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...media mergers and acquisitions were announced on Tuesday, each reflecting a different aspect of the rapidly evolving industry. CBS said it was buying King World Productions for $2.5 billion in stock, and Yahoo! annnounced its purchase of Broadcast.com. for $5.7 billion in stock. CBS's acquisition of one of TV?s biggest syndicators (whose hits include ?Jeopardy!? and ?The Oprah Winfrey Show?) underscored the pressure on the so-called old media to pull itself together. The Yahoo! purchase of the Internet?s leading supplier of radio and video programs (whose hits included the web broadcast of John Glenn?s shuttle...
These newbies, who have seen the 20- and 30-fold moves of stocks like Amazon and Yahoo, think the danger lies in sitting out these moves in the Pepsis and Mercks. And who is to blame them? Lately I have come to wonder whether the risk-reward parameters I cut my teeth on are as out of date as those of my parents' generation, which saw utilities as safe, conservative growth vehicles that would leave hefty rewards for their children. They didn't. At what point, after how many new fortunes, can we proclaim the old paradigm of stock risk...
Cramer runs a hedge fund and writes for thestreet.com He holds investments in AOL and Yahoo. This column should not be construed as advice to buy or sell stocks...
...here's good news for the rest of us: San Francisco-based Topica.com has just launched a snappy site and is vowing to be the "Yahoo of e-mail lists," according to company founder Ariel Poler. You can search the site by keyword or topic, read blurbs about each one and subscribe to any of 30,000 lists...
...service that boasts that 1,300 of the 1.4 million people who have registered since 1995 have married. Sounds impressive until you realize that the chance of finding a match made in heaven is less than 1 in 1,000. I got dozens of responses to my ad on Yahoo (which is free), but most contenders were less appealing than the last-call crowd at a singles bar. A startling number of men thought the most important thing for me to know was their waist size or the precise angle of their hairline. And there was the guy who directed...