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    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 3:30PM 5/22/2012
    Forget how Facebook is beating up its IPO investors: The social network is still giving many other publicly traded companies fits. And these five in particular are seeing their business models take a hit at Facebook's expense.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 11:24AM 5/07/2012
    What will help shape the week that lies ahead on Wall Street? Video game companies will let us know the score; satellite TV providers will give us a signal; Tesla and Priceline are traveling forward; and Johnny Depp and Tim Burton could put some teeth in the year's box office numbers.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 1:45PM 3/19/2012
    Let's go over some items that will help shape the week ahead for Wall Street: The Hunger Games will give theaters a much needed boost; FuelBand may do the same for Nike; video game sellers hunger for hits; and Tiffany and Oracle will give us clues about the recovery.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 4:00PM 3/08/2012
    Wells Fargo stopped offering free checking to new customers in 2010, but if you already had it, they didn't take it away. Now, it's introducing a $7 monthly charge in six (thus far, unidentified) states for customers with those formerly free checking accounts.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 7:00AM 2/16/2012
    Zynga is the undisputed king of social gaming for Facebook and smartphones, and its stock price gives it a market cap nearly as big as video game leader Activision Blizzard. But at less than 5 years old, has the bulldog already jumped the shark?

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 8:45AM 1/20/2012
    The latest news on the video game front isn't pretty. Media tracker NPD Group's data reveals that industry sales plunged 21% last month. It's clear that the industry is undergoing a radical shift, but for investors, the more important issue is why.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 3:20PM 1/18/2012
    Suddenly, Majesco Entertainment isn't living up to its COOL ticker symbol. Shares of the video game developer and publisher got crushed on Tuesday after it surprised the markets by following its previous three blowout quarters with a loss for Q4.

    By Rich Smith, The Motley Fool

    | 9:00AM 11/04/2011
    Are you hungry for a piece of the Facebook IPO? If so, then pull up a chair. There's plenty of room at the table ... because the other guests are fleeing. After months when all we've heard is that this (eventual) stock sale will be the hottest thing since Google, the hype trend has reversed.