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Specialist: Pangea Alliance Against Google, Facebook, Twitter Is Just The Beginning
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 2:15pm | 345Last Wednesday, news broke that The Guardian, CNN International, Financial Times, Reuters and The Economist have teamed up to form an advertising alliance called Pangea. The coalition will pool together the publishers' collective audiences to provide advertisers an opportunity to acquire...
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The Economist: 'This Could Be War' For Facebook
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 8:40am | 262The Economist on Wednesday suggested that an upcoming "messaging war" may be declared during Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)'s developer conference in which the company is expected to say it will turn its Messenger app into a "platform." The publication continued that by...
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A Media 'Pangea' Is Teaming Up Against Facebook, Google, Twitter & LinkedIn
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 11:40am | 345Media outlets The Guardian, CNN International, Financial Times, Reuters and The Economist have teamed up to form an advertising alliance called Pangea, according to Business Insider. The idea behind the new association is gaining the necessary scale to compete with Internet ad giants like...
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What The Economist Thinks Of The Apple Watch
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 8:46am | 362In a recent article, The Economist delves into the Apple Watch. Some of the key takeaways from the article are noted below. Related Link: Apple Takes On TV Streaming Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) "has popularized existing technologies four times: with the Macintosh computer in 1984, the...
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The Economist Predictions On U.S. Oil, Facebook For 2015
Saturday, December 27, 2014 - 3:31pm | 326The predictions for 2015 have started. From whether oil will continue to hover around current prices to whether Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) will continue to grow, bets are being placed on almost everything. Kenneth Cukier, data editor at The Economist, was on CNBC recently to discuss his...
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Carl Icahn On How Investors Could Profit In 2015 (Hint: Buy Apple)
Monday, November 24, 2014 - 1:27pm | 360Carl Icahn was asked by The Economist to write an article on how investors could profit in 2015. "At the risk of being a bit facetious, I would say: become a Twitter follower and read my future tweets," Icahn humorously wrote. The billionaire investor went on to offer investors some...
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The Top 10 Financial Tweets For Friday, August 23
Friday, August 23, 2013 - 11:58am | 670There 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. CNNMoney.com CNNMoney.com ( @CNNMoney ) tweeted out this morning about Microsoft (NASDAQ...
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The Economist's Greg Ip Says Fed Has 'Lost Their Faith' In Expanding Balance Sheet
Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 11:16am | 316The Economist's Greg Ip appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Thursday morning where he discussed the ups and downs of the Fed maintaining low interest rates while tapering down bond buying. "I'm puzzling over why the market is so excited over [tapering]," Said Ip. "If you go back to May when [...
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Benzinga Market Primer, Friday, November 16
Friday, November 16, 2012 - 7:18am | 818Futures Slip on Spanish Fears U.S. equity futures slipped in early Friday trade as fears of the finances of Spanish banks resurfaced. The Spanish government has placed a freeze on evictions of homes due to increasing suicide rates as people lose their homes, which will be costly to the banks in...
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Benzinga Market Primer, Wednesday, November 14
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 7:31am | 938Futures rise despite fiscal cliff fears. U.S. equity futures rose on early Wednesday trading despite renewed fears over the fiscal cliff. Investors may have become hopeful of a deal in Washington when yesterday, the White House announced that President Obama is set to speak today on the subject....
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Is Patrick Byrne Finally Victorious in the Fight Against Naked Short Selling?
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 10:10am | 542Is Patrick Byrne making progress in his fight against what he believes are fundamental flaws in the American financial markets? According to the The Register, the Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) CEO might have finally caught a break. The Register cites a piece by The Economist, “America's dodgy...
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The Economist Magazine’s Attack on Industrial Policy
Monday, August 9, 2010 - 1:54pm | 1076The latest Economist magazine has a giant octopus on the cover with the headline, "Leviathan Inc – The State goes back into business." The danger according to the Economist is industrial policy. When it comes to the USA the Economist has it wrong. The fact that the U.S has no industrial policy...
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The Economist, Thinks the Euro Will Muddle Through
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 8:49pm | 352The Economist in an article dated July 8, thinks the EU will muddle through the current crisis. Because critics underestimate the European art of compromise and overlook the determination in Europe to make the euro stick. Pulling the euro apart would be ruinously costly and threaten the EU’s...