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Carol Bartz: Yahoo! CEO For Life
Carol Bartz, the CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), is supposed to be fired this week, this month, or later this year, according to a number of media outlets. The reason is that…
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings: Week 39
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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Telecom & Wireless
Microsoft Launches Assault On Android Through Motorola
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), which has failed to catch Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) in search, is now trying to battle it the in mobile operating systems market. It’s a longshot at best.…
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Telecom & Wireless
Microsoft Prepares Large Smartphone Launch Which Could Work
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be late to launch a line of smartphones with its Windows 7 Mobile OS, but it plans to make up for that with a major foray into the…
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Media
Media Digest (10/1/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HP) named the former CEO of SAP (NYSE: SAP) as CEO and a former president of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) as chairman. Reuters: A trade by Waddell & Reed Financial…
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Media Digest (9/30/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: China said legislation aimed at a devaluation of the yuan violated WTO regulations. Reuters: IPOs do poorly in the People’s Republic now but can raise money from overseas investors. Reuters: The…
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The U.S. Shouldn’t Punish Companies For Shipping Jobs Overseas
Democrats in the U.S. Senate were dead wrong to try and punish U.S. companies for shipping jobs overseas. The effort was thwarted by the Republican minority but is not going away in…
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/27/2010) BMW Engines, Disney Distribution
Updated throughout the day. American International Group (NYSE: AIG) is close to a deal to make good on its obligations to the Treasury. (Reuters) BMW and Saab may set up an engine…
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America’s Ten Most Innovative Companies
The term “innovation” is difficult to quantify when it comes to large companies across different industries. 24/7 Wall St. chose to look at global patent filings, filings by field, and increases in…
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Short Interest In Telecom And Tech Rises
Short sellers increased their positions in a number of telecom and tech stocks. Shares sold short in AT&T (NYSE: T) rose 14% to 58.2 million. The short interest in Verizon (NYSE: VZ)…
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Top Active Trader Stock Alerts (ADBE, BIIB, DB, MSFT, SEED, RIMM, VICL, VVUS)
Active traders and day traders have several key stocks to watch. We are tracking moves in Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE), Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB), Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB), Microsoft…
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The Ten Companies That Will Signal The End To The Recession
The recession is, by the standard measurement, over. The National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee said the downturn ended in June 2009. Most polls of individuals and company executives…
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Apps & Software
Microsoft’s Dividend–The Death Of Growth
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has struggled with a stock price which is stuck where it was five years ago. The world’s largest software company’s revenue in its last fiscal year is not much…
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Economy
American Job Concerns At Recession Levels
The concerns that people have about employment are supposed to get better and not worse as the economy comes out of a recession. That is not true among most Americans, according to…
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Media
Media Digest (9/22/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: White House adviser Larry Summers will leave. Reuters: There is more support in Washington to press China hard on the yuan. Reuters: The prime minister of Japan said its intervention on…