Did Facebook Just Spill the Beans on Zynga’s Fourth Quarter?

Zynga isn’t reporting its fourth-quarter results for another two weeks, but some quick math, based on Facebook’s numbers yesterday, show that it likely did fairly well.
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Zynga’s Stock Nosedives, Falling Nine Percent to Hit New Low

Zynga’s shares continued a downward spiral for a third straight day, sinking more than nine percent to hit an all-time low.
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TripAdvisor CEO Says Wall Street Underestimates Its Value Now That It’s Flying Solo

TripAdvisor’s co-founder and CEO Stephen Kaufer talks to AllThingsD about the media company’s prospects for growth now that it has broken off from Expedia and is an independently traded company.
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Zynga’s Stock Keeps Withering on Day Two

If only this were a virtual stock market and Zynga could used some anti-wither serum to make its stock bounce back.
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Groupon Stock Now Half Off

Many retailers are enjoying a Thanksgiving shopping spree lift from investors, but not Groupon, which saw its stock fall nine percent today.
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How Will Apple Shares Fare Today?

Some volatility is inevitable, but Steve Jobs leaves behind a strong company, built to continue his legacy of innovation.
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Will HP Now Stand for Hanky Panicky or Should It Settle With Hurd Over Oracle and Make It All Go Away?

Once close partners, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard are now competing head-on in the server and data-storage-systems business. That’s the real reality for HP–and not the delicious “Real Housewives of Silicon Valley” reality show the legal battle over exec Mark Hurd has turned into. And no amount of desperate public wrangling is going to change that.

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NYSE to Hit Eject Button on Blockbuster

How the mighty have fallen. The New York Stock Exchange is set to delist beleaguered Blockbuster next week after the video rental chain’s shareholders failed to approve measures that would have lifted the stock price above the NYSE’s $1 minimum (it’s currently trading under 20 cents). And if that weren’t enough, Standard & Poor’s downgraded Blockbuster’s corporate credit rating today, a day after the company missed $42.4 million in debt payments. Cue the circling-the-drain sound effect.

Apple’s Big Plans for China

Not much in the way of news coming out of Apple’s annual shareholders meeting today. Aside from CEO Steve Jobs dismissing suggestions that the company use the $40 billion or so in cash and investments it has on hand to issue a dividend to investor, the only thing worthy of remark seems to be Apple’s plans for expansion in China. Big plans.

Double Face-Palm: Analysts React to Palm’s Lowered Guidance

No question now: Palm is in for a rough time of it. News that the company’s webOS smartphones are not selling nearly as well as hoped has incited quite a bit of analyst hand-wringing over Palm’s prospects for a comeback. Given the magnitude of the shortfall Palm is expecting, many are questioning the company’s future.

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