The Hindustan Times is reporting that Yahoo! (YHOO) and Google (GOOG) may be making bids for Indian web portal Rediff (REDF). The price would be as high as $1 billion. The news…
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Australia may be a former penal colony, but it is about to give Google (GOOG) fits that could spread elsewhere. According to the FT, The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission wants to…
Douglas A. McIntyre CNN Money used the number $10 billion when talking about the valuation of Facebook, the social network.There was a bit of joking in that. Yahoo! (YHOO) apparently considered a $1 billion bid…
According to Reuters, Energizer (ENR) will buy Playtex (PYX) for just under $1.2 billion. Reuters writes that GE (GE) plans to sell its WMC mortage unit. Reuters reports that Boeing’s (BA) orders…
A post at TechCrunch uses numbers from Compete.com to show that Microsoft’s (MSFT) share of the search market is getting close to Yahoo!’s (YHOO). Almost no one uses Compete’s figures, preferring data…
comScore is out with it Top Ten Web Properties for May 2007. The leaders was Google (GOOG) with 528 million unique visitors during the month, almost 70% of all global web users.…
Below are the June stats for the top 20 financial websites Top 20 Online Financial News and Information Destinations Brand or Channel Unique Audience (000) …
Bloomberg has written an analysis of Yahoo!’s (YHOO) business prospects that is grim. The news agency makes the argument that, after losing the search business to Google (GOOG), its is losing the…
Just as there is talk of the FCC opening up spectrum for companies to set up independent voice and data networks, Nokia (NOK) has announced that its adding Ebay’s (EBAY) Skype VoIP…
When Wall St. researchers make 10-year predictions, it is worth wondering if they have anything better to do with their time. Perhaps they could focus on the next quarter. Cowen & Co.…
Nielsen NetRatings is hoping to change the way that websites audiences are measured. The change is significant enough so that it will re-order the rankings of major web properties. The new ratings…
Douglas A. McIntyre As the land-line businesses at large telcos like AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) have been eroded by technology, especially cable-delivered VoIP, earnings have been kept strong by their cellular divisions. Cell subscriber…
Amazon (AMZN) rose 4% yesterday on no news. So did Level 3 (LVLT). Odd that both happened on the opening day of earnings season. Other tech firms like Google (GOOG) are also…
Unlike most counties, China’s top websites are not Yahoo! (YHOO) and Google (GOOG). According to a new Asia internet study by comScore, two of the top three sites in China are Baidu…
