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Ben Mezrich Discusses New Book About the Rise and Fall of Absolute Poker
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 10:59am | 535Read More...Ben Mezrich, author of non-fiction New York Times (NYSE: NYT) bestsellers Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions and The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, (NASDAQ: FB) A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal, both of which...
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Roger Altman And Salient Partners' Lee Partridge On Fed Tapering
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 10:44am | 576Read More...Roger Altman, investment banker, private equity investor and former United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Lee Partridge, Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Strategist at Salient Partners, both spoke on CNBC's Squawk Box this morning to discuss the current state of the market and...
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MillerCoors CEO Tom Long On The Evolving Beer Industry
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 10:17am | 317Read More...Tom Long, Chief Executive Officer of MillerCoors, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to talk about the longtime summer tradition of drinking beer. The conversation ranged from the happenings of MillerCoors to legislation around the taxation of the industry. "Summertime is beer time, and every single...
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Unilever's Kees Kruythoff Talks Magnum Prospects In The Ice Cream World
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 9:15am | 275Read More...Kees Kruythoff, President of Unilever's (NYSE: UN) North American division, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to talk ice cream. Of the company's over 400 brands, ice cream is one of its biggest businesses. Unilever holds various forms of the sweet frozen treat including the popular and fast growing...
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Sen. Ron Johnson Would Abolish The Tax Code
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 9:46am | 416Read More...Sen. Ron Johnson, (R-WI), appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Thursday morning to discuss his outlook on the hearing and the current tax code. Johnson is one of members of the congressional subcommittee that heard testimonry from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook as he called for reform of U.S....
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Focus on Underperfomance With Trian Fund Management's Peter 'The Constructivist' May
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 12:25pm | 475Read More...Peter May, Trian Fund Management President and founding partner, calls himself a constructivist. He appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Wednesday to discuss a variety of things, including what being a constructivist means to him. He said that constructionists focus on the operating side of the...
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BuzzFeed Business Breaks In With New Editorial Staff
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 11:07am | 321Read More...Peter Lauria, BuzzFeed Business Editor, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Wednesday to talk about his new position there and the site's expanding coverage focus. BuzzFeed creates content around current events for the purpose of being shared via social media, with the goal of driving the news cycle...
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Ryanair's Success In Keeping It Simple
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 8:58am | 504Read More...Michael O'Leary, Ryanair (NASDAQ: RYAAY) Chief Executive Officer, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box to chat about the airline's record profits and continuing growth. In regards to Ryanair competing with other European airlines, O'Leary was confident. "It's not hard to, you know, outrun that lot...
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JP Morgan Chase's Thomas Lee On Undervalued Markets
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 11:52am | 586Read More...Thomas Lee, JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) Chief U.S. Equity Strategist, spoke on CNBC's Squawk Box on Monday morning, where he discussed where investors should put their money to work and why, as well as the place of the Fed in today's and tomorrow's market. "I think investors who have't put money...
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appssavvy's Chris Cunningham on Yahoo's Tumblr Purchase
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 11:03am | 230Read More...Chris Cunningham, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of appssavvy, took time to speak with the folks on CNBC's Squawk Box Monday morning about Yahoo's (NASDAQ: YHOO) purchase of the popular blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion. "Yahoo and any large media company hasn't proven that they...
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The Boku Boom, With Chief Business Officer Jon Prideaux
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 10:50am | 425Read More...Boku is transforming telecom and financial services with their innovative method of paying for things electronically. Boku uses your mobile number to make online purchases instantly. Those purchases are then put on your phone bill, not your credit card. The company's Chief Business Officer, Jon...
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Morningstar's Paul Swinand on J.C. Penney's Future
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 10:41am | 579Read More...It's no secret that J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) is having a hard time, but with former Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson gone and predecessor turned successor Mike Ullman back in the driver seat, the struggling retailer might prove to have some extra fuel in the tank. Paul Swinand, Equity Analyst...
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Cisco's John Chambers Is Aiming For Number One
Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 11:03am | 438Read More...John Chambers, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning after the company's Q3 results came in with an EPS at $0.51 over analyst estimates of $0.49 and revenue at $12.22 billion over analyst estimates of $12.18 billion....
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Emile Werr and Stephen Cohen on Big Data And Market Regulation
Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 9:00am | 447Read More...Emile Werr, New York Stock Exchange Big Data Group Head of Surveillance and Stephen Cohen, Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement Associate Director, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Thursday morning to talk about big data's role and future in market regulation. Werr says that...
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Mike Novogratz Says Fed Is Feeling Fat, Dumb And Happy
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 11:10am | 358Read More...Mike Novogratz, president of Fortress Investment Group (NYSE: FIG) and former Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) partner, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Wednesday, where he had much to say about the possibility of the Federal Reserve tapering. Novogratz was on the day after the Founder and President of...
















