Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.30 AM EST:  Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) believes that EU authorities may try to block its buy-out of Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA)  (FT) Updated 10:26 AM EST: Apollo Management...
It’s official.  At 7:56 PM Saturday night, Steve Ballmer of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) officially threw in the towel in its bid to acquire Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO).  Now that the...
Yahoo Finance kept its hure lead in pageviews compared to competion. December numbers from NetRatings show the financial section of the Yahoo! portal with over 606 million pageviews. The next largest...
If someone told you that good old Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) was actually regaining its market share in search, would you believe them?  If you did believe it, you’d at least want...
Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ:ERTS) has confirmed the release of the Harry Potter video game, although this might not be good as you’d think for a "feed me now" attitude on Wall Street.  The video...
Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (NASDAQ: CETV) issued a statement this morning that the Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) investment closed.  It is usually hard to know if the seller or the buyer...
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 Internet operations of...
In the past 12 months, shares of Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) have shot up nearly 300%, from around $70/share to around $220/share, after peaking at near $250/share. The trailing P/E is more than 72,...
Updated throughout the day.Updated at 1.11 PM EST:  Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will sell First Republic for $1 billion.  (The Deal)Updated 1.05 PM EST:  Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) may be teaming up with...
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has announced a deal with Paramount Pictures, owned by Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB), that will add 500 Paramount titles (including “The Godfather”) to its video rental...
CNBC is saying the Richard Parsons will step down as CEO of Time Warner (TWX) effective the end of the year, and that the announcement will be made today. He will remain as Chairman. Jeff Bewkes,...
Tis the season. While AT&T got its massive merger with BellSouth cleared by the FCC, it had to promise "net neutrality" for a time. In other words, it cannot charge websites that are...
Perhaps someone could have figured this out a year ago, Social networks like MySpace, owned by News Corp (NWS) and Facebook are poor targets for marketers. No wonder. A social network is a patch work...
We have four key earnings for technology and media investors and traders due on Wednesday, and one key cult stock.  The two biggest for tech which can impact all components of their related...