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Eight Deals Aim to Hit the Market

Lynn Cowan, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 30 at 6:00 am PT

The business of going public is starting to heat up again. Eight stock offerings aim to start trading in the second half of the week, more than twice the amount in all of January so far.

A Bad Day for the Salesforce Kool-Aid (Video)

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on October 26, 2011 at 2:35 pm PT

Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson questions Saleforce.com’s valuation, and the shares promptly fall.

Dow Slides 5.5 Percent, Ending Below 11,000

Brendan Conway, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 8, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT

U.S. stocks tumbled in a Monday rout that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 5.5 percent, plunging below 11000 for the first time since November, as investors fled from risky assets in the first trading session since Standard & Poor’s downgraded the federal government’s credit rating late Friday.

Dow Tumbles 500 Points, Putting It in Red for Year

Brendan Conway and Jonathan Cheng, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 4, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT

Stocks plunged, driving the Dow Jones Industrial Average to close down more than 500 points, as investors appeared to lose faith in the ability of the world’s policy makers to revive the global economy and stave off a rolling debt crisis in Europe.

Hewlett-Packard Authorizes $10 Billion Stock Buyback

Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 21, 2011 at 2:31 pm PT

Hewlett-Packard’s board of directors has authorized the company to buy back $10 billion worth of the company’s shares, according to a regulatory filing.

Sputtering Video

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on April 27, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question on what to do about online videos that start and stop throughout.

News Byte

Holiday Retail Sales Not as Jolly as Expected

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 6, 2011 at 9:33 am PT

Retail stocks are diving this morning on news that the month of December did not perform as strongly as expected. However, that weakness was offset by a strong November, allowing retailers to celebrate their strongest holiday sales increase since 2006, AP reports. Online spending may eventually brighten the picture, since some retailers don’t include e-commerce in their monthly figures. Americans spent a record amount online this season, jumping 13 percent over 2009.

iPod Stocks Dwindling in Advance of Sept. 9 Apple Event

John Paczkowski in News on August 28, 2009 at 3:57 pm PT

If you’re a student planning on taking advantage of Apple’s “Buy a Mac, get a Free iPod touch” back-to-school promotion, you might want to plan a trip to the Apple Store in the very near future. Because sources in the Apple reseller community tell Ars Technica that it looks like the company’s current iPod line is being discontinued.

Yahoo Finally Rolls Out New Homepage to the Masses–and, Drum Roll, It's Good (Plus Screenshots)

Kara Swisher in News on July 20, 2009 at 6:00 pm PT

Although it’s not news that Yahoo was readying a new version of its homepage and has spent a lot of time doing so–in fact, it’s gone all Handy Manny with a whole lot of test renovations–the Internet giant begins the massive rollout of it tomorrow. The official launch of what was code-named “Metro,” which Yahoo had previously said was coming in the fall, will take place on an opt-in “beta” basis for the hundreds of millions of users in the U.S. and will be extended to France, the U.K. and India later this week. The change is an important one for Yahoo, since its front page–one of the most trafficked on the Web–is perhaps its most powerful calling card to users and advertisers, as well as to Wall Street. Here are the details and also an interview about it all with Yahoo SVP Tapan Bhat, as well as screenshots of the new page.

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