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The Motley Fool August 9, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Marchex: Master of Its Domains The search specialist continues to grow its local and vertical empires. Last night, the company posted second-quarter results that require a closer look for investors to fully appreciate.
The Motley Fool August 8, 2006 Alyce Lomax	The Starbucks Book Club The coffee giant adds books to its small selection of media offerings. These initiatives seem like a perfect fit.
The Motley Fool August 8, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Google Flashes Its Cash Is Google about to get mugged on MySpace? It's clear that Google's paying out the nose to shore up its search leadership and build the highest-profile, most lucrative search deals. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool August 8, 2006 Anders Bylund	New Ideas at Nortel The company is remaking itself in the image of... Cisco? Ciena? Microsoft? All three? The in-home voice, data, and video market will be huge in a few years, and Nortel might as well stake out a plot before it gets too crowded.
The Motley Fool August 8, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Don't Do It, Dell! What's in store for Dell? Hopefully no more stores. A lot of investors are pulling for this company's business to bounce back. So, is the company broken, or is it simply toiling away in a sector that's out of favor? Investors, take note.
HBS Working Knowledge August 7, 2006 Sean Silverthorne	Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor? In many world nations, consumers enjoy vast protections that are relatively new on the scene. Why the rapid rise in consumer protectionism? Why do these efforts vary from country to country? A discussion with professor Gunnar Trumbull on his new book, Consumer Capitalism.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2006 Tim Beyers	Can IBM Be an Innovation Mechanic? Big Blue is aiming to transform some of its expertise in research and development into a new offering from its Global Services team. Investors, this is a potentially huge opportunity for the firm.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2006 Tom Taulli	The aQuantive Dream: Global Digital Agency aQuantive is a new-age digital advertising agency with significant growth on the way. With a rising stock price and $307.6 million in the bank, the company has the firepower to make its ambition a reality.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Google Wants Its MTV Viacom is dreaming of streaming through Google for profit. What makes this deal so intriguing, is that Google will be turning to its growing community of AdSense third-party publishers to help spread the streams in exchange for a piece of the action.
HBS Working Knowledge August 4, 2006 James Heskett	What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance? The "Long Tail," a term coined by Chris Anderson describing the item popularity curve. Does the Long Tail represent a paradigm shift for business and consumer behavior? What are its implications for management going forward?
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