Stock Tickers: WWWW, WSPI, GOOG, YHOO, EBAY, VRSN, AMZN Web.com (WWWW-NASDAQ) last night finally made the right move, although they are doing it late and possibly with the wrong partner. The company…
According to Reuters, Bear Stearns (BCS) will put its CFO into a job overseeing its troubled hedge funds. Reuters writes that the Swedish government will review the Nasdaq’s (NDAQ) purchase of Nordic…
Stock Tickers: MSFT, CSCO, DELL, INTC, GOOG, AAPL, RIMM, AMZN, QCOM, ORCL, YHOO By and large there was a noticeable increase among the NASDAQ’s Four Horsemen in June short interest compared to…
Apple’s (AAPL) shares are up about 225% over the last two years. By way of contrast, Google’s (GOOG) shares are up about 75%. That puts Apple’s market cap at $108 billion, five…
(AAPL) Apple’s iTunes passed Amazon.com in music sales to become #3 music seller behind Best Buy and Wal-Mart.(AFOP) Alliance Fiber Optics raised Q2 sales guidance.(AGN) Allergan trades ex-split to reflect a 2-1…
Last October, Yahoo! (YHOO) fell to $23 on concerns that Q4 advertising would be weak. It was. The last time Yahoo! traded below $20 was late 2003, but at the end of…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) made changes in it advertising sales management, pushing out its head of US sales. Reuters writes that the CEO of DaimlerChryler (DCX) see a good future for…
It’s no shock that Barron’s decided to make its cover story that of the Stephen Schwarzman picture from the Blackstone Group (BX-NYSE) IPO that closed on Friday. The article upfront points to…
When Ebay (EBAY) pulled all of its advertising from Google (GOOG), it took the risk of losing traffic and new customers. But, the auction site said "no", we actually did quite well.…
Stock Tickers: GOOG, YHOO, TWX, MSFT, IACI On Tuesday when we noted the HitWise search market share figures, we noted how many search measuring metrics differ from source to source. Some news…
You have to love the communists. In China, to be a news distributor, a company must be approved by the country’s Ministry of Information and Industry. Google (GOOG) got this approval recently,…
Apple (AAPL) has announced that it will offer 10,000 clips from Google’s (GOOG) YouTube that will play with on its iPhone when the device launches. Apple will put the video into a…
Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), MSN, and AOL are already in the instant messaging business, so it would seem that there is not any room left there. But News Corp’s (NWS) does not…
For more than a decade Microsoft’s OS has not only been the company’s cash cow, it has been the saber the company has used to cut into strategic markets. The OS was…
Stock Tickers: YHOO, GOOG, MSFT, TWX, DJ, DELL In today’s pre-market trading activity in Yahoo! (YHOO-NASDAQ), shares were up 5% and the company would have had an implied $39.5 Billion Market Cap. …
