Streaming Media Magazine and Streamingmediia.com have released their list of the twenty-five most important people in in the streaming media industry over the last decade. “I suppose if you extend the baseball…
Most companies on Nasdaq did fairly well with the shorts in the period which ended on March 31 compared to March 14. The two tremendous exceptions were Level 3 (LVLT) where short…
The creator of the law of unintended consequences must have had the scramble to merge with or buy Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) in mind. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) gets daily benefit from the fighting…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is seeking a merger with Time Warner’s (TWX) AOL which Microsoft (MSFT) and News Corp (NWS) at a joint bid for the No.2 search company. Reuters writes…
Various press reports indicate that Time Warner (TWX) may be close to combining its AOL unit with Yahoo! (YHOO). At the same time, Microsoft (MSFT) is planning to make a joint bid…
There is a report out of the Wall Street Journal that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) may be close to inking a deal that would potentially combine…
According to The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) will start to test search advertising from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). The agreement could grow. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is not going to be happy.…
Disgraced stock-picking guru Bill Miller of Legg Mason says he will support Yahoo!’s (YHOO) efforts to stay independent if Microsoft (MSFT) lowers the value of its offer to buy the portal company.…
Google (GOOG) is launching a nifty new program. It allows programmers who use its Google App Engine to tap the company’s server infrastructure to store their work. That is until they want…
New figures from HitWise support the Microsoft (MSFT) contention that Yahoo!’s (YHOO) share of the search market is shrinking ,making it less likely that the portal can compete against Google (GOOG) on…
Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) response to Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) can best be described as self-serving. In a letter to Redmond, made public this morning, Yahoo!’ board reasons "Our position is simply that any…
Douglas A. McIntyre The New York Times and FT are reporting that Yahoo! (YHOO) will reject Microsoft’s (MSFT) bid as too low despite the fact that Redmond may lower its offer or start a proxy…
Douglas A. McIntyre Yesterday we noted that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be close to either lowering its bid or taking other actions in its attempt to acquire Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). Now the facts are out. …
Douglas A. McIntyre The heat between Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) wanting to acquire Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) may be cooling. Or it may just be a negotiating tool to show Jerry Yang that he’s up the creek…
Douglas A. McIntyre Those PC users who hate Vista will be happy to hear that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) plans to release its new version of the Windows OS next year. According to Reuters "The software…
