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I've been looking at a new online tool called StockSmart. The full version is being launched in June, and it will provide some pretty interesting realtime analysis that would normally require a lot of hunting through documents. For example, I took a look at earnings per share growth over the last few years of some name companies, and the results were fascinating.
The recent announcement by cloud software vendor Workday that it has raised $74 million in venture capital notwithstanding, venture funding has slowed considerably over recent months and from the looks of things, VCs may be more likely to close up shop than fund new companies. While that means tech ...
For some time, TechCrunch has been accused of conflicts of interest of various sorts. But a post today on whether a big screen Kindle could aid the newspaper industry fails to note that the company is funding a mobile computing device that could be a competitor, raising the question of whether there are entire categories of technology or devices that the site should avoid covering.
DoJ eyes Google Books settlement; Wiki operator sues Apple; Steve Jobs deposition clarifies some Apple history; Linux consortium guns for Microsoft's FAT patents; details of Pirate Bay verdict; and the RIAA only gets $7,000 for a three-year-old copyright infringement suit.
By rejecting Broadcom's $764 million bid to buy the company, networking component vendor Emulex's board is showing confidence in its strategy and is willing to go it alone in a market that is becoming increasingly inhospitable to independent players. Ever since Cisco announced plans to manufactur...
Google didn't force the New York Times to buy the Boston Globe for $1.1 billion, nor whisper to Sam Zell that what a newspaper like the Chicago Tribune really needs is billions of dollars in debt. Google never told reporters to resist writing for the Web because their papers' Internet sites would "s...
There's been a lot of discussion of the Microsoft and Apple ad campaigns of late, trying to understand which was doing better. From one view, Microsoft played into Apple's hands; and there's the argument that the opposite also seems to have happened. But something we haven't been looking at is spending on marketing, and that reveals something interesting.
Software vendors are coming under increasing pressure to offer customers software hosted in the cloud as an alternative to the software license agreements that have characterized the software industry for more than twenty years. Once confined to the ghetto of small-bore applications that help...
Hulu is getting new content and cash from Disney, giving it an impressive line-up of broadcast TV content for its online video site. This announcement comes barely a week after Google's YouTube video site announced partnership deals with a slew of movie and television studios, including Lion's Gate ...
Sharon Waxman has a post based on an interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. One comment she reports underscores how little the search company seems to understand about content, the dire straits of those who produce it, and just how tenuous Google's own fortunes -- and others who would make their money off the content of others -- might be.
IBM is making a concerted push to cash in on as many stimulus dollars coming from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as possible, offering services to health care, energy and other industries liable to garner funding, as well as government agencies administering those funds. IBM is openin...
Verizon and Microsoft are in talks for a new iPhone rival, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. By seeking to emulate their rivals, both companies are tacitly admitting to having lost significant share in their respective markets. The device, code-named Pink by Microsoft, would trans...
My colleague Michael Hickins has an interesting post about profitability of major video sharing sites. The more I read and considered his reporting and conversation with YouTube, the more questions I found myself facing. With all the speculation of how well YouTube or Hulu might be doing, there are complexities that could well mask what the owners of the companies are actually getting from their properties.
There's a general assumption that YouTube is losing Google gobs of money, fueled in great part by the much-bandied idea that YouTube is generating ad revenue on just 3 percent of the content on its site. This may be far from the case; AdAge recently speculated that YouTube is now monetizing as ...
Apple loses patent suit; Judge extends Microsoft antitrust oversight; EU finding on Intel coming soon and probably isn't pretty; engineer sues Sony for allegedly shady dealing; Pirate Bay case judge impartiality questioned; and judge won't delay Polaroid asset sale.
