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News Breaks | | | | October 2, 2012 | | 08:10 EDT |  | AMZN, YHOO | China's Internet gift shopping booming, China Daily reports
Internet gift shopping is beginning to become a new popular trend in China, reports the China Daily. Amazon (AMZN) China said the company's gift card business has seen three-digit growth every year since 2005 and the China Gift Chamber of Commerce said the gift industry is now worth nearly 800B yuan. Reference Link | |
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| May 23, 2013 | | 07:13 EDT |  | AMZN | Amazon.com eBay to see little impact from sales tax reform, says Bernstein
After the Senate passed a bill that would force all online retailers to collect sales tax, Bernstein thinks the impact of such a law on Amazon's (AMZN) gross profits would be "immaterial," while the bill would reduce eBay's (EBAY) EPS by less than 1% in 2014 if it becomes law. The firm keeps Outperform ratings on both stocks. | | | May 22, 2013 | | 13:56 EDT | | AMZN | Amazon.com to add 500 jobs in Web services unit, Washington Post says
 Subscribe for More Information | | | 09:07 EDT |  | AMZN | Amazon introduces 'Kindle Worlds' commercial publishing platform for fan fiction
Amazon Publishing announced Kindle Worlds, the first commercial publishing platform that will enable any writer to create fan fiction based on a range of original stories and characters and earn royalties for doing so. Amazon Publishing has secured licenses from Warner Bros. Television Group’s Alloy Entertainment division for its series Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and Vampire Diaries and plans to announce more licenses soon, the company said. Through these licenses, Kindle Worlds will allow any writer to publish authorized stories inspired by these Worlds and make them available for readers to purchase in the Kindle Store. Amazon Publishing will pay royalties to both the rights holders of the Worlds and the author. | | | 06:16 EDT | | YHOO | France Telecom to invest up to $64M in Dailymotion, Reuters reports
France Telecom (FTE) plans to invest about $64M its video-sharing website Dailymotion and begin a new search for a partner this fall, according to CEO Stephane Richard, reports Reuters. He said that "the door is not closed" to Yahoo (YHOO), which had been in talks to buy a 75 % stake in Dailymotion in a deal that would have valued Europe's largest video website at $300M.Reference Link | | | May 21, 2013 | | 10:20 EDT | | YHOO | Yahoo CEO says impact of Tumblr, other deals should be seen in 2014
Subscribe for More Information | | | 09:07 EDT | | AMZN | Amazon.ca introduces Amazon Cloud Drive for Canada
All customers get 5 GB of free storage. Additional storage plans start at C$10 a year, the company said. | | | 08:03 EDT | | YHOO | Yahoo price target raised to $30 from $27 at Oppenheimer
Subscribe for More Information | | | 05:33 EDT | | AMZN | Amazon Web Services achieves FedRAMP compliance for AWS GovCloud
Amazon Web Services, or AWS, an Amazon.com company, announced AWS GovCloud and all U.S. AWS Regions have received an Agency Authority to Operate, or ATO, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, requirements at the Moderate impact level. FedRAMP is a U.S. government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. With this distinction, AWS has demonstrated it can meet the extensive FedRAMP security requirements and as a result, an even wider range of government customers can leverage AWS's secure environment to store, process, and protect a diverse array of sensitive government data. Leveraging the HHS authorization, all U.S. government agencies now have the information they need to evaluate AWS for their applications and workloads, provide their own authorizations to use AWS, and transition workloads into the AWS environment. | | | May 20, 2013 | | 17:49 EDT | | YHOO | Yahoo CEO announces new office in NY, 1TB of free space on Flickr, AllThingsD says
Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced, in a joint press conference, that Yahoo has a new office in the old New York Times building in Times Square, reports AllThingsD. Mayer also announced that Flickr users will have a free terabyte of storage space, the website added. Reference Link | | | 16:22 EDT |  | YHOO | On The Fly: Closing Wrap
Subscribe for More Information | | | | 13:06 EDT | | YHOO | On The Fly: Midday Wrap
Stocks on Wall Street were modestly higher at midday as the Dow and S&P seek to continue their march higher after closing last week at record levels. ECONOMIC EVENTS: In the U.S., the light domestic economic calendar included the Chicago Fed National Activity index, which slipped to -0.53 for April from its prior reading of -0.23. In Asia, the Hang Seng and Shanghai Composite both climbed after Chinese home prices were reported to have risen in April. COMPANY NEWS: Yahoo (YHOO) confirmed it is buying social media platform Tumblr for $1.1B, as widely reported over the weekend, and promised "not to screw it up" in its press release to announce the deal... Actavis (ACT) agreed to acquire Warner Chilcott (WCRX) in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at approximately $8.5B. The deal, which was approved by the boards of both companies, equates to a value of $20.08 per Warner Chilcott share based on Actavis' closing share price on Friday, the companies said. MAJOR MOVERS: Among the notable gainers were some other companies with M&A news: Acquity Group (AQ) shares more than doubled after Accenture (ACN) agreed to buy the company for $13.00 per American Depositary Share, and Pactera Technology (PACT) gained 31% after receiving a non-binding proposal from a Blackstone (BX) affiliate to be taken private for $7.50 per ADS. Among the noteworthy losers was XenoPort (XNPT), which fell 11% after one of its drugs failed in a Phase III trial for multiple sclerosis spasticity. Also lower were shares of Red Hat (RHT), which slid 4% following a downgrade to Market Perform at BMO Capital. INDICES: Near 1 pm ET, the Dow was up 13.67, or 0.09%, to 15,368.07; the Nasdaq was up 1.13, or 0.03%, to 3,500.10; and the S&P 500 was up 2.18, or 0.13%, to 1,669.65. | | | 11:21 EDT | | YHOO | Yahoo acquisition a step in right direction, says Piper Jaffray
Piper views Yahoo's acquisition of Tumblr as a step in the right direction and one that could increase the company's top line growth from its current 1% estimate to 2% in 2013 and from 5% to 8% in 2014. However, Piper feels the deal is too small to materially change Yahoo's growth rate and continues to view the Alibaba IPO as the biggest part of the Yahoo story. The firm raised its price target for shares to $27 from $21 and keeps a Neutral rating on the name. | | | 10:03 EDT |  | YHOO | Yahoo hosted a conference call
Conference call was held to discuss the acquisition of Tumblr on May 20 at 9 am and has a replay available from 11 am on May 20 through May 26. Webcast Link | | | 09:26 EDT | | YHOO | On The Fly: Pre-market Movers
Subscribe for More Information | | | 08:23 EDT |  | YHOO | Yahoo shares slip on Tumblr purchase, levels to watch
The shares are down just over 1% after the company agreed to purchase Tumblr in a deal valued at $1.1 billion. At the current share price of $26.25, next support is at $25.55. Resistance is at $26.66, a prior pivot high. | | | 08:03 EDT | | YHOO | Yahoo confirms plan to acquire Tumblr for $1.1B
Subscribe for More Information | | | 08:01 EDT | | YHOO | Yahoo confirms plan to acquire Tumblr for $1.1B
| | | 07:45 EDT | | YHOO | Yahoo Tumblr deal won't move needle strategically, says Stifel
Subscribe for More Information | | | 07:05 EDT | | YHOO | Jefferies concerned about $1.1B valuation for Tumblr
Subscribe for More Information | | | 06:56 EDT |  | YHOO | Yahoo volatility flat into expected acquisition of Tumblr for $1.1B
Yahoo overall option implied volatility of 29 is near its 26-week average of 28 according to Track Data, suggesting non-directional price movement into the media reports of the acquisition of blogging startup Tumblr for $1.1B in cash. | | |
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