Micrososft (MSFT) Moves Further Into Search
Microsoft (MSFT) will spend $1.2 billion to buy Norway’s Fast Search and Transfer. The company is in the search engine software business. While Fast Search is growing and profitable, the buy-out is a 42%…
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Newest first · Page 540As Hope For Tech Spending Fades, VMWare (VMW) Falls
The market things that tech spending is going to get hurt this year. Wall St. can see it in the stock prices of Dell (DELL), AMD (AMD), Intel (INTC), and other "big cap" techs.…
Tech: The Weak Get Weaker (AMD)(MOT)
The tech sell-off is accelerating. It may be that Intel (INTC) got downgraded or that Motorola (MOT) may have had a weak Q4. But, the problem is probably worse than that. Tech was supposed…
Nothing At Sun (JAVA) Has Worked
Shares in Sun Microsystems (JAVA) have sputtered to a 52-week low of $17.25 down from a period high of $27.12. It would be hard to find a company that has worked harder to get…
Tech, The Market’s Superman, Weakens (GOOG)(AAPL)(MSFT)(ORCL)
A recent poll from Reuters showed that analysts believe that earnings growth rates will go negative in the fourth quarter. It is the first time that has happened since the poll was introduced in…
2008 Tech Kickoff: Macworld Versus Consumer Electronics Show, CES (MSFT, AAPL, INTC, MCZ, S)
January is always an interesting month for gadget lovers, techies, programmers, computer geeks, gamers, and more. The year is always kicked off with the biggest event of the year as the Consumer Electronics Show,…
Wal-Mart (WMT) Goes Back To Selling Shirts Online
According to several media reports, Wal-Mart (WMT) has shut its movie download business. It blames the fact that Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is discontinuing the technology platform which makes the service work. It is hard to…
Is Search Engine Traffic Starting To Decline? (GOOG)(YHOO)(MSFT)
comScore data from November showed that total online searches done in the US declined 4.7% compared to October. The figure fell to just over 10 billion. With one fewer day in the month some…
Local.com Meets Barry Diller (LOCM, IACI)
Local.com (NASDAQ:LOCM) is seeing its shares surge some 15% pre-market after it signed a new pact today. It has entered a strategic partnership with Barry Diller’s IAC/Interactive (NASDAQ:IACI). Local.com says it will benefit from…
Texas Instruments (TXN) Bets On TV And Cell Phones
Texas Instruments (TXN) believe that sales of handsets and digital TV will drive its profits over the next decade. Because of sales of these products, the demand for analog chips could skyrocket. Speaking about…
Google (GOOG) To Get Doubleclick Approval By Christmas
According to TechCrunch and Bloomberg, Google (GOOG) will get approval for its Doubleclick acquisition before Christmas. The deal has been held up over antitrust concerns. It will make the holiday unpleasant for the advertising…
Microsoft (MSFT) Flanks Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO) With Viacom (VIA) Deal
Microsoft (MSFT) got a very nice boost to its online advertising strategy. The company formed a partnership with Viacom (VIA). Under the terms, Microsoft will run certain long form and short video programs on…
Tech: Made In America With The Jobs Overseas
Most manufacturing has gone out of the US. TVs, cars, steel. What is left? Boeing (BA) and a service and technology economy. Companies like McDonald’s (MCD) can’t export cooking hamburgers and staffing the register.…
Holiday 2007 E-Commerce Winners And Losers
comScore today released data that shows households with incomes under $50,000 are not lifting their online spending much from the holiday season last year. Sales from this demographic group are up only 10%. For…
Middle Class Killing Online Holiday Spending
The great debate over whether online spending its in trouble this holiday season now has another data point. So far in 2007, e-commerce revenue for the period from November 1 throught December 16 is…