Tag Archives: Business
Circuit City Is Back
Circuit City is born again, but its return policy for some PCs may leave a bitter taste for its customers. Port Washington, N.Y.-based Systemax Monday finalized its purchase of the defunct retailer’s trade names, domains including www.circuitcity.com, customer lists and information, certain trademarks and other intangible assets of Circuit City’s e-commerce business. While the retailer’s [...]
Full StoryMicrosoft Buys Yahoo!
In a long battle and now a victory, Microsoft will try to gain market share in the search business, the reality is finally here! CEO – Steve Ballmer confirmed the purchase Tuesday at 10:49 PM PST for an estimated cost of 39 billion dollars. This is a far cry from the original offer of 44 [...]
Full StoryDrive Interest to Your Corporate Blog
Many of us believe that using social networks will help drive traffic to our blog. It will bring visitors, but what kind of visitor? In most cases this visitor will spend little time on your blog and usually never click on another page. This will increase your bounce rate and decrease the average time on [...]
Full StoryMicrosoft Has a Change of Heart
I would think this is the least they could do for the 1400 employees who recently received pink slips. Microsoft realized that an administrative glitch caused it to pay more severance than intended to some laid-off employees. The company’s response: It asked the ex-workers for the money back. But when one of Microsoft’s letters seeking [...]
Full StoryMicrosoft Give Us a Break!
Microsoft should have used a calculator to factor the correct severance pay outs, but instead they used an abacus which they didn’t know how to operate apparently. As the company was handing out pink slips to some 1,400 employees last month, the accounting department miscalculated severance packages. It turns out that the company overpaid these [...]
Full StoryDeal or No Deal
It looks like talks are back on with Yahoo on a potential deal for Microsoft to buyout the struggling search company. It has not been a week since Yahoo found their new CEO Carol Bartz. Microsoft’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, met with Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock in New York this week, according to a report [...]
Full StoryWhen Business Gets Sexy
Since accessing the internet back in the early to mid 90′s, sex was the hottest thing going and it still is. But now even the big corporate types have been using it to gain some buzz. It’s not like the sex we all know as porn, but a much more tasteful and sexy type of [...]
Full StoryNew Yahoo CEO Has a Backbone!
This is exactly what the doctor ordered. Carol Bartz is a strong person that has the know how to take Yahoo to the next level. Bartz is straight shooter leaving no guess work on what she wants. Her reputation as a tech veteran is a cut above many leaders in the tech sector. Carol Bartz [...]
Full StorySteve Jobs is Ailing and will miss Macworld
Apple has admitted that CEO Steve Jobs is skipping Tuesday’s Macworld keynote for health-related reasons, after initially pointing to other reasons for his absence. (Credit: James Martin/CNET). Throughout 2008 Apple was plagued with rumors about Jobs’ health, but steadfastly refused to acknowledge that anything was behind concerns over what many believed was substantial weight loss [...]
Full StoryYahoo Yang Steps Down
Yahoo Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang will step down after the company finds a replacement. It was a great run for this innovator and a ride he will never forget. Yahoo, Inc. is still the #1 search engine today and it has been aggressively challenge by Google. What’s next for Yahoo now? I [...]
Full StoryTech Sector Feeling The Crunch
It’s a harsh reality that the tech sector is now on the same track as many of the financial and retailer firms. The number of job cuts will be tremendous in the electronics, telecom and computer industries. Experts are estimating that the number of cuts will be numbers they haven’t seen in years. According to [...]
Full StoryAMD Employee Charged for Stealing
A former Intel Corp. engineer has been charged with stealing trade secrets worth $1 billion from the chip maker while he worked for its main rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts alleged this week in a five-count indictment that Biswamohan Pani, 33, illegally downloaded more than a dozen confidential documents from Intel’s [...]
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