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Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. Alcatel-Lucent SA (NYSE: ALU): Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank. Amazon.com,...
Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) new CEO, Marissa Mayer, worked at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). So did AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong, who took up the reins there in 2009. Mayer may want to take some pages...
Moody’s cuts Italy’s rating by two notches and indicates the cuts may not be finished. (Reuters) Treasury Secretary Geithner pressed UK regulators on Libor in 2008. (Reuters) A hack of Yahoo!’s...
If one company would be the judge, jury and executioner on online ad spending, it would be Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG).  The problem is that Google is now so spread out that you cannot just use its...
The argument goes that if News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) spins off its print businesses, they will be unable to keep their editorial costs at current levels. Some of the properties in this...
Internet research firm comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) today released its rankings of the top web properties for the month of May. The top 5 of the 50 sites ranked by unique visitors is pretty much the...
A number of central banks say they will act in concert if the EU financial situation worsens. (Reuters) The UK government and Bank of England could inject as much as 100 billion pounds into the...
When Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced it would launch its own map products, analysts wondered where the data would come from. The question was answered today when the world’s most valuable company...
The European Union may form a central office of treasury to match the European Central Bank. (Reuters) Ford (NYSE: F) may create brands specific to the Chinese market. (Reuters) The slowing economy...
AOL (NYSE: AOL) had a significant setback in its effort to keep dissident directors off its board. Starboard Value, which owns over 5% of the portal company, nominated three directors. Powerful...
Merkel and Hollande will fight over stimulus for the eurozone at the EU summit. (Reuters) The OECD expresses concerns that Europe could slip into a deep recession. (Reuters) The EU debt crisis...
It is no shocker today that the social media shares are heading lower this morning.  The Facebook shenanigans with its shares now down over 4% at $36.50 on almost 8 million shares is taking its toll...
Alibaba will buy back 20% of its shares held by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). The consideration Yahoo! will get is $7.1 billion. That sum is “composed of at least $6.3 billion in cash proceeds and up to...
The argument that Hulu can become a company which can be valued in the billions of dollars or that portals can completely change, for the positive, the value of ad dollars they receive because of...