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Best Buy Beats Wall Street Estimates

Best Buy Stock Outperforms – Consumer Electronics is Thriving – Up 37% in fourth quarter of 2009. Perhaps it’s because of the drop in prices for flat screen, high definition televisions; or maybe even it’s because of the insatiable thirst for cell phones; but one thing is for certain – Best Buy’s business outlook is […]

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Michael Lewis 60 Minutes Interview (Video)

Michael Lewis 60 Minutes Interview Michael Lewis, author of one of the defining books about Wall Street excess, “Liar’s Poker,” told60 Minutes that bonuses at banks bailed out by the government are akin to “a very elegant form of theft.” The Michael Lewis interviewed aired tonight at 7pm EST, and instantly became one of the hottest […]

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Microsoft Employees Are Loyal iPhone Users

According to a Wall Street Journal report, some Microsoft employees are secretly loyal iPhone users.  But the executives at Microsoft, including Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO – don’t seem to struggle with this loyalty issue; they are all using a Mobile 7 OS powered phones. Here’s what happened to one Microsoft employee who took a picture […]

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Ohio State Shooting – 2 People Dead

From The Wall Street Journal: An Ohio State University employee shot two co-workers in a campus-maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself.

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Google Phone “Nexus One” To Sell Next Year

The Wall Street Journal has just released what looks like to be verified information about a Google Phone – a phone manufactured and sold directly by Google – called “Nexus One” that will be available as early as next year. From WSJ: “Google Inc. has designed a cellphone it plans to sell directly to consumers […]

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*Video* News Corp vs. Google – The Free Online Content Debate Continues

Paid vs. Free Online Content It’s clear that Rupert Murdoch wants to pull all of his online content sites – including the online version of The Wall Street Journal – from Google. But is this a good idea?   Here’s the Kudlow Report debating this issue (you have to watch a 15-second commercial – sorry!) […]

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Google Posts Largest-Ever Quarterly Profit Of $1.64 billion

On Thursday, Google posted their 3rd quarter earnings to Wall Street and it was the largest profit ever for the search engine giant! From TechSpot.com – Google’s quarterly net income rose 27% to $1.64 billion ($5.13 per share) from $1.29 billion ($4.06 a share) a year ago, beating analyst’s expectations. Revenue climbed 7% to $5.94 […]