No one needs to be reminded that IAC/Interactive (IACI) is breaking itself into five pieces to improve "shareholder value". The fight between Barry Diller and John Malone over whether the move was…
Carl Icahn has made the announcement that he plans a proxy fight to either control or influence the Yahoo! board. It is a remarkably poor idea. Microsoft (MSFT) has made it clear…
Search has already trumped all other models on the internet for making money, and now its popularity has reached the point where the Google (GOOG) sites have passed Yahoo! (YHOO) as the…
Microsoft (MSFT) claims that its Xbox 360 has reached the sale of ten million units in the US ahead of the Nintendo Wii and Sony (SNE) PS3. The news is somewhat, if…
Somewhere between The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, the signals got crossed. After Sony’s earnings announcement, Rupert Murdoch’s paper ran a headline saying "PC, Camera, Flat-Screen Sales Help Sony…
CNBC is saying that Carl Icahn may start a proxy fight for control of Yahoo! (YHOO). It will never happen. Microsoft (MSFT) has made it clear that it does not want Yahoo!.…
According to Reuters, HP (HPQ) plans to buy EDS (EDS) to better compete with IBM (IBM). Reuters writes that AIG (AIG) says it sees no reason to follow the request of its…
Online videos viewed in March moved up to 11.5 billion, a 13% jump from the year before and a tremendous pop of 64% over the same month last year. The question is…
The short interest in Sirius (SIRI) inflated by 30.9 million shares to 188.9 million. The figures compare April 30 to April 15 numbers. Investor are clearly willing to gamble against the company’s…
According to Reuters, AIG (AIG) lost $7.8 billion in the last quarter and will have to raise money. Reuters reports that Google says it will have revenue enhancing products for YouTube soon.…
Yahoo! (YHOO) seems to have gotton several pieces of bad news yesterday. The chief of strategy at Microsoft (MSFT), if there can be any such person, said that his company would go…
According to Reuters, the head of strategy at Microsoft (MSFT) says it deal to acquire Yahoo! (YHOO) is over. Reuters writes that Toyota (TM) posted a 28% drop in profit due to…
It looks like Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) will sell $500 million of its new game "Grand Theft Auto IV" the first week that it is on the market. That is better than most…
According to Reuters, UBS (UBS) will cut 5,500 jobs. The company is also selling $15 billion in subprime mortgage paper to Blackrock. Reuters writes that Bernanke says that high foreclosure rates are…
Not all of the institutional money involved in the Yahoo! (YHOO) rejection of Microsoft’s (MSFT) bid are happy to sit on the sidelines. Several may launch a campaign to push out the…
Douglas A. McIntyre 