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Google today announced that they are adding automatic captioning capability to videos on YouTube. This is a fantastic step forward for accessibility for deaf Internet users.  Says Vice President Vint Cerf, who is hearing impaired himself: "Google believes that the world's information should be accessible to everyone.  One of the...

Most U.S. stocks ended the week with losses, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average notched a small rise for the period thanks to gains on Friday in health care stocks and consumer-related shares. Tech shares were the biggest losers on the week.

Yesterday Google showed off its forthcoming Chrome OS, leaving many to wonder how exactly the company will monetize it. The answer: it won't. Since Google derives 97% of its revenue from online ads, it simply wants you using a computer that is always online. Specifically, it wants you on a...

Yesterday Google showed off its forthcoming Chrome OS, leaving many to wonder how exactly the company will monetize it. The answer: it won't. Since Google derives 97% of its revenue from online ads, it simply wants you using a computer that is always online. Specifically, it wants you on a...

“We believe that the credit rating agencies in exchange for fees departed from their objective neutral role as arbiters. At minimum they were aiding and abetting misconduct by issuers.”-- Richard Cordray Ohio attorney general on filing suit against Moody’s Standard & Poor’s and Fitch (MHP)“Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.”-- Sophocles***“F.H.A. financing was a lost language in San Francisco the real-estate equivalent of Aramaic. Once the limits were raised smart buyers started calling.”-- Michael Ackerman a Bay Area real-estate agent“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”-- Samuel Goldwyn***“I love this show. This show has been my ...

Schaeffer's analyst Morgan Searcy takes a look at news on the Street before the market open.

Tom Dorsey and Tammy DeRosier - An Anniversary of Sorts

Schaeffer's analyst Morgan Searcy takes a look at news on the Street before the market open.

Schaeffer's Andrea Kramer takes a look at unusual option activity on the Street

Tom Dorsey and Tammy DeRosier - The World Bullish Percent Reverses Down

We wrapped up another week of big winners.  Every closed trade was in the GR$$N!  We do have 2 trades that expired, which will be reported in the Monthly Wrap-Up for November.  Record gold was once again the big news, and we captured the trade with options on GLD.  Here are the closed trades this week [...]

With a possible buyout of General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal Inc. in the works, Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is adapting to a changing technological landscape.[More...]

BloggingStocks: Yahoo! (YHOO) is the latest company that wants to optimize its search results for Twitter. This follows moves by Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) to integrate Twitter data into their search results. Unlike its competitors, however, Yahoo! wants to ... Read more

BloggingStocks: Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) were once favorite friends. When Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from Apple's board of directors, though, the gloves came off. With Apple's venerable and extremely popular iPhone selling for $99 (for the base edition), ... Read more

With a possible buyout of General Electric Co.’s (GE) NBC Universal Inc. in the works, Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) is adapting to a changing technological landscape. Comcast, the United States’ largest cable television provider, is hoping to avoid becoming the next newspaper or record company by expanding its role from an entertainment medium ...