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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Rite-Aid's Q1 earnings spark sell-off that is no buying opportunity	Filed under: Earnings reports, Walgreen Co (WAG), CVS Corp (CVS), Rite Aid Corp (RAD)Rite-Aid (NYSE: RAD), a competitor of CVS (NYSE: CVS) and Walgreen (NYSE: WAG), tanked Thursday. By the end of the trading session, the pharmacy's stock declined almost 23% on heavy volume. Yes, it was a horrible day in the market overall, but don't blame the market at large. Rite-Aid is simply a company to avoid, and its latest earnings data show why. According to the AP, Rite-Aid booked a loss of $0.20 per sh...	June 27, 2008
Mexico freezes prices on 150 food products	Filed under: International markets, Other issues, China, Mexico, Politics, Commodities, Oil, AgricultureFood manufacturers promised Mexico's government on Wednesday they would freeze prices on more than 150 food products to help families cope with the rising cost of food, The Associated Press reported Thursday.Mexico President Felipe Calderon said prices for goods including beans, canned tuna, fruit juices, coffee, ketchup and canned tomatoes will remain fixed until December 31, 2008, The AP rep...	June 19, 2008
The AP-Blogger Imbroglio Jumps The Pond	The controversy over the Associated Press trying to create its own rules about bloggers quoting from its headlines and articles, above what the law already provides, is now a news story in England. In the video above, Sky News interviews TechCrunch UK editor Mike Butcher about the imbroglio. He points out that as long as bloggers use excerpts and link back to the original article, the law is on their side and the AP is in the wrong. Of course, we’ve already banned the AP from TechCrunc...	June 19, 2008
Associated Press puts bloggers on notice	Filed under: Law, Blogs, Rants and raves, About the stock bloggers, Employees, EntrepreneursAssociated Press has made it quite clear that the organization intends to put the hammer down on bloggers who quote that news service. As one who routinely quotes and links to Associated Press content, all I can say is, "Yeah, good luck with that."At first, AP took a hard-line stance, demanding that one particular blog should remove seven pieces of content which featured quotes from AP articles and statin...	June 16, 2008
Verizon gives up the phone business, at least for some	Filed under: Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Verizon Communications (VZ)Verizon (NYSE:VZ) had decided that customers do not have to be landline clients to get the company's new fiber broadband and TV service. In other words, it is willing to walk away from its core business to move into the future. According to the AP, "Surveys point to about one in seven U.S. households now lacking landlines." More people are using their cellphones instead of the traditional h...	June 15, 2008
Insider is bullish on General Electric's stock -- should you be?	Filed under: Insiders, General Electric (GE)If you ask me, General Electric (NYSE: GE) is being priced as if the Cloverfield monster will be attacking Wall Street any day now. Thank goodness that an insider apparently thinks that GE is a great buy at these levels. According to the AP, vice chairman Michael A. Neal purchased 35,000 shares this past Wednesday. The price? $29.99 per share. Not bad. At $29.99, GE's stock sports a nice, juicy dividend yield of 4.1%. I was pretty happy when I read th...	June 14, 2008
U.S. Energy Department projects $4 gas for as far as the eye can see	Filed under: Bad news, Consumer experience, Commodities, OilThis energy fact will not be a revelation to American motorists: The U.S. Energy Department now forecasts that gasoline prices will remain high -- around $4 per gallon -- this year and next, The Associated Press reported Wednesday.The Energy Department's Guy Caruso, head of the department's Energy Information Administration wing, announced the revised forecast in testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives committee, The AP reporte...	June 12, 2008
Here Come The New iPhone Apps	As Apple gears up for the launch of its 3G iPhone, outside developers and startups are finally going to get to sell or give away their own applications that run natively on the phone (as opposed to being optimized for the Safari browser, as are most legal, third-party apps today). These apps, which are built on the iPhone SDK announced last March, will be distributed through the upcoming iPhone App Store (which apparently won’t launch for a few weeks). These apps will have some limitati...	June 09, 2008
Vinyl records making a surprise return	Filed under: Products and services, Consumer experience, Amazon.com (AMZN), Marketing and advertising, Best Buy (BBY)The Associated Press reported Monday that vinyl records have made a surprising return in some markets in the last year. A story about an employee at the Fred Meyer retail chain mistakingly ordering the vinyl edition of an album instead of the special edition CD with a DVD illustrates the impressive jump LP sales made between 2006 and 2007, rising more than 36% while CD sales dropp...	June 09, 2008
Apple Unveils iPhone 3G; $199 at 8 GB; Has GPS; Ships July 11; MobileMe Email Replaces .Mac; 6M iPhones Sold	The time is near. I’m sitting in an exhibition hall at Moscone West in San Francisco, waiting for Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs to give the keynote at the company’s 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference. As usual, the place is overrun with media, analysts and the Apple faithful. The 3G iPhone’s debut should be minutes away. I’ll keep updating this post through the morning. Stay tuned. It’s 10:02. We’re close. Someone just told everyone to turn off - get this - a...	June 09, 2008

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