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Groupon is fighting a serious headwind to come public.  We have raised flags of caution on this numerous times and the calls against the company are only seeming to become more vocal in the...
If you have been a reader of 24/7 Wall St. for long, we have not exactly hid the fact that this “online coupon and daily deals” business is not very hard to compete against.  Does that mean that...
Groupon, Inc. has just filed for an initial public offering.  No terms were disclosed other than that the sale is for up to $750 million in common stock.  The company plans to trade under the stock...
There is a common belief of the skeptics that the market is designed to cause the most financial pain possible, and the moves in cult stocks can be more painful than most investors can withstand. ...
Groupon is supposed to be one of the 24/7 Wall Street Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2011.  That hasn’t changed, but our skepticism is growing at the same time that internet valuations for these emerging...
These are some of this Monday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms.Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) Raised to Buy with $35.50 target...
The next round of earnings officially kicks off next week with Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) first out of the blocks on Monday. We’re taking advantage of the occasion to preview some developments in a...
Google Inc.  (NASDAQ: GOOG) may have just accidentally become more like the Yellow Pages in a new local search effort.  Google is set to launch Places, which gives more information online about...
Investors are opting out of many smaller and larger technology names in case this slowing becomes a true double-dip recession.  Despite the selling that has already been seen and despite what had...
It is the weekend and that means a review of last week’s unusual suspects and a review for key stocks in the week ahead.  Technically earnings season gets its first earnings report from a DJIA...
Updates throughout the day. Update: Jeff Bewkes, CEO of Time-Warner (TWX) who says “Time, Inc. is not for sale.” (Atlantic First Draft of American History Conference) Update:   John...
Whether you like the earnings report from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) or not, there are some key takeaways using the same metrics that Google uses for other Internet and online media stocks.  ...
While most of the investment community goes out breaking down earnings for major stocks, there is a huge interest in many of the cult stocks reporting earnings.  Among the cult stocks we have...
Local.com (NASDAQ:LOCM) is seeing its shares surge some 15% pre-market after it signed a new pact today.  It has entered a strategic partnership with Barry Diller’s IAC/Interactive...
This is not every bit of news on individual stocks but this is the major news affecting many shares in pre-market activity this Thursday morning: Accenture (ACN) stock up 4% after posting $0.60 EPS...