Research firm Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR) released its top 50 websites, based on unique visitors, for the month of June. The data offered few surprises, except for the rise of Twitter, which now has…
Moody’s this morning cut its rating on long-term senior unsecured debt from Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) from Ba1 to Ba3. Short-term unsecured ratings of Not-Prime (NP) were affirmed and the ratings outlook…
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning after Spanish bond yields rose above 7% again and the country’s Valencia region asked for central government assistance in paying its debts.…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) can actually claim to have beaten the operating platforms of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) in at least one respect. Technology research firm Strategy Analytics estimates that Nokia, which operates on Microsoft’s…
The pay package of new Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer has been pegged at between $59 million and $100 million, depending on what assumptions about bonuses and stock options get used.…
Eurozone officials set final terms for a bailout of Spain’s banks. (Reuters) Marissa Mayer will receive as much as $70 million to head Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). (Reuters) Banks hit by the Libor investigation may…
The rumors are that new Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO)Â CEO Marissa Mayer has a net worth of $300 million because of her holding of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) stock. That would make her new salary…
Douglas A. McIntyre The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning as investors continue to hope for more central bank stimulation in weakening global economy. These investors are probably right that something will…
A new consumer agency fines Capital One (NYSE: COF) $210 million for aggressive marketing activity.(Reuters) New IMF policies will examine whether individual national economies might hurt global growth. (Reuters) IBM (NYSE: IBM) raises…
According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, Windows Phone operating systems from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) will capture 4% of the US smartphone market in 2012. While still trailing far behind…
Thursday will mark yet another important day for this earnings season. The second quarter became more challenging for many companies, as we noted about so many tech warnings weighing on shares last…
In May the International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that certain Motorola Mobility smartphones could not be imported into the United States beginning today because the phones infringed on a patent owned by…
Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) profits fall slightly. (Reuters) Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) forecast implies PC sales will be weak. (Reuters) The head of the holding company for British Air and Iberia says an AMR…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) social media offering Google+ had a good showing with a score of 78 in its first appearance in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report, released Tuesday. Google+…
Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) new CEO, Marissa Mayer, worked at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). So did AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong, who took up the reins there in 2009. Mayer may want to…
