Dear Dr.Schmidt: Google Finance currently ranks 18th among all financial websites with 851,000 unique visitors in September. That puts it behind sites like The Motley Fool and Bloomberg. MSN Money had 10.9…
Douglas A. McIntyre News Corp’s (NWS) social network MySpace will add Ebay’s (EBAY) Skype voice over IP product to the MySpace instant messaging feature. The two companies say that the deal will promote the use…
A UBS analyst has confirmed that Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC will ship about 50,000 cell phones running on a mobile operating system made by the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant by the…
Douglas A. McIntyre It used to be that banks all grouped their earnings around each other. We’ve already started seeing some of the big earnings come out, but today we have a major day from…
According to Reuters, China CITIC Bank is bidding to buy a stake in Bear Stearns (BSC) Reuters reports that the National Retail Federation’s survey of its members shows retail sales are expected…
Google (GOOG) came out with the software it would use to flag copyright infringing video on its huge YouTube video-sharing site. "The technology can identify video content owned by media companies and…
Google (GOOG) has changed a great deal in the last two years. It is not just the bigger revenue and the growing share of market. It is not that the company has…
Douglas A. McIntyre A number of investors watch the list of 52-week highs each day or eachweek. It is a list that tells a story. Stocks that have risen over along period can be a…
Jim Cramer just said noted on CNBC’s STOP TRADING segment that Baidu.com (NASDAQ:BIDU) is growing at 80% and the downgrades or cautionary comments aren’t warranted. He even went as far to say…
GE (GE) reported earnings in line with expectations and it is unlikely that the stock will move up or down much more than a couple of percent. Market watchers are fond of…
Baidu.com (NASDAQ:BIDU) is showing how vulnerable overinflated shares are when even a hint of bad news or "Less Good" news comes out. A report out of JPMorgan deemed somewhat cautious is the…
According to Reuters, several retailers cut holiday forecasts and the economy slows. Reuters writes that Chrysler has reached an accord with the UAW. Reuters reports that Boeing (BA) has delayed delivery of…
On CNBC’s MAD MONEY tonight, Jim Cramer discussed Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and said that it isn’t expensive despite many pundits calling it expensive. The Lehman target of $714 and the Merrill Lynch target…
Douglas A. McIntyre A new study by ComScore shows that internet traffic to search websites is continuing to grow. Surprisingly, Asia ranks ahead of Europe and North America in total searches in August, news which…
Merrill Lynch was good enough to raise its price target on Google (GOOG) from $590 to $740. Google closed above $615 yesterday. This now makes for the highest of the recorded analyst…
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