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Intuit Profit Down 40 Percent as Tax Season Delayed

Mia Lamar, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on February 21 at 5:50 pm PT

Intuit Inc.’s fiscal second-quarter profit fell 40 percent as the financial software provider grappled with a later-than-expected start to the 2013 tax filing season.

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What the Facebook Skeptics Know

John Shinal, Reporter, MarketWatch in Voices on August 19, 2012 at 10:45 am PT

Never buy when insiders are selling.

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Best Buy Cuts 2,400 More Jobs

Andria Cheng, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on July 6, 2012 at 3:38 pm PT

Best Buy Co., the largest U.S. electronics retailer, is cutting 2,400 jobs, or 1.4 percent of its total, as the retailer seeks to cut costs amid increased competition from online retailers and lower sales of its bread-and-butter televisions and notebook computers.

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Will HP Bottom Out Any Time Soon?

John C. Dvorak, Columnist, MarketWatch in News on June 24, 2012 at 4:47 am PT

A lot of tech investors are watching Hewlett-Packard Co. closely, waiting for it to bottom out. The question is whether it ever recovers once it hits bottom.

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Groupon Tumbles as Sell Restriction Expires

Benjamin Pimentel, MarketWatch in Commerce on June 1, 2012 at 1:34 pm PT

Shares of daily-deals Web site Groupon Inc. fell to a record low Friday as a restriction on insider selling expired.

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Google’s Web Search Market Share Rises in April

Nathalie Tadena, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on May 11, 2012 at 3:47 pm PT

Google Inc. slightly increased its leading market share among U.S. Internet-search engines last month, while Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine also gained market share, according to market researcher comScore Inc.

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eBay Profit Declines, as Sales Rise 25 Percent

John Letzing, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on July 20, 2011 at 2:25 pm PT

eBay Inc. posted lower earnings Wednesday, but the online retailer’s 25 percent revenue increase was offset by its recent acquisition of an e-commerce and marketing firm.

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Qualcomm Earnings Jump, Beating Estimates

Dan Gallagher, Reporter, MarketWatch in News on July 20, 2011 at 2:05 pm PT

Qualcomm Inc. reported a 35 percent jump in earnings on Wednesday afternoon thanks to strong demand for wireless devices that utilize the company’s CDMA technology.

Online Purchases Helped Boost Strong Retail Sales in 2010

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 14, 2011 at 9:45 am PT

Don’t call it a boom yet, but retail sales in 2010 saw the biggest gains since 1999, with the help of online retailers like Amazon.

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Retailers Expected to Report Best December Since 2006

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4, 2011 at 4:20 pm PT

Confident consumers continued to spend up until the end of the year, putting some retailers on track to post their best same-store sales for the month of December in four years, MarketWatch reports. Retailers are expected to report final numbers on Thursday for the busiest month of the year, but already some retailers, like Barnes & Noble, have reported preliminary holiday results, revealing that spending was up 9.7 percent. Overall, research firm Retail Metrics is expecting December sales at stores open at least a year to jump 3.4 percent compared to last year.

Intuit Profit Down 40 Percent as Tax Season Delayed

What the Facebook Skeptics Know

Best Buy Cuts 2,400 More Jobs

Will HP Bottom Out Any Time Soon?

Groupon Tumbles as Sell Restriction Expires

Google’s Web Search Market Share Rises in April

eBay Profit Declines, as Sales Rise 25 Percent

Qualcomm Earnings Jump, Beating Estimates

Online Purchases Helped Boost Strong Retail Sales in 2010

Retailers Expected to Report Best December Since 2006

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