Let’s see. Sony Corp. (NYSE:SNE) just shipped its last Walkman, the original portable music player that was just slightly larger than a cassette tape. If you don’t know what a cassette tape…
Blekko.com is the latest search engine to challenge Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). Venture capitalists and technology inventors look at the company’s $20 billion in revenue and $200 billion market cap and find…
China’s PMI grew much faster than expected. (Reuters) China will not slow rare earth shipments. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) sued Motorola (NYSE: MOT) over six patents. (Reuters) New search engine Bleeko will…
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Mortgage investors have begun to pressure banks to buy back bad loans. (Reuters) China may use its rare earth stocks to help it move ahead with alternative energy. (Reuters) Bank of Japan…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) may have just accidentally become more like the Yellow Pages in a new local search effort. Google is set to launch Places, which gives more information online about…
Updated throughout the day. The Federal Reserve will begin modest easing next week (WSJ) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is about to purchase a large Manhattan commercial building for $2 billion (NYPost) The CFTC…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has maintained its solid go-to reputation despite its most recent earnings concerns that margins were continuing to compress. We wanted to take a look at the key Apple…
Updated throughout the day. Online travel companies want to block the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) buyout of ITA Software (various) Chemical company China National BlueStar, backed by Blackstone, may buy Norway solar company…
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) is in the middle of the oldest dilemma on the Interne: how to make money doing cool stuff. It’s the old “why buy the cow when you can get…
Reuters: What might have become a currency war before the G20 has turned to very tentative cooperation. Reuters: Emerging nations will have more say in IMF policies. WSJ: Bank of…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has begun to show its new Slate tablet PC. The company still guards some details about the machine, but the media has ferreted out a bit about how the…
The search engine as a key part of the internet was born with the products of companies such as Altavista back in the late 1990s. The usefulness of search to consumers advanced…
Reuters: The US will push a trade and foreign exchange agenda at the G20 meeting. Reuters: Fed officials are still not in agreement about quantitative easing. Reuters: American International…
“Double Irish” and “Dutch Sandwich” sounds like action movies or detective novels. The last thing that anyone would suspect them to be were sophisticated tax avoidance strategies that save Google Inc. (GOOG)…
