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Washington Post
May 15, 2012
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. filed a report on its US stock portfolio Tuesday showing the changes made between the end of last year and the end of the first quarter.
Wall Street Journal
May 15, 2012
US stocks rose slightly Tuesday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average recently added 33.56 points to 12729.91, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index rose 3.09 points to 1341.44 and the
Nasdaq Composite gained 20.82 points to 2922.88.
PCWorld
May 15, 2012
By Varsha Chidambaram, cio.in Last week, Gartner claimed that half of enterprises are wasting
money on social media. But Indian CIOs who are bullish on the social media space vehemently defend their digital
marketing spends by claiming that it does ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
"Social media
marketing is anarchy right now within brands and agencies. Buddy Media is the only company to provide a unified solution that helps our customers to organize their teams, optimize their social programs to deliver real business results, ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
BRENTWOOD, Tenn., May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Delek US Holdings, Inc. (
NYSE:DK) , a diversified
energy company with assets in the
petroleum refining,
marketing and retail industries, today provided an update on the status of operations at its El ...
Wall Street Journal
May 15, 2012
US stocks ended lower Tuesday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 63 points to 12632, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index slipped 7.7 points to 1331 and the
Nasdaq Composite dropped 8.8 points to 2894.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Counter Terror Expo US takes place May 16 through May 17, 2012 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
CFOs in Europe and the United States have increased optimism in the
global economy and their businesses, with fewer concerns over inflation, oil and hiring than last quarter.
U.S. News & World Report
May 15, 2012
Selected by US News as one of America's Most Connected Companies for its use of technology to expand shopping options, Nordstrom has been aggressive about snapping up promising Internet ventures to diversify its business and experiment with new retail ...
Reuters
May 15, 2012
The social networking company is drumming up massive demand for the IPO even as slowing revenue and user growth spur questions about the long-term Facebook story.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
Atlanta, May 15, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Remark Media, Inc. (
Nasdaq:MARK) , a
global digital media company, today reported financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2012.
CEO of Remark Media, Carrie Ferman, said: "Our first ...
Chicago Tribune
May 15, 2012
Beijing (Reuters) -
News Corp has agreed to buy a stake in Chinese movie distributor Bona Film Group Ltd, becoming the latest US media company to expand into
China's booming movie
market. News Corp will take a 19.9 percent stake in Bona Film from ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
The Company's principal product lines include kitchen cabinet refacing products, bathroom remodeling products, storage organization systems for closets and garages and related accessories.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 15, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Meebo, a
consumer internet company that drives user engagement and reaches almost half the US Internet population, announced a partnership with Hearst Digital Media (HDM), a unit of Hearst ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
Pompano Beach, Fla., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Onstream Media Corporation (
Nasdaq:ONSM) , a leading online service provider of live and on-demand corporate audio and web communications, virtual event technology and social media
marketing, ...
U.S. News & World Report
May 15, 2012
Pepsi, selected by US News as one of America's Most Connected Companies for its ambitious social media
strategy, understands that cyberspace is fertile ground for building relationships with customers who might not be reachable through print or ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 15, 2012
BIA/Kelsey, adviser to companies in the local media space, expects the local segment of US social media advertising revenues to grow from $840 million in 2011 to $3.1 billion in 2016 (cagr:29.8 percent). "Better performance, coupled with richer formats ...
Wall Street Journal
May 15, 2012
GM will continue to promote its products on Facebook, but without paying the social-media company, the GM official and other people familiar with the matter said.
TechCrunch
May 14, 2012
In its first-ever earnings report as a publicly traded company, mobile advertising network Millennial Media said its net loss for the first quarter widened to $4 million on increased costs.
Huffington Post
May 14, 2012
About 97 percent of ad and
marketing professionals have a Facebook account compared to 82 percent for the rest of us. But the disparity gets way bigger from there.
Wall Street Journal
May 14, 2012
US stocks edged down Monday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 81 points to 12739, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 9 points to 1344 and the
Nasdaq Composite declined 18 points to 2916.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 14, 2012
"Fueled by our record-breaking performance and the support of
Comcast and NBCUniversal, together with a leading team of executives, our mission is to become the number one Hispanic media company in the US and the leading producer of Spanish-language ...
WRCB-TV
May 14, 2012
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Gannett Co. has named media industry veteran Larry Kramer as
USA Today's new president and publisher.More >> The maker of the beef product dubbed "pink slime" by critics says it's laying off 86 employees from its
South Dakota corporate office, ...
San Francisco Chronicle
May 14, 2012
May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of the following companies are having unusual moves in US trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and prices are as of 2:15 pm in New York.
San Francisco Chronicle
May 14, 2012
Last week it was reported that Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook, was renouncing his US citizenship ahead of the company's IPO. But Jim Rogers, chairman of Rogers Holdings, who is a US citizen and moved to
Singapore in 2007, said Saverin ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 14, 2012
The impact of digital media has been seismic." -- Increasing Budgets: More than half of US CIOs (51 percent) in companies of all sizes report increases in their budgets this year (up 12 percent over 2011); and equally important almost half (46 percent) ...
Reuters
May 14, 2012
THOMSON REUTERS, Corporate Conference Call/Webcast for
US companies for Monday, May 14, 2012. S&P 500 Earnings - Weekly S&P 500 Earnings - Day Ahead Non S&P 500 - Weekly Non S&P 500 - Day Ahead ConferenceCall/Webcast - Weekly S&P 500 Earnings - Monthly ...
Wall Street Journal
May 14, 2012
US stocks slipped Monday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell about a point to 12695, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index slid more than 1% to end at 1338 and the
Nasdaq Composite declined 1.1% to 2903.
Reuters
May 14, 2012
By Alexei Oreskovic (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's choice of interim chief executive is a signal the company is returning to its roots selling brand advertising on its
consumer websites,
analysts say, even as a deal with an activist
hedge fund raises new ...
BusinessWeek
May 14, 2012
By Wendy Soong on May 14, 2012 The following table lists the 20
US companies that reported quarterly earnings today (end date of the quarter is noted in the last column).
Orlando Sentinel
May 14, 2012
Beef Products Inc. executives said this is the second round of layoffs resulting from the intense negative publicity about the company's lean, finely textured beef. BPI has said it took a "substantial" financial hit after social media exploded with ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
May 14, 2012
By Lizette Chapman Continuing its quest to dominate the online couponing
market, WhaleShark Media has acquired French online couponing company Miwim, VentureWire learned. Having raised a $150 million venture round last fall and nearly $300 million in ...
Sacramento Bee
May 14, 2012
Media Camp is a new initiative of Turner Broadcasting to help kick-start
entrepreneurs innovating in the media space.
Sacramento Bee
May 14, 2012
The United States Olympic Committee and Allstate Insurance Company today announced the members of the Class of 2012 who will be inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame presented by Allstate during a press conference at the Team USA Media Summit in ...
Sacramento Bee
May 14, 2012
The transaction also adds nearly 20 additional employees to WhaleShark Media's overall headcount, which includes a skilled product and development team that will continue to serve the
engineering needs of the company in France.
defpro
May 14, 2012
06:49 GMT, May 14, 2012
London | A top US
defence contractor has personally spoken out against allegations made about his company in the press. As head of the Pentagon's chief Information operations (IO), Ed Negrelli, President of Leonie Industries, ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 14, 2012
Beijing, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- KongZhong Corporation (
Nasdaq:KONG) , a leading provider of digital
Entertainment services for
consumers in the PRC, today announced that it has entered into a series of agreements with Wargaming.
Yuma Sun
May 14, 2012
BY HOWARD FISCHER - CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES
Phoenix - The state Court of Appeals has rejected a bid by an Australian company that manufactures kit
airplanes to avoid being sued in
Arizona over a 2008 crash in Marana that killed the pilot.
MarketWatch (press release)
May 14, 2012
Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Inc. will serve as Champion's Principal American Liaison ("PAL") on OTCQX, responsible for providing guidance on OTCQX requirements and US securities laws. Champion Minerals is an iron ore exploration and development company ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 14, 2012
Elliott has also notified the Company of its intent to nominate a slate of five nominees to stand for election at the Company's 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Elliott has informed the Company that the nomination of its slate is in connection with ...
ZDNet Asia
May 14, 2012
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Jakarta 10350, Indonesia Chinese social
media companies such as Renren and Sina might have modeled themselves after popular Western forerunners Facebook and Twitter, but their ability to integrate innovative functionalities into their platforms ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 14, 2012
Houston, May 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Francesca's Holdings Corporation (
Nasdaq:FRAN) today announced that it has terminated for cause the employment of Chief Financial Officer Gene Morphis, based on an investigation by the Board of Directors with ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
May 14, 2012
SEER Interactive is the lone
Philadelphia company to make the 2012 Inner City 100 list of the fastest-growing companies in - where else? - the inner city. For the last 14 years, the nonprofit Initiative for a Competitive Inner City has highlighted ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 14, 2012
Ally Financial Inc. (Ally) today announced key strategic actions aimed at strengthening the company's longer term financial profile and accelerating repayment of the
US Treasury's investment. The actions include the decision by the
mortgage subsidiary, ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 14, 2012
Revenues from traditional media in airports for the first quarter of 2012 increased by 56.8% year-over-year and decreased by 2.0% quarter-over-quarter to US$21.8 million. The year-over-year increase was primarily due to the Company's continued sales ...
Reuters
May 14, 2012
Not intended for US media Oslo,
Norway, 14 May 2012 - Algeta ASA (OSE: ALGETA), a company focused on the development of novel targeted
cancer therapeutics, announces that members of its senior management and
investor relations team will participate in ...
Reuters
May 14, 2012
Yahoo did not give a reason for Thompson's exit but said the company's
global media head, Ross Levinsohn, will be interim
CEO.
MyBroadband
May 12, 2012
Quinton is a journalist who comes from media background - having spent 2 years working in the audio-visual production industry as a video editor and... Fortune magazine has released the names of the top 500 companies in the US by revenue, ...
CNBC.com
May 12, 2012
Oklahoma City, May 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Chesapeake
energy corporation (
nyse:CHK) today announced it has entered into a $3.0 billion unsecured loan from
Goldman Sachs Bank USA and affiliates of Jefferies Group, Inc. The net proceeds of the loan, ...
Catholic Online
May 12, 2012
As recently as 2009, he has owned 5% of the social media company's outstanding shares, but he sold of some of those shares since then.
