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Call It What You Will, Google Down $55 Billion
Googles stock continued its epic slide in March, hitting its 52-week low for the first time in the history of the stock. GOOG currently stands...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-03-06

Vista Ultimate and Premium Get Price Cuts
Microsoft has announced price cuts for the two versions of Windows Vista that come with Media Center and other features.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-03-03

Googles Clickable White Space Changes...
...Costing The Company Big Time. comScore is reporting that Googles ad quality initiatives are the reason the companys paid clicks rate is dropping.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-03-03

Windows Home Server Childrens Book...
...Now For Sale On Amazon. Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?, the funny fake childrens book about Windows Home Server...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-19

Google Fails To Make The Dow
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, considered by many to be the primary benchmark of the stock markets performance, added two companies...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-18

Yahoo Trying Google, News Corp. Escape Routes
Yahoos board is trying any port in a storm to find a way out of getting bought by Microsoft, looking to partnership deals with Google and...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-14

Microsoft Looking To Purchase Ustream?
Valleywag posted a rumor that Microsoft was looking to acquire Ustream.TV, a popular service for streaming live video.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-12

Time Warner to Sell Part of AOL...
...Possiby as Pre-Cursor to Google Sale. Time Warner announced it is planning on splitting apart and selling its AOL division in multiple parts...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-07

IAC Reports Improved Revenue, Shrinking Profits
InterActive Corp, the parent company of Ask.com, reported earnings today, despite warnings that the legal battle between Barry Diller and John Malone would make things difficult.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-07

Morgan Stanley & Blackstone Picked for Yahoo...
...Acquisition. Microsoft has chosen Morgan Stanley and The Blackstone Group to run the complicated financial details of its acquisition...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-06

Microsoft Offers To Buy Yahoo
I think we all knew it would come to this one day. Microsoft, the worlds largest software company, has made an offer to buy Yahoo, formerly...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-01

Microsoft Fails To End Antitrust Oversight
Microsofts hope that years of antitrust oversight would finally come to an end proved premature, as U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-02-01

The Danger of Relying on AdSense
Incredimail, an Israel-based fun email company that is publicly traded on the NASDAQ, has a business model consisting entirely of revenue...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-01-30

Google Stock Plummets, Falling 25%
Googles stock price has had a terrible month, dropping from $710 on December 26 to $548 on January 23. From the stocks all-time high of...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-01-25

FTC Drafts Online Advertising Privacy Principles
After approving Googles mega-billion dollar purchase of DoubleClick, the Federal Trade Commission has drafted a set of privacy...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-01-02

Apple Could Get Bigger Than Google
Google stock is growing at a great pace, up 52.56% in 2007. However, Apples stock has been a market sensation, more than...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2008-01-02

Apple DRM Scores Fox Deal
Apple announced a deal with 20th Century Fox, adding Fox films to the iTunes video store. The movies will be available for download...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-28

More Year-End ComScore Numbers
TechCrunch has an overload of charts showing the end-of-the-year numbers for Yahoo and Ask.com. For Ask, Ask.coms unique...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-27

Yes, There Is A Way To Get $5 In Microsoft Points
If you buy your Microsoft Points by entering a credit card right on the Xbox 360, you might find it frustrating that theyre sold in increments...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-26

Googles Acquisition Of DoubleClick Approved...
...By FTC. Googles $3.1 billion mega-acquisition of ad serving company DoubleClick has passed Federal Trade Commission approval...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-21

Preliminary List Of FCC Spectrum Auction Bidders
The FCC has put up the first list of bidders who have been accepted to participate in next months wireless spectrum auction. Yes, Google is...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-20

Microsoft For Sale On eBay
Microsoft has decided to call it quits, selling the entire company to whoever is interested in winning the eBay auction. The starting bid for the...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-19

Gates Rival Carlos Slim Buys OLPCs...
...Loses CompUSA. Carlos Slim, Bill Gates primary rival for the title of richest man in the world, has put in an order for 50,000 XO laptops...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-11

Another Week, Still No DoubleClick Approval
Despite rumors at the beginning of the week that the Federal Trade Commission was going to approve Googles $3.1 billion acquisition...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-07

Google Confims Plans To Bid On Wireless...
...Spectrum. Google confirmed over the weekend its plans to participate in the FCCs auction for the 700 megahertz wireless specturm being...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-06

Rob Bernard, Microsoft's New Chief...
...Environmental Strategist. Microsoft has created a new position: Chief Environmental Strategist. The first CES will be Rob Bernard...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-05

JotSpot to Become Google Sites, Replace Page...
...Creator. Jotspots former VP of Product Development and current Googler Scott Johnston gave a presentation last week where he...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-04

Why Is Google Finance Failing To Catch On?
Its been 21 months since Google Finance, Googles financial news, information and stock price site was launched, and that ComScore chart...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-12-04

DoubleClick Deal Falling Apart
The European Commission, the same out-of-touch government agency that has been wasting Microsofts time and money for years...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-16

Google Maps Coming To High-Tech Gas Pumps
Google has announced a partnership with Gilbarco Veeder-Root, makers of gasoline pumps. Under the deal, Google Maps will be built into their pumps, letting motorists get driving directions...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-12

Google Stock Drops $40. Oy!
GOOG fell over five percent today, losing $39.10 real fast. The stock is off 5.3%, 5.75% over the last two days. Then again, it only lost less than...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-09

IAC Breaks Up
InterActiveCorp, the internet conglomerate assembled by Barry Diller, is breaking up into five seperate companies following pressure Dillers...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-06

Google Drops The Bomb: MySpace Joins The Fight
Google formally announced its OpenSocial social network application platform yesterday, and there was a bombshell announcement that...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-11-02

Google Could be Fined for Cooperating...
...With the Chinese. Search Engine Land discusses plans in Congress to penalize U.S. companies who cooperate with illegal government spying of...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-30

Microsoft Has Blowout Quarter...
...Stock Up Over $30 Billion. Microsoft has released its quarterly earnings report, and how good was it? The stock is up $30 billion!
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-26

Google Search Share Dips Almost Imperceptibly...
...In September. Hitwises search market share stats for September, released last week, reveal that Googles share slipped just slightly...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-24

Google Partnering To Create 3D Virtual Worlds
Google is going to announce today a partnership with Multiverse Network, maker of virtual world platforms (like Second Life), that will let anyone...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-09

MS aQuantive Lands 20 New Ad Clients
Aiming to show that the firm is now even more attractive to potential clients, Microsoft has announced that aQuantive the online...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-09

Google Earth Forces $600,000 Navy Bill
The Navy is embarking on a $600,000 alteration of a meaningless barracks facility near San Diego, changing the look of the 40-year old building...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-08

Ballmer Among Most Underpaid Executives
Microsoft CEO Screamin Steve Ballmer is one of the most underpaid chiefs in the industry, receiving a pay package of $1.3 million...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-10-05

Crazy Guy Sues Google...
...Over Social Security Evilness. Some wackjob has filed a handwritten lawsuit against Google, claiming his Social Security number...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-20

Google To Sue JewTube
JewTube, a Jewish-themed video sharing site, will soon be the target of a legal challenge from Google, which isnt happy with the way...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-19

Microsoft Top Online Company
Nielsen/Netratings came out with its latest numbers on the most popular websites, dividing the numbers into two charts. On one, they list...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-12

Australian Court Question Google...
...DoubleClick Deal. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, a regulator of competition in the country, said that it is...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-11

Wow, The Smartphone Market Is Surprising
Now, like any smart company, theyve probably massaged the numbers to make them look as positive as possible, but Im a bit shocked...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-11

Google Apps Gets Enterprise Partner
Google Apps, Google service for running corporate email, calendaring and documents, has gotten a new partner in the form of Capgemini...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-09-10

Ask Renegotiating Multi-Billion Dollar Ad Deal...
...With Google. In 2002, Ask.com and Google signed their first three-year contract for advertising on Asks search engine...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-28

Google Still Likely To Bid On 700 MHz Spectrum
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that the company will probably still bid on the 700 MHz spectrum being vacated by the TV stations...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-27

NBC Developing Advertising YouTube
NBC is putting together a new website, called Didja that lets web surfers view old TV commercials (the name is a way of saying...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-22

AdWords Promotes You For Willingness...
...To Spend More. Google has tweaked the algorithm that determines what advertisement gets to be at the top of the stack in Google...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-22

Microsoft Completes aQuantive Acquisition
Microsoft has finished its acquisition of aQuantive, so for the low price of six billion dollars, it now owns a major internet advertising firm.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-16

IAC Dumps Google/DoubleClick Ads...
...For Microsoft/Atlas. IAC has dumped DoubleClick as the ad provider for many of its web properties, like CitySearch, Evite and Match.com.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-10

Microsoft Founders Split On Obama and Clinton
The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington has a story on presidential campaign donors in Washington State, noting the money...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-09

Im Initiative Helps Messenger Grow
Windows Live Messengers Im Initiative, which allows Messenger users to add an icon directing a portion of advertising revenue...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-08

Microsoft's aQuantive Deal Clears Federal Review
Microsofts $6 billion purchase of aQuantive has passed the Federal Trade Commissions waiting period...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-08-07

Microsoft's Massive Signs EA Sports Ad Deal
Microsoft and its Massive division, which sells ads inside video games, announced a deal to provide advertising inside EA Sports games.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-26

Google Slammed In After-Hours Trading
Google stock has plummeted on what the market is calling a bad earnings report, falling over $46 in after-hours trading.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-20

Google Releases 2nd Quarter Results
Google's earnings for the second quarter are out. The summary: Revenue up 58%, profits down from the previous quarter...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-19

What To Expect From Microsoft's Earnings...
Microsoft delivers its earnings report at 5:30 pm Eastern today. Analysts were projecting Microsoft to report quarterly earnings...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-19

2 More Days For Vista SP1, Earnings Report
Mary Jo Foley is insisting a preview of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will be coming later this week, releasing to certain testers in just a few days.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-17

Microsoft Confirms & Denies Xbox 360 Price Cut
Ooh, this is always fun: Two seperate stories I read last night, one saying Microsoft was smashing an analyst who claimed...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-07-12

Microsoft Pays $50M For Exclusive GTA Content
Microsoft put its money where its mouth was, paying Take-Two $50 million to secure exclusive rights to downloadable...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-20

Which Politicians Receive Money From Microsoft?
Microsoft has a lobbying group, the Microsoft Corporation Political Action Committee, which donates to politicians...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-06-12

Microsoft Spends $6B Countering Google
Microsoft announced Friday it was spending six billion dollars to buy advertising company aQuantive...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-21

Google Stands Against Stock Split
Google held its annual shareholder meeting last Thursday, and the AP reports that Eric Schmidt reiterated...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-14

Microsoft/Apple/Adobe/Real Face Legal Action
One company, Media Rights Technologies, is trying to drum up some publicity for itself by filing a Cease & Desist order...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-14

Odeo is Sold
Obvious Corp, the company with a pedigree that reached back to Blogger has sold off Odeo, its podcasting service...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-11

Gates Checks House Value with Zillow
Funny little anecdote: Even Bill Gates checks up the value of his house on Zillow, the site that attempts...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-09

Microsoft Named 5th Most Innovative
BusinessWeek released a list of the most innovative companies in the world, and Microsoft placed fifth...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-07

Google To Buy SimplyHired?
TechCrunch says Google is in talks to buy SimplyHired, a jobs website. While SimplyHired won't confirm...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-07

AOL Profit Up, They May Have A Future
Cynthia Brumfled at IP Democracy writes about Time Warner's quarterly earnings report, focusing on the AOL division.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-04

Media Center PC In Your Car
Hipe PC has announced their Driv-N PC, a PC designed for the car. Using a touchscreen and voice recognition, you can control an entire Windows Vista Media Center PC while driving...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-03

Yahoo Joins With Comcast On Ad Deal
Yet another major advertising deal has been announced, and this time, its Yahoo getting display and video advertising on Comcasts web site...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-02

Google To Buy NBC? Sure, Whatever
Bloomberg writes that the stock market is responding favorably to the idea that General Electric should spin off it NBC unit.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-05-01

R|Mail To NBC
Randy Morin announced last week that he sold his R|Mail service to NBC. R|Mail, a two year-old service which sends RSS updates via email....
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-30

Vista, Office Not Failing
Okay, will this shut people up? I keep hearing the same typical internet dopes saying that Vista is failing, based entirely on the fact that they havent bought it yet, with no numbers to back themselves up.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-27

Google Sued For Adding Options To Links
Google has been sued, just another company facing a lawsuit for doing something that is sorta common, obvious, and a perfectly normal function of everyday software.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-25

Don't Worry About Performics!
Kris Jones, CEO of PepperJam, received an email from Stuart Frankel, president of Performics, regarding a blog post he had made speculating that Google would shut down Performics, an SEO firm acquired along with DoubleClick.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-24

Google Invests In Maxthon
Google has reportedly made an investment in Maxthon, a web browser mod built on top of Microsofts Internet Explorer, somewhere in the neighborhood of one million dollars.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-12

Google Settles With France Presse
Google has settled its dispute with the AFP. Last week, Google and the Agence France-Presse announced that the AFPs suit against Google had been settled with both pleased at the outcome.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-12

Microsoft Announced Dividend
Microsoft has announced it will pay out a 10-cent dividend to shareholders on June 14 (my one year wedding anniversary!), payable to all shareholders on May 17, 2007.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-03

Windows Vista Selling Well
Microsoft issued a press release saying that Windows Vista is seeing strong early sales, with 20 million licenses sold between January 30 and February 28.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-04-02

Google Spirits Friendster Away From Yahoo
Google has signed a deal to provide advertising on social networking site Friendster, scoring a deal that had previously belonged to Yahoo.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-03-12

The Cost Of Google Checkout: $58 Million
MarketWatch looked through a Google regulatory filing and found the number that I've been looking for: 58 million dollars.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-03-09

Eric Schmidt: Googles Fancypants Chariman
Jossip ran this photo of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's business card... Boy, it must be so intetesring, being chariman of a gib copmany.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-03-09

Microsoft Looking At TellMe, Keeps Facebook
TechCrunch reported last week that Microsoft was in aquisition talks with TellMe, a company with an excellent (and profitable) phone voice recognition service.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-03-06

Microsoft Took A Look At Buying Revver
Greg Sandoval reports that last month Microsoft met with executives from video sharing site Revver...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-03-01

Xbox 360 Tops PS3, Behind Wii, In January Sales
NPD Group released preliminary sales data for video game consoles in January, and the Xbox 360 came in second place of all next-generation video game consoles.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-02-27

YouTube Makes Deal For Old TV Shows
YouTube announced last week a deal with Digital Music Group to bring that company's archive of old TV shows to YouTube.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-02-20

Google AdSense Referrals Adds Bonus Up To $2,000
Google has announced some changes to its AdSense referral program, giving publishers the option of payouts up to a $2,000 bonus.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-02-13

IAC Reports Better Than Exected Revenue
IAC/InterActiveCorp reported earnings Tuesday, and the Ask.com parent beat earnings estimates by posting a 67 cents a share profit, compared with analyst estimates of 52 cents.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-02-09

Google Announces Fourth Quarter 2006 Earnings
Google released its earnings report last night, and the results were as stellar, if not more so, than anyone could have expected.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-02-01

Yahoo's Q4 Earnings Better Than Expected
Yahoo just released their Q4 numbers, and their profit is better than expected. Revenue was up 13% to $1.7 billion and profit was $268.7 million.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-01-24

Google to Post 4Q 2006 Report January 31
Google has announced when it will post its final quarterly financial report of 2006, on January 31, 2007 at 4:30 pm Eastern.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-01-18

Free Real-Time Stock Quotes From Google
The Google Blog announces that NetCoalitions efforts to free up stock quotes are close to succeeding. For now, stock quotes online are a messy business.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-01-12

San Francisco WiFi Deal Close to Approval
Yes, I realize that Google and Earthlink are giving San Francisco free wi-fi in order to make money through other means.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2007-01-04

10-cent Dividend Announced by Microsoft
Microsoft has announced its latest quarterly dividend, giving back ten cents to shareholders on March 8, 2007.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-28

IBM, Yahoo Team Up On Enterprise Search
IBM and Yahoo have announced an enterprise search product designed to compete with Googles Mini Search Appliance.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-14

Google, Opera Renew Browser Search Deal
Opera has announced a deal that makes Google the default search engine in Opera, in return for a cut of advertising revenues.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-12

Zune Drops To Fifth
Microsoft's Zune, which had a mini-smash debut, taking the number two spot in market share in its first week, dropped down to a tie for fifth place...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-06

Go Back in Time with Google Finance
Google Finance has extended how far back its charts go, with them reaching all the way back to 1970.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-05

YouTubers: The Google Check Is In The Mail
Heres a semi-funny YouTube video about one YouTuber who headed down to the Googleplex and got an exclusive sit-down...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-12-04

Zune A Success, Amazingly!
Wow, heres some great news for Microsoft: In its first week of sales, the Zune player represented somewhere between 9 and 13% of all portable media players, beating out...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-30

Google Remains In Lead, Specifics Confusing
All the major stats services have weighed in on market share in the search industry, and Google is (predictably) still holding onto a huge lead.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-27

Google and Yahoo Talk to SEC
Google and Yahoo are asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to review the fees charged for stock quotes and other market data.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-14

FTC Approves Google/YouTube Sale
The FTC has approved Googles aquisition of YouTube. Now, Google can give YouTubes founders their $1.65 billion in Google stock.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-08

Small Donation Garners Big Press for Google
SEO Black Hat is right: Google did get a ridiculous amount of press for donating $30,000 to Creative Commons.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-06

Jotspot and eBay Corrections
Spoke too soon about JotSpot -- two sources piped up to say that the wiki company built a software platform that could very well...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-11-02

Google's Goals Revealed
Google Blogoscoped came across Google's internal paper outlining Google's goals and directions for FY 2006.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-27

Google Overtakes IBM as Third-Largest
Google's market cap has surpassed that of IBM, making it the third most valuable tech company in the country, behind only Microsoft and Cisco.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-26

Google Stock Reaches All-Time High
Google stock, which a year ago we thought would break a new record every two weeks, has finally topped its all-time high from January of this year.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-24

AP Asks Startups Where They'd Take Google
The AP asked the heads of a bunch of startups what they would do next if they were Google's decision-makers.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-23

New Features Insinuate Google Finance Update
Atul and posters in the Blogoscoped forums noticed some strange stuff in Google Finance. You may not see it in your account.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-20

Highlights from Google's Earnings Call
Google stock has shot up $30.76 in after-hours trading, up 7% to $456.82. This puts it within striking distance of the all-time high of $475.11.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-20

Google Expected to Claim 1/4 of Online Ad Market
Yahoo released its quarterly earnings yesterday, and the results couldnt have been more depressing...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-18

Zune Doesn't Intimidate Apple
Steve Jobs says he isnt afraid of the Zune from Microsoft. The reasons for his rationale are as follows...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-17

The Zune Is Profitable
There was a lot of worry Microsoft was going the game console route with the Zune, selling $350 worth of MP3 player for $250...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-13

Googles Fourth Mega Deal Sign Of The Bubble?
If you put all the pieces together in your head, youll realize that Googles purchase of YouTube, while its largest and most dramatic deal, isnt...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-11

Microsoft Signs Up Blinkx To Power Video Search
Microsoft announced a deal with Blinkx to provide video search to some of its sites at MSN and Live.com.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-10

Arrington: Google Acquiring YouTube at 40%
Michael Arrington says hes heard Google may be in the final stages of dealing for YouTube, and he puts the accuracy of this one at 40%.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-06

Microsoft Stock Completes Recovery
Back on April 28, Microsoft issued its quarterly earnings report, and Wall Street did not like what it heard, that MS...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-05

Microsoft To Cash In (Barely) If Facebook Sells
Microsoft stands to get a small bundle of cash if Facebook finds a buyer, since it would likely cost them their recent ad deal with...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-03

Yahoo Finance Employee Exodus?
A guest post on Valleywag says that 66% of the Yahoo Finance team has deserted, leaving for other companies and leaving Yahoo in a bind.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-10-02

Google Runs Statement On Belgian Court Ruling
Google has done two blog posts, one about the Belgian court's ruling on Google News, and one about Google's philosophy on content indexing.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-09-27

Google Guys Climbing The Forbes 400
Forbes updated their list of the 400 richest Americans, and the Google guys have climbed a few spots. Previously tied...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-09-25

Yahoo Warns Of A Bad Quarter
Yahoo is warning investors that, due to weak growth by auto and financial services companies will put a hit on the money it makes...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-09-20

Microsoft Refused To Pay $.01 For Frutiger
Turns out Microsoft refused to pay the licensing fees for the Frutiger font, instead creating a virtually identical font called...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-09-20

Zune Price A Big Question Mark
Microsoft has likely spent a lot of time this past week asking the simple question: $250 or $300? Since Apple released the slightly improved...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-09-19

Google Monetizing Email
Google is testing out email advertising for trusted publishers, allowing them to place contextual targeted advertising in email newsletters and mass emailings.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-09-18

Cross-Post: Search Engine Market Share
Just worth pointing out a post I just did at InsideGoogle about search engine market share. The numbers havent budged in sixteen weeks...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-09-14

Google Stock Upgraded To "Buy"
AC Research has upgraded Google's stock from a "hold" to a "buy", signalling a little more confidence in the stock, which has lagged all year.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-09-11

Google CEO Declines Apple Stock Options
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, newly minted member of Apple Computer's board of directors, has declined a stock option...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-09-06

Microsoft Releases Official Windows Vista Pricing
Microsoft has confirmed the official prices for all retail editions of the Windows Vista OS. Check them out:
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-09-05

How Much Will A Vista PC Cost You?
Mary Jo Foley has an article about how businesses are worried how much Windows Vista is going to call them.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-09-01

Windows Marketplace To Sell Your Programs
Microsoft wants you to write programs for Windows and upload them to the Windows Marketplace's Digital Locker.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-08-30

Google CEO Joins Apple Board
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt is now on the board of another tech powerhouse: Apple. Schmidt joins Apple CEO Steve Jobs...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-08-30

Amazon and Slashdot's Vista Prices
As if yesterday's Vista price leak wasn't enough, Amazon has Vista listed for pre-order. The prices are similar, as you can see, via Joe Wilcox:
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-08-29

Google Releases Corporate Pack
Google has released a free one-stop interface for hosted web-based services for businesses. To simplify: Businesses...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-08-28

MS and Facebook a Team-Up Against MySpace?
Everyone has been looking at Microsofts advertising deal with Facebook as a shot against Google, and a way...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-08-28

Which Billionaires Could Pull Off A Repeat?
A discussion at Niniane Wang's blog particularly interested me. The gist: If we took their money away, which billionaires...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-08-21

Google Buys Neven Vision
Google has acquired Neven Vision, a company that does photo recognition. While Neven Vision's background...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-08-16

Google Finance Improved
John Battelle wrote last week about some improvements Google shipped for Finance. They include an autocompleting search box...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-07-28

What Else Costs As Much As A PS3?
Brittlefish has done a price comparison showing various video game bundles you can get for roughly the same price...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-07-11

Microsoft's Antitrust Payouts: $6.83 Billion
Todd Bishop has made a chart showing off Microsofts many antitrust payments to various governments...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-07-10

Who Did Not Sue Google?
For once, a company was angry at a Google AdWords advertiser, an advertiser who bought keywords with...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-06-08

Google = 7-Eleven?
eWeek, looking at Google Spreadsheets, has a shocking (yet shockingly accurate) summation of Google's ambitions.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-06-07

Google AdSense Calendar
Google AdSense has added a calendar you can subscribe to, giving you all the relevant dates for AdSense publishers...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-06-06

This Town Ain't Big Enough For eBay
Reuters says Wall Street is being overrun with rumors of a possible merger between major internet companies.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-24

YPN Gives Publishers More Payment Options
Jensense reports that YPN now has the option of direct deposit for publishers, giving them the option of getting their money faster...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-22

The Bricklayer's Failed Gambit
Last week, a bricklayer's pension fund, owning about $1.7 million of the $110 billion of Google stock...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-19

AdWords Traffic Estimator
Google released an AdWords Traffic Estimator, that, without logging into an AdWords account, will give you...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-18

Game Console Prices, Adjusted For Inflation
CurmudgeonGamer has adjusted the launch prices of video game consoles for inflation, showing a very different picture...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-17

Should Microsoft Give In To Investor Panic?
After going nowhere for a long time, Microsoft's stock took a huge hit this past month, prompting some investors...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-16

Samsung UMPC Sold Out At Best Buy
Engadget reports that the Samsung Q1 Ultra Mobile PC has sold out at Best Buy, less than 24 hours after appearing on Best Buy's website.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-10

Microsoft Could Learn From Amazon
Greg Linden, who designed some of Amazon's best stuff and created many of their personalization features, says that...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-09

MS Gives $1m To Center For Women And IT
Microsoft gave a million dollars to the National Center for Women and Information Technology, as well as a four-year commitment to the Center.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-08

Samsung To Unveil First Hybrid Hard Drive
Samsung has announced that it will unveil next month the first hybrid hard drive, the first built to take advantage...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-08

Google Referrals: Now For Pack And Picasa
Google's AdSense referrals program now has two new options: You can get $2 for every user who installs the Google Pack...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-05

AdSense Currency Conversion Error
JenSense writes about how Google got the currency conversions wrong for some AdSense publishers.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-04

Microsoft To Join With Yahoo?
The Wall Street Journal is running an article that says Microsoft is trying to work out some sort of deal with Yahoo.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-05-04

AOL/Weblogs Financial Blogs
AOL property Weblogs Inc. has launched a subsidiary blog network, Blogging Stocks, that covers, you guessed it...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-28

Microsoft Misses Earnings Estimates
Microsoft reported earnings Thursday, announcing third-quarter revenues of $10.9 billion, resulting inearnings per share of 31 cents.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-28

Microsoft Deals For $700m Chinese Investment
Microsoft has made a deal to buy $700 million worth of electronics hardware from China over the next five years.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-27

Microsoft Deals For Phone-To-PC Music Transfers
Microsoft has cut a deal with CoreMedia, which provides DRM for songs purchased by mobile phones...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-26

AdSense Sabotage With Click Fraud Email
Here's a new kind of AdSense sabotage: Liew says that someone sent out a bunch of emails, pretending to be him...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-25

Google's 98% Discount
BuyGoogle writes about how, when Google did its $2 billion third public offering, it got Goldman Sachs to underwrite it.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-24

Microsoft Most Powerful Brand
Silicon.com writes that Microsoft topped a list of the top 100 global brands by consultancy Millward Brown Optimor.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-24

Google Lost A $Billion In Unspent Ads
BuyGoogle's got the fascinating tidbits from the Google earnings announcement conference call, including this biggie:
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-21

Yahoo Meets Street Expectations
Yahoo's net income slumped 22%, to $159.9 million year-over-year, but that still met the Street's expectations.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-21

Google Bigs Risk Poor House
Yeah, the title is a lie. While most people would be in deep trouble if they were earning a salary of only $1 a year...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-19

Keyword Prices Drop Slightly
Fathom Online's keyword price index dropped ever so slightly from $1.43 to $1.39, losing most of the growth from September's $1.37.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-18

Google Hiring For Google Audio
Google's job postings are always a great way of figuring out future company plans. This time, Garett Rogers found postings saying...
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-12

Microsoft Buys Lionhead
Microsoft has picked up Lionhead Studios, the game house started by gaming legend Peter Molyneux.
InternetFinancialNews > Financial Blog Talk > News 2006-04-06

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