http://www.techstocker.com/mt/ en-us Copyright 2008 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:11:33 +0000 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:13:08 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Right now, Jerry Yang should be taking Carl Icahn out to the finest meal The French Laundry can offer. At the very least, Yang should add Icahn to his holiday wishe list as Icahn has done something that Yang... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2008/06/jerry_yang_you.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2008/06/jerry_yang_you.html Search Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:11:33 +0000 We had expected to encounter some flower children given Chico's reputation but Travidia's management team seems fairly buttoned down. The company is working with newspaper to help them to stay in business so a BD person who knows old... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/08/vp_of_business.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/08/vp_of_business.html Advertising Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:15:05 +0000 MSFT this week bought 4% of newspaper owned Careerbuilder. UBS says that this makes Monster.com a strategic buyout interest as one of the few large remaining career sites. Potential suitors are Gannett and eBay.... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/with_microsoft.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/with_microsoft.html Search Fri, 11 May 2007 19:13:28 +0000 Not only did Visual Sciences (VSCN) complete its rebranding from WebSideStory but it killed its quarter and the stock piled up 28%.The company earned $3.3M, or 16 cents a share, on revenue of $20.7M. Analysts expected earnings of 14... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/visual_sciences.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/visual_sciences.html Net Media Thu, 10 May 2007 21:35:31 +0000 Shares in The Knot (KNOT) plunged 14% as the wedding site screwed its quarterly numbers. The company earned $1.6M, or 5 cents a share, on revenue of $21M. Analysts expected earnings of 8 cents a share on revenue of... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/wall_street_div.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/wall_street_div.html Net Media Thu, 10 May 2007 21:31:15 +0000 We haven't been to a RadioShack (RSH) for a while. We always hated it, but appreciate its turnaround. Its ads are much better and its Web site works fine. There has been a lot of chatter on CNBC about... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/radio_shack_up.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/radio_shack_up.html M&A Thu, 10 May 2007 21:21:41 +0000 M&A groups at the investment banks must be burning the midnight oil. It seems that so many stock movements these weeks are caused less by performance than rumors of takeovers. Today an analyst at Citigroup speculates that a shares... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/bea_up_as_anoth.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/bea_up_as_anoth.html Entreprise Software Thu, 10 May 2007 21:14:54 +0000 24/7 Media ad hired Lehman Brothers as a financial adviser to assess strategic alternatives. Shares have been way since the acquisitions of DoubleClick by Google and Right Media by Yahoo. The NY Post has reported that 24/7 could be... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/247_media_hires.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/247_media_hires.html Advertising Thu, 10 May 2007 21:07:23 +0000 PlanetOut (LGBT) fell in a sink whole. Given how well other online media companies are doing, we have ti think that the company is just poorly run and perhaps should not be a public company. PlanetOut runs web sites,... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/life_not_gay_at.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/life_not_gay_at.html Internet Thu, 10 May 2007 21:00:24 +0000 UBS says there remains a 40% probability that News Corp. (NWS) succeeds in its offer to buy Dow Jones. There is only a 10% chance that another suitor emerges, given the high price offered by News Corp., UBS asserts.... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/analyst_give_mu.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/analyst_give_mu.html Advertising Thu, 10 May 2007 05:53:47 +0000 Cisco did well this quarter but is not optimistic enough so Wall Street pulled the plug on the stock, which lost about 6%. Reading through a variety of analyst report it seems that Cisco is just to complex for... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/lean_mean_fight.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/lean_mean_fight.html Networking Thu, 10 May 2007 05:46:18 +0000 From our vantage point, it seems that the Microsoft hive is angry and buzzing. Bill Gates told a MSN conference that he is going to be all over content and advertising. Meanwhile his buddy Ballmer was speaking at the... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/microsofts_12_p.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/microsofts_12_p.html Entreprise Software Thu, 10 May 2007 05:37:25 +0000 J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan, needs to cut down on the late night partying with think. He suggests today that “it would now make sense” for Google to buy Yahoo and thinks there would not be regulatory issues. We... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/jp_morgan_says.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/jp_morgan_says.html Search Tue, 08 May 2007 06:35:31 +0000 Goldman Sachs thinks that Cisco is going to be expectations for the quarter ending in April and advises buyers to strike now.... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/goldman_buy_cis.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/goldman_buy_cis.html Networking Wed, 02 May 2007 20:57:42 +0000 Forward looking market research firms are often wrong, but if a new rport from iSuppli proves correct, we would be smart to buy flash memory maker SanDisk (SNDK) and sell drive makers Seagate (STX) and Western Digital (WDC). iSuppli... http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/buy_sandsisk_re.html http://techstocker.com/mt/archives/2007/05/buy_sandsisk_re.html Storage Wed, 02 May 2007 19:38:15 +0000