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• Blu-ray vs. HD DVD: The battle rages on

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:25 pm

  Tags: Aapl, Apple, Bbi, Bby, Best Buy, Bestbuy, Blockbuster, Blu Ray, Circuit City, Circuitcity, General Electric, Generalelectric, Hd Dvd, Hddvd, Hewlett Packard, Hewlettpackard, Hpq, Intc, Intel, Inthenews, Microsoft, Msft, Sne, Sony, Target, Tgt, Tosbf, Toshiba

  Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), General Electric (GE), Intel (INTC), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Best Buy (BBY), Circuit City Stores (CC)If you're not up on the ongoing face-off between Blu-ray and HD DVD, here's a quick synopsis on what is becoming the latest technology battle since that long ago technology

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• Blu-ray vs. HD DVD: The battle rages on

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:25 pm

  Tags: Aapl, Apple, Bbi, Bby, Best Buy, Bestbuy, Blockbuster, Blu Ray, Circuit City, Circuitcity, General Electric, Generalelectric, Hd Dvd, Hddvd, Hewlett Packard, Hewlettpackard, Hpq, Intc, Intel, Inthenews, Microsoft, Msft, Sne, Sony, Target, Tgt, Tosbf, Toshiba

  Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), General Electric (GE), Intel (INTC), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Best Buy (BBY), Circuit City Stores (CC)If you're not up on the ongoing face-off between Blu-ray and HD DVD, here's a quick synopsis on what is becoming the latest technology battle since that long ago technology

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• GE's E850 digital camera gets reviewed: it's not so good

  Published: August 14, 2007, 7:20 am

  Tags: E850, General Electric, General Imaging, Generalelectric, Generalimaging

  Filed under: Digital Cameras GE sounded pretty cocky when it announced its first entries into the crowded digital camera market earlier this year, with the company's lead of sales is running around saying things like, "Our aim is to be Number 1 in all aspects - quality, technology, performance and value - and these cameras will do that."

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• Newspaper wrap-up: NBC does not renew iTunes contract with Apple

  Published: August 31, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Aapl, Aeropostale, Apple, Aria, Ariad, Aro, Barron S, Barrons, Business Week, Businessweek, Coca Cola, Economic Times, Economictimes, General Electric, Generalelectric, Infosys, Infy, Mcgraw Hill, Mcgrawhill, Mhp, New York Times, Newspaper, Newyorktimes, Ny Times, Nytimes

  Filed under: Newspapers, Magazines, Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Coca-Cola (KO), McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP)MAJOR PAPERS: Amid mounting criticism for its role in the subprime crisis, McGraw Hill Companies Inc (NYSE: MHP) replaced Kathleen Corbet, the president of Standard & Poors, with Deven Sharma, a McGraw Hill senior VP who

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• NBC pulling shows from Apple's (AAPL) iTunes?

  Published: August 31, 2007, 2:15 am

  Tags: Aapl, Apple, Downloads, Featured, General Electric, Generalelectric, Itunes, Nbc Universal, Nbcuniversal, Television

  Filed under: Bad news, Television, Competitive strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Wal-Mart (WMT), Amazon.com (AMZN), CBS Corp 'B' (CBS), News Corp'B' (NWS)Like corporate sister Universal Music before it, General Electric (NYSE: GE)'s NBC has not been able to come to terms with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to continue selling its television

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• Thursday Market Rap: SSRI, GG, ODP, LVLT & GE

  Published: September 6, 2007, 1:48 pm

  Tags: Apple Inc Aapl, Appleinc Aapl, Barrick Gold Abx, Barrickgold Abx, Calls Puts, Callsandputs, General Electric Ge, Generalelectric Ge, Goldcorp Inc Gg, Goldcorpinc Gg, Office Depot Odp, Officedepot Odp, Options

  Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Motorola (MOT), Office Depot (ODP), Barrick Gold (ABX), Options, Level 3 Communications (LVLT), Goldcorp Inc (GG), Silver Standard Resources (SSRI), SLM Corp (SLM)The markets saw an overall mildly bullish session today. The NYSE had volume of 2.3 billion shares with 2,056 shares advancing while

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• NBC announces free downloads, bites Apple (AAPL)

  Published: September 19, 2007, 3:36 pm

  Tags: Aapl, Apple, Downloads, Featured, Free, General Electric, Generalelectric, Itunes, Nbc, Nbc Direct, Nbcdirect, Television

  Filed under: Launches, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE)NBC, a division of GE (NYSE: GE), announced late today that it would offer free downloads of its popular TV shows. The programming will be available for PC viewing. TV commercials will remain in the shows and cannot be skipped. According to

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• MSNBC.com's fine Newsvine deal (MSFT, GE)

  Published: October 8, 2007, 4:45 am

  Tags: General Electric, Generalelectric, Internet, Inthenews, Joint Ventures, Jointventures, Microsoft, Msft, Msnbc Com, Newsvine Com, User Generated Content, Usergeneratedcontent

  Filed under: Deals, Products and services, Microsoft (MSFT), General Electric (GE), Marketing and advertisingMSNBC.com, which is a joint venture (JV) between Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and GE (NYSE: GE), has been around for about 11 years. Interestingly enough, the JV hasn't struck any acquisitions - that is, until now. MSNBC has agreed to buy

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• Serious Money: Google (GOOG) $2,000? No way, it's too high now!

  Published: October 10, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Berkshire Hathaway, Berkshirehathaway, Brk, Featured, General Electric, Generalelectric, Goog, Google, Google 2000, Google Valuation, Google 2000, Googlevaluation, Large Cap Stocks, Large Caps, Largecaps, Largecapstocks, Microsoft, Msft, Serious Money, Sheldon Liber

  Filed under: Major movement, Forecasts, Products and services, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Serious Money, TechnologyWe are all reading story after story about this relatively new company called Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), which now has a valuation exceeding $145 billion after closing today around $625, adding almost $10

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• Fox and NBC launch odd website Hulu

  Published: October 29, 2007, 5:45 am

  Tags: Fox, General Electric, Generalelectric, Goog, Google, Hulu, Hulu Com, Inthenews, Msft, Msn, Myspace, Nbc Universal, Nbcuniversal, News Corp, Newscorp, Nws, Yahoo, Youtube

  Filed under: Deals, Launches, Industry, Consumer experience, Internet, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), General Electric (GE), News Corp'B' (NWS), TechnologyGeneral Electric's (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal and News Corp's (NYSE: NWS) Fox have launched [subscription required] their video site Hulu. Fox will offer a

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• Newspaper wrap-up: UBS, Citigroup facing write downs from subprime mess

  Published: November 15, 2007, 3:55 am

  Tags: Aapl, Apple, Ceo, Citigroup, Cnooc, General Electric, Generalelectric, Iphone, Jp Morgan, Jpm, Jpmorgan, Mortgage, Rds A, Royal Dutch Shell, Royaldutchshell, Subprime, Ubs, Ubs Ag, Ubsag, Write Down, Writedown

  Filed under: Newspapers, Magazines, Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), iPhoneMAJOR PAPERS: Royal Dutch Shell Plc's (NYSE: RDS.A) 16.67% stake in the Cossack Pioneer field of Australia's North West Shelf may be up for sale, according to the Wall Street Journal. The sale price is expected to be

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• Serious Money: AAPL, EBAY, GE, GOOG, MSFT, TWX, WMT, YHOO -- one more look

  Published: April 14, 2008, 8:00 am

  Tags: Aapl, Apple Inc, Appleinc, Ebay, Featured, General Electric, Generalelectric, Goog, Google, Microsoft, Msft, Serious Money, Seriousmoney, Time Warner, Timewarner, Twx, Wal Mart, Wmt, Yahoo, Yhoo

  Filed under: Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), eBay (EBAY), General Electric (GE), Time Warner (TWX), Wal-Mart (WMT), Serious Money, DJIA, NASDAQIt was June 7, 2006 when I set up a tracking portfolio for our great eight stocks. AOL Money & Finance started BloggingStocks with a focus on

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• Serious Money: The page on Buffett Part V: Company Management

  Published: April 17, 2008, 1:22 pm

  Tags: Aapl, Apple Inc, Appleinc, Berkshire Hathaway, Berkshirehathaway, Brk A, Brk B, Citigroup Inc, Citigroupinc, General Electric, Generalelectric, Goldman Sachs Group, Goldmansachsgroup, Jpm, Jpmorgan Chase, Jpmorganchase, Mer, Merrill Lynch, Merrilllynch, Microsoft

  Filed under: Management, Rants and raves, Competitive strategy, Microsoft (MSFT), Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Merrill Lynch (MER), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Entrepreneurs, Serious MoneySince I have been a shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A), I have

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• My best stock ideas: Looking through Q2 and into the second half of 2008

  Published: April 25, 2008, 10:45 am

  Tags: Aapl, Altria, Altria Group, Altriagroup, Apple Inc, Appleinc, Bni, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Burlingtonnorthernsantafe, Dell, Dell Inc, Dellinc, Eggs, General Electric, Generalelectric, Oats, Ore, Ostk, Overstock, Overstock Com, Rice, Wal Mart, Wmt

  Filed under: Forecasts, Apple Inc (AAPL), Dell (DELL), General Electric (GE), Wal-Mart (WMT), Home Depot (HD), Altria Group (MO), Commodities, Stocks to Buy, Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI)I've received a few chuckles for investment directions I've suggested in the past, but if you care to review a couple of my previous generalities, I believe

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• Serious Money: Metrics anyone? -- AAPL, EBAY, GE, GOOG, MSFT, TWX, WMT, YHOO

  Published: May 12, 2008, 6:57 am

  Tags: Aapl, Apple Inc, Appleinc, Ber, Berkshire Hathaway, Berkshirehathaway, Brk A, Brk B, Ebay, General Electric, Generalelectric, Goog, Google, Microsoft, Msft, Serious Money, Seriousmoney, Time Warner, Timewarner, Twx, Wal Mart, Wmt, Yahoo, Yhoo

  Filed under: Management, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), eBay (EBAY), General Electric (GE), Time Warner (TWX), Wal-Mart (WMT), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Serious MoneyAbout a month ago I posted Serious Money: AAPL, EBAY, GE, GOOG, MSFT, TWX, WMT, YHOO -- one more look, covering the original Great Eight stocks we

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