The search deal Yahoo announced last week with Google seems to have placated activist investor Carl Icahn, at least for the time being. …

What a difference a day makes, especially on Wall Street.On Monday, the talk was how Lehman Brothers had stemmed the bleeding by announcing a loss that wasn’t worse than expected and reducing its mortgage exposure. Meanwhile, CEO Dick Fuld received high m

From Silicon Alley Insider, June 17, 2008:Why are the biggest U.S. Internet service providers, like Time Warner Cable (TWC), AT&T (T), and Comcast (CMCSA) trying to

We hear about housing. We hear about gas prices. We hear about financial services. But biotech is having as brutal a year as anyone. It all has to do with IPOs. They can’t seem to get out in this market and some 19 companies are in a holding pattern. That