The Twitter outage introduces the concept of whether anyone would really miss the service if it went away. Financial experts have argued that Twitter is not worth much even with its 30…
Apple’s (AAPL) market cap is now$148 billion. Google’s (GOOG) is only $143 billion. The disparity between the two numbers does not make sense. Google has been the faster-growing company, at least historically.…
Twitter had another hacker attack yesterday. Several media outlets reported that the micro-blogging system was down periodically though the early morning and afternoon. The service had more severe problems last week. There…
New data from Millward Brown, the brand evaluation firm, shows that Google (GOOG) is the world’s most valuable brand with a valuation of just over $100 billion. That is well above the…
Reuters: A bubble may be forming in the corporate bond market. Reuters: Wall St. firms have made $1 billion on the break up of AIG (AIG). Morgan Stanley(MS), Goldman Sachs (GS), JP…
Yahoo! (YHOO) filed an 8K with the SEC with details of its search engine agreement with Microsoft (MSFT). Several of the provisions of the contract are better than investors may have expected.
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google (GOOG), resigned from the Apple (AAPL) board of directors. Apple says it was because of increasing conflicts between the two company’s products. There has been an…
Reuters: A plan for universal healthcare in China could cut the savings rate. Reuters: Bank regulators are opposing the Obama shake-up of the system. Reuters: Bank of America (BAC) settled SEC charges…
Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt has left the Apple (AAPL) board. Apple says it was because of increasing conflicts between the two companies, a sign that the war among large tech companies…
Reuters: Video games hope to make a comeback with new titles and price cuts. Reuters: “Cash for clunkers” should help July car figures. Reuters: USB (UBS) shares should do well after it…
Microsoft (MSFT) has talked about using its Bing search engine to search the Internet “real time” to pick up Twitter messages and other information and data that rockets across the web nanosecond…
Microsoft Corp’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Steve Ballmer inks a deal with Yahoo, the software giant’s biggest in years, and all of a sudden he’s invincible. He sure made it sound that way at…
Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) has been a troubled handset and communications and networking equipment provider for what is becoming longer than memory cares to record. Its restructuring plans have never seemed to…
Sony has been skewered for its lack of innovation for the last half decade. Its last big consumer electronics hit was the Walkman which went on sale in June 1979. Sony had…
UBS made some key analyst initiations in the Internet and entertainment sector this morning. As this is new coverage, they are not upgrades on a technical level. These “Buy” ratings are also…
