Updated throughout the day Obama will proposed tax credits to encourage business expansion. (Bloomberg) The chairman of HSBC (NYSE: HBC) will step down to take a job with the UK government. (Bloomberg)…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: Jobs data continues to push global equities up. Reuters: Daimler will increase its dividend Reuters: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will release a new line of smartphones Reuters: Craigslist will block access to…
Updated throughout the day. Obama may extend an R&D tax credit that is set to expire (Bloomberg) Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube will have $450 million in revenue this year and will be…
Samsung, one of the five largest cellphone manufacturers in the world, raised its forecast for 2010 unit sales to 25 million. The South Korean company added that it expects to sell 50…
Reuters: China has approached a Canadian fund about a rival bid for Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters: The cost of Gulf clean-up hit $8 billion. Reuters: China said that its $2.45 trillion currency…
The media is filled with brand lists, most of them which are based on research which estimates the value of a given brand. It is hard to connect these valuations to the…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is expected to stop bidding for 3Par (NYSE: PAR). Reuters: BHP Billiton ((NYSE: BHP) says it will not divest Potash (NYSE: POT) divisions. Reuters: Consumer spending rose slightly…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has almost certainly led to the downfall of the Blockbuster empire. Then Netflix (and Blockbuster) had to face competition from Coinstar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR) over the Redbox video…
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Reuters: The Bank of Japan eased policy to fight a rise in the yen. Reuters: Obama said the economy is not growing fast enough. Reuters: Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) will buy Infineon’s mobile…
Secrecy is critical to more businesses than most people might imagine. Entire industries are based to some extent on the process of creating goods and services and then putting them behind walls…
Patent wars in technology are nothing new. Sometimes they are promising, sometimes they are just noise-making events. Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing LLC has filed a complaint today in the U.S. District Court…
Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) launched its realtime search product saying, “we’re making our most significant enhancements to date, giving real-time information its own home and more powerful tools to help you find…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: Bernanke may admit the economy is weak but not five details of the Fed’s plans. Reuters: Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) outbid Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) for 3Par (NYSE: PAR) by offering $27 a…
