According to Reuters, National City (NCC) will raise as much as $7 billion. Reuters writes that Viacom (VIA) will launch a pay TV channel to compete with Time Warner’s (TWX) HBO. Its…
This is going to be an extremely busy week for earnings in all industries, but tech investors will have a foursome that they will be watching ever so closely. These four are …
Almost no one knows what an algorithm is. The management at Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) doesn’t care. The company’s shares are up almost 20% after hours. Those who doubted the firm’s ability to improve…
Fearing a reprise of the 2000 catastrophe which wrecked hundreds of tech companies, big firms in the sector are hording cash. The only trouble with the idea is that the firms putting…
After the close of trading this Thursday, we’ll get to see earnings out of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG). The estimates for the search engine super-giant from First Call are $4.52 EPS on…
It is no surprise that Google’s (GOOG) search technology and its ability to marry advertising with search results is better than Yahoo!’s (YHOO). Otherwise Yahoo! would have Google’s market cap instead of…
The market was buoyed by Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) earnings. It should have been. Gross margins were good, Year-over-year results were fine. If there was any concern about the quarterly report is was the…
New comScore data shows that the number of videos viewed online moved up 66% in February compared with the same month last year. US internet users viewed over 10 billion videos for…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has come up with a canny way to increase its revenue during a recession. It will loan companies money to buy its software. Redmond has always had a deft…
According to Reuters, US senator Charles Schumer has asked the SEC to look at conflicts of interest at bond rating firms. Reuters writes that Washington Mutual (WM) are in favor of the…
After rafts of bad news from every corner of the business arena starting with GE (NYSE: GE) and spreading to Washington Mutual (NYSE: WM) and Wachovia (NYSE: WB), a hard luck report…
According to comScore, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) continued its climb in US search engine share. The number for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) dropped slightly as did the figure for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). The comScore…
One of the factors lost in the debate over the value of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) is the amount of time that consumers spend on the site. For advertisers, especially those running display…
Over the last week, both major financials and techs sold off substantially, another sign that one major sector is doing nothing to offset the other. Taken in tandem with GE’s (NYSE: GE)…
AOL Money & Finance (TWX) moved ahead of Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance in both total visits and page views during March. For the period, AOL had 409 million page views and 85.3 million…
