Several companies run annual brand valuations. It is a good business for advertising and marketing firms to be viewed as experts on brands. Brand values are based on the cash flow they…
Twitter had another hacker attack yesterday. Several media outlets reported that the micro-blogging system was down periodically though the early morning and afternoon. The service had more severe problems last week. There…
Short sellers moved out of financial shares in great numbers. As of August 11, the short interest in Citigroup (C) fell 71% to 343 million shares. Share sold short in GE (GE)…
Reuters: GE’s (GE) water business may be too small to help earnings. Reuters: Madoff’s CFO plead guilty. Reuters: Auto inventories are tight but interest in the “clunkers” program is falling. Reuters: China…
Microsoft (MSFT) believes, almost certainly, that the future of its operating software and search business is as much if not more on wireless portable devices as it is on the PC where…
It is normal to see pullbacks. The problem is that most market pullbacks in the last five months have been rare or short-lived since the near-depression levels of early March. But it…
Reuters: China is now Africa’s largest trading partner. Reuters: Australia says China’s latest Rio Tinto (RTP) charges are not new. Reuters: Publicis will buy Razorfish from Microsoft (MSFT). Reuters: UBS (UBS) tax…
New data from Millward Brown, the brand evaluation firm, shows that Google (GOOG) is the world’s most valuable brand with a valuation of just over $100 billion. That is well above the…
Reuters: A college education no longer means easy employment in China. Reuters: Fannie Mae (FNM) lost $14.8 billion. Reuters: The auto “clunkers” legislation passed the Senate. Reuters: Obama is in no rush…
The human toll of the recession, reported to be the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, has been so searing that it could be considered cruel to evaluate this event for any…
Yahoo! (YHOO) filed an 8K with the SEC with details of its search engine agreement with Microsoft (MSFT). Several of the provisions of the contract are better than investors may have expected.
Reuters: GM’s new board endorsed the company’s new plans. Reuters: The Senate will probably approve “cash for clunkers” aid. Reuters: Sony (SNE) will enter the market with an e-reader to compete with…
Sony (SNE) has had one hit product in the thirty years since it launched the Walkman. That product was the PlayStation 2. Microsoft (MSFT) and Nintendo bull-dozed Sony out of its position…
“It is probably well that we had the war when we did. We are better off now than we would have been without it, and have made more rapid progress than we…
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google (GOOG), resigned from the Apple (AAPL) board of directors. Apple says it was because of increasing conflicts between the two company’s products. There has been an…
