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Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) decided to wage an unusual war when it announced that it wanted to secure a number of generic top level domains (commonly known as gTLDs). These are the domains that may end in something like ".books" or ".movies." Amazon wants several of them, especially .books. However,...

He lost his job in 2011. Now J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) has asked its former CEO, Mike Ullman, to come back and save the struggling retailer. Ullman was more or less ousted in 2011 after activist investor Bill Ackman pushed for him to retire. The investor was unhappy with J.C. Penney's stock...

Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) is about to hijack the screens of many Android devices. This may be a brilliant move by Facebook's developers, but it could inspire a cornucopia of copycats. Twitter While at least one analyst believes that Facebook Home is bad for Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), it could be far...

Everybody likes a comeback story. A person that faced adversity in the eye of the public and came out on top often receives instant approval from onlookers. Even Wall Street rewards companies for rising from the depths of certain doom. Probably the best example of that is Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL...

It is clear that as the housing market recovers, the home builder stocks, and even the big-box home improvement retailers Home Depot (NYSE: HD) and Lowe's Companies (NYSE: LOW), have benefited from the boom. But in a research report released Tuesday, UBS (NYSE: UBS) analysts offer a list of...

Not that long ago, Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) spent millions of dollars on a campaign to tell consumers that their services were "Comcastic!" While the company never specified its meaning, many assumed that the word was a combination of "Comcast" and "fantastic." UrbanDictionary has a few other,...

Can Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) hire its way to the top of the entertainment industry? The company is about to find out. Starting with less than 100 employees in 2012, Intel Media (a new division created to build a TV service and an accompanying set-top box) has grown into a team of more than 300...

Is NBC’s Brian Williams being replaced by @someguyontwitter? Voice of America reports that, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, 15 percent of U.S. adults first hear about a news story on a social networking site. For young people, the number is almost 25 percent. While...

Fired Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) CEO and co-founder, Andrew Mason has been replaced by Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky and Vice Chairman Ted Leonsisa, who will serve as co-CEOs, pending a search for a permanent replacement. Now the serious work of picking a successor begins, but it’s not the only...

Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has made an unusual choice this week. It has decided to acquire the rest of General Electric's (NYSE: GE) stake in NBC at a cost of $16.7 billion. This expensive purchase will give Comcast full control over NBC and all of its assets, including a film studio (Universal...

Quarterly reports from General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Deere (NYSE: DE) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. The consensus forecast for the former calls for fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) to be more than 23 percent higher than a year ago to $0.51 per share. The...

Lance Armstrong is expected to finally admit that he used a number of banned performance-enhancing substances during his time as a professional cyclist. Armstrong, who created the Livestrong Foundation after being diagnosed with (and subsequently beating) testicular cancer, lost all of his titles...

In an interview with Bloomberg, Sony (NYSE: SNE) CEO Kazuo Hirai said that his company must release one product at a time to have people understand, "Wow! Sony is really starting to get its mojo back." Sony hopes that its "mojo" can be retrieved by selling a host of new Xperia smartphones, Bravia...

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is rumored to be developing a set-top box that will incorporate streaming video and traditional pay-TV services. TechCrunch has an interesting rundown on the concept, adding to the previous reports from Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. The most interesting feature of the...

Marketwatch suggests that media stocks Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH), Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) and the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) are among the likely takeover candidates in the new year. Whether someone wants their spectrum, another company already effectively controls them, or they have...