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Rumors once again that Alibaba, the China e-commerce firm, will buy a $7 billion stake of its own equity from Yahoo!  (NASDAQ: YHOO) This would be about half of Yahho!’s stake The most recent...
The argument that Hulu can become a company which can be valued in the billions of dollars or that portals can completely change, for the positive, the value of ad dollars they receive because of...
Property prices in China fell again last month in most of the 70 cities the National Bureau of Statistics measures. Forty-six cities had declines, a trend which has gone on for months. It is too...
The trend of never-ending executive changes at Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) continues. New interim CEO Ross Levinsohn fired some of the people predecessor Scott Thompson hires. The most notable of these...
It appears increasingly likely that concerns about the future of Greece will depress equity markets worldwide. Politicians in the country have failed to set a coalition government, despite several...
It is rare, but some new chief executives fail early — just after they begin their new jobs. That leaves boards with impossible decisions. How will the stock market react to the admission of a...
Many Americans, and some politicians, have attacked the boards of major U.S. corporations for paying their CEOs too much, not holding management to tough earnings goals and lining their own pockets...
As many lawyers and corporate governance experts expected, Scott Thompson left Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) without any severance benefits. It was widely believed that the misleading parts of his resume and...
New interim CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Ross Levinsohn, needs to make his mark quickly. After firing 2,000 people, his predecessor had plans to move the Internet portal into e-commerce, a business...
The DJIA is off over 100 points, 136 points, to 12,686. The NASDAQ and S&P 500 are off by similar percentages. The carnage is particularly severe in a few sectors. News that JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM)...
Now that Scott Thompson is out as CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Ross Levinsohn is in as interim chief executive, the newly constituted board needs to keep its new leader. Levinsohn, the most...
It may only take a few weeks to find out how many senior executives at America’s large public companies have misleading claims in their resumes. There have to be some. The backgrounds of the top...
Several senior JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) executives will leave the bank in the wake of its $2 billion trading loss. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) ex-CEO Scott Thompson has thyroid cancer. (WSJ) Greece...
Yahoo.comYahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) announced that embattled CEO Scott Thompson, who was caught lying about his resume just two weeks ago, has resigned. Ross Levinsohn was named interim chief executive...
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is sometimes referred to as the King of Online Search.  That may be changing if the new data from Experian Hitwise is accurate.  Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and...