GLG News by Media Buyers

"Four digit" gold prices will make many of the products sold in today's jewelry stores almost unsaleable; forcing the industry to reinvent itself.  Here's how that might happen.

Sears management needs to spend less time on "spin" and more time on retailing basics. The company's latest PR efforts will do nothing to improve business and wastes company resources too.  At best, it will temporarily diffuse skeptics criticism of managements performance. ...

Yahoo is doing whatever they can to avoid a Microsoft takeover, but it is becoming obvious that they will have no choice but to fall prey to the Seattle giant, in large part because their other suitors - News Corp, Google, and AOL - could never exude the leverage that Microsoft could.  In truth,...

Since the beginning of 2007 to February of 2008, Oracle has acquired 40 different software companies.  These companies include both large and smaller players, with the most recent, BEA, representing the largest acquisition in Oracle’s history at $8.5bn (US) dollars.  Their acquisition strategy...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disorder in which the immune system starts attacking the body’s joints leading to joint damage, pain, stiffness, swelling, and limitation in motion and function of the affected joints.  Not only can this disease be painful and sometimes crippling to those...

The market continues to  reward bad behavior as Zales stock traded slightly higher on news the company was diverting additional cash to buy back stock.  Here's why a bigger stock repurchase is  a bad idea.

The RIM versus Apple battle is the current smartphone battlefield (unless Nokia can enter the fray), with Microsoft and Palm bowing out due to an inability to innovate and deliver products that capitalize on the shifting pro-sumer or business / consumer market.  Now that Apple is making a move...

Potential upside for advertisers as well as broadcasters, ability to narrowcast, not unlike the relationship between broadcast TV and cable in the early 1980's

In spite of renewed contracts with Macy's, Finlay continues face declining cash flow because of lower comp store sales and dwindling store base.  The company's efforts to maintain liquidity by liquidating excess inventory may not be as successful as investors believe.  Here is why.

The the economy may not be the only factor affecting Blue Nile's performance in 2008.  Here's why.