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Entrecard Crack
There is a new and extremely powerful widget in town, the Entrecard. Entrecard can most clearly be described as a business card exchange. What happens is you sign up for Entrecard and then drop your Entrecard ‘business card’ onto someon...
Dow Jones Meets Murdoch
By the end of this week, the world’s best-known chronicle of capitalism, The Wall Street Journal, will be owned by another company — something many thought would never happen. For more than a century, the Journal’s parent company, ...
Ford And UAW Site Plans May Change
Ford Motor Co. might save some of the six plants it intends to close if it can get other cost savings from the United Auto Workers union in their new contract, people briefed on the ongoing negotiations said Monday.The people said the fate of the pla...
Microsoft Links Phone To Office
Microsoft launched two new programs that allow people to place calls right from the Outlook e-mail program. The latest versions of Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 add voice calling and video conferencing. Compute...
Fox Business Network Debut
Rupert Murdoch has entered into a new race…a race with CNBC. After two years in the making, the channel will challenge General Electric Co.’s highly profitable CNBC network. Fox Business Network seeks to redefine business news for ave...
Coors Miller to Combine
Brewers Molson Coors Brewing Co. and SABMiller PLC plan a joint venture to combine their U.S. operations. The makers of Miller Lite and Coors Light said this joint venture should help them compete more effectively. The new MillerCoors, will compete...
Sprints CEO Steps Down
Sprint Nextel’s CEO Gary Forsee stepped down today amidst rising pressure from the board to perform. Forsee had felt the pressure to perform for quite some time and today the board expressed its disappointment in the financial results of t...
Google Gets To $600
Today for the first time ever, Google was trading above $600. Google’s rally has extended all month in anticipation of its upcoming third quarter results. Today’s trading high marked the sixth time in the past 12 trading sessions that the...
HP To Buy Kodak?
Kodak shares jumped Monday on rumors that the struggling photography company could be acquired by Hewlett-Packard. Kodak stock looks cheap on a price-to-revenue basis, at just 0.8x. But it also trades for about 30x expected 2008 EPS of 93 cents....
New Zune Rocks
Microsoft released its new Zunes today and they are great. The new Zunes come in three versions. The first new model (available in black) has an 80-gigabyte hard drive and a 3.2-inch screen. It’s slimmer than last year’s Zune,...
Apple Sued Over iPhone Price Cut
When Apple lowered its price on Sept. 5 by $200 on the iPhone, hundreds of early customers complained that they paid full price. Apple came back and offered them a $100 rebate but that didn’t seem to work for everyone. A New York woman is s...
Yahoo’s New Search
Yahoo is trying to differentiate its search results from the leader Google by displaying the usual list of links, as well as excerpts of information found on some of those Web sites. The new engine, unveiled today, also will present relevant phot...
Goldman Adds Starent to Tech List
Goldman Sachs unveiled the latest shifts to its Technology Framework Goldman made two changes on the list today. Starent (STAR) was added to the top growth idea list, replacing Oracle (ORCL), which still remains Buy rated. Goldman notes that “chann...
LoopNet Named Company Of The Year
LoopNet, Inc. (LOOP), which operates the largest online commercial real estate marketplace, has been named “Company of the Year” for 2006 by the Entrepreneurs Foundation. The San Francisco Bay Area organization, was also mentioned for i...
Buffett and Bear Stearns
Master investor Warren Buffett may be considering buying a minority stake in the nation’s fifth-largest investment bank, according to a New York Times report.The newspaper reported on its Web site Wednesday that Bear Stearns Cos. had been talk...
Microsoft and Yahoo!
The rumor is back in full force today that Microsoft is trying to decide between investing $10 billion on Facebook or buying Yahoo! The New York Post, which back in May created quite a buzz with a story asserting that Microsoft (MSFT) was in t...
Harman Deal Goes South
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s private equity unit and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. backed out of the Harman deal. Goldman told the company they are under no obligation to complete the merger because “a material adverse change” i...
NYSE Euronext (NYX) Gains Big
NYSE Euronext has been up big this week. The stock was up as much as 5% today as the NYSE entered into an agreement with Gerald Putnam, the former vice chairman of NYSE Group, which is a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext. The agreement states that st...
Research In Motion Trumps Palm
The Palm OS has fallen behind Research In Motion in user-friendly features, and the company’s vital signs are taking a hit. Palm said Wednesday it expects to see a loss of 1 cent per share or break even for its fiscal quarter ending Aug. 3...
Yahoo! Buys Zimbra
Yahoo Inc. is buying e-mail service Zimbra Inc. for $350 million in an all-cash deal that may open a new revenue channel for the slumping Internet icon. Bear Stearns report named the Internet titan the “top pick for the next 12 to 16 months. ...
Microsoft’s Lost Appeal
Microsoft lost its appeal of the European antitrust suit that says the technology giant must share communications code with rivals. In other words, sell a copy of Windows without Media Player and pay a $613 million fine — the largest e...
Icahn Wants Sale of BEA Systems
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said today that he feels a sale of BEA Systems Inc (BEAS) to a strategic acquirer would maximize the value of its shares. Icahn further noted that he might seek to nominate directors to the software maker’...
VMware and EMC
VMware has been hands down the best IPO of the year. With shares of VMware trading around $77 it is up 165% since its IPO. If you break it down that is too much for many people to pay for VMware but EMC owns 88% of VMware so buy EMC. It breaks...
HP Buys ColorSpan
ColorSpan, a company that is in the business of making wide-format digital inkjet printers, has been bought out by Hewllett Packard. The terms of the deal were not released or discussed but in 2006, U.S. Business Review reported ColorSpan...
HP Gets Disney Executive
The number one computer maker Hewlett-Packard named former Disney executive Michael Mendenhall as the Chief Marketing Officer for HP. Mendenhall, 45, had directed marketing and publicity for Disney’s parks and resorts business around the world...
Watch Philips
The CEO of Royal Philips Electronics (PHG), Kleisterlee is retooling this company and has mapped out a new restructuring plan with three primary markets in mind. Kleisterlee took office in 2001 and has accomplished the impossible: turning around th...
Apple Sells 1 Million iPhones
Apple announced today that it was three weeks ahead of schedule in reaching its goal of selling 1 million iPhones. The company made this announcement just days after the market beat up the stock for a price cut on the phone device. The truth is,...
Going Disney
\n\nCramer had Disney President and CEO Bob Iger on the show and told viewers that Disney was not only a “new media company” it is also the “only global brand” in the movie business. Cramer likes Disney and said that it shoul...
Countrywide Cuts Jobs
Struggling Countrywide annouced today that is was cutting 12,000 more jobs as it deals with the pressures of a difficult mortgage industry. This cut is about 20 percent of the total Countrywide workforce as the company estimates that new mortgages...
Apple Cuts Cost of iPhone and Unveils New iPod
Apple Inc. slashed the iPhone by $200 to boost its holiday sales. This move leave loyal Apple fans, who paid top dollar for the iPhone, in the cold. The revamped iPod lineup was introduced today including a model called iPod T...
