With tens of billions in the bank collecting dust since its failed bid for Yahoo, and the elusive promise of the Internet still beckoning, Microsoft returned to the market for Internet search businesses with a $486 million purchase of Greenfield Online, the U.S.-listed owner of European price comparison website ciao.com. The buy is meant to […]
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What happens with two bombastic, larger-than-life Tech personalities join forces? They infuriate some people, delight other people and generally shake up an industry. When Jason Calacanis, of Weblogs and Mahalo fame, and Michael Arrington, of TechCrunch f
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Forbes Magazine has released its list of the 100 most powerful women in the world today. Making the ranks?
Queens.
Presidents.
And a number of women in finance. Women at banks. Women at the core of dealmaking.
Ranking #2 on the list is Sheila Bair: the head of the embattled FDIC, who has been trying to reassure an edgy American public […]
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Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin scored major points with her speech at the Republican convention Wednesday night. In addition to “introducing herself” to America and throwing some punches at Barack Obama, Palin spent a lot of time talking abou
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Mitt Romney left private equity firm Bain Capital nearly a decade ago. But if the former Massachusetts Gov. is chosen as McCain’s running mate it could push the industry back into the public spotlight anyway. Romney left the firm in 1999 to take over the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, but he built […]
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Updated from 2:32 p.m. EDT The stock market tumbled Thursday as traders fixated on the negative implications of falling crude: a slowing global economy.Update: In the worst decline since June 6, the Dow
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After the pummeling U.S. banks have been taking from the credit crunch, you’d think British bankers would try to learn from the mistakes of their U.S. counterparts. Not so, writes the New York Times’ DealBook. A majority claim they have made no changes to their strategy, according to a survey to come out next week. […]
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Eight years ago, Yale superstar professor and MacroMarkets chief economist Robert Shiller famously called the top of the stock market in his book Irrational Exuberance. Then, a year before the housing bubble peaked, he predicted the col
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