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The following is an excerpt from Jenna Schnuer | November 28, 2011 | Entrepreneur.com
The parties often went late into the night, with up to 150 friends milling about their pool, gathered around the piano, singing, talking and laughing. Scott Jones and his partner, Kell Hicklin, loved entertaining. So when they ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Christina DesMarais | November 22, 2011 | Inc.com
It wasn't apps or cloud computing, if that's what you’re thinking. Here’s where CIOs spent their money, and why it matters to your business.
It’s fitting that Michael Lewis’s “Moneyball” just came out in theaters. The movie, which ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: Anthony John Agnello | November 29, 2011 | thestreet.com |
NEW YORK (InvestorPlace) -- Word is that AT&T(T_) is going to be back in the business of hocking high-end, exclusive smartphones again starting early next year. Kaufman Bros. analyst Ben Abramovitz said in a Friday ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Dunstan Paul | November 29, 2011 | Foxbusiness.com
Standard & Poor’s on Tuesday cut its credit ratings for many of the world’s largest banks, including Citigroup (NYSE: C), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC).
The move follows S&P’s shift, announced earlier this ... Read More
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Dr. Alexei “Alex” Bogdan, Founder of Toronto-based Quantitative Alpha Trading, talks with the Opportunist’s Managing Editor Leslie Stone about his company’s proprietary securities trading systems.
For more than a decade, Quantitative Alpha Trading or QAT (formerly known as RTN Stealth Technologies Inc.) has been researching, developing and maintaining proprietary algorithmic securities ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Z. Byron Wolf | November 28, 2011 | ABCNews.com
Rep. Barney Frank, the first serving member of Congress to come out as gay and a powerful Democrat whose name is attached to the sweeping Wall Street reform bill, announced today that he will not seek ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Roland Li | November 28, 2011 | ibtimes.com
A retail space at 60 Greene Street in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood has sold for $10.35 million, according to New York City records, one of two recent deals that cement the street's reputation as a desirable retail strip.
Soho ... Read More
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Christophe Thierry Rocancourt (1967 - ), also known as Christopher Rocancourt, is an impostor, confidence man and gentleman thief who scammed affluent people by masquerading as, among other things, a French member of the Rockefeller family.
He told Dateline NBC in a 2006 broadcast that his mother sometimes worked as a ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from dailyfinance.com | November 28, 2011 |
NEW YORK -A strong start to the U.S. shopping season and fresh proposals for a far-reaching solution to Europe's debt crisis sent stocks sharply higher Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 300 points in afternoon trading, making up ... Read More
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1982: $0.82/Share 2011: $29.71/Share
In 1886, David H. McConnell founded the California Perfume Company, which eventually became Avon, in New York City. A book salesman, he had created a rose-scented perfume as a "free gift" to encourage people to buy his books. The perfume became so popular, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Michael Schuman | November 28, 2011 | Time.com
Reading about developments in the euro zone these days makes me recall the old American TV sci-fi show Lost in Space. Every time the Robinson family got itself into trouble, their robot would swing its arms and ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from BBC News.com | November 27, 2011
Iraq has agreed a final $17bn (£11bn) deal over 25 years with Royal Dutch Shell and Mitsubishi to capture flared gas at southern oilfields.
It is one of the largest Iraq has signed with foreign energy firms, and should boost ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Emily Lambert | November 16,2011 | Forbes.com
This story appears in the Dec. 5 Investment Guide issue of Forbes Magazine. Click here for the full Investment Guide 2012 special report.
Lori and Joe Biancofiori got married in May 2009 and left for a one-week honeymoon in ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: Nicole Ridgway | November 26, 2011 | Money.CNN.com
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Preliminary reports for Black Friday indicate that retailers may have seen their strongest sales ever during the all-important kick-off to the holiday shopping season.
Retail sales on Black Friday climbed 6.6% this year to ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Peter Kafka | November 22, 2011 | allthingsd.com
Netflix is raising $400 million it says it doesn’t need but would be nice to have. If only the company had thought about this back in the summer of 2010.
That’s when the streaming video company authorized a ... Read More
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Today we are facing a marked change in the ability of small profitable privately held companies to enter the public market through a reverse merger.
We have provided below an initial question and answer format for your consideration to approaching and listing on the Frankfurt Exchange.
Whether you are considering a Frankfurt ... Read More
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By Brenda Lee Hamilton, Esquire
Hamilton & Associates Law Group
SecuritiesLawyer101.com
On July 9, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved rules to increase the standards for companies going public through a reverse merger to list on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), American Stock Exchange (“Amex”) and the NASDAQ Stock Market ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Dominic Basulto | November 22, 2011 | washingtonpost.com
Warren Buffett, widely acknowledged as one of the world’s most savvy investors, has famously avoided any investment in the high-tech sector, preferring instead to invest in stodgy industrial companies with more predictable earnings. That appeared to change, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Investors' Soapbox PM | November 22, 2011 | online.barrons.com
Intel and Altera are the best in the sector as inventory days near a peak.
Macquarie Capital (USA)
After third-quarter results from Hewlett-Packard and Tech Data this week we analyzed inventory levels at companies in the PC original-equipment ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Joanne Lipman | In Newsweek Magazine | October 23, 2011 | thedailybeast.com
CEO Indra Nooyi wants Wall Street protesters to know she’s on their side—sort of.
Still shaking off jet lag from a business trip to Russia and Turkey, PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi is talking ... Read More
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