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Benzinga's Top Pre-Market NASDAQ Gainers (VRML, PNSN, EXPE, GOLD)
Friday, May 13, 2011 - 8:14am | 129Vermillion Inc (NASDAQ: VRML) shares surged 9.78% to $6.40 in the pre-market session. VRML received a First Place Award for its OVA1 Logo from the Diagnostic Marketing Association at their annual summit in San Diego. Penson Worldwide Inc (NASDAQ: PNSN) shares advanced 8.97% to $3.40 in the pre-...
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Jefferies Reiterates Buy on Expedia (EXPE)
Friday, May 13, 2011 - 7:58am | 94Jefferies is out with its report today on Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE), reiterating Buy. In a note to clients, Jefferies writes, "We're reiterating our Buy/$31 PT on EXPE, which presented at the Jefferies TIMT Conf. yesterday. Our Buy rating reflects a) a positive read on the business midway through 2Q...
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Piper Jaffray Highlights PCLN In Hotel Industry
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 8:34am | 172Piper Jaffray is highlighting priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) as its top pick in the hotel industry in a report that also mentions Expedia (NASDAQ: EXPE) as a strong representative in the industry. According the Piper Jaffray, “The outlook & trend for the domestic hotel industry continues to be...
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How State Sales Tax Collections Could Hurt Online Shopping (BBY, AMZN)
Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 6:30am | 405Online shopping could soon become more expensive for select American consumers if Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) has its way. The retailer, among others, has openly expressed its resentment at online companies like Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) for not collecting sales tax in states where it does not have a...
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eDiets.com Extends Subscription Period for Rights Offering to Stockholders (DIET)
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 8:09am | 82eDiets.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIET), announced today that it has extended the subscription period for its pending rights offering to May 13, 2011. As the Company was advised that some qualified holders of its common stock have requested additional time to complete their subscriptions, the Company has...
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Piper Jaffray Overweight On Netflix (NFLX)
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 7:27am | 140Piper Jaffray has an Overweight rating and a $280 price target on shares of Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX). In a note to investors, Piper Jaffray writes, "Early Q2 web traffic data from ComScore suggests that Netflix sub adds may be tracking ahead of our estimates. The web traffic data for Netflix.com...
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Weekly Web Watch: Big Ideas, Good And Bad
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 12:30pm | 617By Carol Kopp Suddenly, there are some big ideas out there that are good as gold, and may mine it, too: A social network for gourmands. A computer as flexible as a piece of paper. Classic comedy in daily doses. Then there are the innovations we can live without. Like a Pepsi (PEP) vending machine...
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Amazon Introduces MYHABIT (AMZN)
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 12:04pm | 81Shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) are up over 1% today, after the company announced a new daily deals site, MYHABIT, as it looks to compete with RueLaLa, and other member-only deals sites, including Groupon. At last check, shares of Amazon were up $2.78 to $203.58, a gain of 1.4% on 3.4 million...
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Taking Jab at Netflix and Hulu, YouTube Will Now Offer Hollywood Movies for Rental (GOOG, NFLX)
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 7:23am | 349Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) isn't letting Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) rumored bid for Skype get in its way Tuesday, as the video site is expected to announce that more than 3,000 Hollywood movies will be available for rent. The move is an obvious attempt to move into the territory of Netflix (NASDAQ:...
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Getting Paid to Eat Bon-Bons and Sell Options
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 4:05am | 1078I have a diverse set of interests, and two of my passions include eating assorted bon bons, and buying stocks low (selling them high). The only thing better than that is to also get paid for doing those same activities. Until I get paid for competing on the national bon bon competitive eating...
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Dislikes Raytheon, Renren (RENN, RBCN, CREE, OMN, LYB, RTN, BBY, AMZN)
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 1:52am | 259On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that Renren (NYSE: RENN) is “just too expensive. I said buy it for a flip, and now you've got to go go go. I just don't see any value in these Chinese stocks. They're too expensive." He believes that Rubicon Technologies (NASDAQ:...
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Does Youtube Adding Moves To Rent Make Google A Buy? (GOOG, NFLX)
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 2:52pm | 631The big tech news is that Youtube is going to rent more than 3,000 movies. This comes from the company's blog: "It's a Saturday and you want to watch your favorite YouTube star's show, a big Hollywood movie, a clip of your friend's weekend in Austin, a newly-released music video, a global...
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Market update- DTG, HTZ, NUAN, AAPL, ONTY, ROSE, SYY, HRB, PETS, TSN, ZRAN, BX, KWK, TRMB, WFC
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 1:51pm | 1137Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc. (NYSE:DTG) is trading at a price of $78.66 its shares added almost 13% after Hertz Global Holdings (NYSE:HTZ) raised its offer to buy the rival car-rental company. Hertz Global Holdings is trading at a price of $16.52. Currently, the company has a Market...
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Priceline.com Is Unstoppable! (PCLN)
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 11:53am | 155Shares of Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) have added another 2% on Monday, and the stock is trading on higher than average volume. Priceline has been a truly wonderful investment on any timeframe. The company is one of the best growth stories in the market right now, and the stock seems to be unable...
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On This Day – 5 Stocks For Nelson Mandela
Monday, May 9, 2011 - 11:00am | 284On May 9, 1994, Nelson Mandela was elected the first black President of South Africa after spending 28 years in prison for armed attempts to end apartheid. To mark that historic occasion, we look at five stocks that might be of interest to the great man. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ:...