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To Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox Goes The Victory Wreath
Microsoft (MSFT) claims that its Xbox 360 has reached the sale of ten million units in the US ahead of the Nintendo Wii and Sony (SNE) PS3. The news is somewhat, if…
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Sony (SNE): WSJ Sees Good Earnings, NYT Sees Bad
Somewhere between The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, the signals got crossed. After Sony’s earnings announcement, Rupert Murdoch’s paper ran a headline saying "PC, Camera, Flat-Screen Sales Help Sony…
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CNBC: An Icahn Proxy Fight For Yahoo! (YHOO): Never
CNBC is saying that Carl Icahn may start a proxy fight for control of Yahoo! (YHOO). It will never happen. Microsoft (MSFT) has made it clear that it does not want Yahoo!.…
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Media Digest 5/13/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, HP (HPQ) plans to buy EDS (EDS) to better compete with IBM (IBM). Reuters writes that AIG (AIG) says it sees no reason to follow the request of its…
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Online Video Consumption Up, No One Making Money (GOOG)(VIA)(NWS)(MSFT)(YHOO)
Online videos viewed in March moved up to 11.5 billion, a 13% jump from the year before and a tremendous pop of 64% over the same month last year. The question is…
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Nasdaq Short Interest: More Bets Against Sirius (SIRI) And Banks
The short interest in Sirius (SIRI) inflated by 30.9 million shares to 188.9 million. The figures compare April 30 to April 15 numbers. Investor are clearly willing to gamble against the company’s…
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Media Digest 5/9/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, AIG (AIG) lost $7.8 billion in the last quarter and will have to raise money. Reuters reports that Google says it will have revenue enhancing products for YouTube soon.…
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Auctioning Off Yahoo! Inc. On Ebay
Yahoo! (YHOO) seems to have gotton several pieces of bad news yesterday. The chief of strategy at Microsoft (MSFT), if there can be any such person, said that his company would go…
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Media Digest 5/8/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, the head of strategy at Microsoft (MSFT) says it deal to acquire Yahoo! (YHOO) is over. Reuters writes that Toyota (TM) posted a 28% drop in profit due to…
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Take-Two (TTWO): Time For Electronic Arts (ERTS) To Walk
It looks like Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) will sell $500 million of its new game "Grand Theft Auto IV" the first week that it is on the market. That is better than most…
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Media Digest 5/6/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, UBS (UBS) will cut 5,500 jobs. The company is also selling $15 billion in subprime mortgage paper to Blackrock. Reuters writes that Bernanke says that high foreclosure rates are…
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Activists May Raise Proxy Fight Against Yahoo! (YHOO)
Not all of the institutional money involved in the Yahoo! (YHOO) rejection of Microsoft’s (MSFT) bid are happy to sit on the sidelines. Several may launch a campaign to push out the…
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Yahoo! (YHOO) Down Over 20% In Europe Trading
Yahoo!’s (YHOO) shares are off over 20% in trading in Germany after the portal company rejected an offer from Microsoft. According to Bloomberg."Citigroup Inc. and ThinkPanmure LLC analysts cut their ratings on…
Douglas A. McIntyre 5:02am ET
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Microsoft (MSFT): A Buy-Out Baidu (BIDU)
Google (GOOG) rules the search world in all but one important country. China not only has the largest population in the world, it has the largest number of people online totaling 221…
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Yahoo! (YHOO) Legal Exposure: $6 Billion
Pegging Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) potential financial exposure from shareholder lawsuits after it turned down an offer of about $33 from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is hard. It starts with the difference between the…