Rambus Acquires Security Outfit
An item in the wall Street Journal (wsj.com) reports that Rambus (ticker symbol RMBS), a Silicon Valley chip company known for memory technology, is seeking to branch out in other directions via its...
View ArticleYahoo-Alibaba Rift?
In another sign of the concern over the apparent lack of transparency surrounding the financial and operations reporting of Chinese companies, even those whose shares trade on U.S. public stock...
View ArticleEMC, VMWare Resist Market Downdraft
On the heels of the conclusion of the recent successful EMC World 2011 conference held in Las Vegas this past week, and all of the innovations and business and technology alliances that were revealed...
View ArticleWeek In Review – May 14, 2011
There are certain trends or threads which seem to me to be running through the technology news and markets currently, but perhaps that’s just due to the tint of the glasses through which I view the...
View ArticleRIM Recalls Defective Playbooks
Off to a quite inauspicious start, Research In Motion Ltd. (ticker symbol RIMM) said it is recalling about 1,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets because of a software glitch a month after the device went...
View ArticleYahoo – Alibaba Rift Widens
Recent posts have commented on the developing rift between Yahoo (ticker symbol YHOO) and Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce outfit in which Yahoo holds an approximate 40% stake, due to the spin off of...
View ArticleGoogle Grows Up, Sells Bonds
In a sign of its growing financial maturity and clout, an item in today’s edition of Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) reports that Google (ticker GOOG) has successfully completed its first foray into the bond...
View ArticleChina – Linked IPOs Fade
Recent posts have commented upon rising investor concerns about transparency and accuracy in the financial reporting and corporate governance activities of Chinese companies, even those whose stock...
View ArticleDell Profit, Margins Up
In contrast to Hewlett Packards’s (ticker HPQ) recently reported financial results, things are looking up for Dell (ticker DELL). The financial results for their most recent fiscal quarter were...
View ArticleSocial Media Valuations Frothy As LinkedIn IPO Approaches
As the impending IPO for LinkedIn, whose shares will be traded under the ticker symbol LNKD on the New York Stock Exchange beginning tomorrow, May 19, approaches, further signs of bubble-like...
View ArticleBlack Clouds Over The Cloud? EMC’s RSA Unit Addresses The Issues
Are there black clouds brewing over the hot cloud computing industry? Some seem to think so. Security and outage fears continue to hover as the black clouds over cloud computing, rendering some people...
View ArticleLinkedIn Chooses NYSE
It’s no secret by now that LinkedIn has decided to go public. The only potential question was the stock exchange with which it was going to choose to be listed. The answer is that it will be listed on...
View ArticleApplied Materials Acquires Varian
Today’s Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) reports that Applied Materials (ticker symbol AMAT) has agreed today to acquire Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates (VSEA) for $63 per share, roughly a 55%...
View ArticleIBM, Red Hat Announce Virtualization Collaboration
At the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World gathering currently being held in Boston, IBM (ticker IBM) and Red Hat (ticker RHT) announced Tuesday they will collaborate to create products based on KVM...
View ArticleIntel Aims at ARM Holdings With New Chip Technology
An item in today’s Investors Business Daily (investors.com) reports that at a gathering in San Francisco yesterday, Intel Corp. (ticker INTC) showed off what it called the most radical shift in...
View ArticleCisco Revamping Operations
It’s no secret that Cisco (ticker symbol CSCO) has been struggling and therefore needs to make some changes in their operations and business models. Today’s Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) reports that...
View ArticleRenren IPO Successful Despite Accounting Questions
Shares of Chinese social network Renren (ticker symbol RENN) successfully debuted yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), climbing more than 50% intraday before closing up 20% from their...
View ArticleYouku Loss Narrows, Issues New Shares
Youku.com (ticker symbol YOKU) is a Chinese online video company which currently enjoys a dominant position in the Chinese online video market as gauged by revenue, but is certainly not without...
View ArticleVenture Capital Funding Lopsided
It certainly comes as no surprise that consumer oriented start ups currently enjoy easier access to funding than has been available for the past few years due to the success and high profile of...
View ArticleEMC – The Cloud’s Switzerland?
The dominant position of EMC (ticker symbol EMC) in the storage industry is well established. Not willing to rest on its laurels, however, the company has been transitioning for quite some time, both...
View ArticleWeek In Review – May 7, 2011
Most weeks experience some type of significant event in the markets, some more (or less) significant than others. This week was no different in that respect. While there were no announcements or...
View ArticlePrivate Markets Seek SEC Guidance
There has been a good deal of discussion in recent weeks about the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pondering changes in regulations governing the trading in the private markets of shares of...
View ArticleYouTube Founders Expand New Company
The founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, have started a new company named Avos which is already expanding rapidly via acquisitions. An Associate Press release today announces that Avos has...
View ArticleLinkedIn IPO Details Revealed
Shares of LinkedIn, a Mountain View, Calif., company, which operates a professional online network with more than 100 million members, are expected to begin public trading on the New York Stock...
View ArticleGoogle Joins Online Music Crowd
Google (ticker GOOG) is announcing today a new online music service which seems intended to compete with similar services provided by Amazon (ticker AMZN) and Apple (ticker AAPL), escalating the battle...
View ArticleNvidia Bets On New Wireless Technology
In a bid to compete with such rivals as Intel (ticker INTC) and Qualcomm (ticker QCOM) in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers, Nvidia (ticker NVDA) has announced the acquisition of...
View ArticleMicrosoft Says Skype Worth $8.5 Billion
As reported in today’s Wall Street Journal (wsj.com), Microsoft (ticker MSFT) has announced an $8.5 billion all cash deal to acquire Skype. Skype will become a new business division within Microsoft,...
View ArticleAndreessenHorowitz Shakes Up VC Business Model, Cashes In On Skype
The traditional venture capital business model of investing in start up companies fairly early, acquiring a large stake in the company for a relatively small investment and then guiding it to growth in...
View ArticleVerizon, AT&T To Sell Cisco Tablet
There hasn’t been a lot of good news coming out from or about Cisco (ticker symbol CSCO) lately as the company struggles to restructure its operations and management. The company badly needs a hit...
View ArticleCisco – More Bad News
More bad news today for Cisco (ticker CSCO) as the hits keep on coming. The company has released their financial results for their most recent third fiscal quarter and, while results met or exceeded...
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