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Posted
Oct 06 2009, 11:51 AM
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Minyanville
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This article is written by Minyanville's Jeff Macke We should have known this would end horribly. The first "red" flag was the administration inventing a job called Pay Czar.
There's a reason the communists whacked the last legitimate Czar and got away with it. The Red Army's horrifying power and sadism helped, but the real reason was the public figuring that Romanov's idiocy made it likely anyone else would be better.
Nicholas Romanov sent Russian troops to the front in World War I unarmed with instructions to use the guns of the dead Russian troops ahead of them. Pay Czar
Kenneth Feinberg is apparently set on fixing the markets by forcing banks to take half their pay in stock options.
You may remember stock options from the bubble days when everyone at Yahoo (YHOO) from the chief to the company chefs became zillionaires and retired in their 20s. That was about $300 in Yahoo share price ago.
So, in an allegedly coordinated effort, the administration has openly rigged the stock market, bought General Motors (MTLQQ), used taxpayer dollars to fund Cash for Clunkers (a program which curiously labeled cars like my Hummer and other toxic fog machine SUVs as "efficient"), and is now mandating stock options instead of cash for highly paid executives at firms that willingly or unwillingly took the low interest loans -- which were largely responsible for killing anything resembling a free market in the US.
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Posted
Aug 12 2009, 03:54 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Twitter had another hacker attack yesterday. Several media outlets reported the micro-blogging system was down periodically though the early morning and afternoon. The service had more severe problems last week. There have been rumors that the target of the attacks is a blogger in Georgia who has been critical of neighboring state Russia.
It is difficult to see what advantage the Russians gain by upsetting the tens of millions of people outside Georgia by shutting Twitter down, many of whom may actually think well of Mr. Putin and his fellow comrades.
The Twitter outage introduces the concept of whether anyone would really miss the service if it went away. Financial experts have argued that Twitter is not worth much even with its 30 million or so unique visitors, a number that varies wildly depending on the source. The press has carried stories over the last few months reporting that the service is growing 1,400%, 500%, and, in some cases, is barely growing at all. Ars Technica recently reviewed Twitter research done by HubSpot. The tech website reported that “HubSpot’s analysis of Twitter’s 4.5 million accounts revealed that 54.9% of users have never tweeted and 52.7% have no followers whatsoever.” Put more simply, many of the people who sign up for Twitter accounts never use them.
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Posted
Jul 10 2009, 01:48 PM
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Minyanville
Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Since we hit the credit crunch, Wall Street has seen a number of busted deals -- ranging from the aborted Harman (HAR) merger to Microsoft's (MSFT) attempted acquisition of Yahoo (YHOO). But as an avid follower of the video-game industry, the failure of Electronic Arts (ERTS) and Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) to achieve wedded bliss was the one that caught my attention.
What did EA have to gain with Take-Two? It's simple: mature-rated content in the form of Grand Theft Auto, and increased market share in sports. But there's another potential target that would give EA what it wanted with Take-Two, and that's THQ Inc. (THQI).
THQ is best known for its World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) games and other licensed fare from the likes of Nickelodeon (VIA) and Walt Disney's (DIS) Pixar. The company also has some solid fully owned properties including Company of Heroes and Red Faction.
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Posted
Jul 08 2009, 06:11 PM
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James Dlugosch
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
So I visited www.bing.com searching the words, “operating system”. At the top of the results page I find a story on Google’s plan to launch its own operating system in direct competition with Bing owner Microsoft's most critical product.
Now that is good humor. I suppose if I went to www.google.com and typed in the word, “search”, I would get a story on Microsoft’s Bing. (Editor's note: Microsoft publishes MSN Money.)
Watching this latest competition between Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) (Read "Will Google's Chrome Chip Away at Microsoft"s Veneer?" for my take on the details) will provide amusing story lines for years to come. Most interesting is that the stakes here are so huge.
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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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Minyanville
Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
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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Minyanville
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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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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
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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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
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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