Posts Tagged with ‘goog’

Earlier today things got absolutely crazy with Google stock traded on NASDAQ. Throughout the day the price was quite strong and even gaining after Monday’s drop and suddenly 5 minutes before the closure it first jumped from $413 to $470 and then fell to $249 (see the graph on the left based on the minute-by-minute breakdown by Silicon Alley Insider).
It is quite understandable that many traders must have felt at the very least uncomfortable watching this plummeting but then NASDAQ [...]

As the months pass, it seems Google leaves Yahoo! further and further behind. And not because it’s technologically inferior to the megaforce of Mountain View. It can hold its own. Kinda.
No, such a perception exists primarily because of the continuous barrage of media coverage lavished on Big G. It just doesn’t stop. Day after day, there’s more and more talk about GOOG news and GOOG plans and GOOG predictions. Yang & Co can’t seem to get a word in. Sure, [...]

Starting today, Microsoft is “phasing in” a new version of Live Search, its online engine, in order for the company to better compete with two much more popular such venues on the Web, Yahoo! and Google. In a week, the new Live Search will replace the current version for all of Microsoft’s US-based users and will be accessible by all the world come the end of October.
What I can’t help but find most interesting about this announcement is Microsoft’s statement [...]

Are you familiar with Robert Scoble? Once a “tech evangelist” and uber-popular blogger (Scobleizer) backed by Redmond, he (along with his spouse) is now pulling strings at PodTech, a video podcast startup. He’s a big voice in the Valley. Lots of people listen when he speaks. Problem is, he can be kind of, well, irrational on occasion, and in the tech space, such a characteristic isn’t a very good one to have. Not good, at least, to showcase to a [...]

More Google news today, this nugget coming from the mouthpiece of the company, Eric Schmidt.
Talking in Aspen Colorado at an annual summit held by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the Google CEO spoke for the principal of free speech and the need to open networks (presumably the wireless variety) to ensure advancement of communications. Oh, and he also made it a point to tell those in attendance that his company would “probably” bid on the 700 MHz spectrum to be [...]

You’ve seen the headlines. Declarations that Mr Murdoch is fiddling with the idea of selling MySpace off to Yahoo! for a 25% stake in the Net’s #1 portal. That would mean those at Newscorp thought their dastardly ugly (they of course likely think she’s beautiful, as does most any parent - particular a parent with a big financial interest in its kin) social network was worth just north of $10 billion. Putting aside numbers for a moment, though, a [...]