Stockerblog submits: When I was going through the list of the top general investing books on Amazon (AMZN) that I wrote up in a previous article, I discovered that one publisher’s name kept popping up, John Wiley & Sons (JW-A) which trades on the New York Stock Exchange.

Several of the books listed on the top ten, including The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don't, Google and Viacom: A Tale of Two Universes (and Stocks)
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: For Google (GOOG) to succeed in video, it needs to start speaking the language of content owners, and not talking down to them.

You have to hand it to Google. They miss out on MySpace, which went on to triple in size after News Corp. (NWS) bought it, so they pay $1.65 billion for YouTube. I have always said that the Google/YouTube was a fait accompli when Sequoia invested in YouTube. In other words, YouTube was Google’s proxy video strategy

Paul Kedrosky submits: Fascinating stuff from iSuppli on the current LCD panel price freefall:

Despite Production Cuts, Large-Sized LCD Panel Prices Plunge
February 5, 2007

A major slowdown in demand for large-sized TFT-LCDs in December for all applications -- televisions, monitors and notebooks -- triggered a faster-than-expected fall in panel prices for the month and for January, according to iSuppli Corp. Price erosion is expected to continue through the first quarter because of the seasonally slow market conditions. However, monitor and notebook panel prices may stabilize by the end of the second quarter, iSuppl

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Wal-Mart Launches Hewlett-Packard Enabled Digital Download Site
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Wal-Mart will be first to take advantage of Hewlett-Packard's new Video Merchant Service when it goes live with its very own digital movie and TV download site. The first brick and mortar retail store to offer the services, the new site will be in direct competition with downloading services from the likes of Amazon.com and Apple iTunes. Ready to offer more than 3,000 TV and cinematic titles, Wal-Mart will be partnering with all of the six major Hollywood studios — Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony, 20th Century Fox and Universal; iTunes currently partners only with Disney and Paramount. TV content from ABC, CBS or NBC will not initially be offered though Wal-Mart soon hopes to. Another strategy being em

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Today's Conference Call Transcripts
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Here is a list of earnings call transcripts you'll find on Seeking Alpha this week. You can find the latest transcripts here. To sponsor a transcript please email Zack Miller at Zack@SeekingAlpha.com or call him at (203) 285-8767. More about sponsoring transcripts here.

Today's Transcripts

Automatic Data Processing (ADP) (Sponsor: Cornerstone)
Earthlink (ELNK) (Sponsorship Available)
Avon (AVP) (Sponsorship Available)
New Focus Media (

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