Former AOL CEO Bidding For Yahoo! (YHOO)?–Stock Up 10%
Yahoo! (YHOO) has become a "rumor an hour" company. Over the weekend, the Times of London said the portal had a deal with Microsoft (MSFT) for its search business. As part of that arrangement…
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It makes a certain amount of sense. The Huffington Post has raised $25 million at a valuation that the media is putting at $115 million. TheStreet.com (TSCM), which is public, has a market cap…
E-Commerce Spending Flat For “Black Friday” (AMZN)(EBAY)(WMT)(TGT)
Some figures picked up in the media from research house ShopperTrak showed retail sales on Black Friday up 3%, which was much better than the most gloomy forecasts. The level of consumer spending may…
Microsoft (MSFT) In Talks To Buy Yahoo! (YHOO) Search For $20 Billion?
Microsoft (MSFT) is well along in talks to control and eventually buy Yahoo!’s (YHOO) search business for $20 billion, according to a report in the Times of London. AllThingsDigital says no such deal is…
It’s Official: DRAM, The World’s Worst Commodity Business (MU)
The reports out of DRAMexchange are showing some good trends and some bad trends. The good trend is that every day DRAM and computing power is getting cheaper and cheaper for you and me. …
Google (GOOG): Web 1.0 Dies Without A Replacement
Google’s (GOOG) obscene five years of hyper-growth may be coming to an end. So far, the evidence of that in only anecdotal. Here and there advertisers are saying that the search engine does not…
New Chips Can’t Save AMD (AMD)(INTC)
After bad news from its larger rival Intel (INTC), AMD (AMD) backed its own forecasts. AMD has its new Opteron processors. According to the company, the product has up to 20% faster performance with…
Bank Execs All Sacked: Firings Move To Tech Industry (ORCL)(SYMC)(AMD)(EBAY)(YHOO)(INTC)(HPQ)(JAVA)
John Thompson, the head of Symantec (SYMC), "stepped down" yesterday. Hector Ruiz recently vacated the CEO’s office at AMD (AMD). The head of Sun (JAVA), Jonathan Schwartz, will probably be gone soon. Meg Whitman…
Tech Holiday Gets Bleak: Intel (INTC) Warns On Q4 (AAPL)(DELL)(HPQ)(RIMM)(BBY)
It is rare when a company warns about its Q4 numbers on November 12. That made Intel’s (INTC) announcement about the final quarter of the year all the more shocking. Intel said it now…
Could Google (GOOG) Drop To $250? (AAPL)(BBY)(DELL)(HPQ)(YHOO)
Over the last year, Google’s (GOOG) shares have dropped from $724.80 to just above $300. There is an argument to be made that they could go much lower, perhaps down to $250. The stock…
IBM Venturing Into Broadband Over Power Lines (IBM)
IBM (NYSE: IBM) is going into a new initiative, which is actually an old initiative which had been thought of as dead on arrival: Broadband Over Power Lines. Big Blue is partnering with International…
Qualcomm (QCOM) Means To Bring The Internet To The World
It may be a way to make money, but it could also change the dynamics of how tens of millions of people get information about the outside world. Qualcomm (QCOM) announced a new PC…
Microsoft (MSFT) Picks Google’s (GOOG) Pocket
Mobile search is supposed to be the next big thing on the internet. Now that PC users have pretty much decided what search service they want to use, the war is moving to handsets.…
Cisco’s (CSCO) Consumer Push Costs It
The sound out of Cisco (CSCO) has been so fine for so long that its was an assault to hear that the company would have a drop in revenue in the current quarter. By…
Yahoo! & Google Pact Called Off is GOOD for Yahoo!, Not Bad (YHOO, GOOG, MSFT)
Media reports are saying that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) walking away from the Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) search pact is a bad development for Yahoo! and its shareholders. Do not fall for that trickery. This is…