Quantcast

Posts related to ‘YHOO’

Yahoo! Forces Out Jerry Yang (YHOO, MSFT, CSCO)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 5:29 pm

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is surging in the after-hours session on news which many investors have been hoping would come for years.  Jerry Yang has finally resigned from Yahoo!  The ...
Read Full Story »

In Layoff Wave, a New Threat of Economic Retreat

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 6:43 am

The public and the press usually measure unemployment one month at a time as data from ADP and the federal government are issued. The jobs market can also be tracked ...
Read Full Story »

Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/11/2012) NYSE Merger Off, Dell Tablet PC

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 8:45 am

Updated throughout the day Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) will offer a tablet PC by the end of the year (Reuters) Alibaba will reduce the size of a loan its was to ...
Read Full Story »

Media Digest (1/6/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 6, 2012 at 6:38 am

Former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford will sue the troubled company for wrongful dismissal. (Reuters) The International Monetary Fund’s Lagarde says 2012 will not see the end of the euro. (Reuters) MF ...
Read Full Story »

Netflix Shares Rise on Rumor, Report (NFLX, YHOO, AMZN, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 2:36 pm

Shares of Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) have risen about 7% today and it’s hard to say whether the main cause is speculation that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) might buy the ...
Read Full Story »

Yahoo! Confirms New CEO (YHOO, EBAY, GOOG)

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 9:11 am

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has confirmed that it has appointed Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer.  He will take over with an effective date of January 9, 2012.  At that ...
Read Full Story »

Todays’ Best Market Rumors (1/4/2012) Yahoo! CEO, RIM Chairmen

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 8:14 am

Updated throughout the day PayPal President Scott Thompson will become Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) next CEO (AllThingsD) MF Global sold some of its assets to Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) before it ...
Read Full Story »

What’s Important in the Financial World (1/4/2011) New Yahoo! CEO, Higher Oil Prices

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 6:42 am

Oil prices are rising rapidly, adding nearly 4% in less than two days. The increase could threaten the global economy if it holds for long. The reason for the move is news ...
Read Full Story »

Media Digest (1/4/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 6:42 am

  Bill Gross’s PIMCO Total Return Fund has $1.4 billion in outflows in December, according to Morningstar. (Reuters) MF Global sold some assets to Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) before its collapsed. ...
Read Full Story »

Media Digest (12/29/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 29, 2011 at 6:28 am

Alibaba hires a Washington lobbying firm in case it decides to bid for all of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). (Reuters) Italian yields may fall because of European Central Bank injections of ...
Read Full Story »

24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (VMW, YHOO, SNE, EA, SRE, DLPH, CALM, DMAN, SHLD, CSC, PARL, WHR, MHR)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 4:04 pm

US equity markets rose rather steeply in the first hour of trading this morning, but weren’t able to sustain the momentum for long. Consumer confidence indexes rose this month, but ...
Read Full Story »

Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CF, DLPH, EA, EL, MCK, RSH, SRE, SNE, TDC, VMW, YHOO)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 8:29 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning.  It is generally light in analyst coverage the week between ...
Read Full Story »

What’s Important in the Financial World (12/26/2011) Sony’s Failure, Yahoo! Drama

Posted: December 26, 2011 at 5:59 am

Sony (NYSE: SNE) continues to restructure itself, although the stock market has been skeptical of its success. The Japanese consumer products company sold its part of an LCD joint venture to ...
Read Full Story »

Facebook and Amazon Audience Gain as Portals Falter

Posted: December 23, 2011 at 6:27 am

New Comscore data shows the extent to which Facebook and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) have become internet destinations while portals Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) MSN lose ground. The ...
Read Full Story »

Google Comes to Mozilla’s Aid, but That May End

Posted: December 23, 2011 at 6:25 am

Is Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just a good citizen, or is there a reason it supports nonprofit operation Mozilla, which operates the Firefox browser? Google has a browser of its own ...
Read Full Story »