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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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
Microsoft Looking To Purchase Ustream? Valleywag posted a rumor that Microsoft was looking to acquire Ustream.TV, a popular service for streaming live video.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Googles Acquisition Of DoubleClick Approved... ...By FTC. Googles $3.1 billion mega-acquisition of ad serving company DoubleClick has passed Federal Trade Commission approval...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rob Bernard, Microsoft's New Chief... ...Environmental Strategist. Microsoft has created a new position: Chief Environmental Strategist. The first CES will be Rob Bernard...
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...
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...
DoubleClick Deal Falling Apart The European Commission, the same out-of-touch government agency that has been wasting Microsofts time and money for years...
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...
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...
IAC Breaks Up InterActiveCorp, the internet conglomerate assembled by Barry Diller, is breaking up into five seperate companies following pressure Dillers...
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...
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...
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!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Crazy Guy Sues Google... ...Over Social Security Evilness. Some wackjob has filed a handwritten lawsuit against Google, claiming his Social Security number...
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...
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...
Australian Court Question Google... ...DoubleClick Deal. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, a regulator of competition in the country, said that it is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
Im Initiative Helps Messenger Grow Windows Live Messengers Im Initiative, which allows Messenger users to add an icon directing a portion of advertising revenue...
Microsoft's aQuantive Deal Clears Federal Review Microsofts $6 billion purchase of aQuantive has passed the Federal Trade Commissions waiting period...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Which Politicians Receive Money From Microsoft? Microsoft has a lobbying group, the Microsoft Corporation Political Action Committee, which donates to politicians...
Microsoft Spends $6B Countering Google Microsoft announced Friday it was spending six billion dollars to buy advertising company aQuantive...
Google Stands Against Stock Split Google held its annual shareholder meeting last Thursday, and the AP reports that Eric Schmidt reiterated...
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...
Odeo is Sold Obvious Corp, the company with a pedigree that reached back to Blogger has sold off Odeo, its podcasting service...
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...
Microsoft Named 5th Most Innovative BusinessWeek released a list of the most innovative companies in the world, and Microsoft placed fifth...
Google To Buy SimplyHired? TechCrunch says Google is in talks to buy SimplyHired, a jobs website. While SimplyHired won't confirm...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft Took A Look At Buying Revver Greg Sandoval reports that last month Microsoft met with executives from video sharing site Revver...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. |