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Indications: Stocks inch higher as Europe woes weigh
Thu, 17 May 2012 10:25:22 GMT Economic data, Facebook buzz and Wal-Mart earnings could help U.S. markets buck recent weakness even as Greece worries mount.


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New Yahoo plan could feature Alibaba IPO
Thu, 17 May 2012 04:01:41 GMT The changes at Yahoo give the company and Alibaba CEO Jack Ma a chance to reboot. One scenario that’s come up is for Alibaba to go public.


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Therese Poletti's Tech Tales: Betting on Facebook’s future
Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:58 GMT When the Facebook IPO party starts on Friday, investors are going to find that its hefty valuation will be based on a lot of hope, writes Therese Poletti.


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ETF Investing: Why ETFs can’t ‘like’ Facebook IPO
Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:50 GMT If you’re not getting a chance to buy Facebook Inc. shares before Friday’s IPO, you’re not alone. Some specialized exchange-traded funds will be on the sidelines along with most everyone else -- at least for a while.


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Third Point faces high stakes with Yahoo
Thu, 17 May 2012 04:01:04 GMT Former Web powerhouse is the largest holding for the hedge fund, but questions remain about how it can turn Yahoo around now that it has de facto control of the board.


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IPO Report: Facebook insiders add shares to boost IPO
Wed, 16 May 2012 21:39:12 GMT Early investors in social network plan to take advantage of strong demand for IPO to cash out larger chunks of their ownership stakes.


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Tech Stocks: Tech stocks weighed down by chip sector
Wed, 16 May 2012 20:42:44 GMT A downgrade from J.P. Morgan on semi-cap firms like KLA-Tencor and Lam Research put the sector into the red. Social network stocks lifted by Facebook ‘halo’ as firm adds shares to planned IPO.


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John Shinal's Tech Investor: Facebook IPO, you’re no Google — in five big ways
Wed, 16 May 2012 17:11:56 GMT The very success of this week’s epic offering will make it harder for retail investors to make the kind of money they did on Google’s deal, writes John Shinal.


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Outside the Box: How Facebook could clobber LinkedIn
Wed, 16 May 2012 04:01:44 GMT Here’s how Mark Zuckerberg could undermine professional social networking site LinkedIn.


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After Hours: J.C. Penney, GM light up the late trades
Wed, 16 May 2012 00:20:29 GMT Retailer’s shares fall 15% after swinging to a loss; auto maker rises after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway buys 10 million shares.


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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick \MAF-ik\ verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.
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