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Posted
Jun 30 2009, 03:49 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Facebook is becoming one of the most dangerous places on the Internet. According to Reuters, “scammers break into accounts posing as friends of users, sending spam that directs them to Web sites that steal personal information and spread viruses.”
Since Facebook has, by some measures, more than 200 million members, the problem is extremely serious and could undermine the growth of the social network and cut into the time that current members spend on the site.
The cybercrime issue could also damage Facebook’s reputation with marketers, a reputation is just beginning to build in the hope of increasing its modest revenue by bringing in large national advertisers. Industry sources suppose that Facebook will lose a modest sum of money on $500 million of revenue this year, a tiny sum compared to the size of its audience.
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Posted
Jun 25 2009, 03:45 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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A public relations executive recently evaluated the number of Fortune 100 CEOs who had presences on social network sites including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and online information site Wikipedia. Almost none of the chief executives were involved with the Internet destinations, which should not have been a surprise to anyone. The question raised by the PR person is why executives do such a poor job managing their images online. A better question is why a CEO would want to be involved with the Web sites at all.
Social network advocates have reached the point where they believe that the sun rises and sets on the interactions among their members. Facebook has more than 200 million visitors, by one measure. Wikipedia is one of the 10 most visited sites in the U.S. The frenzy of activity around having multiple and well-managed online presences has become a mania without a purpose.
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Posted
Jun 22 2009, 01:12 PM
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Todd Harrison
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Here's what I’m focused on this fine Monday morning:
Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF):
Those of you that actively follow Ticker Shock know I’m sweet on retail stocks for the long run. This is simply because I believe there's a huge amount of upside potential to be had, as Americans are generally big spenders.
In spite of my longer-term bullish outlook, I haven’t been so crazy about Abercrombie & Fitch, as of late. After all, its first-quarter results left a lot to be desired. Additionally, its stock has seen better days.
However, there was some positive news that deserved a little more attention than it got. The news came out last week that it's going to close its Ruehl stores.
My thoughts:
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Posted
Jun 16 2009, 08:06 AM
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Todd Harrison
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Is it possible that Microsoft (MSFT), the company that geeks love to hate, has done something right with Bing?
Early chatter suggests that Bing could become a credible challenger to Google’s (GOOG) long-held position as king of Internet searches.
“(Google) co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft’s rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service,” the New York Post reports.
Google won’t comment on the alleged panic swirling through its headquarters in Mountain View, California and simply notes that it always has a team of engineers working to improve its search engine.
If Microsoft has developed a credible challenger to Google, where does this leave Yahoo (YHOO)? Google now grabs about 60% of the lucrative search market compared with Yahoo’s 20% and Microsoft’s 8%.
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Posted
Jun 05 2009, 09:30 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Microsoft (MSFT) has been fighting for years to be taken seriously in the online search engine business. But its plans for a strong foothold have been undermined with each new measurement of U.S. search market share. Most research services show Google (GOOG) with about 65% of the market, Yahoo (YHOO) with 20% and Microsoft with as little as 8%.
Redmond hopes its new Bing search engine will change its bad fortune. New research shows the quality of Bing search results and the size of the Microsoft marketing campaign may have worked.
Figures from StatCounter, reported by TechCrunch, show Bing’s share in the U.S. as 16.28% Thursday. Yahoo!’s share dropped to 10.22%. Google’s figure was 71.47%. StatCounter monitors the activity of 2 million online surfers.
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Posted
Apr 19 2009, 08:10 PM
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Louis Navellier
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Wall Street does a fantastic job of making the simple complex. The more Wall Street can confuse investors, the more dependent investors become on Wall Street for products and services. But the stock market is not really that complicated. If companies are growing, you can profit.
The key is to look at the business cycle. When the economy grows, business grows. That growth translates into stock values that go up. Now I like to find stocks that can make money even when their sectors aren't typically fueled by economic growth, like my 5 Hot Stocks in Ice-Cold Sectors. But it's equally as profitable to look to sectors that get a tailwind from economic activity. Technology is one of those sectors right now
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Posted
Apr 17 2009, 10:06 AM
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By Michael Brush
At a time of growing public outcry against rising executive pay, many CEOs are voluntarily taking “pay cuts” that reduce their salaries or bonuses to $1 a year or less.
This is a great public relations exercise, but it’s really an empty gesture, according to a new study. They can still rake in enormous amounts of wealth.
Here’s the big picture:
- Forty-one CEOs who earned a dollar or less in salary or bonus last year actually made more than $173 million through other pay channels like stock grants and perks, according to a new study by the Corporate Library. “While the public relations impression is that these CEOs are working for a dollar a year, in most cases this simply is not the case,” writes Greg Ruel, the author of the study.
- In that group of 41, 18 CEOs voluntarily took a cut in salary or cash bonus down to $1 or less. But the voluntary pay cut was no great personal sacrifice. The reason: They already owned almost $6 billion in their company stock, says the study. (For the others in this group of 41, the reasons they earned no salary is not given, or it’s just typical of how pay packages work in their sectors.)
The trick here is that “salary” and cash bonus, the kind of pay being zeroed out in these PR exercises, typically make up only a tiny portion of overall pay.
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Posted
Mar 16 2009, 03:01 AM
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Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans
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This post comes from partner site The Big Money.
American International Group (AIG) named names on Sunday, revealing at long last a lengthy list of payouts it made to its creditors for its catastrophically bad bets -- all with Uncle Sam's bailout cash. Tens of billions were paid out to banks, some that are no longer standing on their own, according to the New York Times. The list includes names like Merrill Lynch ($6.8 billion), Goldman Sachs ($12.9 billion), and Wachovia ($1.5 billion). Overseas banks -- including Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Barclays, and UBS -- were also paid off. They claimed a combined $25.5 billion. It doesn't end there. "In total, A.I.G. named nearly 80 companies and municipalities that benefited most from the Fed rescue, though many more that received smaller payments were left out," the newspaper writes. The Wall Street Journal calculates "that roughly two-thirds of the $173.3 billion in federal aid it received has been paid out to trading partners such as banks and municipalities in the U.S. and abroad."
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Posted
Mar 11 2009, 01:31 PM
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Todd Harrison
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The Internet gutted newspaper classifieds with text ads - and things may get worse in a hurry for the dead-tree industry.
Google (GOOG) plans to sell display advertising pegged to users’ interests, making illustrated ads the next to move online.
Surprisingly, Google is playing catch-up. Yahoo (YHOO) and Time Warner’s AOL (TWX) offer similar services. Google may have been slow to enter the field because it’s wary of privacy advocates who gripe that the search leader already compiles too much information on users. Furthermore, CEO Eric Schmidt said there were 3 major problems facing display ads:
"1. If you have a display property, it's very difficult to figure out which ad to show... We're in the process of building the equivalent of an ad exchange which will allow you to do that automatically and do it with scientific measurements. So today what people do is they use heuristics, and the heuristics in that space are terrible.
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Posted
Feb 18 2009, 09:55 AM
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Kim Peterson
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 Microsoft (MSFT) can rest assured that it is safe from another antitrust investigation. But regulators' headlights are swinging over to Google (GOOG) next.
"Microsoft is so last century," said Christine Varney, whom President Obama has nominated as the federal government's next antitrust chief. "They are not the problem." I guess that's a good thing, though I'm sure Microsoft isn't too pleased by being described in any capacity as "so last century." Hopefully, Apple's advertising team is on vacation or something. In comments reported by Bloomberg, Varney telegraphed a short but sweet message to Google: You're awfully close to the line, and we'll be there if you step over it.
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