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Forbes - Business
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Forbes - Business
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Sohu.com Call Volume Soars Despite Post-Earnings Plunge
The shares of Sohu.com (SOHU), China's third-largest search engine, are being hammered this morning, with the stock plunging more than 15% in the wake of a poorly received fourth-quarter earnings report. Specifically, Sohu.com posted an unexpected 39% drop in profit, with the company citing acquisition charges and eroding advertising and games sales. However, the shares' weakness has not dissuaded options traders from piling into SOHU calls.
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Is Apple "Agile"? Part 2: The Critics Weigh In
My article, ?Is Apple Truly ?Agile?, drawing on Adam Lashinsky?s wonderful book, Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired--and Secretive--Company Really Works, generated quite a bit of interesting discussion. Here?s a roundup of the main points.
Is this a good question to ask?
Some expressed frustration that I was even addressing the question, suggesting in effect that I was introducing a red herring. My response is that since people ask me this question quite often, it does seem appropriate to try to answer it. The web traffic and many retweets and further questions also confirm wide interest.
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Sweetest Stocks For Options Trades
By Rocky White
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Can Florida Millionaire Justify Adopting His Girlfriend?
John Goodman is the 48-year old multimillionaire from Palm Beach, Florida who recently made headlines when it was publicly revealed that he adopted his 42-year old girlfriend to help protect the family fortune.
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"Global Warming Has Stopped"? How to Fool People Using "Cherry-Picked" Climate Data
The current favorite argument of those who argue that climate changes isn?t happening, or a problem, or worth dealing with, is that global warming has stopped. Therefore (they conclude) scientists must be wrong when they say that climate change is caused by humans, worsening, and ultimately a serious environmental problem
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Why Wind Power Doesn't Work
This is an interesting little chart showing the energy generation system in the UK today. It also shows why wind power doesn't work as a solution to the UK's energy demand.
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How the Internet Ruined This Year's Super Bowl Commercials
Super Bowl XLVI may not have been the worst ever in terms of the quality and buzzworthiness of the advertising, but it certainly generated the largest volume of bad reviews. Thank Facebook and Twitter for that. It's only in the last few years that fans across the country have been able to reach a critical consensus even before the final whistle blew. Such was the collective disappointment, the Obama 2012 campaign team tried to use it as a fundraising pitch, sending a text to supporters during the game reading, "The commercials aren?t that good this year anyway. Take a break from watching the big game to support Team Obama-Biden."
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Apple Trades at new all-times Highs
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Consumers: Market with Them, Not to Them
On the train home each evening, I gaze over the seats. What do I see? A sea of gaming. Solitaire. Scrabble. Everyone needs a little break.
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SEC Again Utilizes Strict Liability "Clawback" Authority
In a July 2011 Washington Legal Foundation Legal Pulse post, SEC to Join HHS in Effort to Drop the Claw of Strict Liability on Business Managers, we decried the federal punishment of business executives based solely on their status, rather than on whether they actually violated the law. Such status crimes, we argued, do nothing to deter law breaking and by punishing blameless people, cheapen the concept of punishment.
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