So much for a “glimmer of hope”.

Wall Street is looking more skeptically at claims from Washington that the economy is getting better. The stock market is down about 45 points in late morning...

President Obama – who only weeks ago warned of the greatest financial meltdown since the Great Depression if his $1.1 trillion stimulus package wasn’t passed by Congress - now says that he sees a...

It’s a big bag, if a mixed one, for the financial markets and for technology companies today.

Overall, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 42 points, buoyed somewhat by (finally) some good...

Bloomberg is out with a story this week saying IBM will lay off 16,000 more employees, on top of the 15,000 the firm has already cut. Since economic recovery usually lags job losses, it’s another...

The Street.com is out with its 2009 tech guide and it’s a good read. You can check out the whole thing at http://www.thestreet.com/story/10454493/4/the-tech-investors-guide-to-2009.html; but here are...

An update on the report from the UK’s Financial Times and The Telegraph that Microsoft is all set to buy Yahoo’s search engine division for $20 billion: more media outlets are carrying the story on...

"Jerry, how can we miss you if you won't go away?"

Such was the refrain from Yahoo investors for months on end, who could only watch helplessly as the company lost $20 billion in value under the...

Well, as they say in Vegas, in for a dime, in for a dollar.

Or in the case of the Congressional bailout that President Bush wasted no time whipping out his sharpie and signing into law, how about...

The market is hovering around positive territory - but barely - after billionaire financier Warren Buffett announced that he was plugging in $5 billion to newly-minted commercial bank Goldman Sachs....

Oil is falling again, off $31 from its July high of $148 a barrel, but some analysts think this is bad news. Paul Kedrosky, a strategist at Ten Asset Management sees oil falling more and settling as...

Here’s a factoid that might interest you.

The one-day record holder for a movie premiere is Spiderman 3, which brought in $59 million in ticket sales on its opening day.

The one-day record for...

It's a busy Monday morning for tech companies on Wall Street, with Apple announcing that over one million new G3 iPhones were sold last week (despite a public relations black eye over a downed Apple...

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...

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...

Today's trading was flat, with most of the tech news coming from the Yahoo & Microsoft camps. Microsoft seems to be getting all Tony Soprano-like on the Yahoo board, issuing a pointed letter that...

Kind of a quiet week in the technology corner of the stock market. That's not so bad, as people can exhale and figure out if the latest Federal Reserve move to cut the Fed Funds rate by .75 points...

Businesses are snapping their wallets shut, at least when it comes to software spending - usually a good leading indicator of economic growth.

One key benchmark, the ChangeWave corporate software...

The Business Software Alliance has long been on the case of U.S. companies who use, inadvertently or not, unlicensed software for their business operations. Make no mistake, the BSA has aggressively...

Last week I wrote that I am a big Apple fan, and I am. I think its products are better than other technology companies and that's especially true of Microsoft.

Anyone who's ever spent hours trying...