New data from TechCrunch indicates that Google’s (GOOG) YouTube has reached one billion streams served per day. The numbers probably mean that the service is losing much more than analysts figure, a number that…
Microsoft (MSFT) has been fighting for years to be taken seriously in the online search engine business. It plans to have a strong foothold have been undermined with each new measurement of US search…
Carol Bartz, Yahoo!’s (YHOO) new CEO, says the portal company does not need a deal to combine its search engine operations with Microsoft’s. Yahoo! has about 20% market share in the US to Redmond’s…
Facebook is not likely to make much money selling advertising. Marketers find it hard to target users on social networks. The cannot be neatly grouped like the people who go to Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance…
The EU has decided to go further to force Microsoft (MSFT) to give competition to its Internet Explorer a better chance to get PC market share. According to The Wall Street Journal, the EU’s…
A drop in server sales is bad news for companies that build them including HP (HPQ), IBM (IBM), and Dell (DELL) and the firms that supply chips–AMD (AMD) and Intel (INTC). But, it is…
Microsoft (MSFT) has come up with a name for its new search engine technology–“Bing”. The world’s largest software company is prepared to spend as much as $100 million promoting the product. There is still…
When Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NWS) bought MySpace for $580 million, Wall St. viewed it as a brilliant move. Murdoch got one of the fastest-growing properties on the Internet and it was on it…
The market was disappointed by Hewlett-Packard’s (HPQ) forecast for the next quarter. The technology company’s results for the past quarter were in line with Wall St. estimates. Analysts look to H-P as a proxy…
The development and growth of technology has had some unexpected and unpleasant side effects. One is the death of privacy. People with cell phones snap pictures and take videos of strangers. Webcams make online…
Google (GOOG) wants to know which of its employees will quit. That is natural since a number of its senior staff have left for positions at other online companies. For the first time since…
A huge population of red ants has bedeviled Texas farmers for years. By some estimates the insects cost state businesses close to $1 billion a year due to crop and machinery destruction. Killing the…
The EU finally fined Intel (INTC) for anti-competitive behavior and the amount of the fine was staggering–$1.44 billion. Intel has been accused of using pricing and special rebates to undermine the sales of its…
Yahoo! (YHOO) is running out of time in its attempts to remain a relevant part of the global search industry both on PCs and mobile devices. Recent Hitwise data shows Yahoo!’s share of the…
The Financial Times is reporting that EU antitrust authorities are preparing to levy a huge fine against the world’s largest chip company, Intel (INTC). The paper writes that “Some lawyers suggest that the record…