According to Reuters, GM (GM) will begin to build hybrid cars in China next year. Reuters writes that BHP Billiton (BHP) is insisting that a merger with Rio Tinto (RTP) will not…
McDermott (NYSE:MDR) realigned its its B&W into 4 units, mostly aspects of nuclear but it also is focusing on cleaner coal and carbon capture. Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is going greener than green with…
Google has just issued a press release and announced a new strategic initiative to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal. The newly created…
Douglas A. McIntyre Google (GOOG) will offer PC users the chance to store data like word files and videos on its servers instead of individual computer hard drives. It is part of the company’s remote…
According to Reuters, Citigroup (C) is selling up to 4.9 percent of itself for $7.5 billion to the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government. Reuters writes that retail stocks fell despite…
Google (GOOG) is still trying to break the hold that Baidu (BIDU), the Chinese search engine has on its local market. The US company is not having much success. The Chinese government…
Now that Dubai International Capital has bought a piece of Sony (SNE), it must have a lot more capital to spread around. A shopping list: Yahoo! (YHOO) The stock is still down…
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…