From Sillicon Alley Insider, May 20, 2008:Microsoft (MSFT)
is the company plenty of people love to hate. But they generally don’t
demonstrate it the way that this Hungarian numbskull did — standing up
in the middle of a talk Steve Ballmer was giving a

With oil pushing past $130 per barrel, Congress is swinging into action with a series of boneheaded measures designed to generate crowd-pleasing sound bytes vs. actually addressing the issue.In typical fashion, Washington’s approach to the problem is to t

From Silicon Alley Insider, May 21, 2008: Microsoft (MSFT) will announce its Hail Mary attempt to stave off a Google (GOOG) search monopoly this morning, TechCrunch reports. This is the “disruptive” development Microsoft’s Kevin Johnson alluded

The Senate Banking Committee approved a housing bill Tuesday, as politicians from both parties convene on a compromise.With Congress honing in on legislation to relieve the housing bust, I recently sat down with Professor Lawrence J. White, deputy chair o

The market’s recent flirtation with optimism ran smack into the harsh reality of rising core inflation and a slowing consumer Tuesday. Not surprisingly, optimism lost and major averages tumbled.The Dow fell nearly 200 points, or 1.5%, while the S&P an

U.S. investors pumped $719 million into 39 deals in China in the first quarter, up 46 percent compared to the same period last year, according to new numbers released today by DowJones/VentureSource. But while the data looks upbeat at first glance, look c