TechCrunch is reporting that Google (GOOG) is "preparing its own major assault on the social networking scene." The project is currently called “Maka-Maka”. Google already owns large social network Orkut, but most of its…
No wonder Wal-Mart (WMT) has poor same-store sales and Circuit City (CC) is close to Chapter 11. All of the customers are moving online. According to the new comScore stats, online retail sales moved…
Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) has launched Facebook® for BlackBerry® Smartphones. This announcement came out of CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment 2007. This will allow BlackBerry software applications that enable fast, streamlined and optimized mobile…
A weak tech market being led by communications and communications infrastructure isn’t helping a situation already gone bad, but Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ:LVLT) has gone from bad to worse after a dismal 24% drop…
Transmeta Corp. (NASDAQ:TMTA) is seeing shares gap up exponentially after the announcement that it has reached an agreement with Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) to settle all legal claims between the companies and to license the Transmeta…
Yahoo! (YHOO) management is now admitting that it was slow to react to changes on the internet and in the online ad market. And, it wants to fundamentally change the company to get it…
It is obvious that Apple (AAPL) is not Google, or its stock symbol would be GOOG. But, the issues go beyond that. With Apple’s most impressive quarter behind it and with a forecast of…
News Corp (NWS) today announced a deal with online game company Oberon to provide online fun which will "incorporate features into the MySpace games area that allows users to socialize by inviting friends to…
AMD (AMD) has accused Intel (INTC) of creating a monopoly in PC and servers chips by using its size to give customers special deals to do business with it exclusively. The European Union and…
AMD (AMD) had another big quarterly loss. But, it was not as large as in Q2 and gross margins improved a bit. Maybe the chip price wars are ending and AMD can move back…
Google (GOOG) has made believers out of everyone. It is worth every penny of its $640 share price. According to a survey by Barron’s, several large firms including Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs have…
One of the companies mentioned in the 24/7 Wall St. piece on September financial website numbers sent along some additional information. That is time spent per person per month at each site. For September:…
Dear Dr.Schmidt: Google Finance currently ranks 18th among all financial websites with 851,000 unique visitors in September. That puts it behind sites like The Motley Fool and Bloomberg. MSN Money had 10.9 million unique…
In September, Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance lost almost all of its pageview lead over its closest competitor, AOL Finance. For the month, Yahoo! Finance had 286 million pageviews and AOL Finance had 282 million according…
Rupert Murdoch hoped that his big announcement yesterday is that News Corp (NWS) is opening up the development platform for its huge social network, MySpace. He hopes that this will counter a move by…