Archive for the 'Internet' Category
EU clears Google-DoubleClick merger
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is the champion of search, but you wouldn’t know it from its stock price lately. The stock has been clobbered as of late due to some differences of opinion by how to interpret convinced input relating to click-throughs the monster search engine has been seeing. While that …
Billy Joel on the subprime meltdown
OK, so I lied about it. To my knowledge, Billy Joel hasn’t yet opined on the subprime mess. But we’ll keep you posted whether he does.
Instead, a hilarious riff on Joel’s hit “We didn’t start the fire” is making the rounds on the Web — It’s definitely not as good as Merle Hazard’s “hit” “H-E…
Metrics industry heating up with Google’s Urchin public debut
The Web is wonderful for marketers. Traffic can be measured really finely and the whole marketing-sales loop actually can be measured. Unlike TV or radio, World Wide Web firms know precisely what they spend on bringing traffic to their websites and how much these firms compose off of each visito…
Investing haikus: pearls of wisdom
The A-Train finance blog recently posted a set of some pretty impressive financial haikus. Some of them contain wonderful financial wisdom in the 5-7-5 syllable format. Take a look:
Day Trading Is Hard
Ninety Percent Lose Money
Most Try Anyway
Reality Is
What Goes Up Always Comes Down
Se…
Automattic: Blogging for millions
Over the years, I’ve used a variety of blogging platforms. So far, my favorite is WordPress, which is the mastermind of Automattic.
Today there’s some good news for WordPress users — the company snagged $29.5 million in a round of financing. The investors include Polaris Venture Partners, True V…
Why is SeekingAlpha giving penny stock promoters a soapbox?
I’m a big fan of SeekingAlpha. I think it provides readers with a great source of investment thought from some of the top minds in the commerce in a great format — at no cost.
That’s why I was greatly disappointed to see that the site is providing a venue for Beacon fairness Research, a stoc…
Netflix lifts limits on online film viewing
Before, Netflix allowed one hour o…
Google cuts off Incredimail
News that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has decided to stop the AdSense partnership with the Israeli Incredimail (NASDAQ: MAIL) has sent Incredimail stock tumbling. The company said that Google is disabling ads to search aftermath pages displayed through the Incredimail explanation, and in addition that the…
Global warming parches China
Statistics on global warming have raised worries by China’s largest freshwater lake, located in the southeastern province of Jiangxi.
Since the summer, Poyang Lake’s surface area has dropped to 50 square kilometers from its initial surface of more than 3,000. A key element of these changes is…
Napster plans for user-friendly MP3s
Napster (NASDAQ: NAPS) — the mother of all file-sharing services that in 10 years’ date has found itself one among many digital-music services struggling for its very survival — is hoping its new move will attract more users. nowadays, Napster CEO Chris Gorog said the company is shifting to MP…
CNet is target of activist investor group
Like just about everyone else, before I buy any kind of tech device, I always do some research online. One of the best sites for reviews is CNet, which goes to great lengths to analyze and compare everything from digital cameras and MP3 players to laptops and audio speakers. Despite the great se…
Looking for value in the tech rubble: 29 stocks marked down
Barron’s ran a piece today [subscription] on an interesting list that has some history. Back when I was at the hedge fund, we found a list of interesting stocks produced by boutique investment firm, B. Riley. that list, called Cash Rich Technology Stocks (CRTS), was a favorite among value investors …
SuccessFactors (SFSF): Investing in the future of HR
Before tailgating begins nowadays, I like to take the duration to run through some fairness research. While not as exciting as reading Tim Ferriss’ 4-Hour Work Week and some of the radical lifestyle experimentation he writes about on his blog, I stumbled upon a company whose IPO I missed, Succes…
Yahoo! technical performance exec Steve Souders defects to Google
Another day, another high-profile defection from Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). that instance, it’s longtime Yahoo! web performance executive Steve Souders, who announced he was joining Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) come January 8. Souders has been at Yahoo! since 2000, which is a lifetime in the technology trade.
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