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Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) may be back in favor after the huge $600 million or so investment from Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT). Jana Partners disclosed in April that it had taken a...
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NokiaA merger between Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) will never happen. RIM’s BlackBerry runs its own operating system. Nokia has an alliance with Microsoft (NASDAQ:...
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Retailing giant Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) will discontinue selling the Kindle family of tablets and e-readers by this summer. The Kindle devices are made by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), and include...
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Several CEOs and founders of well-known American companies have complete control over their companies. Through voting power, they control the boards and strategic decisions of these corporations. The...
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There are rumors that the Facebook “roadshow” to present the company’s prospects to investors will begin this week and that the initial public offering of the social network will come before...
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The DJIA reached the level where it last was at the end of 2007, the year when the index peaked. At the close, the Dow was 13,279.32. Its all-time high of 14,164.53 was set Oct. 9, 2007. There are a...
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Some fast backpedaling by Korea’s LG Electronics has apparently stopped the claim by a Korean newspaper that the electronics giant is ditching Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the US company’s...
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Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) decision to invest in the e-commerce arm of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) will do nearly nothing for the bricks-and-mortar book company. The challenge the two companies...
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China’s PMI rises to a 13-month high. (Reuters) BP (NYSE: BP) profits fall as it sells some assets to pay for the Gulf spill. (Reuters) New York state pension funds vote against five...
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The S&P 500 was down slightly last month as was the NASDAQ. For each, it was the first drop since November. The DJIA rose a tiny amount which kept its multi-month rally alive. The NASDAQ’s...
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BP’s (NYSE: BP) profits fell as it continues to struggle with the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. The incident and subsequent oil spill may cost the UK company as much as $20 billion in...
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courtesy Barnes & Noble Inc.Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) announced this morning that the two companies were forming a “strategic partnership,”...
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Last week, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced that it sold 35.1 million iPhones worldwide in the latest quarter. The figure is large, but not extraordinary. Some consumer products and consumer...
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N9kia (NYSE: NOK), already almost without a pulse, was downgraded to junk by S&P. The agency said Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said today that it had lowered its long-term corporate...
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Samsung passed longtime global handset leader Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in the first quarter, according to Strategy Analytics. Global handset shipments reached 368 million units for the period, and the South...
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