Dee Gill
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Jan 5, 2012 12:03 PM
Investors who missed out on the biggest gains from U.S. innovations – internet search engines, online job listings and cell phone popularity, for example – have traditionally found fantastic consolation prizes in the shares of companies that do similar work, later, in Asia. But can investing in a Google (NSDQ:…
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Ingrid Lunden
Aug 11, 2011 1:43 AM
HTC is taking one more strategic investment in digital content, this time in music. The company today is expected to announce that it is making a $309 million investment in Beats Electronics, a digital audio technology company, which it will incorporate into future products to court music-loving mobile consumers, and…
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David Kaplan
Feb 3, 2010 4:48 PM
The combination of HotJobs’ network of more than 600 daily and weekly newspapers with Monster’s local news alliances should produce benefits for members of the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium, the company says. The $225 million merger, assuming it passes regulatory muster, will give Monster and HotJobs a collective reach…
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David Kaplan
Aug 24, 2009 3:22 PM
This is a tough time for jobs sites. And, for that matter, the economy has constrained advertisers from spending on the health content market. So with that in mind, last fall, Monster.com founder and former CEO Jeff Taylor created a spinoff from his healthy living site Eons.com aimed at Baby…
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Joseph Tartakoff
Jul 8, 2009 7:40 PM
Online jobs services company Monster Worldwide (NSDQ: MNST) is cutting 160 positions and adding another 80, saying that it needs employees with “different skills and expertise” as it develops new products. Like other online recruiting companies, Monster has been hard hit by the recession—its revenue dropped 31 percent during the…
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