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Is a New MSN Layout The Answer? (MSFT, YHOO, GOOG)
I was looking through my emails this morning and saw the change that has long been on the way… A new MSN is coming. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has its search pact…
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Telecom & Wireless
Sony Prepares For A Come-From-Behind Defeat
The Holy Grail of consumer electronics devices is one that would combine the best features of the Apple (AAPL) iPad, iPod, and iPhone. Sony (SNE) means to introduce products to challenge the…
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Consumer Electronics
PC Sales Will Grow This Year, But How Many Will Be Given Away?
It has been expected for some time that global PC sales would rise this year as the economy recovers and the demand for Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 7 causes people and business to replace…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings (Week 8)
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management strength…
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Media
Media Digest 3/1/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: Some senators want hearings on the Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) bailouts. Reuters: Toyota (TM) is at work in China on damage control. Reuters: Asia factory output expanded by…
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Investing
Outsourcing China’s Labor Problem
American companies have been criticized for years for outsourcing work, particularly to China and India. Much manufacturing work actually went to other nations, such as Vietnam and Mexico, but China has been…
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Media
Media Digest 2/25/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: Coca-Cola (KO) is close to buying its largest bottler. Reuters: Microsoft (NASAQ:MSFT) won court approve to shut down computers that spread spam and viruses. Reuters: Akio Toyoda (TM) apologized to Congress from problems with…
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Media
Nintendo’s Little iPad Killer
Most of the press Nintendo, the world’s No.1 video game console company, gets is for its Wii machine which has kept a lead in unit sales over the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony…
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Media
Media Digest 2/23/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: The $15 billion jobs bill advanced in the Senate. Reuters: Toyota (NYSE:TM) faces a US criminal probe. Reuters: KKR and TPC are close to a deal to buy Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE:MS) share…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings (Week 7)
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two 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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Investing
Vulture Watch: Nortel’s Patent Portfolio Up For Grabs (NRTLQ, RIMM, INTC, CSCO, MSFT, ERIC, QCOM, ALU)
Nortel Networks Corp. (NRTLQ) is just about wound down in its bankruptcy. The company’s operations have effectively all been sold off, at extreme discounts. In this bankruptcy there is one last sale…
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Media Digest 2/19/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: The Fed will try to calm the markets after it raised the discount rate to .75%. Reuters: The head of Toyota (TM) will go to Congress to testify. Reuters: The Fed’s…
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Investing
More Heated Google Search Competition Coming (GOOG, MSFT, YHOO)
The search pact between Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has been approved. Finally. The companies announced that the search pact was okayed by the Department of Justice and…
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Telecom & Wireless
An Attack On Google Wireless Search Market Share
There are occasional conversations among regulators in the US and EU about whether Google (GOOG) has too much of the search engine advertising market. In America, it controls about 70% of the…
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Investing
Today’s Best Market Rumors
Updated throughout the day. HSBC (NYSE:HBC) was involved in a criminal tax evasion case involving a wealthy US investor. (NYT) Shares in Man Group are higher on word that Blackrock (NYSE:BLK) may buy the company. (Reuters)…