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• The Week Ahead: Pains, games and automobiles

  Posted Jul 25 2008, 08:01 PM by Andrew Horowitz
  Filed under: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Ford, Andrew Horowitz, Earnings
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  How about we play a game, shall we? It goes like this: I say a term and you tell me the first thing that comes to your mind. Ready?

  What do you think of when you hear the word recession? Did you think slowdown or inflation? What comes to mind with the word write-offs? Did you think earnings growth? How about record commodity prices? Do you immediately think of increasing revenues and profits?

  I bet you thought of several phrases and words associated with a general economic slowdown, but not those above. I asked because a curious situation is occurring within our markets. For example last week many of the companies reporting earnings showed an increase in year-over-year revenues and actually beat estimates. Of course this isn't the norm this quarter, but even so, it is a peculiar occurrence.   Read More...

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• Rating the world's most powerful brands

  Posted Apr 22 2008, 04:43 AM by Douglas McIntyre
  Filed under: Google, Apple, Cisco, eBay, Motorola, Oracle, Citigroup, Ford, Starbucks, IBM
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  Once a year, the firm Millard Brown puts out its BrandZ 100 Most Valuable Brands. The data used for the list come from consumer research and financial data on the companies. The research house gives its methodology here.

  For those who think Google is the top brand, give yourself a pat on the back. It has a brand valuation of $86 billion, up 30%. For those research mavens in the crowd, the figure makes absolutely no sense. Google has a market cap of $168 billion. Most of that would go away -- no matter how good the technology is -- if it changed it name to Dawdle.   Read More...

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