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The Weather Channel has finally returned to DirecTV. It does so with a measure of humiliation. The channel's management was forced to apologize for the "disruption of its service."
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Weibo Corp. The company that is generally described as the Twitter of China, Weibo, filed for a U.S. initial public offering (IPO) in mid-March and said it was seeking to raise $500 million. Most...
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ThinkstockFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is supposed to the most important of the publicly traded Web 2.0 companies. The conclusion is natural. The world’s largest social network has 1.1 billion...
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Netflix is turning out to be in the midst of becoming an awful momentum reversal of fortune. The good news is that this sharp stock drop may help play into the theme that Netflix could be acquired.
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It's just not CBS Sports that is a loser if Tiger Woods does not play in the Masters Golf Tournament, though without him ratings will be merely pedestrian. Also losing out are Woods's sponsors.
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Nearly every product, store, sports team, band, movie, you name it is on Facebook and Twitter. Savvy retailers understand that it is not just the young who use and are drawn to social media.
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ThinkstockFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) already made major news and noise when it acquired WhatsApp for a zany sum of $19 billion. Now Mark Zuckerberg is making another large deal. Facebook is acquiring...
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courtesy of Facebook Inc.There is a debate among some analysts over whether Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is worth buying or may be turning into a sell. On Wednesday, J.P. Morgan analyst Douglas Anmuth...
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Shares of Yahoo! and Sina Corp. got a nice boost Monday morning from the weekend's reports that China's e-commerce behemoth Alibaba has filed for a U.S. initial public offering. It is seeking to...
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Courtesy Alibaba GroupTwo of the most anticipated initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2014 are coming from Chinese Internet companies, and both appear headed for U.S. listings. Weibo Corp. on Friday...
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While CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been offering the president his two cents on government spying, Facebook announced Thursday that it has begun to roll out "premium" video ads in the feeds of its users.
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There has been an uproar over an HBO GO outage during the season finale for the "True Detective" series. As the simulcasting service is for those HBO subscribers with set-top boxes or other...
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courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has created a five day, five night iTunes music festival which will run for the five days of SXSW. It will run from March 11 to March 15. The event...
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Weibo, the Chinese social-media platform often compared to Twitter, may go public in the second quarter. The move comes as the government cracks down on the expression of politically sensitive...
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courtesy of Groupon Inc.Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) had such an awful performance on Friday that it should make any rational investor fear more than just a slightly weak to mixed earnings report....
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