Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

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    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 3:50 PM 5/22/2012
    Size isn't everything when it comes to tablets, but Amazon.com is apparently hoping to make that point moot. DigiTimes is reporting Amazon plans to supersize its Kindle Fire soon with a 10.1-inch screen -- bigger than the iPad.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 3:30 PM 5/22/2012
    Forget how Facebook is beating up its IPO investors: The social network is still giving many other publicly traded companies fits. And these five in particular are seeing their business models take a hit at Facebook's expense.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 5:19 PM 5/21/2012
    Google's fast-growing YouTube turned 7 on Monday. The world's most popular video-sharing website has come a long way already, but there are few things that can turn YouTube into a monster moneymaker for the world's most valuable Internet company.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 1:45 PM 5/21/2012
    Let's go over some of the items that will help shape the week that lies ahead on Wall Street: Activision Blizzard needs to bounce back; the Men in Black come back; jewelers may love their earnings, but PC sellers probably won't; and we won't know about Pandora until they open the box.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 1:35 PM 5/17/2012
    Investors figured that new J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson's "Fair and Square" pricing strategy wouldn't be a hit right away, but no one expected the recently remodeled department store chain would be this earnings season's biggest disaster.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 12:46 PM 5/17/2012
    The leading daily deals website is ready for its prime-time close-up. CBS is picking up Friend Me, a sitcom about two friends who move to Los Angeles to work for Groupon. Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played "McLovin" in Superbad, will star.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 2:15 PM 5/16/2012
    GM's ill-timed announcement that it will no longer advertise on Facebook should come as no surprise. The site is popular. Its paid ads aren't. Only about 1 in every 2,000 ad impressions on the social media giant received clicks for advertisers.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 9:50 AM 5/16/2012
    Don't feel bad that you aren't one of those lucky, well-connected investors who gets to buy into Facebook's IPO this week. Those buyers may look lucky when the likely initial price pop happens. But odds are, the pop will be followed by a drop.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 11:20 AM 5/15/2012
    Want to make an easy $6.6 million at Best Buy? Find a way to be its next CEO and then have an inappropriate relationship with an employee. Because as Brian Dunn has shown, getting booted for a shady affair won't cost you your big golden parachute.

    By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool

    | 9:00 AM 5/14/2012
    Here are some of the items that will help shape the week that lies ahead on Wall Street: Retailers will report; video games will rebound; Howard Stern will re-energize, and Groupon will retrench.