Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube will launch 100 premium channels, in what will be the start-up of a bone-crushing competitor to online video sites like Hulu and Yahoo! video. YouTube’s size in terms…
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is proving that it was far too oversold during the September market tank. The company is surging after earnings and it needs to be noted that the ADR…
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is flying high this morning. The content acceleration company reported earnings last night that beat expectations and the company is taking a more focused look at management. …
The failure of the new Nintendo 3DS and upgraded Wii have caused the Japanese company troubles similar to those faced by Motorola, Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM), and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in…
The first large-scale geothermal electricity generating plant in the US was developed in the 1960s in northern California. Unocal, now part of Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), did the initial work and the…
As the internet has developed over the past 15 years or so, a variety of business models have appeared — and some have disappeared. Revenue models are also different, running from advertising…
The FBI has began a probe into the fees from the Olympus takeover of a UK based company (Reuters) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has joined the companies which may bid for Yahoo! (NASDAQ:…
Douglas A. McIntyre A company can spend billions of dollars on R&D and get little respect as an innovator. Even though that is the conclusion of a new study by Booz & Co., the conclusion…
Obama to announce aid for student and home loans. Home loan proposals will include refinancing for underwater mortgages. (Reuters) EU leaders press Italy for more austerity measures. (Reuters) China’s October PMI is…
The Obama Administration will release a plan on Monday to help people with underwater mortgages and good credit to get new refinanced home loans at present rates which are the lowest in…
YouTube has become more and more each month, the Facebook of online video. The Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) site’s inventory of content which can be used to support video advertising dwarfs that on the balance…
Douglas A. McIntyre Groupon is fighting a serious headwind to come public. We have raised flags of caution on this numerous times and the calls against the company are only seeming to become more vocal…
The headline number from Nokia Corp.’s (NYSE: NOK) third quarter earnings report is that sales fell by -13% year-over-year. But there were some positives as well. Instead of an expected EPS loss…
Management at Samsung recently boasted that it sold 20 million handsets in the past quarter, compared with Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) 17 million iPhone sales, the Wall Street Journal reports. The boast does…
For the sixth straight quarter, Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) has posted record sales, partly due to a 22% increase in sales to PC makers. Does that indicate that the PC makers like…
