Icahn Dumps Yahoo! (YHOO) Shares
Carl Icahn, who took a large stake in Yahoo! (YHOO) along with board seats, has started to sell his shares. He seems to have come to the same conclusion that Wall St. has. The…
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comScore, the internet research firm, announced that more than 113 billion searches were made worldwide in July. That number is significant but even more astonishing is the 41% rise that the figure represents over…
Americans Watch Nine Billion YouTube Videos In A Month
US internet users watched 8.9 billion videos on Google (GOOG) sites last month. Ninety-nine percent of those were from YouTube. According to comScore, Google had 42% of the online video market in July. What…
US Postal Service To Offer 30,000 Workers Buyouts
The US Postal Service may be able to drive up the national rate of unemployment all on its own. The USPS will offer 30,000 workers buyouts. It has 650,000 workers, so that number is…
Apple (AAPL): Processor Power May Be Key To Tablet Sales
Nokia (NOK) is launching its netbook, a 10″ screen model which weighs 2.75 pounds and runs Windows. It comes into a remarkably crowded market. But, launching a product for the segment is nearly irresistible.…
Apple’s (AAPL) Market Cap Passes Google’s (GOOG)
Apple’s (AAPL) market cap is now$148 billion. Google’s (GOOG) is only $143 billion. The disparity between the two numbers does not make sense. Google has been the faster-growing company, at least historically. Hardware companies…
Yahoo! Deal With Microsoft Better Than Assumed
Yahoo! (YHOO) filed an 8K with the SEC with details of its search engine agreement with Microsoft (MSFT). Several of the provisions of the contract are better than investors may have expected.
Sony (SNE), Always Late And Always A Loser, Gets Into E-Reader Market
Sony (SNE) has had one hit product in the thirty years since it launched the Walkman. That product was the PlayStation 2. Microsoft (MSFT) and Nintendo bull-dozed Sony out of its position as the…
Apple (AAPL) Using Confidentiality Agreements To Keep iPod Problems Secret
There is no end to the lengths to which Apple will go to keep overheating problems with its iPod under wraps. The Times reports that“Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a…
Microsoft Deal In Hand, Yahoo! Looks To Next Generation Of Search
Microsoft (MSFT) has talked about using its Bing search engine to search the Internet “real time” to pick up Twitter messages and other information and data that rockets across the web nanosecond by nanosecond.…
Details Of Microsoft (MSFT) Deal With Yahoo! (YHOO) Released: Too Complex To Work
The partnership between Yahoo! (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) to integrate their search operations is even more complicated than was rumored. It is so complicated, as a matter of fact, that the execution risks will…
North Korean Cyber-Criminals Will Be Back
The New York Times points out that law enforcement officials across the world are still puzzled by the source of the cyber-attacks that shut down or slowed down websites in South Korea and the…
Yahoo! (YHOO) Deal With Microsoft (MSFT) “Imminent”
Sources at a major client of investment house ThinkEquity say that the firm considers a Microsoft (MSFT) link-up with Yahoo! (YHOO) in the search business to be “imminent”. The comments were made by analyst…
Can Intel (INTC) And Dell (DELL) Both Be Right?
Dell (DELL) delivered a pessimistic forecast about it recent sales and the short-term period ahead, indicating that the PC market is still in trouble. A number of industry analysts expect global computer shipments to…
MySpace To Become Entertainment Site
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. MySpace, which has lost the crown as the world’s largest social network to Facebook and fired about a third of its staff will reposition itself…