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Posted
Feb 02 2009, 09:08 AM
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Kim Peterson
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Yahoo (YHOO) is losing ground to Google (GOOG) in an area it once owned: Display advertising on Web sites. Google is now perceived to be Yahoo's equal in many areas of this lucrative field, according to a survey by Advertising Age. Google also is king of the small, text-based ads that run alongside Web searches. In a the survey, taken last November, advertisers rated Google 43% better than the average media company when it came to getting results from their ad campaigns. But Yahoo was only rated 29% better. Another cringeworthy result for Yahoo is that advertisers saw no
difference between running a display ad on Google and one on Yahoo.
Google was considered better than Yahoo in customer service.
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Oct 21 2009, 04:25 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from The Motley Fool's Rich Smith.
It's every investor's worst nightmare -- buying a rocket stock just before it takes a nose dive.
MSN Money maintains a list of companies whose shares hit 52-week highs, and investors read this list and tremble -- some with greed, others in terror. These and other stocks with momentum usually enjoy favorable ratings at our MSN CAPS investing community; everyone loves a winner.
Listed below are five of the companies hitting 52-week highs in the past week. Which among them does the CAPS community consider most likely to continue to outperform? If your guess is Google, which has been setting 2009 highs since reporting last week that third-quarter profit was the largest in the company's 11-year history, well, thanks for playing along, but you're wrong.
Find on Bing: How to pick stocks
Turns out, the 140,000-plus investors comprising CAPS are far less bullish on the glitzy Internet pacesetter than they are toward an operator in the more prosaic world of oil and natural gas refining, transportation and storage.
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Posted
Mar 13 2009, 03:03 AM
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Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post is from partner site The Big Money.
Your pockets no doubt feel a bit lighter these days, but just how much wealth has been lost in the tumult of the economic downturn? The Federal Reserve has the answer, releasing a calculation of the incredible shrinking income of the American family on Thursday. Citing the Fed figures, the Wall Street Journal says last year the wealth of American families fell nearly 18%, "the biggest loss since the Federal Reserve began keeping track after World War II." American families, the engine of the global economy, saw their net worth slip by a remarkable $11 trillion, or, the WSJ points out, "a decline in a single year that equals the combined annual output of Germany, Japan and the U.K."
Even those at the top will be (if they haven't already) feeling the pinch. According to a front page WSJ article, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is talking with Rep. Barney Frank and other lawmakers to devise "a plan to tie Wall Street pay to the long-term performance of the firms." There is not yet any new legislation targeting fat-cat compensation, but Frank told the newspaper to expect something soon.
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Posted
Jul 07 2009, 03:45 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
One of the wonderful things about technology is that it can make the old new again. Parts of the oldest Christian Bible, probably written in the fourth century, will be available online. According to PC World, readers will even be able to see the texture of the parchment.
While the debate about online ownership of print material rages and the U.S. government gets involved in Google’s (GOOG) attempt to digitize recently published books, successful attempts to reclaim ancient tomes for readers has a tremendous value. These books are not longer subject to copyright laws.
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Posted
Jul 23 2009, 04:27 PM
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Vad Yazvinski
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
“Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards” -- William Arthur Ward
The violent 40%+ rally since the markets hit their lows in March has made the job of finding the “hidden gems” quite a bit more difficult. Anyone who has followed my writing here at MSN over the last two years has by now learned that I don’t really pay much attention to “expert opinions” and pretty much choose to ignore the “household” investing names like Apple or Google.
And while this might prevent me from making the CNBC headlines, it has also helped my fund to stay in the green over the last year when others faltered.
Over the past several weeks, one area in particular has consumed the vast majority of my research time and efforts -- the property and casualty (“P&C”) insurance industry. And I must say, I really like what I’ve found so far.
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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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Mar 27 2009, 02:55 AM
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Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from The Big Money.
Obamanomics? Maybe so, according to CNNMoney, which reports that another mega "to-do" that has been added to President Obama's list: tax reform. The president has announced he will form a task force that will aim to do much of what President Reagan did with his own Tax Reform Act: close loopholes and fundamentally simplify the tax code. Another major focus will be "to reduce the estimated $300 billion-a-year tax gap -- the difference between what individual and corporate taxpayers owe and what they actually pay." For the task force, Obama's only two requirements are that there can be no tax increase this year or next year, and that afterward, there can be no tax increases for households making less than $250,000. The members of the task force will be culled from the Presidential Economic Recovery Board. They will be asked to present their reform ideas Dec. 4.
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Posted
Oct 07 2009, 11:48 AM
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Minyanville
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This article is written by Minyanville's Mike Schuster
Gourmands, harried fiancées, and dentist office waiting rooms were struck a blow on Monday when publishing giant Condé Nast announced the closure of four of its popular magazines after severe drops in ad revenue.
Elegant Bride and Modern Bride will be ceasing publication as well as the soccer mom handbook Cookie. Gourmet will be shuttered at the release of its November 2009 issue, but will live on with TV programming and online recipes.
See also, Who Needs Newspapers Anyway?
The closures see roughly 180 employees laid off and a collective circulation of more than four million issues stripped from shelves and mailboxes.
Despite the dedicated readership each magazine held, the publications were at the mercy of a three-month study by the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. After its analysis, McKinsey advised several Condé magazines to cut 25% from their budgets, but no amount of cost-cutting initiatives was able to save the aforementioned few.
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Posted
Sep 03 2009, 03:47 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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 Google’s (GOOG) YouTube may finally come up with a way to raise revenue. It streamed nine billion videos last month, but, by some estimates loses $300 million a year.
The quality of the video on YouTube is usually so low that advertisers don’t want to put their high-quality TV messages on the service. That leaves YouTube with limited options to make money. Bing: The best movies of all time
The video-sharing service is in the final stage of a process to set up a movie rental business with most of the largest studios, including Lions Gate and MGM. Many other companies in the industry will probably join if the program works well. YouTube would offer films for streaming at a price of $3.99. Its audience is large enough that the program could actually work.
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Posted
Sep 08 2008, 08:34 AM
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Minyanville
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) says the online partnership between Yahoo and Google will erode competition and probably result in higher prices.
On its Web site, ANA, which represents about 400 companies, says it sent a letter to the US Justice Department’s antitrust division after reviewing the agreement and meeting with executives from Yahoo and Google.
The letter "notes that a Google-Yahoo partnership will control 90% of search advertising inventory and expresses concern that the partnership will likely diminish competition, increase concentration of market power, limit choices
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