The government is fond of using taxes and tax benefits to change behavior. Put a big tax on cigarettes and people will smoke less. Put a "gas guzzler" tax on big cars…
It is now plain that part of the reason Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) wants to buy Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is to use its customers as targets for Redmond’s big push into online delivered…
Canadian Solar (NASDAQ: CSIQ) issued and sold $75 million in 6.0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2017 in a private placement on December 10, 2007, and in a filing today investors were given…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Apps software, which offers spreadsheets, word processing, and presentation features has signed up 500,000 customers by some accounts. The product is popular because it runs off of Google’s servers,…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is seeing a stock recovery after comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) put out a clarification on its blog today. We received an email from comScore a short while ago confirming that…
Douglas A. McIntyre A big company gets in trouble. The board throws the CEO under a bus and brings back the founder. The stock market figures that the person who built the company is the…
Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) assets in Asia, a piece of Yahoo Japan and one of China’s Alibaba, are valued at about $11 billion by most analysts. The board and management of Yahoo! should…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is down almost 6% today to just above $457. That is within $20 of its 52-week low.Twenty dollars might seem like a lot, but the shares would only have…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) search is now roughly 3-times that of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). To make matters worse, its "searchers" appear to be much more active in search. While Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) claims that is has come out with the greatest internet ad targeting system since the beginning of time. "It said its new system, which it calls Engagement Mapping, will…
Techcrunch is reporting that News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is negotiating with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to get out of a deal which allows the big search company exclusive rights to sell text ads…
Based on the January US search engine numbers, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) needs to hurry up and get itself sold. The Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) share barely moved according to comScore. It had 58.5%…
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is launching a new program to put ads at third party sites which have video content. The program will work much like its Adsense text product. The display ads…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Societe Generale filed its financial information and confirmed its huge trading loss. Reuters writes that the sale of 3Com (COMS) has come apart because a piece of the company…
Bill Gates says Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) can do well in the search market if its offer for Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) does not work out. "We can afford to make big investments in the engineering…
