Joining the contest to see who will own Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Time Warner’s (NYE: TWX) AOL has entered the fray competing with News Corp (NYSE: NWS) as a company which is intense…
Laszlo Birinyi of Birinyi Associates, Inc. is one of the more frequently watched portfolio managers by the public. The reason is not that he is one of the largest fund managers. But…
Four big newspaper companies, including Gannett (NYSE: GCI), The New York Times (NYSE: NYT), the Tribune Company, and Hearst, are setting up a sales operation to market 120 of their newspapers’ online…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) traded at over $200 just before the first of the year. On a good day it now trades at $128. 24/7 Wall St. recently ran an analysis of why…
Nielsen has released its top aggregate sites by parent company for January 2008, and it starts getting even more clear why this super-merger on the web is being pursued. Below is the…
By any measure, Baidu (BIDU), the Chinese search engine company had a spectacular quarter. For the three months that ended December 31,the firm earned 219.8 million yuan ($30.1 million), or 6.32 yuan…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is in talks with News Corp (NWS) about an M&A deal but analysts say it is unlikely to work. Reuters writes that Paulson thinks the US economy…
Google (GOOG) always had a problem trying to keep Yahoo! (YHOO) out of the hands of Microsoft (MSFT). The No.1 and No.2 search engine firms would have had 80% of the US…
According to Reuters, GM (GM) offered buy-outs to workers after posting a large Q4 loss. Reuters writes that Warren Buffett offered to insure $800 billion worth of bonds currently insured by monoline…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) share of the US online ad revenue market was 23.7% in Q4. That number fell from Q3, but only by .5%. Research group IDC said that a combination of…
Yahoo! (NASD: YHOO) is about to approach Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) about a tie-up with AOL. That is according to The Times in the UK. And, why not? Almost every other possible…
Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) board will presently reject a $31 a share buy-out bid from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), according to The Wall Street Journal. The group thinks the offer is undervalued and will…
The Yahoo! (YHOO) board and management could have done an out-sourcing deal some time ago to license its search business to Google (GOOG). It would probably have picked up some money beyond…
On Wednesday afternoon, we’ll get to see earnings out of Baidu.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU). The estimates from First Call for the Chinese internet search engine were $0.71 EPS on $76.83 million in…
No one in his right mind would be happy about the slide in Google’s (NASD: GOOG) shares this year. They are now off 27% on an earnings report that Wall St. did…
