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Gingrich brings campaign to Dayton
Posted: Sun Feb 05 13:49:36 PST 2012Newt Gingrich is slated to be in Dayton this week to drum up support for his presidential bid. Gingrich?s campaign announced he and his wife, Callista, will slated to roll through Ohio at rallies in Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus on Tuesday as well as Cleveland on Wednesday. Details have yet to be announced. Despite losing to Mitt Romney in Nevada, Gingrich is still pledging to stay in race ...
DBJ Weekend Tech Watch: News of Facebook, Apple, HP, Qwest and more
Posted: Sun Feb 05 09:11:57 PST 2012Welcome to the Denver Business Journal's Tech Watch, our roundup of the weekend's tech news from around the nation, featuring reports on Facebook, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Qwest, Microsoft, Micron Tech, NASA, Cisco Systems, ChemoCentryx, Yelp, Marriott, Zillow and more. Facebook revs up political funding ahead of IPO Winklevoss twins to gain $300M from Facebook IPO? Apple rumors: New i...
ChemoCentryx IPO expected this week
Posted: Sun Feb 05 08:38:05 PST 2012ChemoCentryx Inc. is the next Silicon Valley initial public offering expected, with its debut on Nasdaq expected this week. The Mountain View company set a target range last month of $14 to $16 for the 4 million shares it plans to sell in the IPO. The target at the top of the range would bring in $64 million, slightly less than the $69 million the biopharmaceutical company filed for back in O...
Cisco earnings eyed for more improvement
Posted: Sun Feb 05 08:26:44 PST 2012Cisco Systems Inc. earnings on Wednesday are being watched for more signs of improvement for the networking equipment giant. Analysts expect the San Jose-based company (NASDAQ:CSCO) to post earnings of 38 cents a share, up almost 23 percent, on a revenue increase of about 8 percent to $11.23 billion. Cisco last year shook up its business, cutting staff and dropping consumer-oriented product l...
US Airways Center celebrates 20th anniversary, debuts theater boxes
Posted: Sat Feb 04 14:13:04 PST 2012Country crooner George Strait opened US Airways Center in the first public concert at the downtown Phoenix venue in June 1992. Two decades later, Strait packed the house again as part of a big event celebrating the center's 20th anniversary. The sports and entertainment venue, which is home to the NBA's Phoenix Suns, WNBA Phoenix Mercury and the Arena Football League's Arizona Rattlers, has ho...
Yelp shows wider 2011 loss on new IPO filing
Posted: Sat Feb 04 09:50:06 PST 2012Online review site Yelp Inc. updated its initial public offering filing on Friday, showing it has a bigger loss than the year before as marketing and development costs rose. The San Francisco company co-founded by former PayPal executive Jeremy Stoppelman said its loss in 2011 was $16.9 million loss last year, compared with a loss of $9.74 million in 2010. The loss attributable to shareholders...
Money Talks: January job report, S&P gain buoy expectations the recovery is entrenched
Posted: Sat Feb 04 09:40:34 PST 2012On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed workers fell in January to the lowest levels since 2009. The U.S. economy added 243,000 jobs in January, beating economists? expectations and continuing the trend of positive economic data that began in the fourth quarter of 2011. The unemployment rate dropped from 8.5 percent to 8.3 percen...
Facebook revs up political funding ahead of IPO
Posted: Sat Feb 04 08:13:19 PST 2012Facebook Inc. formed a political action committee that raised $170,000 late last year as the company prepared to file for an initial public offering. The Center for Responsive Politics reports that a lot of the money came from Facebook executives and employees, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, both giving the maximum allowable $5,000. Other top execs ...
Tempe architect Mark Vinson receives AIA honor
Posted: Sat Feb 04 07:47:02 PST 2012Tempe City Architect Mark Vinson has received one of the highest honors bestowed by the American Institute of Architects. Vinson will receive the Fellowship medal at the AIA 2012 National Convention and Design Exposition May 17 in Washington. The medal is given to AIA members who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society. Vinson is the only architect in Arizona to recei...
Which top Silicon Valley stocks are most popular in Congress?
Posted: Sat Feb 04 07:24:38 PST 2012The stocks that members of Congress own has come under the microscope lately, with some complaining that politicians have capitalized on inside information that members of the general public would face charges on. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this week called for a ban on members of his branch of Congress from owning individual stocks, saying git creates conflicts of interest. On Thursday, the Sen...
The Dow's 10 Biggest Bargain Stocks
Posted: Sun Feb 05 14:07:49 PST 2012A look at the most promising names. ...
The Week's Biggest Stock Laggards
Posted: Sun Feb 05 13:07:42 PST 2012It was a heady week for the stock market, but some stocks sat out the celebration. ...
WATCH NOW: "Why Do You Invest?" The Motley Fool's Super Bowl Ad
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Can Tablets Pass the PC in Sales?
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Has Microsoft Learned Nothing?
Posted: Sun Feb 05 13:53:24 PST 2012...
Let's Check Altria's Growth
Posted: Sun Feb 05 09:07:44 PST 2012These two metrics can tell you a lot. ...
Will These Dow Stocks Stand the Test of Time?
Posted: Sun Feb 05 08:07:22 PST 2012The Dow has made some missteps before, but will these companies produce big gains? ...
Who's Taking the Lead in Utility Cloud Computing?
Posted: Sun Feb 05 07:07:18 PST 2012Top dogs and fast movers in a rapidly growing market. ...
Why Ford Is Still a Great Buy
Posted: Sun Feb 05 06:07:39 PST 2012...
3 Predictions for This Week
Posted: Sun Feb 05 05:07:46 PST 2012This Fool sees three limbs to go out on, and he's the adventurous type. ...