Market – Page 2 – Impact Lab

U.S. companies that will be the most profitable in 2012

January 19, 2012

The market appears to anticipate rapid growth from Apple.

24/7 Wall St. forecasts the publicly traded U.S. companies that will have the highest profits in the year ahead every January. For 2012, Apple is likely to pass Exxon Mobil as the most profitable corporation in the Fortune 500. It already passed the oil giant in market capitalization for a while last year. The market appears to anticipate rapid growth from Apple comparable to that of the past two years. The stock has reached several all-time highs recently and now trades around $425, up nearly 25 percent in the past year.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Crazy Stuff, Culture, Historical Perspectives, New Viewpoints

Meltdown – The men who crashed the world

September 29, 2011

“The first of a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that brought down the financial world.”

From Open Culture:

Doc Zone, a documentary series produced by CBC Television, is now airing a four part investigation into the great financial meltdown of 2008…

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, top 10

Top 10 brands that will disappear in 2012

July 8, 2011

Sears is one of the brands expected to disappear within the next 18 months.

A new list of brands that will disappear in 2012 has been created by 24/7 Wall St. The list includes Sears, Sony Pictures, American Apparel, Nokia, Saab, A&W All-American Foods Restaurants, Soap Opera Digest, Sony Ericsson, MySpace, and Kellog’s Corn Pops.

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend

Foreign buyers helping U.S. housing market

July 6, 2011

Miami appears on the list of many foreign real estate buyers.

Home sales in U.S. vacation hot spots decimated by the real estate crash, especially in southern Florida, are being lifted by foreign buyers.

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Analysis, Business, facebook, Internet, Science & Technology News

Facebook takes number one spot in U.S. online display ad market

June 21, 2011

Facebook, the world’s No.1 Internet social network.

Facebook has displaced Yahoo Inc to collect the largest slice of online display advertising dollars with Facebook’s advertising revenue in the U.S. totalling $2.2 billion in 2011.

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Analysis, Business, Latest Trend, Money Talk, Science & Technology News

China’s Private Jet Market Takes Off

May 25, 2011

China has become the fastest-growing market for Airbus’ private jet business.

China’s soaring economy is creating a class of wealthy entrepreneurs who have plenty of money to spend on one of the ultimate symbols of success: the executive jet.

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Analysis, Big Problems, Business, facebook, Science & Technology News

Facebook Wants Your Children

May 23, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told attendees at a recent summit on innovation in education that, “My philosophy is that for education you need to start at a really, really young age.” A really, really good way to do that, Zuckerberg said, is to let kids ages 13 and under join Facebook.

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Business, Food, Great New Product, Great Videos, Science & Technology News

What’s for Dinner? Kraft Food Kiosk Scans Your Face and Picks Your Dinner for You

January 25, 2011

Kraft and Intel are teaming up to bring a vending machine kiosk that makes the food buying decision for you.

Dinner planning: It’s the bane of every five o’clock shopper who can’t bear to serve up frozen pizza one more night. Now, with the help of some spooky video analytics, Intel and Kraft aim to help harried shoppers come up with better–or at least different–solutions, right in their grocery aisles. (video)

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