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Cyber Monday–Largest E-Commerce Sales Day In History (WMT, AMZN)

It is clear that e-commerce sales growth has begun to race ahead of bricks-and-mortar revenue growth this holiday season. Comscore reports that Cyber Monday was “The Heaviest Online Spending Day In History”. Broadband internet…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Why Would Sony Want Sony-Ericsson?

Sony-Ericsson is one of the great losers in the smartphone race, which has largely been won by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android-based phones. Yet, Sony (NYSE: SNE) foolishly wants to buy…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Amazon Makes Nothing On New Kindle Fire

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) makes no money on its new Kindle Fire tablet PC. That may be a sign that it will seek to take market share from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and hope that content…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

The Internet Ad Market Gets Worse by the Day

Several large internet-based media companies have said third-quarter advertising sales are soft. There is also the problem of Facebook, which now controls a quarter of all the online display inventory in the U.S. Industry…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Is Google’s Biggest Competitor Google?

Larry Page, CEO of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), believes the company is its own worst enemy. Perhaps he has not looked around at the competitive landscape. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and a few…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

In Apple’s Shadow, Amazon Labors

Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) stock has outperformed Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) over the past year, past two years, and past five years. But, Apple is the leader, supposedly, in the creation and marketing of tech products.…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Cisco–One Of The Largest US Layoffs Of The Year?

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), one of the largest tech firms in the U.S. with a market cap of $85 billion and annual sales of $40 billion, will lay off 5,000 to 6,000 people this year,…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Video Chat, An Old Technology, Makes It To Facebook

The press has given the joint venture between Facebook and Skype to deliver video chat a large amount of coverage. Facebook Video Calling does not offer anything new. Skype has had video links between…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Fake Fox Tweets Claim Obama Killed

The site FoxNewsPolitics.com, part of the online presence of the huge Fox and Fox News online presences was hacked. Malicious tweets said President Obama had been killed. Obama is actually safe on a July…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Mobile Phone Payments–The New Cash Register

Barely a week goes by without the release of research about all the new things that smartphones do now or will do in the future. The future profits of smartphones appears to be the…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Citigroup Data Breach–Moving Cash Back Under The Mattress

The Financial Times reports that hackers have gained access to a number of Citigroup (NYSE C) credit cards numbers which belong to the bank’s customers.  “The bank said that about 1 per cent of…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago

Sony: It Is Not Our Broken System, It’s The Internet’s Fault

Howard Stringer, the disgraced CEO of Sony (NYSE: SNE), made the remarkably disingenuous or perhaps naive comment that all Internet systems have the same weaknesses as the hacked PlayStation network. “It’s the beginning, unfortunately,…

Douglas A. McIntyre · 15 years ago