Yahoo! (YHOO) will reject the Microsoft (MSFT) bid to buy the web portal firm. According to The Wall Street Journal after a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo’s board determined…
Douglas A. McIntyre The Yahoo! (YHOO) board and management could have done an out-sourcing deal some time ago to license its search business to Google (GOOG). It would probably have picked up some money beyond…
Accorrding to Reuters, GM (NYSE: GM) will have half of its cars running on ethanol by 2012. Reuters writes that Cisco (NASD: CSCO) gave a weak forecast, moving tech shares down. Reuters…
There was a rather odd email that went out to Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) employees today from Jerry Yang, CEO. Here is the full link at the SEC website and you’ll notice that…
The founder of the Linux open source project, Linus Torvalds, said Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Vista operating system weak and full of bugs. But, he left his hardest criticism for Apple’s OS X…
When the market drops almost 400 points, investors start to think about 1,000 point drop day. They forget the little run-up the market had over the previous two weeks. Some of the…
According to Reuters, BHP BIlliton (NYSE: BHP) raised its bid for Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP). Reuters writes that Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) may raise its bid for Yahoo! (NASD: YHOO). Reuters reports that…
According to Reuters, Microsoft (MSFT) would borrow some of the money for a purchase of Yahoo! (YHOO). Reuters writes that Toyota’s (TM) net grew 7.5% on emerging market growth. Reuters writes that…
News Corp (NWS) would probably love to own Yahoo! (YHOO). In December, in the US, Murdoch’s online properties had 81,8 million unique visitors. Most of that is due to MySpace. Yahoo! had…
If Yahoo! (YHOO) wants to remain an independent company, it can always do a deal with the devil–Google (GOOG). According to a number of reports, the largest search company has already approached…
According to Reuters, Aluminum Corp of China has no plans to increase its stake in Rio Tinto (RTP). Reuters writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) is considering a business alliance with Google (GOOG) as…
No one thought that Google (GOOG) would like Microsoft’s (MSFT) bid for Yahoo!.(YHOO). While Google will still be the world leader in search, the new combined company proposed by Redmond would be…
Microsoft (MSFT) kept the Linux desktop people at bay for years. The open source operating systems wanted a piece of Redmond’s huge Windows PC franchise. The problem with Linux software is that…
It is the best news that Yahoo! (YHOO) investors have had in years. Microsoft (MSFT) has offered to buy the company for $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion.…
Douglas A. McIntyre Google (GOOG) joined the list of big online companies that disappointed just about everyone with its earnings. Revenue rose 51 percent to $4.827 billion. That just wasn’t enough. Google’s share will probably…