Reuters: A college education no longer means easy employment in China. Reuters: Fannie Mae (FNM) lost $14.8 billion. Reuters: The auto “clunkers” legislation passed the Senate. Reuters: Obama is in no rush…
The human toll of the recession, reported to be the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, has been so searing that it could be considered cruel to evaluate this event for any…
Yahoo! (YHOO) filed an 8K with the SEC with details of its search engine agreement with Microsoft (MSFT). Several of the provisions of the contract are better than investors may have expected.
Reuters: GM’s new board endorsed the company’s new plans. Reuters: The Senate will probably approve “cash for clunkers” aid. Reuters: Sony (SNE) will enter the market with an e-reader to compete with…
Sony (SNE) has had one hit product in the thirty years since it launched the Walkman. That product was the PlayStation 2. Microsoft (MSFT) and Nintendo bull-dozed Sony out of its position…
“It is probably well that we had the war when we did. We are better off now than we would have been without it, and have made more rapid progress than we…
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google (GOOG), resigned from the Apple (AAPL) board of directors. Apple says it was because of increasing conflicts between the two company’s products. There has been an…
Microsoft (MSFT) has talked about using its Bing search engine to search the Internet “real time” to pick up Twitter messages and other information and data that rockets across the web nanosecond…
Microsoft Corp’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Steve Ballmer inks a deal with Yahoo, the software giant’s biggest in years, and all of a sudden he’s invincible. He sure made it sound that way at…
Reuters: Banks paid out billions of dollars in bonuses last year while losing money. Reuters: The US closed its car “clunkers” program just as it began as funds ran out. Reuters: Obame…
Investors found a lot wrong with the deal in the search engine industry between Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO) The smaller company’s stock dropped 12% and analysts felt that it was particularly…
Nintendo had its worst quarter in a long time. Sales of its aging Wii video console fell by over half to 2.23 million units for the last period. Profits also dropped by…
Wall St. found a lot of things wrong with the joint venture in the search engine industry between Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! (YHOO) The smaller company’s stock dropped 12% and analysts felt…
Reuters: Unemployment is causing further stress in the housing market. Reuters: The Microsoft (MSFT) deal with Yahoo! (YHOO) may have challenges with regulators. Reuters: Sony (SNE) lost money on weakness in its…
The partnership between Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) to integrate their search operations is even more complicated than was rumored. It is so complicated, as a matter of fact, that the execution…
Douglas A. McIntyre 