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Do Super Bowl Ads Score for Their Companies' Stocks?
1:15PM 1/31/2012
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool
Investing, Media, Coca-Cola Company, Pepsico, salesforce.com, Apple, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Yahoo, Best Buy
The Patriots and Giants will interrupt the entertainment to run some football plays, but everyone knows the Super Bowl is all about the commercials, and at $3.5 million for 30 seconds, sponsors must think they'll get their money's worth. But will their shareholders feel the same way?
Tech Companies Team Up to Combat Email Scams
2:10PM 1/30/2012
Technology, Google , Microsoft, Bank of America, Facebook, Yahoo, eBay, AOL
Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing. Such scams try to trick people into giving away passwords and other personal information by sending emails that look as if they come from a legitimate bank, retailer or other business.
Will Yang's Yahoo Departure Appease Angry Investors?
11:05AM 1/20/2012
Yahoo's embattled co-founder Jerry Yang is off the board, but for disgruntled investor Third Point LLC, that's not good enough. The hedge fund with a 5.2% stake in Yahoo wants to take down Chairman Roy Bostock and potentially three other directors.
What to Watch This Week: Banking, iPad Textbooks, Auctions, Search, and Big Blue
1:05AM 1/16/2012
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool
Investing, JP Morgan Chase, IBM, Goldman Sachs , Google , Apple, Bank of America, Citigroup, Yahoo, eBay, Bank of New York Mellon, Market News
There's never a dull moment on Wall Street, especially now that we're hitting 2012's first earnings season. What will help shape the week that lies ahead? Earnings and answers from banks, Google, eBay and IBM, and a big education related announcement from Apple.
What to Watch This Week: New CEOs, New Cars, New Homes and New Tech
12:40PM 1/09/2012
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool
JP Morgan Chase, Yahoo, eBay, Stocks in the News, Market News
It'll be an interesting week in the news of the new: Yahoo has a fresh CEO, auto shows and the CES will show off the latest in cars and tech, and a major homebuilder will tell us how new construction is doing. (Oh, and JP Morgan will give us a clue about how the banks are faring.)
Yahoo Names New CEO, but Is He Sunk Before He Even Starts?
4:20PM 1/04/2012
On Wednesday, Yahoo named Scott Thompson as CEO. He's a former PayPal president and veteran technologist -- and that's the trouble: Yahoo is following the same strategy that led it to hire Carol Bartz, who was ousted for failing to turn the company around.
3 Hot Technology Trends to Watch in 2012
9:20AM 12/30/2011
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool
Technology, Ford Motor Co, Microsoft, Nokia, Apple, Stock Picks, Amazon.com, Toyota, Yahoo, Stocks in the News
If you think 2011 was a wild year for technology, just wait until you see what 2012 has in store for you. Here are three tech trends that will undoubtedly grow in relevance -- and investor profitability -- in the year ahead.
Facebook Timeline and Privacy: What You Need to Know
8:33AM 12/20/2011
Technology, Google , Microsoft, Netflix, Facebook, News Corp, Yahoo
Facebook's new Timeline program allows users to review everything they've ever shared on Facebook and showcase what they think is most worth remembering. It's fully customizable -- but there are some downsides.
Facebook may finally be ready to go public in the second quarter of 2012. At an estimated valuation of $100 billion, the social networking giant is probably no longer a ground-floor opportunity -- but could even that number be too low?
Everyone seems anxious to hook up Yahoo! these days. The dot-com pioneer has become that single aunt in every family whom everyone thinks sorely needs a soul mate. But what if Yahoo! is happy to be single? After all, it just spent $270 million on a acquisition of its own to beef up its online advertising.
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