Intel (INTC), which for years has spent hundreds of million of dollars on branding, is launching a new series of chips. The branding plan for these is more complex than the processors themselves. The…
Intel (INTC) is about to hit the market with a new set of graphics chips and they are aimed directly at the hearts of Nvidia (NVDA) and AMD (AMD) which both count of the…
Yahoo! (YHOO) owns 39% of large Chinese online e-commerce operation Alibaba. Alibaba executives would like to exchange that stake for cash. Yahoo! could give that money to shareholders as a special dividend. It may…
Google (GOOG) has a market cap of $150 billion. The company runs twenty properties each of some significant size from YouTube to Google Earth. Some of these operations probably add to Google’s overall value. …
A company that plans to compete with Google (GOOG) probably needs to get off to a good start. Google’s size and market share would make the task of getting into its business seem nearly…
Google (GOOG) has a new rival, Cuil. Out of the box, it seems hopelessly broken. The news search engine claims it covers three times as many web pages as Google.
At most companies, if the head of a major division which has been under pressure leaves the firm, it is considered bad news. Microsoft (MSFT) is probably an exception.
Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) may have had a roaring quarter. Wall St. did not give it back much. The stock barely moved after hours. That is extraordinary given that Intel profits were up 25% from the…
Statistics for June visitors and pageviews at financial websites showed Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance and AOL Money (TWX) well ahead of competitors based on comScore data. Yahoo! had 17.538 million unique visitors followed by AOL…
When AMD (AMD) bought graphics chip maker ATI, it thought it was getting a deal. Nothing of the sort happened. AMD ended up with over $5 billion in debt. Larger rival Intel (INTC) jumped…
Late in the day, Intel’s (INTC) CEO said that the company was cutting its way through the recession like a hot knife through butter. The stock promptly jumped and ended the day up over…
One of the hallmarks of a bear market is the the financially weak companies get their brains banged out. AMD (AMD) fits right in. Today it dropped to a new 52-week low of $4.75.…
In another in a string of fairly useless announcement, Turner Broadcasting System and Yahoo! (YHOO) have entered a multi-year strategic alliance that will allow the two companies to collaborate on advertising and sports-related content.…
The enemy of my friend is my enemy. Or, the enemy of my friend is my friend. Or, the enemy of my enemy is my enemy. Yahoo! (YHOO) is finding out that being friends…
VeriSign inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) has had more than a tough week. Shares are seeing a winning day so far as it was upgraded this morning over at R.W.Baird to an Outperform rating. While we…