Archive for the 'Technology' 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 …
Haute Secure: free antivirus software?
For companies like Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) and McAfee (NYSE: MFE), the antivirus software industry is fairly lucrative - and still growing fairly nicely. So, it should be no surprise that competitors want a piece of the action.
One of the latest entrants: Haute Secure. Basically, the company …
Akamai Tech: Eliminating traffic jams on the info superhighway
Some investors/readers probably are not aware that the Web — critical as it is nowadays for commercial activities and the flow of knowledge — was not designed to handle the volume and complexity of today’s web tasks. addition, the appearance of World Wide Web traffic jams created an opportunity fo…
Ode to TECH-bubbles: YouTube at its best!
This is my shortest post ever but I had to share with our readers a marvelous little bit of musical humor. visit on that to see the best Tech-stock bubble video on YouTube, performed by the Richter Scales (to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire”) — very intelligent. Hope you enjo…
Kudos to Apple for resisting buyback pressure
Writing about Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) decision not to buy back stock or pay a dividend, BloggingStocks’ Dough McIntyre had that to say: “Apple could have announced a share buyback or created a dividend. Some critics would say that a “growth stock” is not an investment for yield investors. But, fo…
Oprah’s enlightenment quest hits a technological snag
If Oprah Winfrey can cast a spell that turns thousands of housewives into literature critics and transformed underdog Barack Obama into the possible Democratic nominee for president, getting her followers to embrace an esoteric New Age philosophy should be a snap. Her latest endeavor, though, is…
Time to check in with Checkpoint
Readers of that space know that the investment bias is toward large-cap companies with demonstrated commerce models and who have a competitive advantage in established markets, preferably with a favorable global trend as a support. But every once in while an exception is made for a non-conforming bu…
ADC Telecommunications: Easing the transition to the hyperband
Some investors / readers may not be aware that the World Wide Web — critical as it is nowadays for commercial activities and the flow of data — was not designed to handle the volume and complexity of today’s web tasks. addition, the appearance of World Wide Web bottlenecks and ensuing upgrades to …
Yahoo faces lawsuits by rejection of Microsoft offer
News by the weekend of two Detroit pension funds suing Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) for rejecting Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) $41.2 billion offer, is the first bit of sanity that has come out of that whole story.
The proposed lesson action, filed by veteran shareholder litigation firm Bernstein Li…
EnerNOC is part of the clean, efficient ability solution
Readers of that space know that the investment bias is toward large-cap companies with demonstrated trade models and who have a competitive advantage in established markets, preferably with a favorable global trend as a support. But every once in while an exception is made for a non-conforming but i…
Wachovia (WB) lower on UBS loss
Wachovia Corp. (NYSE: WB) stock was trading lower that wee hours after competing banking and financial services provider UBS (NYSE: UBS) posted a fourth-quarter loss of $11.22 billion. UBS was hit tough by write-downs totaling $18.4 billion by the past year, and expects the pain from the subprim…
Intuitive Surgical’s technology is minimally invasive, maximally lucrative
Intuitiv…
‘Free’ WiFi at Starbucks!
Finally! Needing a place to park with your laptop but too far from a Panera Bread (NASDAQ: PNRA)? Finally, you can enjoy the soothing environment of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) for free … well, for the price of a latte or two. The coffee king of Seattle is ending its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobi…
How to construct suburbia work again in America
In another strange pastime of mine, I happen to really enjoy reading books about urban planning, touched off by what I felt to be a groundbreaking book by Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities.
The book describes in dry, yet almighty detail, how Jacobs’ felt about modernist pla…
