Friday, December 12, 2008 11:42 PM/EST
Diversification in this economy involves thinking outside the box. Far outside the box. I don't think Intel should end there. Consider restaurants! Bennigan's restaurants could really use a healthy dose of Moore's Law where the prep time of food divides in half every 18 months while the portion sizes double.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:51 AM/EST
Crusading, faux white knight Carl Icahn is at it again. Icahn sent a letter to Yahoo board chairman Roy Bostock announcing that he is going to lead a proxy fight to try and oust the board members whom he said...
Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:34 AM/EST
The collapse of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal is the best thing that could have happened to the rest of us. And from all accounts, the Alien really is dead. Consider it from the perspective of Microsoft customers. Even if you're one...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:02 PM/EST
Hard to tell if Yahoo really doesn't want to marry Microsoft, or if it's just playing hard to get. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang told financial analysts that his company "is poised to capture growth in display advertising where we believe...
Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:27 AM/EST
We've known all along that this deal was going to close without any problem, and it has. But the timing of the deal closing and the splashy new product announcements show just how important this deal is to SAP. To...
Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:25 PM/EST
Let's get this out in the open. I'm a New Yorker, and my mom lives upstate where they don't have broadband (or much of anything else), so I'm happy that AMD is building a plant upstate because that means jobs,...
Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:24 PM/EST
Ah, Joe Wilcox, you say you don't like the Google-DoubleClick merger. That's what you say, but in fact what you don't like is Google. You're in such a rush to pillory Google, its lack of ethics and its penchant for...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:33 PM/EST
It's good to be reminded that it's far from a winner-take-all kind of world. With a few hours to kill before my flight took off from Fort Lauderdale this afternoon, I parked myself next to a winsome-looking blond because ......
Monday, August 20, 2007 2:58 PM/EST
It was kind of funny hearing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer call Cisco a "good competitor" today at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in New York, where he shared a stage with Cisco CEO John Chambers. After all, Microsoft itself has been...