Adam Samson

valuentumbrian : > We’ve never been more concerned about the financial health of > dividend growth investors. Perhaps we’re partly to blame for some > of the exciteme...

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A Micron spokesperson late Monday denied a Wall Street Journal report that Tsinghua Unigroup has made a $23 billion buyout offer for the firm.  “While Micron does not comment on rumors or s...

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UPDATE: A Comcast spokesperson provided the following statement: “Our engineers have fixed a DNS issue impacting Internet service and some customers’ VOD on the West Coast tonight. We know...

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Want to crash your friend’s iPhone? Sending him a message containing a certain string of characters may do just that. Users posted to Reddit late Tuesday that receiving a specific string cause...

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MALA GAONKAR, LONE PINE CAPITAL Legacy tech may not be sexy, but it could yield solid returns. That’s the investment thesis pitched by Lone Pine Capital’s Mala Gaonkar. Gaonkar focused on ...

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JPMorgan’s consumer website experienced bouts of sometimes paralyzing sluggishness Friday. But officials are blaming the date, not hackers, for the issues. The biggest U.S. bank acknowledged ...

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Deutsche Bank warned its clients this week that the S&P 500 could slide in the near-term as strong data have boosted the chance Federal Reserve rate hikes may be “on the horizon.” “We see...

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firstadopter : > Marc Cohodes and his dog Lucca. Image source: Marc Cohodes  >  > In this exclusive interview Marc Cohodes shares his thoughts on the > stock market to...

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All 31 banks that were subjected to the Federal Reserve’s annual stress test managed to keep their tier one common ratio above the 5% threshold under the central bank’s “severely adverse”...

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Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s sprawling 50th anniversary essay is a worthy read for anyone interested in business management or investing. It’s filled with intriguing anecdotes of s...

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Given Wall Street’s obsession with every comment FederalReserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen makes, it’s not a stretch to think the central bank’s first rate hike will be a defining moment for t...

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Finance ministers representing the 19-member currency bloc have forged an agreement that gives Greece a four-month extension on its bailout, contingent on certain factors. The move gives the emba...

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UPDATE: Lenovo has released an automated tool for removing Superfish. Underscoring the severity of the Lenovo Superfish problem, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued a wa...

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Good question! PC World did a nice write-up on how to remove the software: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2886278/how-to-remove-the-dangerous-superfish-adware-presintalled-on-lenovo-pcs.html ...

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**Update: **Lenovo has updated the time-frame in which it shipped machines with the software to September-December, from October-December.  Lenovo is facing a storm of criticism from cyber-sec...

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Warren Buffett is trouncing Protégé Partners in a wager over whether hedge-fund management can provide better returns than a passive strategy. Now, Protégé and its co-founder Ted Seides are s...

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Chick-fil-A said Wednesday it is investigating “potential unusual activity involving payment cards used at a few of our restaurants.” The fast-food chain said it received a report late on D...

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I’m at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. for a conference hosted by the Security Innovation Network (SINET) . The event features leaders across the public and private sectors who will...

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It’s not just U.S. oil firms that could lose out as a result of the deepening rout in the energy sector. A prominent analyst says banks could fall victim, too, through loans that could go sour....

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Sony Pictures Entertainment was hacked in what could be a blackmail attempt, according to multiple media reports . The reports say numerous corporate users were greeted with a photo of a scull,...

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