Archive for the 'Google' Category
Kiss of death: GOOG $2,000 & AAPL $300
Towards the end of 2007 when the overall stock market was softening, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) were still soaring to new highs, and the optimism most assuredly reached euphoria and beyond. What is the next level beyond euphoria — insanity — and that’s the kiss of…
Heidrick & Struggles: Looking for LinkedIn magic
Founded in 1953, Heidrick & Struggles (NASDAQ: HSII) has become one of the top executive search firms. Hey, one of the firm’s plumb assignments was for the CEO of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Eric Schmidt.
Well, according to Heidrick & Struggles’ latest quarterly report, the commerce contin…
Facebook lands a big date Googler
With revenues of $16.5 billion and a cash hoard of $14 billion, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is certainly no longer a scrappy startup. In fact, Wall Street is getting somewhat concerned about the company’s prospects, as seen with the recent decline in the once mighty stock price.
So it’s no surprise…
‘go throughs’ and plateaus: Google’s naughty day
A week ago, I had a naughty day. I just missed a train, got off at the wrong stop, turned the wrong way out of the station, got caught in a turnstile … You get the picture.
By midday, I realized that that was a poor day and that everything that could go wrong would go wrong. By one in the after…
Farewell, old friend Netscape
It appears that we are just about a week absent from the changing of the guard on the old Browser Wars. whether you look on the netscape.aol.com site, you’ll see that the old Netscape Browser support will officially end on March 1, 2008. Even the Netscape Blog advises a switch.
Time Warner Inc. (…
Google heads to the moon
Already dominating life here on soil, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is now making plans to conquer outer space too.
Google announced the Google Lunar X Prize yesterday at its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The competition offers $30 million in prizes to anyone who can get a robot to …
Nokia globally hooks up with Google
Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) are partnering more than before as the world’s largest cellphone maker announced final Tuesday it will now be installing Google as the primary tool in the “Nokia Search” application that will eventually ship with nearly every Nokia phone so…
Yahoo should buy out Microsoft’s search & advertising assets
The best defense is a good offense. whether Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) does not like Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)’s buyout offering price of $31 per share and Microsoft insists that is a fare price, thereupon Yahoo should turn the tables on the software giant and buy its Web search and advertising as…
Will Microsoft go DEFCON 1 on Yahoo?
According to the Wall Street Journal [a paid publication], it looks like the Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) board will reject Microsoft’s $31 buyout offer. Basically, the company wants at least $40 (hey, why not?).
So, now the ball’s in Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) court. What to do? There are several o…
Yahoo to Microsoft: Drop Dead
The New York Times reports that the board of Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has rejected Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) $44.6 billion takeover tender. Does Yahoo have a bigger tender in the wings? No, of course not. It’s trying to use a shaky legal argument — that the deal — which was nearly doub…
Yahoo! tries to get a higher bid
Yahoo! Inc.’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) board met Friday to discuss a buy-out tender from Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT). No news was issued by the company, but several media outlets reported that the group discussed licensing its search rights to Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) for a high sum or trying to get …
Chasing Value: Google looks to end the week higher
After years of ranting and raving that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) was by priced and that investors and speculators alike were at risk I finally did an about face that week. The big GOOG made my Chasing Value column earlier in the week Chasing Value: Is it Google moment? when it dropped below $50…
Liking the price action in Microsoft
I don’t like the concept of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) bidding for Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO). Hey, everything may turn out rosy in the end, it may turn out to be just what the Seattle software juggernaut needs in its effort to keep the competitive threat of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) …
Google shut to launching Chinese music downloads
With investor interest high in China, that hasn’t been lost on corporate investment. Companies must face the decision about how to address the Chinese juggernaut: essentially, to build, buy, or partner.
PaidContent.org has a story that wee hours that the Net giant, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), is shut …
