The verdict on the group’s IPO filing is that it has a solid online advertising business but questions remain over its social and mobile proposition
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Investors seek things to like on Facebook
Michael Stockman, the failed brokerage’s risk officer, plans to testify to Congress that he recommended hedging the group’s European exposure
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MF Global risk chief urged caution on trades
BlackBerry maker’s new chief is frank in acknowledging the group’s problems and says it will survive without a sale or break-up
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Physicist at head of RIM refines his pitch
The $100bn mucks up calculations of the “true” value of the group’s shares
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Apple faces the problem of how to spend it
The sale of 37m iPhones, well above Wall Street expectations, helped the group to set quarterly records for net profits and revenues
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Apple results surge past forecasts
News Corp, Time Warner and Texas Pacific Group are among five foreign groups eyeing up the assets belonging to ATV-Sabah
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Turkish media group attracts foreign interest
Higher output at the group’s North and South American mines mitigated the impact of a three-month strike at its Grasberg site in Indonesia
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Higher copper prices lift Freeport profits
Chief executive calls the results ‘modestly disappointing’, as weak trading in the group’s investment bank contributes to a 23% fall in profit
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JPMorgan earnings drop on weak trading
A spat over $600m-$700m in customer funds held by the US broker breaks out between the group’s trustees and administrators of its UK subsidiary
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MF Global trustees in clash over funds
A spat over $600m-$700m in customer funds held by the US broker breaks out between the group’s trustees and administrators of its UK subsidiary
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MF Global trustees in clash over funds
Chipmaker’s shares close up 11% as investors welcome move that will save the group $60m a year
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CSR axes lossmaking digital TV business
Chipmaker’s shares close up 11% as investors welcome move that will save the group $60m a year
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CSR axes lossmaking digital TV business
Move could reinvigorate interest in the operating system whose fate was left hanging when the group killed the smartphones and tablets that used it
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HP to make webOS software open-source
Managing director of the group’s British operations is appointed to the position, which was created in response to the ‘tremendous growth’ of the business
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Condé Nast creates new post of president
The chief executive of EDF wants to strengthen the group’s capability to work with reactor suppliers other than Areva
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EDF searches for reactor suppliers
New chief subsumes education unit into single organisation in a restructuring that will see the unit’s head and the group’s chief financial officer leave
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Houghton Mifflin to cut 10 per cent of staff
Debt pile forces the troubled electricity company to launch a restructuring plan that pushes five of its units into bankruptcy protection but not the remainder of the group
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Dynegy subsidiaries put into Chapter 11
Twenty-nine banks are being targeted for capital surcharges under reforms endorsed by the leaders of the Group of 20 leading economies
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G20 leaders endorse ‘living wills’
The broker-dealer hoping to avert a collapse is close to a sale of the bulk of its assets to Interactive Brokers Group, say people familiar with the situation
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Struggling MF Global nears sale
Klaus Kleinfeld admits performance has been disappointing but is adamant the group’s vertically integrated policy is the best course
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Alcoa chief stands by strategy choice
As emerging markets sales offset flat US beverage business, chief Nooyi insists that the group’s value is maximised as one company
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Pepsi executives resist calls for split
Chairman of Asia’s biggest refiner has taken another step in steering the group to a more secure, diversified future with a C$2.2bn bid for Canada’s Daylight
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Sinopec / Daylight
The Irish data protection commissioner is to audit the group’s activities, while the US FTC has been asked to probe ‘frictionless sharing’
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Facebook faces scrutiny over privacy
Roofing Pros Local.com Warns of Scam Artists in the Wake of Recent Severe Weather DigitalJournal.com (press release) … and then beating it out of town without performing any of the promised work . Others are more straightforward, such as the group in New York who distracted a couple and made off with cash and personal checks. The home repair scammers usually scour … and more
It simply states that Fannie and Freddie see short sale flips as mortgage scams and that the group of investors, realtors, appraisers etc… That partake in these transactions are organized crime groups. WTF! Sorry for my …
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Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, remains an advocate of UK technology even as the group is taken over by Silicon Valley’s Hewlett-Packard
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British tech champion heads west
With handset makers relying on it to fend off legal attacks, the group might have little choice but put its qualms aside and start fighting dirty
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Google pressed to enforce rights in patent war
OpEdNews Wall Street HMOs use government funds, fraud , to pad profits, outgrow S&P 500 … OpEdNews The problem is, as the private HMO industry has grown, so has, apparently, criminal Medicaid fraud . Unitedhealth Group, Wellcare, Amerigroup, and a fourth HMO now merged into Centene (Vista) were all found to be stealing taxpayer money in Florida that …
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Pressure grows for change in the group’s portfolio and corporate structure, with its chief saying ‘everything’ is under review
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Activists hover as McGraw-Hill refocuses
Devin Wenig is leaving the company suddenly in a shake-up which the group said was intended to accelerate growth in the financial data business
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Thomson Reuters markets chief to leave
A handpicked board and shareholders have not prevented the group’s presiding genius from creating a risk-taking global media powerhouse
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Investors should have turned up heat on News Corp
LulzSec, the group that previously targeted the Central Intelligence Agency and Sony, hijacked the website of The Sun newspaper
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Hackers infiltrate Sun’s website
Canada’s antitrust regulator has asked for more information from the consortium of banks and other financial institutions seeking to acquire TMX Group
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Regulator seeks information on TMX bidder
US group forms joint venture with Ai Ni Group to source and process arabica beans in Yunnan province
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Starbucks to expand role in Chinese coffee
Ernst & Young has audited News Group Newspapers for almost a decade but it seems unlikely to face investigation by audit regulators
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NOTW case raises questions over auditor’s role
The US video game publisher is paying up to $1.35bn for the maker of Plants vs Zombies, as the group expands into the casual gaming sector
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EA extends digital push with PopCap deal
A former employee at CME Group will plead not guilty to stealing trade secrets in order to pass them onto a Chinese start-up
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CME programmer freed on bail
‘Approval threshold for TMX Group shareholders was not met and hence the merger will now not proceed’, says Rolet
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LSE calls off merger with TMX Group
The move to market consumer health products packaged with prescription medicines aims to strengthen links among parts of the group’s business
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J&J to link up product marketing
Attorneys-general in California, New York and Ohio have all recently begun reviews of the potential threat to online competition from the group’s search dominance
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US states plan Google antitrust probes
The pharmaceutical group is in final talks to sell Astra Tech to Dentsply International in a deal that could value the group at about $1.8bn
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AstraZeneca to offload Swedish division
David Lowman, JPMorgan Chase’s mortgage chief, will leave the group following a series of mis-steps at the bank that included overcharging active-duty military personnel
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Mortgage chief to quit JPMorgan after loan problems
CME Group, the largest futures exchange operator in the US, has put up for sale the historic Chicago Board of Trade building
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CME to sell iconic CBOT building
Wendy’s/Arby’s will sell a controlling stake in Arby’s to Roark Capital Group for $130m, the latest chain to be scooped up by private equity
The number of internet companies poised for spectacular offerings is limited but those that do succeed are set for huge gains, says Tim Sullivan, CEO of the group that has seen its value treble
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Ancestry.com chief backs trend for IPOs
After Nokia called in with a profit warning, the question being asked is whether the group is on the same slippery slope as Motorola
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In its response to allegations made by the man who claims he lent Zuckerberg $1,000 in 2003 to develop the social networking site, the group says the lawsuit is ‘a fraud’
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Facebook denies Ceglia’s ownership claims
Purchase of allergy diagnosis company from Private equity group Cinven is the group’s largest deal since the 2006 merger between Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific
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Thermo Fisher to pay €2.47bn for Phadia
(From International Business Times) — The expansion of unfair dismissal rights to all employees, initiated by the Fair Work Act 2009, has encouraged a resurgence in performance management.