With a chance to make it good somehowHey what else can we do now? Research In Motion is planning to take “Thunder Road” in its battle with Apple for the hearts and thumbs of smartphone users. …
A couple of questions about Carl Icahn’s efforts to amass shares in Yahoo have been nagging at me:Why does Icahn need FTC approval to buy more YHOO shares? If Icahn’s YHOO stake is mostly via options vs. common stock, as
So, Zappos has a lot to be proud of. It survived the dot com crash. It’s topping $1 billion in annual sales. And it has a posse so loyal it’ll drop everything to come party on an hour’s notice. But will the long-in-the-tooth Web company ever go public?To
So why didn’t Zappos die with so many other 1999-born companies? Partially they were unlucky– they couldn’t raise too much money before things crashed so they never got used to living on it. And partially they were lucky– a
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From Silicon Alley Insider, May 16, 2008: Distribution deals for Apple’s (AAPL) iPhone keep flying across the wires. The latest:
Having launched a proxy fight, billionaire financier Carl Icahn’s next move is to amass enough support for his effort, while simultaneously getting Yahoo and Microsoft back to the negotiating table.So far, he’s having more success with the former vs. the
Having launched a proxy fight, billionaire financier Carl Icahn’s next move is to amass enough support for his effort, while simultaneously getting Yahoo and Microsoft back to the negotiating table.So far, he’s having more success with the former vs. the
Online shoe and accessory retailer Zappos is an odd mix between your classic dot com and a nimble Web 2.0 up and comer. It was started in 1999, and took a page out of Amazon’s playbook by building out expensive warehouses and giving away shipping– both m
Online shoe and accessory retailer Zappos is an odd mix between your classic dot com and a nimble Web 2.0 up and comer. It was started in 1999, and took a page out of Amazon’s playbook by building out expensive warehouses and giving away shipping– both m
Yahoo responded to Carl Icahn’s proxy fight on two fronts: directly via chairman Roy Bostock’s letter and, as
From Silicon Alley Insider, May 15, 2008: Yahoo’s (YHOO) board responded to Carl Icahn, who is circling Yahoo like a hungry shark. Earlier, Icahn
David Polen, founder of Polen Capital Management, has an enviable track record, having outperformed the S&P 500 in 18 of the past 20 years. Although there are many well-known “crosscurrents” to higher prices, Polen believes stocks generally