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Google to Acquire Frommer's
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 - 7:49am | 406Read More...Internet search engine company Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is set to acquire Frommer's Travel Guides from publisher John Wiley & Sons (NYSE: JW.A)(NYSE: JW.B). Though the deal is yet to close, The Wall Street Journal reports that Google will pay roughly $25 million for Frommer's in hopes that the...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of December 5
Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 10:46am | 860Read More...With investors and analysts keeping one eye on how the holiday shopping season is progressing and another eye on what's happening in the eurozone, there may be little on the earnings front this week that attracts much attention. Among the week's most high profile quarterly reports are those from...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of September 5
Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 3:54pm | 806Read More...Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) are the only S&P 500 components currently on the schedule to report earnings this holiday-shortened week. Analysts on average expect the semiconductor maker to post earnings that are a nickel per share lower than a year ago. But earnings of the...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of September 5
Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 3:46pm | 806Read More...Altera (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) are the only S&P 500 components currently on the schedule to report earnings this holiday-shortened week. Analysts on average expect the semiconductor maker to post earnings that are a nickel per share lower than a year ago. But earnings of the...
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Apple to Introduce Text Books for the New Tablet. - Will Text Books be the Next Chapter in the E-Book Wars?
Friday, January 22, 2010 - 1:50pm | 146Read More...Adding to all the buzz about Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new tablet Computer is talk about putting text books on the Tablet. Will this be the next chapter in the e-book war? In a story on Bloomberg, Apple is in talks with McGraw Hill, (NYSE: MHP) Hachette Book Group, and Wiley (NYSE:JW.A) to put text...
