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Sergey Brin: "We screwed up" on WiFi data collection
During a Q&A at Google I/O, company co-founder Sergey Brin responded to an off-topic question about the controversial WiFi data collection associated with shooting Street View images. Brin’s short answer: “We screwed up.”
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The time is right for the WebM video project
What do you do when the tech industry is in a Web video pissing match that just won’t end? If you’re Google you open source the video codec acquired in the On2 Technologies deal and create a project called WebM. The WebM effort is so needed that Microsoft, Google, Mozilla and Opera all will support it.
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ECB’s Trichet Breaks Rules to Aid Greece, Prevent Contagion
Filed under: Financial Crisis , Currency European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, who earlier relaxed lending rules for one country, diluted the lending rules for a second time Tuesday by announcing that the ECB will continue to indefinitely accept Greek bonds as collateral despite their downgrade by ratings agencies, Bloomberg News reported . The move came after rumors pervaded the stock, bond, and currency markets Tuesday that Spain may need a European Union and/or International Monetary Fund aid package to stabilize its financial situation
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Is Apple Trying To Be More Like Google?
Filed under: Competitive Strategy , Google (GOOG) , Apple Inc (AAPL) With Apple, Inc. ( AAPL ) continuing to set the consumer electronics world on fire, it’s a problem every company would love to have. Apple, at the top of its game from just about every angle, is timing its product launches in almost every category to capture the hearts and minds of consumers all over the globe
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Northeast Utilities: Safety, With Some Growth
Filed under: Stocks to Buy , Northeast Utilities (NU) Looking for a stock investment that provides provides safety, as well as some growth. Well, you may want to consider Northeast Utilities ( NU ), first discussed here on May 5, 2009 at a price of $21.48. During the depths of the market low in March 2009, NU dropped….to about $18.90 — hardly a portfolio-wrecker
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MasterCard: Solid Q1, Shares Rise Despite Dow’s Drop
Filed under: MasterCard Inc’A’ (MA) , Stocks to Buy Investors liked what they saw in credit/debit card payment transaction giant MasterCard’s ( MA ) first quarter report: earnings of $3.46 per share, compared to the Thomson/Reuters First Call estimate of $3.14 . MasterCard earned $2.80 a year ago. First quarter revenue rose about 8% to $1.3 billion , compared to the First Call estimate of $1.27 billion .
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General Mills Will Split 2-For-1
Filed under: Good news , General Mills (GIS) , Options , Technical Analysis General Mills ( GIS – option chain ) shares are rising slightly today after the company announced a two-for-one stock split after the close of trading yesterday. The split will be effected in the form of a 100% stock dividend payable on June 8 to shareholders as of May 28
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NetSuite Makes Rain from the Cloud
Filed under: Technology NetSuite ( N ), which provides a suite of web-based business applications, usually has a tough first quarter (this is typically the case for software companies). But this time around, the company was able buck the trend. In Q1 , NetSuite had a record quarter, with revenues up 5.7% to $43.9 million and cash flows from operations of $4.7 million.
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InterMune Singled Out for a Bullish Options Strategy
Filed under: Options , Technical Analysis InterMune ( ITMN ) has already racked up an impressive year-to-date gain of more than 268%, but one bullish bettor is expecting the equity’s uptrend to continue during the near term. On Monday, a cautiously upbeat options trader singled out the drug stock for a long call spread.
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Google Chrome update: Speed, performance and a deeper push into browser computing
Google boasts speed and performance improvements in an update of the Google Chrome browser but new features push deeper into browser-based computing.
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