According to Reuters, Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has been picked as the preferred bidder for troubled UK financial company Northern Rock. Reuters writes that Rio Tinto (RTP) rebuffed a bid from BHP…
Wall St. broadly accepts that the next frontier for online search and web use will be the cellphone. That assumes, of course, the consumers want to use tiny screens to access the…
Targeting advertising based on the behavior of web surfers is "Holy Grail" for internet marketing. TV, radio, and print cannot effectively look at past actions and then place ads based on future…
In October, Google (GOOG) expanded its search share in the US moving further ahead of Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) according to comScore data. Share of Searches (%) …
Air France KLM SA (NYSE:AKH/ADR) shares traded up roughly 7% Thursday after beating earnings from price hikes and fuel hedging. After United Rentals (NYSE:URI) said it was suing Cerberus on the broken…
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers Domain Oct.-07 Sept.-07 Oct.-06 www.google.com 64.49% 63.55% 60.94% search.yahoo.com 21.65% 22.55% 22.34% search.msn.com 7.42%* 7.83%* 10.72%* www.ask.com 4.76% 4.32% 4.34% Note: Data is…
TechCrunch is reporting that Google (GOOG) may have a big, fat tax problem in China. "Google is being investigated for tax evasion by the Chinese Inland Revenue Department following a tip off…
Douglas A. McIntyre Someone at Microsoft (MSFT) spent too long in the sun and baked his brain. The world’s largest software company says that it plans to be one of the two largest players in…
The Wall Street Journal claims that Google (GOOG) is about to invest at least $4.6 billion in buying wireless spectrum at the FCC auction in January. Owning a big piece of the…
According to Reuters, the pace of capital spending in China rose quickly, making a rate increase likely. Reuters writes that an investigation into the finances of Fannie Mae (FNM) is likely after…
Microsoft (MSFT) is going to offer its new "Communications package, described as collaborative productivity tools, which will provide small businesses with Internet-based corporate-class e-mail, calendar and document sharing for free to customers…
Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) already announced the Open Handset Alliance for its free and open platform Android for mobile devices. But today, Google is releasing an early look at the Android SDK for developers…
Douglas A. McIntyre LIN TV Corp. (NYSE:TVL) has announced the launch of its own dedicated LIN TV Channels on YouTube, giving Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) another hosted "Old Media" feather in its cap. This partnership is said…
Douglas A. McIntyre Yahoo! (YHOO) is cutting deals to improve its mobile foot-print is Asia. Wireless is one of the few areas where the company might beat rival Google (GOOG). The Silicon Valley-based Internet company…
Douglas A. McIntyre Barron’s mentions a rumor from tech industry journal TMCNet. Google (GOOG) will buy Sprint (S). Sprint has a market cap of $46 billion, so it is possible. It would get Google the…
