Sun: Growth Plans In China, Like Everyone Else
Sun Microsystems (JAVA) thinks China will be the hot country in Asia over the next few years. Like almost every other US company, it believes it can double sales in the huge nation. With…
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Intel (INTC) introduced several new products today. According to The Associated Press "the company’s next cycle of microprocessors, code-named Penryn, will begin shipping Nov. 12." These chips have a 20% improvement in performance coupled…
August Website Numbers: Big Month For Facebook, Advertising.com Keep Lead
The comScore internet audience numbers show Yahoo! (YHOO) still in the top spot with US unique visitors of 135.3 million. Facebook is now No.14 among all web properties with 33.8 million uniques. Among advertising…
AMD Wants Better PC Performance
AMD (AMD) thinks that there is a gap between dual-core chips that run on most PCs and the newer quad-core superchips that the company and its rival Intel (INTC) build for high-end servers. PC…
New York Times Online Exits Paid Content
The New York Times (NYT) killed its online paid content section–Times Select. The service has 227,000 subscribers and brought in about $10 million a year, at a company that has well over $3 billion…
Is Baidu’s Biggest Competitor In China? (BIDU)
According to MarketWatch, Chinese news portal, Sina (SINA), plans to launch an advertising program with bloggers who post content on its site. "Sina’s move to monetize its massive blog page view inventory (more than…
Yahoo!’s New Business Plan
The best business plan for Yahoo! (YHOO), the one probably most likely to succeed, does not come from CEO Jerry Yang and his new management team. Widely regards Bernstein Research suggested late last week…
Sun Microsystems Plays A Weak Hand, Partners With Microsoft
Maybe it was changing its ticker symbol to JAVA, but Sun (JAVA) has run up 20% in the last month. But, yesterday, a little after noon, the shares sold off. That was the same…
Advantage To Intel, Again
AMD (AMD) can’t get a break on the launch of its new quad-core chip, the Barcelona. The day of its release, Intel (INTC) upped its revenue forecast for the quarter, overshadowing the AMD announcment.…
Online Video: Game, Set, Match To Google
The July data on video viewing on the internet just out from comScore should make investors wonder why any company other than Google (GOOG) is in the online video business. Google has a 27%…
August Business Website Numbers: Small Lead For Yahoo! While BusinessWeek And Motley Fool Fade
August audience figures from comScore show that Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance maintains a lead in unique visitors over rivals AOL Money (TWX) and MSN (MSFT) Money, but that the large pageview advantage that it once…
Yahoo! Moves Further Into A Bad Business
Yahoo! (YHOO) got the deal to sell display ads for big UK social network Bebo. The site has 11.6 million unique visitors in the two geographic areas that Yahoo! will take on–the UK and…
AMD Claws Back
AMD (AMD) did the unexpected. It added market share during Q2. AMD gained 2.5 percentage points of the worldwide microprocessor market last quarter, iSuppli Corp told Reuters. AMD’s gain, made amid declines in average…
Yahoo! Will Be Hurt By Online Ad Trend
Barron’s looks at research from Pacific Crest showing that online ad revenue growth will slow to 25% in Q3. The figure includes both search text ads and display. The firm’s previous forecast was 30%…
Yahoo (YHOO) Traffic Grinds to Halt: Fat Lady Singing?
From Silicon Alley Insider JMP Securities analyst William Morrison takes a detailed look at Comscore’s global traffic trends for the year through July. He writes an excellent macro piece, with several important findings. We’ll…