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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
More Yahoo Senior Exec Defections: Steve Boom and Todd Teresi	The mass exodus of both execs and rank and file employees at Yahoo continues. In fact the real defections may just be getting started at a high percentage of employees vest on lucrative restricted stock units this month. Yahoo’s head of communications Jill Nash continues to try to keep the resignations as quiet as possible, and suggests informally to press that most of the high level departures are really just a cleaning house procedure. What a housecleaning. Two more SVPs are bailing out...	August 27, 2008
12 Highest Yielding Stocks Going Ex-Dividend End of August	If you are looking to buy dividends, there are plenty of high yielding stocks to choose from. Remember, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date in order to be entitled to the dividend, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date.All of the following stocks have market caps over $800 million and yields over 3%. The New York Times Company (NYT) a diversified media company. Ex-div date: 8/28/2008 Market cap: $1.9 billion Yield: 6.92% .Park National Corporation (PRK) is a mult...	August 06, 2008
BT Acquires Ribbit For $105 Million	BT announced that it has acquired Silicon Valley based Ribbit for $105 million in cash. On July 9 we reported that Ribbit executives were telling friends the deal was done while simultaneously denying it to the press. One thing we got wrong was the price, though. We were hearing $55 million, $5 million more than competitor GrandCentral managed to wrangle out of Google. Ribbit got nearly double that. Ribbit has raised just $13 million from Allegis Capital, KPG Ventures and Alsop Louie Ventures. ...	July 29, 2008
Stocks Going Ex-Dividend Mid August	Many traders use a technique called dividend buying, which is the buying of stocks before they go ex-dividend and selling shortly after the ex-dividend date at roughly the same price, but receiving the dividend. This technique generally works only during a bull market. You may also want to check out the definitions of the various dividend dates.There are over 30 stocks going ex-dividend in mid August. The following stocks all have market caps over $500 million, and yields over 1%. Several stocks...	July 26, 2008
BT Has Acquired Ribbit For $55 Million To Build GrandCentral Competitor, Say Ribbit Execs To Friends	This is a strange story. Rumors circulated today that Silicon Valley based startup Ribbit was acquired by British Telecom, and VentureBeat ran with the story. The company later denied the rumors, but wouldn’t comment on whether or not merger discussions were occurring or not. The strange part is this - while Ribbit executives are denying the acquisition to the press, they’ve simultaneously been (quite happily) telling all their friends that BT has acquired them for $55 million, says ...	July 09, 2008
Tuesday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UpgradesFlowserve (FLS)- BMO Capital Markets Market Perform » Outperform Bankrate (RATE)- Merriman Curhan Ford Neutral » Buy Commercial Metals (CMC)- Davenport Neutral » Buy Marten Transport (MRTN)- BB&T Capital Mkts Hold » Buy Beneficial Mutual Bancorp (BNCL)- Boenning & Scattergood Market Perform » Market Outperform Celadon Group (CLDN)- BB&T Capital Mkts Hold » Buy First Commonwealth (FCF)- Janney Mntgmy Scott Sell » Neutral Energy Conversion (ENER)- Broad...	July 08, 2008
Update: A Nortel Comeback? Verizon Deal Cheers Stock	Shares of — dare I say it once again? — “beleaguered” networking equipment vendor Nortel (NT) are up almost 11%, or 88 cents, at $8.99 this afternoon, the biggest gainer on the New York Stock Exchange on a percentage basis, after the company’s meeting with investors at its headquarters in Toronto today. The Wall Street Journal says that the agreement announced with Wimax wireless vendor Alvarion (ALVR) today, which Eric wrote about earlier, signals a shift in Nortel...	June 11, 2008
Analyst initiations: BEC, BT and MITI	Filed under: Yahoo! (YHOO), Analyst initiationsMOST NOTEWORTHY: Beckman Coulter, BT Group and Micromet were today's noteworthy initiations: Oppenheimer believes Beckman Coulter (NYSE:BEC) is well-positioned to leverage its broad installed base in the clinical lab market to increase sales of its consumable and a new molecular diagnostics instrument expected in 2010. The firm initiated shares with an Outperform rating and $80 target. Societe Generale expects BT Group's (NYSE:BT) dom...	May 29, 2008
Hewlett-Packard buys European data centers from BT Group	Filed under: Deals, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), International Business Machines (IBM)Hewlett-Packard Corp. (NYSE: HPQ) will purchase about 24 data centers in Europe from BT Group (formerly British Telecom) for $2.9 billion, the Sunday Times in London reported Sunday, with an official announcement likely to come within weeks. However, BT Group will likely sign a 10-year contract to continue using the data centers with HP; BT Group just won't own them any longer.But this isn't just a deal for HP to own...	May 12, 2008
Sonus Rallies On Strong Q1; Merriman Ups Rating To Buy	Sonus Networks (SONS) shares are trading higher this morning after the VoIP infrastructure provider reported better than expected first quarter profits. Sonus posted Q1 revenue of $74 million, which was actually a tad below the Street consensus of $74.3 million. But non-GAAP profits of 2 cents a share was better than the penny a share loss the Street had expected. Merriman Curhan Ford analyst Tim Savageaux observes in a research note this morning that gross margin in the quarter of 64.3% was we...	May 09, 2008

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