Facebook: Tool or Toy? (at Motley Fool)
                   
yahoo.com     Jul 23, 2008            

By Tim Beyers July 23, 2008 Comments (0) Developer conferences, typically, are serious business. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) unveiled the 3G iPhone at its coders confab last month. But that's Apple. Facebook is a richly-valued social networking website. We shouldn't expect anything similarly groundbreaking to surface at its f8 conference, held today in San Francisco, right? As BusinessWeek's Steve Hamm recently wrote, "[Social networking websites] may provide entertainment for people with time on their hands, but have shown little ability to improve productivity, create substantial numbers of jobs, or earn a profit." All true, Steve. Plenty of Facebookers are hooked on Scrabulous, or sharing music via iLike, or are chatting up the latest flicks via dozens of movie groups. For me, Facebook whets my appetite for Dilbert cartoons and... [read full story]                    


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Is Google the New Media Mogul?

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This month, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) will sponsor a two-story headquarters for bloggers at the Democratic National Convention here in Denver. News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) CEO Rupert Murdoch was frequently skewered for his reputation for...                    

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IBM's Cheaper Than You Think (at Motley Fool)

yahoo.com     Jul 22, 2008          

By Tim Beyers July 22, 2008 Comments (0) Last week was huge for IBM (NYSE: IBM) investors in every way, except the one that mattered most: the stock price. Shares of Big Blue were rose only about 2.7% Friday after blowing away...                    

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Top 5 Market Malfunctions (at Motley Fool)

yahoo.com     Jul 22, 2008   353 related          

By Tim Beyers and Dayana Yochim July 22, 2008 Comments (0) Welcome to the Daily 5, our lighthearted look at the business news that amuses us. A federal court yesterday tossed out a $550,000 fine for indecency levied against CBS...                    

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Wall Street's Wrong About Apple (at Motley Fool)

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By Tim Beyers July 22, 2008 Comments (0) Shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) are down big as I write today. The reasoning, as I understand it, has little to do with Mr. Mac's impressive third-quarter results. Revenue improved 37.9%....                    

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