The creator of the law of unintended consequences must have had the scramble to merge with or buy Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) in mind. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) gets daily benefit from the fighting…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is seeking a merger with Time Warner’s (TWX) AOL which Microsoft (MSFT) and News Corp (NWS) at a joint bid for the No.2 search company. Reuters writes…
Various press reports indicate that Time Warner (TWX) may be close to combining its AOL unit with Yahoo! (YHOO). At the same time, Microsoft (MSFT) is planning to make a joint bid…
There is a report out of the Wall Street Journal that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) may be close to inking a deal that would potentially combine…
According to The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will start to test search advertising from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). The agreement could grow. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is not going to be happy.…
Google (GOOG) is launching a nifty new program. It allows programmers who use its Google App Engine to tap the company’s server infrastructure to store their work. That is until they want…
According to Reuters, Alcoa (AA) profits fell by half due to high energy costs and a weak dollar. Retuers reports that AMD (AMD) cut guidance and will lay-off 10% of its staff.…
New figures from HitWise support the Microsoft (MSFT) contention that Yahoo!’s (YHOO) share of the search market is shrinking ,making it less likely that the portal can compete against Google (GOOG) on…
AT&T (T) has indicated that it will ship phones with the Google (GOOG) Android operating system. That may happen later this year. The news is bad for Yahoo! (YHOO) which has the…
Two years ago the Shanghai Composites was at 1,300. It got over 6,000 last October and trades at about 3,300. At its recent 52-week low, it was off almost 50% from its…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has recently been under fire from critics over its side-operations in going green and its own space-race. It isn’t the coolness factor that is the issue, but the…
Douglas A. McIntyre With all of the carnage in the financial sector it would be hard to believe that any other group of stocks could have done worse. The technology sector claims that, for the…
The largest losers among the big companies in the S&P 500 for the first quarter were: Microsoft (MSFT) down 21.6%, Google (GOOG) down 36.7%, Apple (AAPL) down 27.8%, Intel (INTC) down 22%,…
According to Reuters, the Treasury Department will announce a proposed major overhaul of the US financial regulatory system. Reuters writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) introduced Shine, a site for women. Reuters writes that…
According to Reuters, Bank of America (BAC) will pay the president of Countrywide (CFC) $28 million to stay and run the company after the buy-out is complete. Reuters writes that the chairman…
