March 1, 2011
Dr. Richard Peterson, a psychiatrist by training, knows first-hand that emotions often rule investors. After the financial crash of 2008, he invested in stocks such as...
January 23, 2011
As such technology stars as Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon hold off on IPOs, their delays have created even more business for private stock markets, such as ...
January 14, 2011
(Bloomberg) Groupon Inc., the largest coupon website, is seriously considering an initial public offering later this year and is meeting with securities firms ...
January 7, 2011
As Goldman Sachs (GS) lines up private investors for its Facebook fund, which appears to have closed already due to high demand, numbers are beginning to leak out ...
January 3, 2011
More than a decade has passed since Time Warner (TWX) and America Online (AOL) merged in a $180 billion deal, marking the peak of the Internet bubble and beginning a ...
December 17, 2010
(Bloomberg) Oracle Corp., the second-largest software maker, rose in late trading after forecasting profit for this quarter that may top analysts' predictions,...
December 14, 2010
Tencent Holdings (700:HK) Chief Executive Officer Ma Huateng upstaged Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs in Bloomberg Businessweek.com's ranking of the best-performing ...
December 6, 2010
(Bloomberg) Andrew Mason, founder of daily deal site Groupon Inc., is a serial prankster, dedicating office space to a fictitious character, hiring a ...
November 24, 2010
(Corrects reference to investment in 6th paragraph.) At the end of November the global climate change fraternity descends on Cancún for the latest attempt at replacing...
November 16, 2010
(Bloomberg) Mary Meeker will predict a $50 billion online advertising boom in an address at the annual Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco today. The Morgan ...
October 18, 2010
When it comes to technology stocks, investors have their heads in the cloud. According to some of the technology portfolio managers whose mutual funds drew the highest...
October 14, 2010
Earlier this year, Rutgers University student Daniel Moran noticed that his investment portfolio was being dragged down by tech stocks. To reverse the slide, Moran, ...
October 11, 2010
(Adds Zynga representative's comment in eighth paragraph.) (Bloomberg) Facebook Inc. and Zynga Game Network Inc. are charging fees of at least $2,500 for each ...
October 7, 2010
(Corrects period of investment decline in last paragraph.) Startup companies call it the Valley of Death—the arduous terrain between proof of concept and the ...
September 23, 2010
LinkedIn, the largest networking site for online professionals, bought ChoiceVendor Inc., a website for reviews of business service providers. ChoiceVendor, a San ...
September 3, 2010
(This story was updated to include the total number of résumés received.) Kai-Fu Lee, who headed Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Chinese division during its biggest growth years,...
August 2, 2010
When Giorgos Tsapepas started as an intern at IBM (IBM) in 2002, he had never used a mainframe. At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the university he attended in ...
July 27, 2010
Google (GOOG) is a prime candidate to return some of its $30.1 billion in cash to investors through a stock buyback or dividend, according to shareholders and data ...
June 3, 2010
In the past two months, a controversy has broken out between the startup of the moment, Twitter, and its ecosystem. Some of the company's actions—such as ...
March 3, 2010
During recent travels abroad, Shervin Pishevar says he witnessed flourishing tech communities in places like Russia, Argentina, and Jordan. "There's a tremendous ...
February 25, 2010
Beijing. Milan. Brussels. For attorneys at Google (GOOG), this is no vacation itinerary. Rather, it's part of a growing list of sites around the world where Google's ...
February 5, 2010
Deutsche Telekom (DT) is said to be considering strategic options for its troubled U.S. unit. The company may find its choices limited amid heightened competition in ...
February 4, 2010
I'll bet that if Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs had even one woman on his executive team, the iPad would have been given a different name. Otherwise why would Apple ...
February 1, 2010
Utter the term "patent troll" in tech circles and you're likely to elicit a visceral reaction. Said trolls are companies that acquire patents and seek payment from ...
January 27, 2010
Yelp, a Web site that features reviews of local businesses, said it has received as much as $100 million in funding from private equity firm Elevation Partners and ...
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