Google and Yahoo strike ad deal
A important news you need to know how this deal will effect your advertising effort moving forward with the 2 biggest Giants of Internet. Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal Yahoo Inc. agreed Thursday to a search-advertising deal with rival Google Inc. just hours after announcing that Microsoft Corp. was no longer in the
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Market updates and outlook
The markets drove higher this past week taking our bullish plays with them… BURLINGTON NORTHERN (BNI) JUMPED OVER SIX DOLLARS THIS PAST WEEK DRIVING OUR BNI JUNE 105 CALLS TO AN OUTSTANDING EIGHTY-ONE PERCENT PROFIT! Plus earlier in the week we took profits on Yingli Green (YGE) as the play ticked into the positive—however those
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Washington Mutual exit the wholesale mortgage business
Here is an interesting article today from NEW YORK (CNN) — Washington Mutual told employees Monday that it will exit the wholesale lending business and close home-loan centers nationwide. Washington Mutual, the nation’s largest savings-and-loan association, is taking those steps to focus on delivering home-lending products to customers through banking stores and online, a WaMu
- Published in Financial Market, Real Estate
Microsoft gives yahoo ultimatum on merger offer
Microsoft (MSFT) just drop a time bomb on Yahoo (YHOO). Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Apr. 5 sent a letter giving Yahoo’s board three weeks before it initiates a proxy fight, including nomination of a new slate of directors likely to approve the deal. “Microsoft’s preference has always been to offer a speedy and friendly
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IT’S NOT AN “APRIL FOOLS” JOKE
FRONT PAGE NEWS OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TODAY – THIS IS NO “APRIL FOOLS” JOKE Americans Delay Retirement As Housing, Stocks Swoon Nest Eggs Shrink, Deferring Dreams; ‘Freaked Out’ Elite By JENNIFER LEVITZ April 1, 2008 As the falling real-estate and stock markets erode their savings, many aging Americans are delaying retirement, electing labor
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This is the bottom?
The stock rallied 420+ point again this week. Last Tuesday the Dow rose 415 points, the most in five years. By Friday, Bear Stearns was almost bankrupt. So after jumping 420 points today, why would investors think this time will be any different? Jim Cramer of mad money said he has 10 reasons, actually, that
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Are we near a bottom?
I have been talking about the market mess daily on my blog but the news is important enough today to make sure everyone knows what is happening. I have been through this before so i know that history always repeats itself but not always in the same way. The media is hyping the bad news
- Published in Financial Market, Real Estate