The Company's recent legal issues have been well documented by the press. Nowhere in this document, does the Company even tell investors what the $1.0 Bn legal expense is related to. After searching Reuters, I found this: "The bulk of the costs came from setting aside money to resolve government probes into alleged rigging of foreign-exchange rates, Chief Financial Officer Marianne Lake said." In other words, more allegations of improper practices at the Company, which could cost the Company some serious cash in legal fees and Government/Regulatory fines in the future.

The Company clearly relies heavily on international markets to produce revenue. 60% is a large portion of total revenues to be derived from overseas activities. The Company will look to capitalize on emerging markets in foreign countries in the future to continue this trend.

"LinkedIn's earnings beat Street estimates after its second quarter saw strong user growth, increased professional engagement and launch of new products leading to enthusiastic investors and a surging stock price. "
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Facebook is gaining ground on Google Inc. in the mobile advertising market, expecting to command 18.4% of mobile-ad dollars this year, up from 9% in 2012, eMarketer has said. Google's share is expected to slip to 40% from 50% in that two-year time period.
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Apple said its third-quarter earnings grew 12.3% to $7.75 billion from $6.9 billion a year ago. Earnings per share rose to $1.28 from $1.07, adjusted for the company’s 7-for-1 stock split. However, sales of iPad sales fell for the second straight quarter to 13.28 million units, down 9.2% year-on-year.
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Mayer told analysts in her prepared remarks on the company’s conference call that Yahoo has made strikes in transforming its culture and its entire product portfolio in her tenure so far.
“Transformation is not a singular event... it will take time,” Mayer said at the beginning of the call. “We believe a transformation of this size and scale will take time.” Investors are still trading Yahoo on its Alibaba potential. Once the Alibaba IPO takes place, and Yahoo looses some of its Alibaba premium with its sale of some of its stake, Mayer and her top executives are probably going to face much tougher scrutiny from investors waiting to see if Yahoo’s core business will begin to grow again.
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One of the Company's main competitors is AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). Like Intel, AMD has been struggling to find new opportunities outside the shrinking PC arena. But while Intel has found some success in this quest, AMD has faced more hurdles.
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Google will account for more than a third of digital ad spending world-wide this year, dwarfing its nearest competitor Facebook Inc., which will have almost 8% of the $140 billion market, according to eMarketer. However, in the faster-growing mobile ad business, Google is less dominant and Facebook and Twitter Inc. are growing faster, eMarketer estimates show.
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