According to MINOnline, advertising pages in major monthly magazines are down 20% for issues from the first two months of this year. One of the most popular weeklies, The Economist, suffered ad pages losses…
Google is still a growth company but it is no longer one with awe-inspiring year-over-year comparisons. Its revenue may no longer be moving up rapidly enough to support a a price point anywhere near…
The number of large American companies which have effectively dodged the falling safe of the recession can be counted on most people’s fingers and toes. Wal-Mart (WMT) has done remarkably well, but its latest…
Check with Sun (JAVA). The server end of the tech industry has poor margins and unforgiving competition. HP (HPQ) has a server division. It grew only .7% in the company’s last fiscal year, and…
We have already highlighted that Nortel Networks Corp. (NYSE: NT) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. But the fallout from the filing continues to reverberate in the industry. For instance, Flextronics International Ltd.…
According to the FT, "Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive officer, has increased the pressure on Yahoo to hand over control of its search business to his software company." And: "The best time for a…
Why are advertisers who pay cheap ad rates running at premium websites like the tech section of CNN.com? Because the online advertising business is falling to pieces as the first quarter of the year…
The great promise of the online commerce industry has been that it would grow at a rate faster than bricks-and-mortar retailers, and that this advantage might go on for years. E-commerce makes it easier…
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon (AMZN) is the Internet’s great escape artist. His company has been in trouble countless times only to emerge better off. He was beaten on by the…
For years, e-commerce was the bright corner of the retail business. Easier to do comparison shopping. No crowds. Free shipping. This year, online retail is looking a great deal like the mall. Comscore has…
Putting advertising on social network websites like Facebook or News Corp (NWS) MySpace has never made sense. They claim to have tens of millions of "members", "users", "friends". Some of those people are doing…
Google (GOOG) pretty much gets to do what it wants to do. That is a little less true now that its earnings are slowing and its stock price is down. But, it is still…
Hand it to Andrew Grove, the former CEO of Intel (INTC). He wrote a book about how paranoid he is and why that kept his company ahead of the competition. It turns out he…
New data released by comScore shows that US internet users watched more than 15 billion videos last month. Almost 40% of those were watched on Google (GOOG) sites, most of them on YouTube. The…
Analysts are of two minds about Google (GOOG). The first is that because it is the most efficient way for companies to reach customers that it will not be hurt much by the recession.…