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Welcome to this directory of Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs, defined as: active public blogs by company employees about the company and/or its products. John Cass is currently the volunteer community organizer for the Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki. According to our research, 79 (15.8%) of the Fortune 500 are blogging as of 12/17/09. The table below lists these companies, a sampling of their blogs, and links to Fortune 500 business blog reviews. Discuss this wiki on Twitter at the Tweetworks Group Fortune500BusinessBlogs If you would like to volunteer to write a review of a Fortune 500 corporate blog, simply post that review on your own blog and then link to the review from this wiki.

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Tyndall Report January 13, 2011

It already feels like an eternity ago, but from the moment Facebook made its fashionably-late public debut, circa 11:30 a.m. one week ago today, some traders were already smelling blood in the water. But could they actually short the stock in the first three days of Facebook’s life without violating a rule or breaking a law? Great question. It’s one that has confused a number of traders we were hanging out with earlier this week.

MarketBeat - WSJ

Real Time Economics - WSJ

The most common jobs in the U.S. are among the lowest paid, with one notable exception — registered nurses. According to Labor Department data through May 2011 released this week , the 10 most popular professions made up more than 20% of the jobs in the U.S. economy. Nine of those occupations — administrative assistants, laborers, janitors, customer-service representatives, waitstaff, food-preparation workers, office clerks, cashiers and retail salespersons — make less than the average wage in the U.S. — $45,230. But one of the most popular professions stood out — registered nurses. Of more than 800 occupations, nurses were the fifth most common with 2,724,570 people, or 2.1% of all workers. The average nurse earned $69,110 a year as of May 2011, more than 50% more than the national average.

Deal Journal - WSJ

According to FactSet Research, the stock was trading at $15.25 with 1.2 million shares moving hands on the BATS exchange. That was down 4.7% from its pricing of $16, which had already been at the low end of its expected range of $16 to $18. Then the stock started dropping, falling to $14 then to $13 before the bottom dropped out. The stock went quickly to $10.23, to $8.03 to $5.79 to $4.17 to $3.01 all before that first second of life was over.

Stock Market News & Financial Analysis - Seeking Alpha

Yves here. I hope you’ll take the time to read this important post. There has been a great deal of discussion of the many deficiencies of the mortgage settlement, but its biggest has gone pretty much unnoticed.

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footnoted.com - Michelle Leder's guide to what's hiding in SEC filings

Given the whole fiasco with Facebook’s (FB) IPO last week (Felix Salmon over at Reuters has a great recap of the many problems here ), you’d think that might diminish the hopes of smaller, or at least less meteoric, companies looking to plunge into the IPO pool. But that doesn’t seem to have happened at Smith Electric Vehicles. The Kansas City-based manufacturer of electric trucks and other commercial vehicles, filed an amended S-1 late yesterday. Smith first filed an S-1 back on Nov. 10.

Apple must be wondering whether it was worth the improvements, particularly the addition of 4G LTE, to the new version of its iPad. The extra mobile connectivity has earned the company plenty of criticism, despite it offering the opportunity to enjoy, at least theoretically, 73 megabits-per-second 4G speeds for the same price as the old single-megabit 3G models. Is Zynga hopelessly exposed to the hit-driven nature of the games business, or do its scale and business model give it a sustainable competitive edge? Depending on your point of view, its acquisition on Wednesday of OMGPOP, maker of the red-hot game Draw Something, could be used to support either side of this argument.

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Just as its shares started selling to the public for the first time, BATS Global Markets, one of the nation’s newest and largest electronic exchanges, halted trading on its own stock after a series of technical errors in its system. In a memo prepared for a coming Congressional hearing, investigators described how Jon S. Corzine, the firm’s former chief executive, asked an executive in the firm’s Chicago office to transfer $200 million to replenish an overdrawn account at JPMorgan Chase in London.