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| Facebook Agrees Child Safety Plan |
| 2008-05-08 17:10:24 |
Facebook is to add a slew of new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyber bullies. At the heart of the changes are efforts to ban convicted sex offenders from the site and finding better ways to verify users' ages and identities. The agreement was announced by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in a deal along with other attorneys general around America. "This marks another watershed towards social networking safety," he said. It will "protect kids from online predators and inappropriate content," he added. It comes on the heels of a similar comprehensive agreement that 49 states and Washington, DC, made with MySpace last January. Seeking a gold standard Mr Blumenthal, who co-chairs a working group of state attorn...
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| Super Affiliates Review |
| 2008-05-08 15:09:05 |
"Discover Proven Step-By-Step Secret System That Will Have YOU Generating Massive Cash In Just The Next Few Days...Guaranteed!"Super Affiliates is affiliate marketing training membership website, developed by super successful affiliate Ewen Chia.Ewen Chia is well known as the best affiliate marketer in the world. Internet marketers all over the world, including John Reese, Stephen Pierce, Allen Says, Jason Potash, Yanik Silver, Mark Joyner (and more) are amazed by how Ewen makes more and more money every year just by using Affiliate marketing.Affiliate marketing is very profitable internet business, and it is becoming more popular every day, because the number of people who want to work from home increases. Some of the reason of why Affiliate marketing is so good are:* It's really easy to ...
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| Most Europe Markets Fall After Rate Decisions |
| 2008-05-08 13:46:39 |
LONDON - Most European stock markets ended lower Thursday, as the European Central Bank and the Bank of England kept interest rates on hold as they flag up inflation concerns in a period of record oil prices. The pan-European Dow Jones Stoxx 600 index closed a fraction of a percentage point lower to 329.28, with banks across Europe lower as the major central banks held rates unchanged. In London, shares of U.K. mortgage lender HBOS fell 1.2% and Barclays declined 2.5%, lower after the Bank of England kept rates on hold at 5%, a move that generated mild disappointment for investors hoping for a rate cut to shore up an ailing housing market. Likewise, the European Central Ba...
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| How To Add & Remove Borders In CSS Templates |
| 2008-05-07 12:44:08 |
Here, I am going to show how to add or remove borders around the images or sidebars, posts, etc in the CSS layouts. I will briefly explain border styles, and also how to change the border colors.A BorderOk, let's start. Go to your Dashboard, then go to Template and finally Edit HTML. To make it quicker to find the border coding, click CTRL+F and type "border". The border word will be highlighted throughout the coding, but you have to find the following:-border:1px solid $bordercolor;1. BorderThis is how the border coding starts. Sometimes, you may see instead of just “border”, you may see “border-top”, or “border-bottom”, “border-left” or “border-right”, that will depend on which element you want to add a border.2. Border WidthThere are t...
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| Technology Group Plans Wireless Network |
| 2008-05-07 12:28:51 |
SAN FRANCISCO — A who’s who of technology and telecommunications companies announced Wednesday that it intended to build the first of a new generation of nationwide wireless data networks. The consortium includes a disparate group of partners: Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner and Clearwire. The partners have put the value of the deal at $14.5 billion, a figure that includes radio spectrum and equipment provided by Sprint Nextel and Clearwire, and $3.2 billion from the others involved.They expect the network, which will provide the next generation of high-speed Internet access for cellphone users, to be built in as little as two years, but there is no tim...
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| Help For New Bloggers |
| 2008-05-07 12:24:09 |
Help For New BloggersHow To Add Blogger Search BoxHow To Add Digg Button To BloggerHow To Add Favicon Icon To BloggerHow To Add Music To BloggerHow To Add & Remove Borders In CSS Templates...
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| Cisco Profit Falls 5.4%, Sales Top Analysts Estimates |
| 2008-05-06 17:03:02 |
May 6 - Cisco Systems Inc., the world's largest maker of networking equipment, said third-quarter profit fell 5.4 percent on acquisition expenses. Sales beat analysts' estimates, sending the shares higher in extended trading. Net income declined to $1.77 billion, or 29 cents a share, from $1.87 billion, or 30 cents, a year earlier, Cisco said today in a statement. Revenue rose 10 percent to $9.79 billion in the period ended April 26, beating the average estimate of $9.75 billion in a Bloomberg survey. The report may alleviate concern that business continued to deteriorate after Chief Executive Officer John Chambers predicted in February that a sales slump would l...
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| BlackRock To Buy $15B Subprime Debt From UBS |
| 2008-05-06 12:20:00 |
HONG KONG - New York-based asset management firm BlackRock Inc. is to purchase a portfolio of subprime mortgage debt from UBS AG for $15 billion, with details of the deal to be announced when the Swiss bank releases its operating results for the first quarter later Tuesday, according to a media report. BlackRock is purchasing the debt at a 25% discount from its face value of $20 billion, the Financial Times reported Tuesday, without saying where it got the information. The debt will be placed in a new fund that will be marketed to investors, the report said. UBS will hold a minority interest in the new fund and will be able to participate in any gains. The deal represents a contrarian bet the worst may be ove...
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| Oil Rises After Report Shows U.S. Services Industries Expanded |
| 2008-05-05 13:15:45 |
May 5 - Crude oil rose above $120 a barrel to a record in New York after a report showed that U.S. service industries expanded in April, signaling higher energy use. The Institute for Supply Management's index of non- manufacturing businesses, which make up almost 90 percent of the economy, grew for the first time since December, the Tempe, Arizona-based group said today. The report came after an oil pumping station was attacked in Nigeria. The ISM report ``probably gave us a little bit of a bounce psychologically,'' said Phil Flynn, a commodities trader for Chicago-based Alaron Trading. ``Maybe the demand for oil is going to rebound.'' Crude oil for June delivery rose $3.86, or...
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| How To Add Music To Blogger |
| 2008-05-05 08:02:16 |
Sometimes it can be a real pleasure listening to music, while reading some website and if you have some music on your blog, that can make your blog better depending on the theme of your blog. For example, for entertaining blogs, about music, movies, games, etc, music would be a suitable thing to have on the background of the blog.This can cause, your blog to load a bit longer, however, you can provide your visitors an option to switch on/off the music. So let's learn how to do it.Before we begin, you need to upload your music file to Internet. You can upload it to your web hosting account, if you have one, or upload it to your free hosting account, for example using Google Pages.When you have uploaded your file, take a note of the url of the file, because y...
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| Deutsche Telekom May Bid for Sprint Nextel |
| 2008-05-05 04:46:44 |
Deutsche Telekom AG is weighing a bid to acquire Sprint Nextel Corp. that could catapult the German telecommunications giant's wireless arm, T-Mobile USA, to the No. 1 position in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter. Deutsche Telekom's deliberations are at a preliminary stage and management may very well turn away, these people cautioned. If a bid is launched for Sprint Nextel, which has a stock-market capitalization of $22 billion and is the No. 3 player in the U.S. wireless market, it could still be weeks, or even months, away, they added. The potential bid is being considered as the former German monopoly scouts for acquisitions in countries outside the German market, where it has seen its revenue shrink in recent years amid rising co...
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| Daimler Mulls Jaguar, Land Rover Cooperation-Paper |
| 2008-05-04 13:21:24 |
FRANKFURT, May 4 - Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche would be interested in a cooperation with carmakers Jaguar and Land Rover, according to a report in a German trade magazine. Zetsche could envision supplying the two brands with components, the magazine, auto motor und sport, quoted him as saying in comments published on Sunday. Jaguar and Land Rover are owned by India's Tata Motors Ltd , who acquired the two automakers from Ford Motor Co for $2.3 billion in March. Daimler owns around 7 percent in the Indian company. "If (chairman) Ratan Tata would approach us in regard to supplying components, we would be open to talks," Zetsche said, adding D...
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| Withdrawal, Or New Ploy In The Battle For Yahoo? |
| 2008-05-04 09:58:10 |
NEW YORK: Is Microsoft really going to walk away from the biggest deal of the software giant's 33-year history? In his negotiations with Yahoo, Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, regularly talked tough. Now, by dropping a sweetened, $47.5 billion bid for the company, he may be adopting the toughest tactic of all. In recent weeks, many analysts had expected Microsoft to escalate the fight by starting a hostile takeover bid. But in a recent meeting with Microsoft employees, Ballmer seemed to suggest that a proxy fight was a relatively unpalatable option. "There's a lot of downsides and some upsides associated with that," he said. A statement explaining Microsoft's decision to pull back emphasized the downsides. "Despite our best efforts, includin...
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| How To Add Favicon Icon To Blogger |
| 2008-05-04 06:57:57 |
Favicon is a little icon appear next to the web addresses, like the one you can see above now. It's not really important to have that favicon on your blog, but if you want to have one, then read on. By the way, just to let you know, favicon, means "favourite icon".Favicon has to be in format, which ends .ico. First you need to design your favicon, which will be, for example the logo of your website, or something that represents the theme of your blog.There are many favicon softwares, which can help you to create your personal icon.For example, one of them is Imagicon. Imagicon can change your images into .ico format. You can download that software from here. I would suggest to use Photoshop to design your favicon image, because I think that's the best im...
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| Bush Says Americans Face a `Tough Economic Period' |
| 2008-05-03 12:28:02 |
May 3 - President George W. Bush said Americans are ``facing a tough economic period'' after reports this week showed the economy lost jobs for a fourth straight month and economic growth was close to a standstill. ``My administration has been clear and candid on the state of the economy,'' Bush said today in his weekly radio address. ``We saw the economic slowdown coming, we were up front about these concerns with the American people, and we've been taking decisive action.'' Payrolls shrank by 20,000 workers last month, following a revised 81,000 drop in March, the Labor Department said yesterday. The same day, the Federal Reserve, seeking to prevent a deeper slowdown, announced fresh mea...
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| Viacom’s Profit Increases 33% With Help From a Video Game |
| 2008-05-03 05:04:18 |
Viacom, the media company controlled by Sumner M. Redstone, said on Friday that its first-quarter profit rose 33 percent on sales of the video game Rock Band and higher ratings at its cable channels. Net income increased to $270 million, or 42 cents a share, from $203 million, or 29 cents, a year earlier, Viacom said. Sales gained 15 percent, to $3.12 billion, exceeding the $2.96 billion average of 18 analysts’ estimates, compiled by Bloomberg. Excluding one-time items, profit of 44 cents a share topped their estimate of 41 cents.Rock Band, a game involving players emulating rock ’n’ rollers with toy instruments, helped increase revenue by 16 percent at Viacom’s media networks business. MTV and Nickelodeon show...
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| Nortel Loss Widens on Job Cuts |
| 2008-05-02 17:33:35 |
May 2 - Nortel Networks Corp., North America's biggest maker of telephone equipment, reported a wider first- quarter loss on expenses for job cuts. The shares fell 2.3 percent in Toronto trading. The net loss expanded to $138 million, or 28 cents a share, from $103 million, or 23 cents, a year earlier, the Toronto-based company said today in a statement. Revenue rose 11 percent to $2.76 billion after the company completed a joint-venture contract with LG Electronics Inc. Costs to cut jobs rose 10 percent to $88 million. Chief Executive Officer Mike Zafirovski is eliminating 2,100 positions and moving another 1,000 to lower-cost locations in a bid to reduce operating expenses. Nortel and larger rival Alcatel-Lucent SA have lost more than half their market value ...
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| How To Add Digg Button To Blogger |
| 2008-05-02 17:25:39 |
Digg is a social network website, where Internet surfers can read and submit different stories. Here I will show to how add a Digg button to your blog with a real-time Digg count and also a vote button on all your blog posts. If a visitor likes your post, he/she will be able vote for it on Digg. When your Digg story becomes popular, you can get huge traffic to your blog. So adding a Digg button will make it easier to Digg and vote for your stories.Digg Count & Digg Vote ButtonBefore we start doing anything, here are few things that you need to do:-a) Make sure that your blog saves Post Pages. Post Pages are archived blog posts published to their own web page. Every Post Page has a unique URL. You will need it to submit stories to Digg. To set your blog t...
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| Amazon Sues Over State Law on Collection of Sales Tax |
| 2008-05-02 13:25:28 |
Amazon.com has filed a lawsuit challenging New York State’s new law forcing online retailers to collect sales tax on shipments to state residents.On Friday, Amazon filed a complaint in State Supreme Court in Manhattan objecting to the law, which was approved as part of the $122 billion state budget that Gov. David A. Paterson signed last week. The law is expected to raise about $50 million.The issue is not whether people should pay tax when they buy goods from out-of-state sellers like Amazon. For decades, the state has required them to pay sales or use tax. The question is whether the vendors must collect that tax on behalf of the state. Generally, only those companies that have a physica...
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| How To Add Blogger Search Box |
| 2008-05-01 17:41:08 |
There is Google Navigation Bar at the top of your blog, which already has a search box. However, you may want to put a search box in the main body of your blog, or somewhere else to improve your visitors blog experience.Go to Template >Page Elements and then click on “Add a Page Element” where ever you want to put a search box. Choose “HTML/JavaScript”.Below is the HTML coding, which is needed to create a search box:<p align="left"><form action="YOUR BLOG URL/search" method="get"><strong>YOUR BLOG NAME<br/></strong><input maxlength="255" name="q" size="20" type="text"/><input value="Search" type="submit"/></form></p>You have to change YOUR BLOG URL to the URL of your blog and also YOUR BLOG NAME to the name that your blog ...
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| April Sales Show Shift to Smaller Cars |
| 2008-05-01 15:42:10 |
DETROIT — Automakers reported higher sales of small cars as oil and gasoline prices climbed to record highs in April, but said Thursday that overall vehicle sales in the United States plummeted during the month. Sales decreased 23 percent from April 2007 at General Motors and 19 percent at the Ford Motor Company. Toyota’s sales fell 4.5 percent, and Nissan’s declined 1.6 percent. The numbers are adjusted to account for two more selling days in April this year.Honda and Chrysler planned to release their sales later Thursday.Much of the misery occurred in the lineups of pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, which consumers have been shunning in search of smaller, more fuel-efficient offerings. That is bad news ...
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| U.S. Weekly Initial Jobless Claims Surge 35,000 To 380,000 |
| 2008-05-01 10:08:51 |
WASHINGTON - Erasing the drop in claims reported last week, first-time filings for state unemployment benefits surged 35,000 to 380,000 in the week ending April 26, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Wall Street economists had expected a result of 360,000. The four-week moving average of initial claims fell 6,500 to 363,750. For the week ending April 19, continuing jobless claims rose 74,000 to 3.02 million - the highest level since April 2004. The four-week average of continuing claims rose 16,750 to 2.98 million - the highest since May 2004.http://www.marketwatch.com...
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| Citigroup Increases Stock Offering to $4.5 Billion |
| 2008-04-30 15:41:18 |
April 30 - Citigroup Inc., under pressure to bolster capital depleted by mounting losses, sold $4.5 billion of stock, 50 percent more than it planned. Citigroup fell 4 percent in New York trading after the biggest U.S. bank said in a statement that it priced 178.1 million shares at $25.27 each, a discount to yesterday's closing price of $26.32. The sale represents about 3 percent of the bank's shares outstanding as of March 31. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit asked investors for new funds after the bank had already raised more than $37 billion during the past five months, more than any financial- services company. Meredith Whitney, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. who was one of the first to predict the extent of Citigr...
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| BG Bids A$12.9 Billion for Origin, Has Record Profit |
| 2008-04-30 10:39:33 |
April 30 - BG Group Plc, the U.K.'s third- largest oil company, made an unsolicited $A12.9 billion ($12 billion) bid for Origin Energy Ltd. to add reserves for an Australian gas venture and reported record first-quarter profit. Talks will take place with Origin, BG said today in a statement after posting a 78 percent jump in net income to 767 million pounds ($1.5 billion). The cash offer values shares of Australia's biggest coal-seam gas producer at A$14.70 each, 40 percent more than yesterday's close. BG has ``got a lot of cash to make major acquisitions,'' Peter Hitchens, an analyst with Seymour Pierce in London, said in a phone interview. The Reading, Englan...
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| Merck Isn't Down For The Count, But The Punches Keep Coming |
| 2008-04-29 17:16:50 |
Merck & Co.'s (MRK) failure to win U.S. regulatory approval for a new cholesterol drug doesn't leave the drug maker down for the count, but it could make it harder to roll with the punches of generic competition in coming years. The Food and Drug Administration's rejection Monday of Cordaptive, just the latest setback for Merck this year, raises further concerns about how the drug giant will replace lost product sales in the coming years, and has led to a $9 billion reduction in the company's market value Tuesday. Those still bullish on the Whitehouse Station, N.J., company tout its respected research pipeline, new product sales and increasingly attractive dividend yield (thanks to the declining stock price). Nonetheless, Cordaptive was expected to be the basis for a franchise genera...
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| Business |
| 2008-04-29 14:29:25 |
Clickbank Business Guide - BusinessIn economics, a business (also called firm or enterprise) is a legally recognized organizational entity designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers or corporate entities such as governments, charities or other businesses. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit to increase the wealth of owners. The owners and operators of a business have as one of their main objectives the receipt or generation of a financial return in exchange for work and acceptance of risk. Notable exceptions include cooperative businesses and state-owned enterprises. Socialistic systems involve either government, public, or worker ownership of most sizable businesses. The et...
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| MasterCard Profit Doubles on International Spending |
| 2008-04-29 13:46:08 |
April 29 - MasterCard Inc., the world's second-biggest credit-card network, said profit more than doubled, earning more than rival Visa Inc. as international revenue rose. The shares surged as much as 14 percent. First-quarter net income increased to $446.9 million, or $3.38 a share, from $214.9 million, or $1.57, a year earlier, the Purchase, New York-based company said today in a statement. Excluding gains from special items, profit was $2.59 a share, exceeding the $2 average estimate of 20 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. MasterCard has beaten analysts' profit estimates every quarter since Chief Executive Officer Robert Selander took the company public in May 2006. The network, which g...
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| Europe Firm On Rates As U.S. Plans Cuts |
| 2008-04-28 17:00:32 |
LONDON - The European Central Bank has stuck to its guns by not cutting rates, but its received mounting pressure from rising inflation and little impact on prices. Meanwhile analysts in the United States are anticipating a quarter-percentage point rate cut on Wednesday. The European Commission warned that it expects inflation within the 15 nation euro zone to rise to 3.2% for the year. This adds to pressure on the European Central Bank to refrain from a confidence-boosting interest-rate cut.The euro slid to $1.5623 on Monday afternoon in New York from $1.5635 in late Friday trading in New York. The euro's 15.0% rise against the dollar over the past year is particularly painful for the continent's manufacturing co...
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| Forex |
| 2008-04-28 16:21:19 |
Clickbank Business Guide - ForexThe foreign exchange (currency or forex or FX) market exists wherever one currency is traded for another. It is by far the largest financial market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, central banks, currency speculators, multinational corporations, governments, and other financial markets and institutions. The average daily trade in the global forex and related markets currently is over US$ 3 trillion.Market size and liquidityThe foreign exchange market is unique because of its trading volumes,the extreme liquidity of the market,the large number of, and variety of, traders in the market,its geographical dispersion,its long trading hours: 24 hours a day (except on weekends),the variety of factors that affe...
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| RadioShack Shares Fall On 1st-Quarter Earnings |
| 2008-04-28 13:37:07 |
NEW YORK - Shares of RadioShack Corp. declined on Monday after the electronics retailer said first-quarter profit fell 9 percent, hurt by weak results from its Sprint wireless business.Sales fell 4 percent to $949 million but came in ahead of expectations.RadioShack is in the midst of a turnaround plan led by Chief Executive Julian C. Day to bolster results. Since 2006, the company has closed more than 500 stores and trimmed other expenses.Matthew J. Fassler of Goldman Sachs said in a note to investors on Monday that the absence of a sales pullback in March was "impressive," but added that the sales performance came at a price."Gross margin missed our forecast, operating margin declined for the first time in six quarters and inventory growth exceeded cost-of-goods-sold growth for the first...
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| Eos Airlines Files for Bankruptcy |
| 2008-04-27 12:05:16 |
Eos Airlines Inc., a transatlantic, all-business-class airline, filed for bankruptcy protection over the weekend and said it will shut down Sunday, becoming the fourth U.S. carrier to go out of business this month. Rising fuel prices, tight credit markets and the slowing economy are wreaking havoc on all U.S. carriers. But smaller, less well-funded companies are proving unable to withstand the challenges. Aloha AirGroup Inc., ATA Airlines Inc. and Skybus Airlines Inc. ceased operations earlier in April and Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc., filed for bankruptcy protection but continues to operate. Closely held Eos, based in Purchase, N.Y., earlier this month said it expected to receive $50 million in new capital from a...
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| Stock |
| 2008-04-27 08:37:17 |
Clickbank Business Guide - StockA share (also referred to as equity shares) of stock represents a share of ownership in a corporation.Types of stockStock typically takes the form of shares of common stock (or voting shares). As a unit of ownership, common stock typically carries voting rights that can be exercised in corporate decisions. Preferred stock differs from common stock in that it typically does not carry voting rights but is legally entitled to receive a certain level of dividend payments before any dividends can be issued to other shareholders. Convertible preferred stock is preferred stock that includes an option for the holder to convert the preferred shares into a fixed number of common shares, usually anytime after a predetermined date. Share...
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| Strong Mac Sales Lead Apple Earnings Growth |
| 2008-04-27 05:12:28 |
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Inc. shares bounced back from a weak start Thursday as investors got behind the company following its second-quarter report in which strong sales of Macintosh PCs helped drive Apple's earnings up 36% from a year ago. Apple rose $6.05 a share or 3.7%, to close at $168.94 after the company reported earnings of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 a share, on $7.51 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 31. During the same period a year ago, Apple earned $770 million, or 87 cents a share, on sales of $5.26 billion. The results topped Apple's forecast for a profit of 94 cents a share and $6.8 billion in revenue. Analysts surveyed by FactSet ...
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| Zuckerman Matches Murdoch's Newsday Bid |
| 2008-04-26 14:51:06 |
NEW YORK - New York Daily News publisher Mortimer Zuckerman has matched News Corp.'s $580 million offer to buy Newsday, raising the ante for one of the region's major dailies, even as the overall newspaper industry continues to shrink, reports said.The real-estate developer made the offer late Friday to buy the Melville, N.Y.-based newspaper from Tribune Co. after News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch was reported Tuesday to have inked a deal to purchase the publication. News Corp. would own most of the company and Tribune would keep a stake of less than 5%, reports said. Zuckerman is expected argue to executives at debt-laden Tribune that his bid is superior because it can be completed faster and with less potential to fall into regulatory limbo, the New York Times reported. ...
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| Dot-com Company |
| 2008-04-26 11:32:32 |
Clickbank Business Guide - Dot-com CompanyA Dot-com company, or simply a dot-com, is a company which does most of its business on the Internet, usually through a website that uses the popular top-level domain, ".com" (in turn derived from the word "commercial"). During the stock market crash ending the Dot-com bubble, many failed and failing companies became known as dot-bombs, dot-cons, dot-composts or dot-gones. While dot-com can refer to present day companies, it is also used specifically to refer to companies with this business model during the late 1990s. Many of these startups formed to take advantage of the surplus of venture capital funding. Many were launched with very thin business plans, sometimes with nothing more than an idea and a catchy nam...
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| Yahoo-Microsoft Fight Heads for a Deadline |
| 2008-04-26 05:00:05 |
Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. remained in a standoff Friday as a threatened Microsoft deadline for a hostile acquisition attempt approached.The two companies and their advisers have been talking in recent weeks, but achieved no breakthroughs that would lead them to a friendly deal by Saturday, said people familiar with the matter. That's the day Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has set as a deadline for Yahoo to reach a friendly deal before Microsoft goes hostile, threatening to lower the price in that case. The people familiar with the matter said that, as of late Friday, no meetings between the two companies were planned for the weekend and they were skeptical that any friend...
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| Microsoft’s Vista Problem |
| 2008-04-25 17:14:22 |
Microsoft keeps insisting that Windows Vista is a winner, but the questions keep mounting — and Thursday’s quarterly report only added to the doubts. Revenue from the company’s so-called client division — PC operating systems mainly — came in at a bit under $4.03 billion. That was about $300 million less than most analysts had expected. Christopher P. Liddell, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, said the shortfall had two principal explanations. First, he pointed to the mix of Windows Vista sales in fast-growing emerging markets, where fewer customers buy the premium versions of the PC operating system software than in the developed world. Second, he said that Microsoft’s programs to combat piracy of Windows, which had bolstered sale...
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| Electronic Business |
| 2008-04-25 12:16:38 |
Clickbank Business Guide - Electronic BusinessElectronic Business, commonly referred to as "eBusiness" or "e-Business", may be defined broadly as any business process that relies on an automated information system. Today, this is mostly done with Web-based technologies. The term "e-Business" was coined by Lou Gerstner, CEO of IBM. Electronic business methods enable companies to link their internal and external data processing systems more efficiently and flexibly, to work more closely with suppliers and partners, and to better satisfy the needs and expectations of their customers. In practice, e-business is more than just e-commerce. While e-business refers to more strategic focus with an emphasis on the functions th...
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| Goodyear Tire 1Q Earnings $147M |
| 2008-04-25 07:47:38 |
NEW YORK - Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Friday reported first-quarter earnings of $147 million, or 60 cents a share. These results include financing fees related to debt repayment of 18 cents a share, rationalization charges of 5 cents a share, a gain of 13 cents a share from asset sales and a gain of 3 cents a share from a tax settlement. The mean estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters, which typically exclude items, was for a profit of 47 cents a share in the March period. In the same period a year earlier, the Akron, Ohio-based tire maker lost $174 million, or 96 cents a share, including discontinued operations. Sales totaled $4.94 billion for the latest three months, up 10% from $4.5 billion in th...
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| Ford Posts $100 Million Profit, Defying Loss Forecast |
| 2008-04-24 12:22:51 |
April 24 - Ford Motor Co. reported an unexpected first-quarter profit as Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally cut jobs in North America and tripled earnings in Europe, a sign that his turnaround plan may be working. The world's third-largest automaker earned $100 million, or 5 cents a share, compared with a deficit of $282 million, or 15 cents, a year earlier. Analysts had forecast a loss. The shares gained as much as 9.6 percent in New York trading. With more expense reductions about to kick in and Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford stepping up new-vehicle introductions, Mulally may be poised to deliver on his promise to stop losses that totaled $15.3 billion in t...
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