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Media Digest 8/5/2009
Reuters: GM’s new board endorsed the company’s new plans. Reuters: The Senate will probably approve “cash for clunkers” aid. Reuters: Sony (SNE) will enter the market with an e-reader to compete with…
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Technology
Sony (SNE), Always Late And Always A Loser, Gets Into E-Reader Market
Sony (SNE) has had one hit product in the thirty years since it launched the Walkman. That product was the PlayStation 2. Microsoft (MSFT) and Nintendo bull-dozed Sony out of its position…
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Investing
The Recession America Needed
“It is probably well that we had the war when we did. We are better off now than we would have been without it, and have made more rapid progress than we…
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Media
24/7 Wall St. TV: Google CEO Leaves Apple Board As Tech Wars Rage
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google (GOOG), resigned from the Apple (AAPL) board of directors. Apple says it was because of increasing conflicts between the two company’s products. There has been an…
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Technology
Microsoft Deal In Hand, Yahoo! Looks To Next Generation Of Search
Microsoft (MSFT) has talked about using its Bing search engine to search the Internet “real time” to pick up Twitter messages and other information and data that rockets across the web nanosecond…
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Apps & Software
Microsoft Analyst Day: As The King Was Looking Down, Google Plays Jester
Microsoft Corp’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Steve Ballmer inks a deal with Yahoo, the software giant’s biggest in years, and all of a sudden he’s invincible. He sure made it sound that way at…
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Media
Media Digest 7/31/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: Banks paid out billions of dollars in bonuses last year while losing money. Reuters: The US closed its car “clunkers” program just as it began as funds ran out. Reuters: Obame…
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Media
24/7 Wall St. TV: Yahoo!-Microsoft Deal Lacks A Boss
Investors found a lot wrong with the deal in the search engine industry between Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO) The smaller company’s stock dropped 12% and analysts felt that it was particularly…
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Media
Nintendo Earnings Hammered As Wii Sales Fall By Half
Nintendo had its worst quarter in a long time. Sales of its aging Wii video console fell by over half to 2.23 million units for the last period. Profits also dropped by…
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Apps & Software
Microsoft + Yahoo!: A Deal Without A Boss
Wall St. found a lot of things wrong with the joint venture in the search engine industry between Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO) The smaller company’s stock dropped 12% and analysts felt…
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Media
Media Digest 7/30/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: Unemployment is causing further stress in the housing market. Reuters: The Microsoft (MSFT) deal with Yahoo! (YHOO) may have challenges with regulators. Reuters: Sony (SNE) lost money on weakness in its…
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Technology
Details Of Microsoft (MSFT) Deal With Yahoo! (YHOO) Released: Too Complex To Work
The partnership between Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) to integrate their search operations is even more complicated than was rumored. It is so complicated, as a matter of fact, that the execution…
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Media
Media Digest 7/29/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Reuters: China and the US vowed close ties to bring the economy out of recession. Reuters: Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO) are close to a search deal. Reuters: The Senate may drop…
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Investing
Microsoft (MSFT) Search Deal With Yahoo! (YHOO) Looks Too Complex
Several media are reporting that Yahoo ! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) are as little as a day away from a partnership that would marry their search engine businesses, but the details on…
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Retail
Madden 2010 Sales To Fuel GameStop (GME)
Over the past week, the 24/7 Wall St./The Channel Checkers poll surveyed Gamestop and EB Games stores across the United States to track sales trends of gaming consoles and video games. We asked the…