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Amazon’s (AMZN) Advantage
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon (AMZN), looks a bit mad. Stick thin and without a hair on his head he is both bug-eyed and frenetic. He has the look…
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Investing
The New Layoff Kings: Thirty Companies Fire 173,000 People
Continuing jobless claims rose by 159,000 in the week ended Jan. 17 to a seasonally adjusted 4.78 million, the most since the government’s records began in 1967. The number of unemployed people…
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Apps & Software
Despite Virtualization Hype, Citrix Tanks Today & Ahead (CTXS, VMW, MSFT)
Citrix Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) is getting shelled after its earnings report. The company’s net fell 4% to $0.33 EPS, and non-GAAP earnings before items was $0.48 EPS. Revenue rose 4% to…
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Apps & Software
SAP (SAP): Some Hope For Global Software Industry
Shares in large software companies including Microsoft (MSFT) and Oracle (ORCL) have been selling off quickly over the last two quarters. The general forecasts for the firms is that a slowdown in…
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Investing
Distorted Values: GE (GE) Is More Important Than Yahoo! (YHOO)
Yahoo! (YHOO) announced earnings yesterday. The company’s forecast for the current quarter was weak. Many investors wanted to hear what new CEO Carol Bartz would say. She did not say anything, at…
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Media
Media Digest 1/28/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, the confidence of CEOs at Davos is low as the recession and credit crisis deepen. Reuters reports that Yahoo! (YHOO) slightly beat earnings but posted a weak forecast. Reuters…
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Investing
Shorts Tear Into Tech With a Vengeance (CSCO)(DELL)(NVDA)(MSFT)(ADBE)(ORCL)(QCOM)(BRCM)(NOK)(HPQ)(TXN)(EMC)(JPM)(C)(BAC)(WFC)(GM)(F)(M)(JWN)(HD)(LTD)(WAG)
Short sellers placed large bets against the stock of tech companies for the period ending on January 15, taking a series of positions to gamble that firms like Microsoft (MSFT) and Cisco…
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Investing
The Death of Formal Earnings Guidance
There is a new trend that has emerged in this earnings season that will have an impact in 2009 and maybe beyond: a lack of earnings and/or revenue guidance. This unravels roughly…
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Investing
Yahoo! (YHOO) CEO Comes To Market With Game Plan
Yahoo!’s (YHOO) new CEO, Carol Bartz, gets to run the company’s earnings cal this week. The results from the fourth quarter will probably be bad. It is hard to imagine how the…
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Consumer Electronics
The Netbook Breaks The PC Industry’s Back (AMD)(INTC)(HPQ)(DELL)(MSFT)
Many PC analysts thought that the "netbook" would be a toy. Sitting someplace between regular laptops and smartphones, the little PCs would not have the processing power and screen sizes to be…
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Technology
Is Internet Advertising Revenue Falling As Fast As Print? (NWS)(NYT)(YHOO)(MSFT)(GE)(MNI)(GCI)(MHP)(TWX)
According to MINOnline, advertising pages in major monthly magazines are down 20% for issues from the first two months of this year. One of the most popular weeklies, The Economist, suffered ad…
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Investing
Why Earnings Don’t Matter (IBM)(GOOG)(MSFT)
In a relatively stable economy, quarterly earnings releases and public company forecasts can be useful guides to Wall St. Corporations can actually look out a three to six months and forecast how…
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Media
Media Digest 1/23/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Samsung had its first ever quarterly loss. Reuters reports that Pfizer (PFE) is in takeover talks with Wyeth (WYE), a deal that would be worth $60 billion. Reuters reports…
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Apps & Software
Microsoft Conference Call Live Commentary (MSFT)
By now, even the pygmies have figured out that Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) had an awful quarter. We already signaled the top-line and bottom-line miss this morning, and a warning that was…
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Investing
Rumor: Yahoo! (YHOO) Will Cut 3,000 Jobs Or $850 Million
This should be put in the "rumor" file immediately because it is based on one anonymous source inside Yahoo!. Yahoo!’s (YHOO) new CEO, Carol Bartz, has told her board that she does…
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