According to Reuters, Australia Australian fund manager Caledonia said it would vote against Chicago Merch’s (CME) proposal to buy CBOT (CBOT) The fund own over 6% off the exchange. Reuters writes that…
Baidu.com (BIDU) hit a 52-week high of almost $194 today. That puts the shares up over 110%. And, the company has a market cap of $6.4 billion. That is 49 times trailing…
Google (GOOG) has launched free spreadsheet and word processing products, but they are unlikely to pull customers away from Windows. The products simply don’t have enough integrated features. Apple’s (AAPL) Leopard OS…
Stock Tickers: WWWW, WSPI, GOOG, YHOO, EBAY, VRSN, AMZN Web.com (WWWW-NASDAQ) last night finally made the right move, although they are doing it late and possibly with the wrong partner. The company…
According to Reuters, Bear Stearns (BCS) will put its CFO into a job overseeing its troubled hedge funds. Reuters writes that the Swedish government will review the Nasdaq’s (NDAQ) purchase of Nordic…
Stock Tickers: MSFT, CSCO, DELL, INTC, GOOG, AAPL, RIMM, AMZN, QCOM, ORCL, YHOO By and large there was a noticeable increase among the NASDAQ’s Four Horsemen in June short interest compared to…
Apple’s (AAPL) shares are up about 225% over the last two years. By way of contrast, Google’s (GOOG) shares are up about 75%. That puts Apple’s market cap at $108 billion, five…
(AAPL) Apple’s iTunes passed Amazon.com in music sales to become #3 music seller behind Best Buy and Wal-Mart.(AFOP) Alliance Fiber Optics raised Q2 sales guidance.(AGN) Allergan trades ex-split to reflect a 2-1…
Last October, Yahoo! (YHOO) fell to $23 on concerns that Q4 advertising would be weak. It was. The last time Yahoo! traded below $20 was late 2003, but at the end of…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) made changes in it advertising sales management, pushing out its head of US sales. Reuters writes that the CEO of DaimlerChryler (DCX) see a good future for…
It’s no shock that Barron’s decided to make its cover story that of the Stephen Schwarzman picture from the Blackstone Group (BX-NYSE) IPO that closed on Friday. The article upfront points to…
When Ebay (EBAY) pulled all of its advertising from Google (GOOG), it took the risk of losing traffic and new customers. But, the auction site said "no", we actually did quite well.…
Stock Tickers: GOOG, YHOO, TWX, MSFT, IACI On Tuesday when we noted the HitWise search market share figures, we noted how many search measuring metrics differ from source to source. Some news…
You have to love the communists. In China, to be a news distributor, a company must be approved by the country’s Ministry of Information and Industry. Google (GOOG) got this approval recently,…
Apple (AAPL) has announced that it will offer 10,000 clips from Google’s (GOOG) YouTube that will play with on its iPhone when the device launches. Apple will put the video into a…
