Filed under: Management, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Options Carol Bartz, the new CEO of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), has no qualms about executive transparency. During an appearance Tuesday at the Morgan Stanley Tech Conference in San Francisco, Bartz confessed that she doesn't u...

Recently, there was a minor scandal when TechCrunch accused Last.fm of turning over information — the identities of people listening to copies of a leaked U2 album — to the RIAA. Last.fm issued a scathing denial of these allegations, and it's good to hear that the site hasn't turned into...

Mike Panzner writes: Regardless of your long-term views (mine, as it happens, are bearish), it’s hard to look at the accompanying chart and not feel like the market is setting up for some sort of corrective bounce. As of now, the S&P 500 index is about 35% below it’s 200-day moving a...

I am amazed at the general tenor of comments about today’s rally — it was very much party like its 1999. I was on Liz Claman’s show today from 3 -4 (she’s a delight). It felt like a celebration to me — and all we did was undo yesterday’s losses. It was treated lik...

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Trading With the Big Boys January 30, 2009 By John Mauldin This week we are going to do something a little different. I am in Bermuda taking a little weekend R&R after a speech, as well as working on my book. There is not the time for the usual letter this week, but I have asked Barry Ritholtz t...

Today, the New America Foundation, PlanetLab and Google announced the launch of the Measurement Lab project, an initiative to provide server resources for researchers interested in network neutrality and performance testing. This is good news for the community of academics and activists who are tryi...

I am thinking about a tab for some high end charting. I have access to a charting engine that has 100s — literally — of technical studies. It Java based, and is pretty slick. It costs $1,000s of dollars in license fees, but that cost spread out over the course of a year is not too bad; t...

Richard W. Arms, Jr., is one of the world’s most respected Stock Market personalities. His technical work is used worldwide and he has been a guest speaker on four continents. His books have been translated into a number of other languages, and his methodology is familiar to most Stock Market trad...

Parental Advisory: The contents of this post are for adults eyes only. If you are under the age of 18 please do not read (he he). I finally lost my virginity. It was bound to happen eventually, especially when you’re madly in love. The first two years with her were absolutely wonderful, and then o...