Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) issued an SEC filing noting that it and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) have extended the negotiating time on the previously announced search pact. Without getting to participate in…
Douglas A. McIntyre Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.21 AM EST: The pricing of the Ancestry.com IPO may be much too high. (BreakingViews). Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) new social search feature may not include industry leader Facebook …
Short interest in a number of major financial firms rose for the period ending October 15. Shares short in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 51% to 178.1 million. The short interest in CIT (NYSE:CIT)…
Reuters: UBS (NYSE:UBS) will put in a new US chief. Reuters: Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) says “dark pools” help investors. Reuters: The US is welcoming the rise of the yuan. Retuers: Nelson Peltz’s…
Nokia’s (NYSE:NOK) Symbian mobile operating system has dominated the handset software business for years. Microsoft’s mobile Windows has made some progress in picking up market share during the last decade, but its…
Carl Icahn, who joined the Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) board on August 6.2008 after a long proxy fight with the company, is leaving. The portal company had rejected Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) search and restructuring proposal…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are this Friday morning’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have more detailed data on price, volume, and historical data with links through to each story at VSInvestor.com:…
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) posted EPS for its fiscal first quarter of $.40 compared with $.48 last year. The company has revenue $12.92 billion. Both numbers were well ahead of Wall St. forecasts of $.32 a share on revenues of $12.4 billion. The…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: Japan Airlines faces $8.8 billion in excess debt if liquidated. Reuters: Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) beat Wall St. estimates. Reuters: GM’s CEO will get a pay raise. Reuters: Nokia (NYSE:NOK) sued Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)…
We still have two DJIA components to report earnings this week. If you can believe it this week marked 12 of the 30 components reporting earnings, and that takes us to a…
Updated throughout the day. Update 11.03 AM EST P&G (PG) may buy the household prooducts unit of Sara Lee (various) Brian Moynihan, a Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) executive and possible CEO candidate…
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Google (NASDAQ:MSFT) have each formed a partnership with micro- blogging company Twitter. The search engines at the firms will survey the real time “tweets” , which are small text messages of…
Reuters: China’s GDP rose 8.9% and the government said it would stick with its liberal monetary policies. Reuters: Larry Summers said the US recovery is on track. Reuters: More Americans will delay…
Larry’s Ellison, the founder and CEO of Oracle (NASDAQ:OFCL) does not make idle threats. He does not have to. In most games against his competition he holds the majority of the cards.…
Wall St. was impressed by but not euphoric about Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) third quarter earnings. The company’s net revenue was $1.131 billion, down from $1.325 billion in the period last year. Net income…
