Microsoft (MSFT) Wants 30% Of Search Market
Someone at Microsoft (MSFT) spent too long in the sun and baked his brain. The world’s largest software company says that it plans to be one of the two largest players in online advertising…
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Galleon Group, which 24/7 Wall St. pointed out bought shares in AMD (AMD), may already regret that move. Bloomberg writes "Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the world’s second-largest maker of computer processors, is late delivering…
Local.com Plays Into Expectations (LOCM)
Local.com Corp. (NASDAQ:LOCM) is seeing shares surge in pre-market trading activity. 24/7 Wall St. just noted the chances in this week’s "10 Stocks Under $10" newsletter that the company was likely to turn on…
Hedge Fund Thinks It Can Squeeze Value From AMD (AMD)
Galleon Group, a $7 billion fund based in Midtown, has recently purchased "several million shares" of AMD, according to The New York Post. The fund will obviously try to get something out of the…
IBM (IBM) Enters Another New Business, Again
According to Reuters, IBM (IBM) is "staking out a major new source of business helping clients like banks or retailers manage data centers on a par with Internet players such as Google or Microsoft."…
Online Retail Sales Show Modest Increase In October
E-Commerce sales for the first month of the holiday season, October, showed a modest increase of 19% to $8.4 billion (excluding travel). The categories that drove online sales were video games and consoles, which…
Tech Stock Values For Dummies
Yesterday’s sharp sell-off in the Nasdaq showed the market something. In a downturn, the Apples (AAPL) and RIMMs (RIMM) of the world have an Achilles Heel. They have run up too much. At one…
The Market Loses Faith In Yahoo! (YHOO)
The big rally in Yahoo! (YHOO) did not last long. Modest earnings and excitement about its 40% stake in Alibaba took the shares from $26.55 in mid-October to $33.99 at the end of the…
Newspapers Will Try To Compete With Internet Portals
Big city newspapers want what they lost to portals like Yahoo! (YHOO) and MSN. They want their advertising back. According to The Chicago Tribune "sources close to the situation said Gannett Co (GCI)., Tribune…
IACI (IACI) Breaking Into Five Companies?
IACI (IACI) will break into five companies, according to a report on CNBC. Barry Diller has been under pressure to improve the company’s stock price. The company is an odd mix of online properties…
Europe Markets 11/2/2007
Markets across Europe were down about 1% at 7 AM New York time. The FTSE fell 1.1% to 6,516. Barclays (BCS) was down 5.8% to 538.5. Rio Tinto (RTP) was off 3.2% to 4266.…
Sun Micro (JAVA) In The Shadows: Selected Stocks Under $10
Share in Sun Microsystems (JAVA) have been drifting. Their performance for the last three months looks like larger proxies for big tech, Hewlett Packard (HPQ), Dell (DELL), and IBM (IBM). All four stocks are…
News Corp’s (NWS) MySpace Joins Google (GOOG) Social Network Group
TechCrunch and Silicon Alley Insider have reported that News Corp’s (NWS) MySpace will join the new Google (GOOG) OpenSocial initiative. The Google program pulls together a number of social networks include the search company’s…
Can Google (GOOG) OpenSocial Platform Compete With Facebook?
The new Google (GOOG) OpenSocial Platform list of sites includes Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, and Viadeo. Below is a chart from Hitwise comparing the audience to Facebook. Facebook is nines times…
Remembering MarketWatch, Now Ten Years Old
I remember the launch of MarketWatch. I was the CEO of FutureSource then. One of our customers was DBC, an early shareholder in the then new financial news site. Larry Kramer was brought in…