Will Murdoch Sell MySpace For $1?
Now that AOL, Inc (NYSE: AOL) has sold social network Bebo to Criterion Capital, which must have more money than sense, Rupert Murdoch has a precedent for dumping his moribund social network MySpace. The…
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The Semiconductor Industry Association reports that it expects chip sales to surge by almost 30% this year, with global revenue reaching $291 billion. Its projections for growth in 2011 and 2012 are much lower,…
Baidu’s Growing Market Share In China–A Market That Does Not Matter
Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) wants to have 80% of the Chinese search market even though it does not matter. The company told Reuters that it believes that with Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) out-of-the-way its piece…
National Employee Morale Day At Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), one of the world’s largest tech companies, will lay-off 9,000 people as it tries to boost the productivity of its biggest unit–enterprise services. The operations is about 25% of HP’s revenue and about…
Server Sales Surge As HP Pushes IBM From No.1 Spot, Time For Big Blue To Buy Dell
Hewlett-Packard’s (NYSE: HPQ) plan to dominate the global hardware business is working. It has a huge line of PCs and servers along with software and tech consulting arms to get a foot in the…
Alibaba Earnings Rise as Chinese Government Ponders New Regulations
Alibaba.com is the Hong Kong-listed unit of Alibaba Group, a Chinese B2B e-commerce company that is 39%-owned by Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). Alibaba.com reported better-than-expected earnings and revenues this morning, but saw its share price…
Google’s comScore Search Share Shows Mixed Picture (GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, AOL, IACI)
Earlier this month, we noted how Hitwise data showed Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) had regained some of its light losses in share of total US searches to be back above that 70% hurdle in…
Google Regains on Search Share Loss (GOOG, MSFT, YHOO, IACI)
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) got its mojo back. In March, the world’s dominant search engine managed to slip under the 70% share mark for the first time since June 2008. In month of April,…
The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report: The Wisdom Of Crowds?
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million…
The $3,000 Laptop No One Needs
Apple Inc’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new Macbook Pro can cost as much as $2,299 with a 17 inch monitor. That is not with additions that can push the price to more than $3,000. The computer uses…
Twitter To Sell Ads
Twitter will start to sell ads on its 75 million member micro-blogging system, a move likely to anger some who worry about privacy and behavioral targeting of marketing messages. Members may even attack the…
How Apple Killed The Future Of Search
Today, Google gets over 9.5 billion searches per month in the United States. Although search engines such as Microsoft’s Bing compete for a share of the market, they present no real threat to Google’s…
Google Taking Eye Off Search Market Share? (GOOG, MSFT, YHOO, IACI)
Experian Hitwise sent out the monthly data on US search market shares for the month of March 2010. The Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) combined gains were marginal, although the…
The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Watch 4.6
Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Watch 3.29
Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…