous or perhaps naive comment that all Internet systems have the same weaknesses as the hacked PlayStation network. “It’s the…
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Investing
The Case For The Early Release Of Earnings
Someone leaked a memo from new Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Leo Apotheker where he discussed the firm’s dismal near-term prospects. HP shares fell. The large technology company will move up its earnings…
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Media
Media Digest (5/17/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
BP plc’s (NYSE: BP) deal to drill in the Arctic dissolved as its venture with Rosneft faltered (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) will release results early after a note from its CEO was…
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Media
Interview: Haverford Shares 8-Pack of Dividends (WHR, HD, UNP, UTX, APD, COP, PEP, JNJ, INTC, MSFT, HAVGX)
Investors love dividends, particularly from companies which are raising dividends or which have a history of raising dividends. There is a new diversified sample dividend portfolio for investors called the “8-Pack of…
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Investing
Five Stocks That Could Push The Dow To 14,000
The Dow Jones industrial average, the best-known barometer of the U.S. stock market, has been on a tear recently, gaining more than 16% over the past year. Investors have not yet recovered…
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Investing
Hatred Of Goldman Sachs May Help Business
GS.COMGoldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) may be the most hated large financial firm in the world. That does not seem to have hurt its business prospects. It may even help them. Companies…
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Media
Media Digest (5/12/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
The government may stop the sale of $9 billion in AIG (NYSE: AIG) shares if it does not do well. (Reuters) Taketa may take over Nycomed for $14.2 billion. (Reuters) Cisco (NASDAQ:…
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Investing
Dividend Watch: Which Tech Player Will Have the Best Dividend? (INTC, MSFT, MXIM, ISIL, MCHP, DLR)
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) was already one of the highest dividend yields in the technology sector. Intel just again raised its dividend for the second time over the last six months. This…
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Investing
Today’s Best Market Rumors (5/11/2011) Skype Demands, Boston Scientific CEO
Updated throughout the day. Skype demanded $7 billion for its sale to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) (Bloomberg) Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) CEO Ray Elliott was pushed out by the firm’s board (various) Douglas…
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Investing
The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: Companies With The Most Bad Press (5/10/2011
Sony (NYSE: SNE) kept the top spot in the Flame Index as concerns about the shutdown of its PS3 network failed to subside. Sony could face $1 billion in liabilities. The Japanese…
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Investing
The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (5/10/2011) Microsoft And Skype, Greek Debt
Twitter has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
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Investing
Secondary Valuation Winners After Skype-Microsoft Deal (MSFT, GOOG, CSCO, CTXS, EBAY, PGI, CALL, VG, RVSN, PLCM)
Skype is no longer going to be one of our Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2011 any longer… Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has wiggled in and cut Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and…