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Mean Street: Wall Street Is LinkedIn to Its Old Black Magic

If you’re looking for further confirmation that nothing ever really changes on Wall Street, check out the just-released research on LinkedIn Corp. It’s the old Wall Street black magic circa 1999.

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Mean Street: New Motorola CEO, Welcome to My Pain

What do CEOs say to each other in private? Mean Street intercepted an (imaginary) email sent this morning by Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain to Sanjay Jha, newly appointed co-CEO of Motorola.

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Mean Street: Salesforce.com–How Much Higher Can It Go?

If you are a believer in efficient markets, every now and then a hot tech stock comes along that pushes your conviction to its limits. VMware was bought for $625 million by EMC in 2004, went public in 2007 and soon hit a market cap of $48 billion. It currently trades at about a quarter of that value. Even the hottest stock can’t defy gravity indefinitely. Or can it?