Description: SecondMarket and its ilk allow investors and employees—including Facebook’s—to convert pre-IPO shares into millions. But is it healthy for startups?
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: 04/21/2011
Link: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_18/b4226070179043.htm
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Description: Hey, rich folks! The American people are putting you on notice. They want you to pay higher taxes.
Source: CNNMoney.com
Date: 04/22/2011
Link:Â http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/22/news/economy/budget_taxes_poll/index.htm
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Description: DAVID CAMERON, the British prime minister, was in Brussels meeting the press last October when he took a few moments to make fun of the British Broadcasting Corporation. “Good to see that costs are being controlled everywhere,†Mr. Cameron said as he directed a mocking glance at three BBC correspondents, each from a different BBC program, covering his news conference. The implication: Considering that the BBC has agreed to freeze most of its public funding for six years, effectively sentencing itself to a 16 percent budget cut through 2017, it surely could have looked harder at its staffing needs for the event.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: 04/23/2011
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/business/media/24bbc.html?ref=business
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Description: Google’s stock fell as earnings missed estimates and investors fear that new CEO Larry Page isn’t doing enough to keep up with Facebook.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 04/15/2011
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/markets/2011/04/15/mkts_google_0415.cnnmoney/
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Description: Cody Willard of MarketWatch’s Revolution Investing newsletter has four points you need to bear in mind to trade on earnings, particularly in technology, and talks about why he’s bullish on Google and Microsoft. Stacey Delo reports.
Source: Moneywatch.com – video report
Date: 04/12/2011
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Description: America Online co-founder Steve Case, recasting himself as a venture capitalist, pledged to invest $200 million in fast-growing companies in 2005. With his bet on Zipcar Inc., he’s now made that cash back.
Source: Businessweek.com
Date: 04/16/2011
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Description: In an old East Village music hall in downtown New York, more than 500 investors from around the country crowded into a dimly lit auditorium to hear 11 startups pitch.
Source: CNNMoney.com
Date: 04/15/2011
Link: http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/15/technology/techstars_demo_day/index.htm
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Description: THE stock market has been climbing a wall of worry — that’s an old Wall Street adage, and it has certainly rung true lately. Calamities abound and there have been setbacks, but the market has been climbing anyway.
Source: NYTimes.com
Date: 04/16/2011
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/your-money/stocks-and-bonds/17stra.html?ref=business
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Description:Â Â Shares of Expeida surge after the travel site says it will split into two companies, one for TripAdvisor and one for Expedia.com, hotels.com and hotwire.
Source: CNNMoney.com – video report
Date: 04/08/2011
Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/markets/2011/04/08/mkts_expedia_0408.cnnmoney/
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Description: The Federal Reserve will end its bond-purchase program in June but will put off raising interest rates until next year, says Jeff Given, a bond fund manager at John Hancock. He sees rates on the 10-year climbing to a range of 4 to 4.5% vs. 3.5% today. Interview by MarketWatch’s Deborah Levine.
