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Ironfire Capital On Twitter: Adam Bain Would Do A Great Job As CEO
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 3:26pm | 320Read More...Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) shares were down about 2 percent on Wednesday, Jack Dorsey's first day as interim CEO. Eric Jackson, Ironfire Capital, was on CNBC to discuss who is best suited to replace Jack Dorsey as the permanent CEO of Twitter and his outlook for the stock. Adam Bain:...
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'There's No Chance Yahoo Buys' Yelp, Says Ironfire Capital
Friday, May 8, 2015 - 2:35pm | 426Read More...Ever since the Wall Street Journal reported that Yelp Inc (NYSE: YELP) is again in search of a potential acquirer, the company's shares have risen more than 20 percent. Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is featuring prominently among the companies that are being discussed on the Street as potential...
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Ironfire Capital: Pressure Is Going To Continue On Yahoo
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 - 4:53pm | 431Read More...Yahoo! Inc.'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) decision to spin off its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd into a separate publicly-traded entity did make some shareholders happy. However, Eric Jackson from Ironfire Capital, a long-term shareholder of Yahoo is not quite satisfied. Jackson recently spoke with...
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The Top 6 Hedge Fund Managers To Follow On Twitter
Friday, December 19, 2014 - 8:26am | 1067Read More...Twitter is all about following the right people. And for investors, a newsfeed that follows a handful of hedge fund managers could be useful. 1. Carl Icahn - @Carl_C_Icahn The Chairman of Icahn Enterprises L.P. is not a very active tweeter. Nonetheless, when he does have something to say, it...
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Watching Tech, Alibaba IPO, With Ironfire's Eric Jackson
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 11:28am | 843Read More...Recently on Benzinga's PreMarket Prep, Eric Jackson, managing partner at Ironfire Capital, predicted that the Alibaba filing for an IPO will come later this month. Jackson predicted the actual IPO will be in September. Jackson highlighted that many analysts and investors believe that Yahoo...
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#PreMarket Prep Guest List For The Week of April 7, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014 - 4:34pm | 467Read More...There is an interesting slate of guests for the week's #PreMarket Prep broadcast, sponsored by OptionsHouse. Some recurring guest will be joining in, along with new voices who have yet to bring their market perspective to the audience. Tune into the show at 8:00 am EST Monday-Friday here...
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The Top 10 Financial Tweets For Wednesday, August 7
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 - 1:47pm | 1111Read More...There are millions of tweets written every day. Benzinga sifts through the maelstrom of information to find the ten best tweets of the day that are either informative, insightful, or just down right comical. 1. Danny Blanchflower Danny Blanchflower (@D_Blanchflower), former Bank of England MPC...
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Is Yahoo's CEO Wasting Time and Money?
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 7:27pm | 548Read More...Dan Loeb is the founder of Third Point Capital, a hedge fund with a substantial stake in Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). He has been shaking things up at Yahoo by attempting to replace multiple board members. Yahoo offered Loeb the opportunity to influence two board seats. Loeb nominated himself, but Yahoo...
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Yahoo Responds to Dan Loeb of Third Point, Rejects Loeb's Nominees
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 10:59am | 446Read More...Dan Loeb of Third Point Capital is a significant Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) shareholder. He has been attempting to influence Yahoo by replacing multiple Yahoo board members. Yahoo offered Loeb an opportunity to influence two board seats. Loeb nominated himself for one of the two, but earlier today,...
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Why Apple Should Acquire Twitter
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 8:17am | 595Read More...The Mac maker has plenty of cash to burn and billions more on the way. But is it time for Apple to make its biggest acquisition in company history? Yes, says hedge fund manager Eric Jackson. The Ironfire Capital founder and managing member recently wrote about this matter on Forbes. While Jackson'...
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Google Has a Whole Host of Problems
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 2:42pm | 439Read More...Ironfire Capital's Eric Jackson weighs in on Google, its future, and Project Glass. "I'm very bearish on Google," he told Benzinga. "I'm not short Google. [But] it's definitely a company we're interested in shorting at some point in the next year or so." Jackson, who is the founder and managing...
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Google Can't Make an iPad Killer
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 1:37pm | 360Read More...Remember back in December when Google said that it would release an iPad-killer in six months? May is fast approaching, and the company has not made any additional announcements. "It's kind of the same thing; until they actually deliver a great consumer product -- whether it's a phone or a tablet...
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Apple's Television Will Sell Faster Than the iPad
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 11:12am | 891Read More...Hedge fund manager makes bold call on Apple's long-awaited television set. This week, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook explained how each major product sells faster than the last. "We've now -- through the last quarter, I should say, which is just two years after we shipped the initial iPad --...
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Apple Won't Buy Twitter, But Google Might
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 1:18pm | 722Read More...The Mac maker is on the list of firms who could/should acquire the social media empire. But Google is a much more likely candidate. Whenever a major acquisition occurs, the world scrambles to figure out which companies will be acquired next, how much they will sell for, and who will buy them. If a...
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Can Yahoo! Justify Additional Layoffs?
Friday, April 13, 2012 - 8:25am | 1329Read More...Ironfire Capital founder and managing director Eric Jackson weighs in on the issue. "A lot of ex-employees believe that there is enormous fat there to cut and that it might even be possible to cut it down by half," Jackson, whose company specializes in long/short investments and corporate...
