Buy The Rumor: Allergan Goes Public On Divestiture, Acquisition Plans
The inside story at Allergan (AGN) is now firmly public, as the company’s plans to divest itself of certain product categories and acquire another firm were confirmed over the weekend. What was rumored has become fact This weekend Allergan publicaly confirmed that it will sell its generic-drug business to Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TEVA) for $40.5 […]
Monday Morning’s Pre-Market Insights: YOKU, QCOM, TEVA, PSTI
By Kate George Youku Tudou Inc (ADR) (YOKU) shares slipped more than -6% in pre-market trading down to $18.77 after Chinese shares fell more than 8%. Since China is trying to stave off a market crash, last week the government instituted several measures to mitigate the effects of the crashing market. However, these efforts fell short and […]
The Flight From Gold – Its Fall From Grace
So why have Gold investors taken flight from Gold as it falls from grace? The sophistry that has fueled Gold is being exposed. The Gold Promoters spun their latest tale raising unrealistic high hopes for China as their savior that they were buying gold and would use it to back their currency so but now […]
Chinese Stocks Suffer Second Biggest Crash In History, 1,500 Companies Halted Limit Down
This was not supposed to happen. After pledging, investing and otherwise guaranteeing the Chinese stock market to the tune of 10% of GDP, and intervening on at least 40 different occasions in the past month ever since China’s stock bubble burst in late June, with the subsequent crash nearly taking the Shanghai Composite red for the […]
Laura Prepon Talks Scientology, Sounds Next Level Crazy While Doing So
Scientology puts out a magazine to their disciples called Celebrity and I guess it’s like People Magazine only a zillion times more insane. Laura Prepon gave an interview to Celebrity about all things Scientology and the half-broken DOS hard drive I call a brain rebooted at least a dozen times while reading it. If you […]
Watch Out YouTube, Facebook To Share 55 Percent Ad Revenue With Video Creators
Facebook is getting more serious about video and is taking a huge step into making its video ads benefit all parties concerned. Apart from placing video ads on the News Feed, the company also plans to put these ads in video clips. This is similar to YouTube where users usually see ads after viewing a […]
Moffat County facing fate of the changing West
CRAIG —This tiny town was built on mining the rolling hills of northwest Colorado that surround it for coal and burning it to make electricity. Now, the community feels both its economic pillars under attack. The Colowyo coal mine is facing a federal court ruling on its environmental assessment some fear could close the mine. […]
Tahoe’s Shakespeare Ranch makes dramatic appearance on the market
To be or not to be the new owner of Shakespeare Ranch, that is the question here. For those who like history, ranches, and Lake Tahoe, this property could be a dream come true. History This estate has much history– even though it has only had two owners since 1861. Its original name was Glenbrook, […]
Five-alarm bargain in Gaithersburg is converted into a home
Arched bays for trucks and ladders remain intact in the old brick firehouse in the heart of Gaithersburg’s Kentlands neighborhood. But in place of garage doors are curtained cedar windows, wood paneling and a mahogany front door. A broadly curving deck extends off the back, and a second-floor balcony projects from one side. The domestication […]
Tech City UK CEO: why London needs startups, and why it needs us
In the whole of 2010 the total funding raised by London tech firms was less than £10m. So far in 2015? It’s close to a billion. Yes, as Techcrunch pointed out recently, that still only puts London on a par with Redwood City, California (population 76,000). And in the context of tech as a whole […]
