Analysis Topic: Companies Analysis
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
FaceBook Investors Zuckerberged, 36% Crash, Clueless Telegraph Implies Cheap at $38 But Expensive at $29 / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Facebook Investors have most definitely been Zuckerberged as the Facebook stock price has crashed by 36% since its first day trading high of $45, currently down about 25% on its $38 IPO with more losses to come.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Huffington Post Alone Won’t Rescue AOL, A Case Study into Failure / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Mike_Stathis
Recently, I reminded readers of a very lucrative (and what I felt was a very obvious) long-short equity strategy I discussed that would have yielded huge returns to those who opted to take on this risky maneuver.
I normally don’t recommend that everyday investors take short positions because it’s extremely risk for many reasons. Most non-professional investors fail to recognize the risks involved with shorting securities because taking a short position is just a mouse click away if you have an online brokerage account. That in itself is an entirely different issue that needs to be addressed by the SEC.
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Tuesday, February 08, 2011
AOL Huffington Post Takeover To Strengthen Pursuit of Online Media Content Crown / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
Internet company AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) announced late Sunday night it was buying liberal news Web site The Huffington Post to try to advance its reinvention as a top online media content provider.
AOL will pay $315 million for the popular site that was co-founded in 2005 by Arianna Huffington. The Huffington Post is privately owned by co-founder Huffington, Chairman Kenneth Lerer and a group of investors.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Why the New York Times Is Going Broke / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Eric_Englund
As The New York Times Company’s independent registered public accountant, you – Ernst & Young, LLP – undoubtedly are conscious of the grossly negligent financial management exercised by The New York Times Company’s top executives during this decade. As I conveyed in an essay written earlier this year: "Since 2000, The New York Times Company has generated a respectable cumulative net income of $1,598,062,000. Yet management, over the same period, has paid out $2,779,601,000 for stock buybacks and dividends.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sky+, HD+ and Digital TV Recorders are Killing UK Broadcast TV Advertising / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Nadeem_Walayat
More than 50% of Sky's 10 million customers now subscribe to Sky+ or HD+ coupled with several million more digital TV recorders used by free to air users poses a serious and growing threat to the advertising revenues of all of the broadcast TV channels.
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Saturday, April 04, 2009
Deflationary Depression Hits News Print Mainstream Media / Companies / Mainstream Media
By: Mike_Shedlock
Deflationary news continues to hit the newsprint industry. Please consider New York Times threatens to shut Boston Globe . The New York Times Co has threatened to shut The Boston Globe unless the newspaper's unions quickly agree to $20 million in concessions, the Globe reported on Friday, quoting union leaders.Read full article... Read full article...