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All Recent Tags I've been following the career arch of corporate raider Carl Icahn for years. The billionaire investor specializes in buying up huge chunks of stocks of volatile companies, then going after the company's board of directors to get the deals he wants.
It's worked pretty well with Icahn's investments...
Read More | 1 Day Ago
A friend of mine who works for a medical software company has a problem, and one that he shares with much of America these days - it's costing him $75 per week for enough gasoline to commute to work.
Of course, the rising price of gasoline just doesn't impact people who work at technology...
Read More | 6 Days Ago
Zacks.com is a good place to go for some worthwhile data and solid insight in the technology stock sector. I peruse it at least once a month or more and have dug up some real winners as a result. The firm says its "strong buy" stock selections have generated annual average returns of 31% since...
Read More | 6 Days Ago
Is the Yahoo deal done yet? The stock market thinks so, slicing Yahoo’s financial value by 15% in the last two trading sessions. If the deal were still alive, then the stock would be moving the other way around. Yahoo’s chief Jerry Yang says the $37-per-share demand wasn’t etched in stone but...
Read More | 9 Days Ago
Okay, let the finger-pointing begin. Should Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer take the heat for the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo merger falling apart? After all, didn't he say that Microsoft wouldn't raise its $45.7 billion bid for Yahoo, then weeks later, say he'd raise the bid, from $31 per share to $33...
Read More | 10 Days Ago
It's funny how I don't personally know anyone getting filthy rich in the Chinese market - and I bet you don't know anyone, either.
But you wouldn't know that by reading or watching the financial media (this scribe included). Our gushy love affair with China is getting pathetic - our missives on...
Read More | 13 Days Ago
They're hanging the black crepe today at The New York Times, the Associated Press, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and other mainstream media outlets. Why? Because the recession the media has been pining for months now has once again escaped their clutches.
This after the U.S. Commerce Department reported this...
Read More | 15 Days Ago
Samsung Electronics had good news for the world equity markets, telling investors that it would post a 37% increasing earnings over the first quarter of 2008. The news wasn't so hot at consumer electronics competitor Toshiba Corp., which announced a 95% drop in profits.
So why the disparity? Let's...
Read More | 16 Days Ago
Harris Associates is typically one of the better value strategists out there - especially when it comes to finding value in technology stocks.
One reason is why is the stock-picking acumen of chief information officer David Herro. He was interviewed on Tech Ticker this morning and had some...
Read More | 20 Days Ago
There's a lot of pressure on CEO's to keep costs down in a struggling economy. One way they can do that is by outsourcing their IT services to overseas firms, especially to India.
Now, this isn't exactly breaking news, but the rate that company's are turning to lower cost outsourcing programs is...
Read More | 21 Days Ago | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: 20 Days Ago
