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The major stock indexes have declined faster than they rallied after the announcement of the Bank of America deal with angel investor Warren Buffett. At first, many traders and investors thought this was good news, now it is really turning out to be a negative report for the investing public. This...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the arrival in New York City of AmazonLocal (www.amazonlocal.com), a new local deals marketplace offering savings of at least 50 percent off products and services at restaurants, spas, fun events and more. The company also announced that AmazonLocal...

Piper Jaffray is out with its report today on Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), maintaining Overweight. In its report, Piper Jaffray writes, "We believe many of the assumptions underlying our Netflix estimates could prove conservative and the recent pullback in shares of NFLX is a buying opportunity."...

Barclays has initiated coverage on the following companies: Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW) Equal-weight, $3 PT Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) Overweight, $600 PT Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE) Equal-weight, $34 PT America Online (NYSE: AOL) Equal-weight, $34 PT

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) is expanding its AmazonLocal service to Manhattan, Brooklyn, Charlotte, N.C., Austin, Texas, Orlando, Fla., northern Virginia and other locations. AmazonLocal, which started in June with the service's launch in Boise, Idaho, will now have 30 locations in 10 states. It's...

With the recent equity market volatility, shares across every sector have fallen sharply. That does not mean that fundamentals have changed that much, especially for the media companies. In fact, CBS (NYSE: CBS) appears to be getting stronger, not weaker, and the recent pullback in shares could...

If the $499 iPad 2 is too expensive for your tastes, Vizio has a lower-cost solution – now with Hulu Plus support. Vizio is bragging today that it has produced the first Android tablet that can play Hulu Plus. Simply referred to as the Vizio 8" Tablet, Business Insider reports that this $299 iPad...

Below are the top catalog & mail order houses stocks on the NASDAQ in terms of earnings estimate for the next year. The earnings estimate for Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) for the next year ending December, 2012 is $3.25 per share. AMZN's trailing-twelve-month revenue is $40.28 billion. IAC/...

Stocks are advancing sharply across the board. This happened after the S&P 500 held the all important 1122 level. This level was the key low for the last three trading days. The move in the markets appears to be a melt up, as short covering starts ahead of a major speech by Federal Reserve...

Piper Jaffray is out with a research report on Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and it has an Overweight rating and a $271 price target on shares. In a note to clients, Piper Jaffray writes, "We believe AWS accounts for 2% of revenue today and will grow to be 3% in 2013. While the business is small...

This is your Benzinga news summary and traders' outlook for Tuesday, August 23, 2011, covering headlines from overnight and Tuesday's pre-market session. Today in domestic pre-market trading, U.S equity futures are trading higher. At last check, Dow futures are up about 100 points and the U.S....

Amazon Web Services LLC, an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today introduced Amazon ElastiCache, a new web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache for web applications running in the AWS cloud. The new service improves the performance of web applications by...

Credit Suisse has initiated coverage on Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE) with a Neutral rating and $37 price target.

But isn't that chump change compared to what Hulu is or will be worth? The Wall Street Journal (via Business Insider) reports that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is still aggressively seeking ownership of Hulu. With a price tag ranging from a paltry $500 million to a questionably low $2 billion, Google...

While the indexes are down less than 20% from their peak, this week's round of selling did a lot more damage to the leadership stocks (what I call the generals) than we saw a few weeks ago.  A few names like Netflix (NFLX) have completely been obliterated, while others like Priceline.com (PCLN) now...