NORTHLAND'S FAVORITE HITS » stocks

$130 Million Of Coca Cola Shares Found At Garage Sale

Steve Tanko — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:43:43 +0000

With the summer garage sale season starting – you might want to re-think what you pass over as “junk”. A Coke stock shakedown may be worth $130 million, according to Tony Marohn’s family, who demands that they be paid for an old stock certificate found in 2008. Although the certificate was not for Coke stock, [...]

Facebook Nears Privacy Deal With FTC

Steve Tanko — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:14:22 +0000

Everyone’s hip to Facebook – except, maybe the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC has been battling the social media giant to reign in it’s privacy issues. It now appears that the two sides may be nearing an agreement. Under the agreement, Facebook would agree to privacy audits for 20 years, one of the people said. [...]

Netflix Woes Continue; Splitting DVD And Streaming

Steve Tanko — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:40:36 +0000

Just when you thought you had a handle on what Netflix was doing with it's services and pricing structure, comes the news today from corporate headquarters via a blog post from it's CEO.
Netflix Inc is separating its movie streaming business and its DVD by mail service, which will be called Qwikster, Chief Executive Reed Hastings said in a company blog post

Wall Street Runs On Dunkin Donuts: First Day Of Public Trading Looks Good

Steve Tanko — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:43:47 +0000

Just like their current advertising slogan – “American Runs On Dunkin Donuts” – the venerable coffee chain is also ruling things on Wall Street. On its first day of trading Wednesday, the stock was up 40% at $26.78 from an opening price of $19.Just like their current slogan – “America Runs On Dunkin Donuts” – [...]