Sun (JAVA) Surrenders, Breaks Below $10
The shares of Sun Microsystems (JAVA) have finally slipped into the briny deep. The stocked moved under $10. The last time JAVA was that low was in 2002. Back then it traded under the…
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Google (GOOG) paid something around $1.7 billion to buy YouTube, which is by a wide measure the most popular video site in the world. By some accounts, one billion videos are watched at the…
Yahoo! (YHOO) Looks At AOL (TWX)
In a fit of desperation not rivaled since the Grande Armee retreated from Moscow, Yahoo! is trying to find a refuge from onslaughts by Carl Icahn, Microsoft (MSFT), and its own employees who check…
Nvidia (NVDA): A Major Alarm For Tech Earnings (DELL)(AMD)(MSFT)
Anyone who wants to waste the money to take a sledge hammer and break apart a PC will likely find a Nvidia (NVDA) graphics chip in among the rubble.Yesterday, Nvidia warned it would miss…
AT&T (T): A Dangerous Price Plan For The Apple (AAPL) iPhone
AT&T (T) announced its pricing plan for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone today. The plan is extremely confusing. That may make it harder to sell to the average customer, both for those who currently use…
Video: Game, Set, Match To YouTube (GOOG), MySpace (NWS) Hammered
If a company is in the video business, and it is not Google (GOOG) YouTube, it might as well shut down. According to new numbers from HitWise YouTube had over 75% of the US…
Oracle (ORCL) And RIM (RIMM): Tech, Large And Small, Is Doing Fine
Wall St. focused on earnings forecasts from Oracle (ORCL) and RIM (RIMM) and thought the numbers were a bit light. That turned traders against the shares of both companies, but that is a mistake.…
News Corp (NWS) Can’t Keep Its Advantage: Facebook Passes MySpace
The two largest online social networks are Facebook, which is a private company, and MySpace, which is owned by News Corp (NWS). MySpace has always been the larger property. Facebook was a distant second,…
Google Keeps Drumming Yahoo! (GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, TWX, IACI)
Nielsen Online has a report out for MAY 2008 data on the top U.S. SEARCH PROVIDERS. As a reminder, this is "US SEARCH" rather than global search. But it shows that Google Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Eleven Billion Videos Viewed In April, And No One Made A Dime (GOOG)(NWS)(CSCO)
comScore reports that eleven billion videos were watched in the US in April. Of those 4.2 billion were watched on Google (GOOG) sites, which mean YouTube. No one on Wall St. thinks YouTube makes…
IBM (IBM) Advances Solar Power
IBM (IBM) is doing something important and will probably make money at it to boot. According to The Wall Street Journal, "Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co. will work with IBM to develop processes and equipment…
Cisco’s (CSCO) Bogus Projections For Online Video Growth
Cisco (CSCO) sees an explosion of online video use. Most analysts think that this has already happened, but the router company says otherwise. Since they make their money from hardware which manages much of…
Sony (SNE) To Launch New Show Online, Alienate Customers
Sony (SNE) is about to launch it new "Angel of Death" program online. It hopes the trick will get people to buy the DVD of the show down the road. Content companies now release…
Yahoo! (YHOO) Gives Up A Mint By Rejecting Microsoft’s (MSFT) Second Offer
Microsoft (MSFT) told its employees that it offered Yahoo! (YHOO) $8 billion in cash for 16% of the company and $1 billion to buy its search operations. According to Reuters, "The proposal also included…
Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft Ties Getting More Complicated (YHOO, GOOG, MSFT)
The WSJ has reported that that long-standing rumor of a search advertising deal between Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is close to being consummated. Yahoohas concluded talks with Microsoft without reaching…