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  • Telefónica seeks O2 engagement

    Telefónica seeks O2 engagement

    January 21, 2015 Harry Joiner
    Concerns rise about owning a shrinking mobile-only business as rivals bolster broadband and TV Source: Companies
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    January 21, 2015Telefónica seeks O2 engagement
    Obama Seeks to Burnish His Climate Legacy, But Will His Oil and Gas Policies Haunt Him?

    Obama Seeks to Burnish His Climate Legacy, But Will His Oil and Gas Policies Haunt Him?

    January 21, 2015 Harry Joiner
    In at least three previous State of the Union speeches, President Barack Obama placed great emphasis on his "all of the above" energy strategy — one that includes both aggressive pursuit of…
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    January 21, 2015Obama Seeks to Burnish His Climate Legacy, But Will His Oil and Gas Policies Haunt Him?
    Windows 10's Cortana: A Solution Without A Problem?

    Windows 10's Cortana: A Solution Without A Problem?

    January 21, 2015 Harry Joiner
    A large focus of Microsoft's press event today other than high-concept holograms and Windows 10 itself was the personification of the OS, Cortana. We've seen the Halo-themed AI (complete with original…
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    January 21, 2015Windows 10's Cortana: A Solution Without A Problem?
    Microsoft Augments Reality With Windows Holographic

    Microsoft Augments Reality With Windows Holographic

    January 21, 2015 Harry Joiner
    Microsoft debuted its new augmented reality tech at the Windows 10 live event today. Source: Technology
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    January 21, 2015Microsoft Augments Reality With Windows Holographic
    With Windows 10 You Can Stream Any Xbox One Game To Your PC Or Tablet

    With Windows 10 You Can Stream Any Xbox One Game To Your PC Or Tablet

    January 21, 2015 Harry Joiner
    Xbox One users are gaining the ability to stream any Xbox One game to an in-network tablet or PC running Windows 10. Source: Technology
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    January 21, 2015With Windows 10 You Can Stream Any Xbox One Game To Your PC Or Tablet

Thermal Solar Energy — Some Technologies Really Are Dumb

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Mojave Desert was the largest thermal solar generating station in the world when it was completed. Unfortunately, it has failed to live up to its expectations and will probably not be repeated in the United States. 40 Ivanpahs, costing about $85 billion and having triple the carbon footprint, is needed to replace the loss of California?s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. Source: Technology
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The Brain May Compensate For Heavy Pot Smoking — Until It Can't Anymore

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
The brain can compensate for marijuana-induced changes to its structure, but only for a while. Source: Technology
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How To Change Your Brain For The Better

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Source: Technology
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Gherkin deal reflects Brazil M&A appetite

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Safra’s purchase of London skyscraper ranks among country’s largest ones overseas Source: Companies
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4 Ways Your Smartphone Is Making You Dumber

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Research is making it increasingly clear that your first love–your smartphone–is hurting all the other relationships that it’s supposed to be helping. Source: Technology
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Bad bank investors target Italian loans

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
ECB stress test results and regulators’ clean up efforts shift focus away from Spanish lenders Source: Companies
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YouTube signs with indie labels

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Deal ends long-running negotiation and paves way for launch of subscription offering Source: Companies
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Standard Chartered to close branches

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Closures will save $400m a year as bank switches focus to managing assets of wealthy clients Source: Companies
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How to handle a non team player

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
A member of my team refuses to share information and is prone to finger-pointing others to managers Source: Management
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Blinkx swings into loss as revenues fall

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Company struggled since Harvard professor questioned its data and a broader consumer shift to mobile Source: Companies
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‘Start-up Nation’ stifled

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Immigration restrictions are a worry for Israeli tech companies Source: Management
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Intel, Microsoft Lift 'Dogs of the Dow' Toward a Winning 2014

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Company News, Market News, Computer Industry, Dividend Stocks, Investing Sam Yeh/AFP/Getty ImagesRenee J. James is president of Intel. With interest rates still near record lows, and classic safe investments paying meager returns, growing numbers of conservative (and savvy) investors are turning to dividend stocks to generate the income they need from their investments. Dividend stocks have also produced stronger total returns than the overall [...]
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Sentiment and squeamishness bloat costs

November 11, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
As businesses prepare their annual budgets they should not become blinded by sales growth Source: Management
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Serco offers a ‘cautionary tale’

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Problem contracts on asylum seekers and prisoners underscore the challenges Source: Companies
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Paulson Advantage fund down 24 pct for year after tough October

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
BOSTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Hedge fund manager John Paulson’s once-vaunted Advantage fund took a double-digit tumble last month and is down 24 percent year to date after a pharmaceutical industry merger fell apart and U.S. mortgage companies fell on a judge’s ruling. Source: Financials
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UPDATE 2-Russia lets rouble float after months of turbulence

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
MOSCOW, Nov 10 (Reuters) – The rouble strengthened on Monday after the central bank let the currency float, defying market turbulence to meet a long-standing policy goal, and President Vladimir Putin said speculators risked losing money. Source: Financials
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Software maker Hortonworks files for IPO

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Nov 10 (Reuters) – Enterprise software maker Hortonworks Inc filed with U.S. regulators on Monday to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of common stock. Source: Financials
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TransferWise set for $1bn valuation

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Sequoia Capital in late-stage discussions to invest $50m in money transfer company Source: Companies
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On Deck Capital files for IPO

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Nov 10 (Reuters) – On Deck Capital Inc, an online platform for small business lending, filed with U.S. regulators on Monday to raise up to $150 million in an initial public offering of common stock. Source: Financials
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UPDATE 1-U.S. releases low 2015 Obamacare enrollment forecast

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. administration on Monday dramatically cut expectations for 2015 Obamacare enrollment, saying between 9 million and 9.9 million people will enroll in private health plans, compared with a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecast of 13 million. Source: Financials
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In Volatile October Retail Investors Sought Stability But Bought Big

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
In October the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Nasdaq Composite wiped out gains for 2014 and then popped back to near record highs. Such considerations might seem the perfect storm for panic selling followed by regret, but new data from TD Ameritrade shows by and large retail investors did just the opposite. Source: Markets
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The 10 Names Retail Investors Traded Most In 2013

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Apple was the most actively traded stock every month of 2013. Source: Markets
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Obama urges ban on internet ‘fast lanes’

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Cable groups protest at president’s call for broadband to be regulated as a public utility Source: Companies
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One Put, One Call Option To Know About for Apple

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Apple Inc (NASD: AAPL). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one interesting call contract, from the January 2015 expiration for AAPL. Source: Markets
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Interesting January 2015 Stock Options for Exxon Mobil

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one interesting call contract, from the January 2015 expiration for XOM. Source: Markets
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Interesting September 2015 Stock Options for Wal-Mart Stores

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT). So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one interesting call contract, from the September 2015 expiration for WMT. Source: Markets
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Lonmin chief outlines cost-cutting plans

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Platinum miner posts $326m yearly pre-tax loss as strikes in South Africa hit output Source: Companies
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Sotheby’s narrows third-quarter losses

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Auction house beats forecasts in ‘robust’ art market Source: Companies
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Lehman, the crash and making history

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Will important documents from the financial crisis be destroyed? Source: Management
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Fu Lu Shou, Hong Kong

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
The most sought-after joints in this densely packed spit of land are those that are best hidden Source: Management
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Keep up with the exaggeration arms race

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
We discount wild claims made by businesses but they still work Source: Management
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Default mode for managers needs a reset

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Too many managers prefer to stay within divisional silos, suspicious of ideas ‘not invented here’ Source: Management
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Why Can't Investors Let Go of Their Portfolios' Losers?

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Investing Getty Images By Matthew Amster-Burton Do you own stocks that are down significantly since you bought them, but that you can’t bring yourself to sell? Selling “loser” stocks can make sense, especially as we get close to the year’s end, and those losses can offer a tax break on capital gains elsewhere in one’s portfolio. Yet, investors tend to do just the opposite: They sell their winners and hang onto their losers. That’s the consistent finding of nearly 30 years of research on the Read Full Article →

Last Week's Biggest Stock Movers: Herbalife Declines

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Company News, Earnings, Market News, Investing Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg/Getty Images Plenty of stocks go up and down in any given week. The gainers inspire us to keep investing. The decliners keep greed in check while reminding us about the risks of the equity markets. Let’s go over some of last week’s best and worst performers. King Digital Entertainment (KING) — Up 20 percent last week Boot.getJS({ [...]
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Wall Street This Week: Furnishing and Building Homes

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Company News, Earnings, Market News, Investing Donna Mcwilliam/AP From a recent initial public offering checking in with its first quarter as a public company to a homebuilder expected to post healthy double-digit growth as the housing market starts to get frothy, here are some of the things that will help shape the week that lies ahead on Wall Street. Monday — Wayfair Steps Up It’s been a rough first few weeks for [...]
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5 Reasons Investopedia is Dead Wrong About Index Funds

November 10, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Filed under: Investing Basics, Index Funds, Investing Richard Drew/AP When popular financial sites like Investopedia start bashing index funds, you know the gig is almost up for active management. For years, investors have been bamboozled by fund managers who claim to have the skill to “beat the market.” The reality is that most active fund managers underperform the market in any given year, and an [...]
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UPDATE 1-Qatar fund may up bid for Canary Wharf owner Songbird-Sunday Times

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
(Adds no comment from Brookfield, no immediate response from QIA) Source: Financials
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UPDATE 1-Nigeria consumer inflation eases to 8.1 percent y/y in Oct

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
* Nigeria attracted $6.5 billion in foreign investments in Q3 (Adds details, quote, background) Source: Financials
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Elliott says Vodafone may face €8bn fee

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Hedge fund claims telecoms group has not put enough aside to cover potential liability Source: Companies
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UPDATE 1-Hungary sets FX loan conversion rate, cbank to supply euros

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
* Nov. 7 NBH exchange rates to be used for conversion -govt Source: Financials
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EU banks’ risky debt deals nearly double

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Issuance of higher-yielding potentially more hazardous assets rises 80% to $122.4bn so far in 2014 Source: Companies
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Nigeria consumer inflation eases to 8.1 pct y/y in Oct -stats office

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
ABUJA, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Nigeria’s consumer inflation eased to 8.1 percent in October, from 8.3 percent in September, its statistics bureau said on Sunday. Source: Financials
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Italy's Bonomi to make Club Med counter-bid with KKR- report

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
PARIS, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Italian tycoon Andrea Bonomi is gearing up to make a counter offer to buy Club Mediterranee , reigniting a battle for control of the French resort operator, La Lettre de L’Expansion reported on Sunday. Source: Financials
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US investigates Petrobras for corruption

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Move raises international profile of scandal at Brazil’s state-controlled oil company Source: Companies
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UBS to settle precious metals allegations

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Swiss lender to do deal alongside forex agreement between seven banks with UK and US authorities Source: Companies
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Banks take on retailers over cyber attacks

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Financial sector to urge new legislation forcing retailers to pay more for cleaning up breaches Source: Companies
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John Chen: the BlackBerry turnround

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
He confiscated his wife’s Samsung but can he woo corporate users? Source: Management
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Juggling secrets of a serial director

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
How Baroness Kingsmill manages her demanding portfolio career Source: Management
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Feedback: Showman or journeyman

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Reader reaction to Herminia Ibarra suggesting that we need a new era of ‘boring’ management Source: Management
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Losing fear is liberating – and dangerous

November 9, 2014 by Harry Joiner - Add Comment
Work anxiety tends to decline with age, but watch out for the complacency catch Source: Management
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