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…
There was a rather odd email that went out to Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) employees today from Jerry Yang, CEO. Here is the full link at the SEC website and you’ll notice that…
According to Reuters, BHP BIlliton (NYSE: BHP) raised its bid for Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP). Reuters writes that Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) may raise its bid for Yahoo! (NASD: YHOO). Reuters reports that…
A look at News Corp (NWS) earnings shows that the "other" revenue and profit line, which is mostly its online service MySpace, only had an operating profit of $23 million. MySpace is…
According to Reuters, Microsoft (MSFT) would borrow some of the money for a purchase of Yahoo! (YHOO). Reuters writes that Toyota’s (TM) net grew 7.5% on emerging market growth. Reuters writes that…
Goldman Sachs is making a ratings change on Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) this morning. Google has been removed from the Goldman Sachs Technology Framework Favorite Growth List after seeing shares drop some 14.1%…
Douglas A. McIntyre News Corp (NWS) would probably love to own Yahoo! (YHOO). In December, in the US, Murdoch’s online properties had 81,8 million unique visitors. Most of that is due to MySpace. Yahoo! had…
