Social Media Stocks are Rising and so are the Short Positions (FFN, ANGI, GRPN)

Social Media Stocks are Rising and so are the Short Positions (FFN, ANGI, GRPN)
SmallCap Network
By Jonathan Yates Social media stocks such as FriendFinder Networks (NYSE: FFN), Angie's List (NASDAQ: ANGI) and Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) have captured the attentions of investors due to the impending initial public offering of Facebook.
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Salsa Labs Expands Online Organizing Platform for Nonprofits with Social Media ...

Salsa Labs Expands Online Organizing Platform for Nonprofits with Social Media ...
MarketWatch (press release)
9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Salsa Labs, Inc., creator of the online, integrated CRM platform for non-profit fundraising, communications and organizing, today announced the addition of advanced social media features to its already robust product ...
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B2B Social Networking NOT for Marketing – Global B2B Communications "Social ...

B2B Social Networking NOT for Marketing – Global B2B Communications "Social ...
PR Web (press release)
"social signals are now a factor in organic search results. We don't want to be part of the misinformation that is festering on social networking but we DO have things to add to the conversation..." Amy Munice, Global B2B Communications Managers in ...
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Wizcom Technologies Ltd. :Ad hoc: Wizcom Technology Ltd. Files for Insolvency

Wizcom Technologies Ltd. :Ad hoc: Wizcom Technology Ltd. Files for Insolvency
Reuters
Wizcom Technologies Ltd. / / Ad hoc: Wizcom Technology Ltd. Files for Insolvency . Processed and transmitted by Thomson Reuters ONE. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Rosh Ha'ayin, February 09, 2012 - The Board of ...
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Immigration a driver for growth

Immigration a driver for growth
StarPhoenix
That's three times the number of immigrants who moved to the province in the previous five-year period. Standing in a Regina business that employs a journeyman carpenter who recently immigrated from Ireland, Premier Brad Wall said immigration is "very ...
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Consumer Buying Behaviour in the Recession: Global Online Survey

Consumer Buying Behaviour in the Recession: Global Online Survey
MarketWatch (press release)
9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: In the midst of the global downturn, with consumers facing job losses and rising prices, which purchasing criteria are they ...
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Deutsche Bank readies investment bank, regions revamp -sources

Deutsche Bank readies investment bank, regions revamp -sources
Reuters
* Senior appointments seen before April management meet * Asia chief Rankin seen in line for regional management role * Top job at investment bank may be split By Edward Taylor and Philipp Halstrick FRANKFURT, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Senior executives at ...
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Obama export adviser exports jobs

Obama export adviser exports jobs
Daily Caller
(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) A firm overseen by one of President Barack Obama's trade advisers has just announced plans to export 149 white-collar jobs — including numerous high-tech jobs — to an India-based info-tech firm. The outsourcing ...
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US Stock Futures Lower Ahead of Jobs Data Morningstar.com

US Stock Futures Lower Ahead of Jobs Data
Morningstar.com
By Rouhan Sharma | 02-09-12 | 04:42 AM | E-mail Article US stock index futures pointed to a lower open for Wall Street ahead of jobs data and after Greek talks looked set to continue for another day over the issue f pension cuts that remains as the ...
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10 Spending-Spree Stocks Beating the Market

10 Spending-Spree Stocks Beating the Market
Forbes
Friday's strong jobs report coupled with continued signs of an improving US economy have supported the view that consumers will begin to spend on products that make life easier or help them feel better about themselves. And families are just now ...
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Pepsico to cut 8700 jobs; 4Q net rises

Pepsico to cut 8700 jobs; 4Q net rises
Atlanta Journal Constitution
9, 2012, it will cut 8.700 jobs in a cost-cutting move as it increases investment in advertising and marketing in North America. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) This Feb. 7, 2012 photo, shows cartons of caffeine free Diet Pepsi in a Pittsburgh market.
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India: LinkedIn goes local

India: LinkedIn goes local
Financial Times (blog)
Now, social networking sites like LinkedIn are also going native to tap into a growing market of over 100m internet users and an even larger population of young job-seekers. Analysts told beyondbrics the professional networking site's strategy to ...
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Hungarian town suffers as Nokia announces big layoffs

Hungarian town suffers as Nokia announces big layoffs
Wed,8 Feb 2012 09:31 AM PST
Reuters -
KOMAROM, Hungary (Reuters) - Veronika Szalai had just graduated from elementary school when Nokia, the Finnish phone maker, opened a factory by the Danube in Komarom. The 27-year-old, who has worked here for years, now faces unemployment as the company implements major layoffs. "They only told us they will let go a mix of people, from all departments," she told Reuters outside the factory on Wednesday, shivering as a bitter cold wind blew from the north. "Of course it upsets everyone," she said. "In this world a good living is hard to come by. ...

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Seven decades of Lucian Freud on show in London

Seven decades of Lucian Freud on show in London
Wed,8 Feb 2012 09:15 AM PST
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's National Portrait Gallery launched a major show of the late figurative painter Lucian Freud's work Wednesday, showcasing the fleshy portraits which made him one of the world's most revered artists in his lifetime. The grandson of Sigmund Freud died last July at the age of 88 while collaborating with the gallery on the show of 130 works of art, which includes his unfinished "Portrait of the Hound," the auction record-smashing "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" and some moving paintings of his dying mother. ... Full Story

CORRECTION - Cheetah Technologies' New V-Factor Source Monitor Adds ...

CORRECTION - Cheetah Technologies' New V-Factor Source Monitor Adds ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PITTSBURGH, PA, Feb 08, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- In the news release, "Cheetah Technologies' New V-Factor Source Monitor Adds Processing Power and Energy Efficiency," issued earlier today by Cheetah Technologies, we are advised by the company ...
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Sexual abuse silence "deadly" for Church: Vatican official

Sexual abuse silence "deadly" for Church: Vatican official
Wed,8 Feb 2012 05:45 AM PST
Reuters -
ROME (Reuters) - Hiding behind a culture of "omerta" -- the Italian word for the Mafia's code of silence -- would be deadly for the Catholic Church, the Vatican's top official for dealing with sexual abuse of minors by clergy said Wednesday. Monsignor Charles Scicluna made the unusually forthright comment in his speech to a landmark symposium in Rome on the sexual abuse crisis that has rocked the Church in the past decade. "The teaching ... ...

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Wall Street lower as Greece talks drag on

Wall Street lower as Greece talks drag on
Wed,8 Feb 2012 09:18 AM PST
Reuters -
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks gave up early gains on Wednesday as the Dow hovered at its highest level in nearly four years and investors waited for Greece to accept tough reforms in exchange for a new bailout. Efforts by the Greek prime minister to get the three parties in his government to accept reforms demanded by the European Union and International Monetary Fund seemed to have been thwarted by arguments over procedural matters. And policymakers were still divided on what contribution the European Central Bank could make to a restructuring of Greece's sovereign debt, sources said. ...

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Western Union to Present at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference

Western Union to Present at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Feb 08, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Western Union Company /quotes/zigman/431668/quotes/nls/wu WU -10.00% announced that the company will present at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference on Wednesday, Feb.
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Cognizant Technology stuns all with a 23% growth guidance for 2012

Cognizant Technology stuns all with a 23% growth guidance for 2012
Economic Times
CHENNAI/BANGALORE: On the same day that Nasscom projected tepid revenue growth for software exporters, Cognizant Technology Solutions outperformed rivals once again with a strong show in 2011, and said it would continue into this year.
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What's Facebook, Twitter, Others to You?

What's Facebook, Twitter, Others to You?
AllAfrica.com
With over 600 million active users worldwide, Facebook literally has become an overnight success, impacting on life and living. Marshall McLuhan, who conceptualised a global village in the 60s in two books could not have envisaged what is being made to ...
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Facebook, Google and Twitter: Three distinctly different approaches to China

Facebook, Google and Twitter: Three distinctly different approaches to China
The Next Web
As Facebook's S1 filing noted however, entry into China is hugely complicated. Not only do authorities block Twitter, Facebook (and Google+ for that matter) from its 500 million plus Internet users, it also insists that Web firms manage and remove ...
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Facebook Needs Board Diversity: California Fund

Facebook Needs Board Diversity: California Fund
Bloomberg
Facebook Inc. should diversify the makeup of its directors before a planned share sale because companies with varied boards perform better than those with “homogenous” ones, the second-largest US public pension said. The California State Teachers' ...
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TCS, Mitsubishi to invest USD 5 m in joint venture

TCS, Mitsubishi to invest USD 5 m in joint venture
Times of India
MUMBAI: India's biggest software services exporter Tata Consultancy Services ... TCS Solution Center Ltd -- will offer full service suite of IT, BPO and ...

How to Get Into This Red-Hot Emerging Market

How to Get Into This Red-Hot Emerging Market
DailyFinance
But this year, the emerging world is back with a vengeance -- and a new ETF is available to help you get into one of the most promising emerging markets out there. But do you really need it -- or do existing investments already do the job perfectly ...
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Nasscom: Indian IT's growth rate to slow

Nasscom: Indian IT's growth rate to slow
Times of India
Nasscom also said hiring is expected to be lesser at 1,00000 jobs in the next fiscal and the growth in wage hike will also be lesser at around 8-10 per cent. "This has been a very good year for the industry and we have seen a growth of 16.3 per cent.
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Nokia cuts 4000 jobs in fight for smartphone market

Nokia cuts 4000 jobs in fight for smartphone market
Outcome Magazine (blog)
The job cuts come as Nokia struggles to secure a foothold in the fiercely competitive smartphone market, with its newly-launched flagship line Lumia failing to correct falling sales in its overall smartphone business. Nokia's comeback fight comes amid ...
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Anoto Announces Increased Presence of Digital Pen Technology at HIMSS12 Las Vegas

Anoto Announces Increased Presence of Digital Pen Technology at HIMSS12 Las Vegas
MarketWatch (press release)
LAS VEGAS, Feb 08, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Anoto Group, the worldwide leader in Digital Pen technology, today announced that the HIMSS12 conference will mark a milestone for the company this year with the most partners on site to date highlighting ...
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Cheetah Technologies' New V-Factor Source Monitor Adds Processing Power and ...

Cheetah Technologies' New V-Factor Source Monitor Adds Processing Power and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
PITTSBURGH, PA, Feb 08, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cheetah Technologies, a carrier class, systems management solutions developer for broadband service providers, today officially announced the release of V-Factor Source Monitor (SM) 150.
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Expats Flock to India Seeking Jobs, Excitement

Expats Flock to India Seeking Jobs, Excitement New York Times (blog) Foreigners, of course, have flocked to India for centuries, as colonizers, missionaries, volunteers and escapees from persecution in other countries. This new wave is made up mostly of well-educated migrants from wealthier, more developed countries, ... See all stories on this topic »

ITOCHU Technology Partners With Kaazing To Make Real-Time, Living Web ...

ITOCHU Technology Partners With Kaazing To Make Real-Time, Living Web ...
MarketWatch (press release)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb 08, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ITOCHU Technology and Kaazing, leading provider of technology for the living web, today announced that the two companies have entered into a partnership. By working with Kaazing, ITOCHU Technology ...
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