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Yahoo reported a decline in its net revenue for the second quarter as a result of unnecessary redundant efforts aimed at restructuring its sales force.

Visa Inc. has announced that on March 31, 2011, it had deposited $400 million into the litigation escrow account previously established under the Company's retrospective responsibility plan. Under the terms of the Plan, the $400 million deposit has the effect of a repurchase by the Company of 5,419,273 shares of class A common stock at approximately $73.81 per share, on an as-converted basis, by reducing the as-converted class B common stock share count from 125,253,161 to 119,833,888.

Shares of Best Buy Co declined over 15% on Tuesday as the largest online retailer reported an unexpected decrease in fiscal third-quarter profit and cut its outlook. The No. 1 U.S. electronics retailer’s (BBY 35.52, -6.18, -14.82%) profit dropped as lower demand for televisions, notebook computers and videogames led to a sales shortfall in the U.S. While margin widened slightly, analysts said they were concerned that it came at the expense of sales.

Elevation Partners, a private equity company, has acquired a $120 million stake in Facebook from private shareholders valuing the company at $23 billion, as reported by the sources with the knowledge of the matter.

It is the second round of Elevation’s investment in shares of the social networking company through the secondary markets which gives the equity firm a 1.5% stake in Facebook.

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In late Tuesday trading the Chinese search engine, Baidu, shares surged as the company unveiled results that beat Wall Street anticipations and boosted its guidance for the first quarter.

Baidu reported it earned $1.88 per share in its Q4, compared to $1.22 a share this time last year.

Most Southeast Asian stock markets slid today, with Singapore falling from its highest in more than a year and Thailand coming off an eight-week high as investors trimmed positions in risky assets ahead of the year-end book closing.
Singapore’s index shed 0.02 per cent, led by a 3 per cent loss in CapitaMalls Asia, Singapore Telecommunications declining 0.3 per cent and DBS Group, Southeast Asia’s top lender, off 0.1 per cent lower.

China Mobile, the world's top mobile carrier by subscribers, reported its call traffic has rose back to pre-global downturn levels owing to a recovering economy.
After dropping during the crisis, China Mobile's international business has now returned to normal levels, according to the statement of Chairman Wang Jianzhou made at an event in the southern Chinese city Shenzhen.
A return of migrant workers to big cities, following their mass departures as work dried up during the downturn, also playing its role in driving calling traffic, he added.

 In its October 26 edition Barron's reported that investors should discard their shares of Yahoo for those of Google Inc because Yahoo suffers a decline in advertising revenues while Google’s earnings are rising.

Google's cost to acquire new subscribers is also falling and its marketshare for Web search grew in September while Yahoo's did not, Barron's wrote.

 The theme of bad bank loans has echoed across earnings reports starting with JPMorgan Chase & Co., the first big bank to report third-quarter earnings last week, to Wednesday's reports from Wells Fargo & Co., U.S. Bancorp and KeyCorp. But as banks rush to trumpet their tepid signs of recovery, the piles of bad loans sitting on U.S. lenders' balance sheets continue to rise. The results show that banks are likely to face steep losses from loans for several quarters to come.

 An Internet based investment project company CSM Finance reported that Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. released seven breaking news that say CSM traders got four blocks of OPTT shares with a total market value amounting to $762,289.00.

All of these shares have been out by 4PM EST 14 October 2009. Total gain from the trading thus made up $301,429.00.

On it official website CSM noted: “CSM team had no mistakes and losses for over 6 months.”

 Citigroup posted an earnings loss of 27 cents a share that appeared to beat analyst estimates but didn't satisfy Wall Street.

Citi shares fell after the banking titan reported total net income for the third quarter of $101 million.

According to the Monday media report, last week India's Reserve Bank endorsed Standard Chartered PLC, the largest foreign bank operating in India, to list on the nation's main stock exchange, letting Standard Chartered move closer to becoming the first foreign company to list in Mumbai using Indian depositary receipts. 

 Thus, India's central bank approved the deal, making the London and Hong Kong-listed Standard Chartered among the first in line to sell shares in India under new rules set out in late July that apply to foreign firms.