The US International Trade Commission (ITC) today ruled in favor of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE: MMI) — soon to complete its acquisition by Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) — in a trade…
When Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) launched Google Finance on March 21, 2006, a number of observers believed the search company was set to compete with the largest financial sites — Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) Finance and…
Douglas A. McIntyre Facebook reports that its revenue grew to more than $1 billion and its membership to 900 million. (Reuters) Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) sells some of the patents it bought from AOL (NYSE: AOL)…
The global market for consumer spending on mobile content, apps and games, and services totaled $121.8 billion in 2011 and is expected to grow to $138.2 billion this year. The advertising spend…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still up huge in 2012, but its stock is battered and bruised ahead of Tuesday’s earnings report. Shares have opened down again on Monday and they are…
Among the more developed countries of Asia — China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan — the top global brand is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) in three and trails only a local brand…
Online data research firm Comscore reports that the viewership of video online continues to rise rapidly. Video Metrix service showing that 181 million U.S. Internet users watched nearly 37 billion online content videos in…
BRICs want more of a say in the International Monetary Fund before they make their next contributions. (Reuters) French president Nicolas Sarkozy almost certainly will be voted out of office, raising questions…
Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) is magically trading higher after earnings. The reaction is certainly not due to any great accomplishments. There is probably some short covering, but the real news is the…
Gasoline dipped below $3.90, based on the AAA assessment of the average price for a gallon of regular nationwide. The price yesterday was $3.891, down from $3.899 the day before and $3.907 a…
Greenpeace is worried that the huge new cloud computing industry will rely on old sources of energy. The growth and size of these IT infrastructures in not only large, it is growing as…
Citigroup (NYSE: C) losses an investor vote on executive compensation. (Reuters) Many experts say Spain cannot avoid a bailout. (Reuters) Nestle is close to a deal to buy Pfizer’s (NYSE: PFE) baby…
In testimony in the copyright infringement case brought by Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) against Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said that his company considered buying smartphone makers Research in…
AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) will soon make advertisers an offer it hopes they can’t refuse. The company will give advertisers the opportunity to buy online advertising using the same model currently used…
Argentina may take control of huge energy company YPF. (Reuters) Spanish debt costs continue to rise. (Reuters) The International Monetary Fund will try to raise $400 billion, much less that previously planned. (Reuters)…
