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Column: Forget Microsoft — Yahoo’s Value Is Overseas

Yahoo’s operations trade for just $5 to $6 per share out of its current $15 share price, once you exclude its Asian investments and the value of its cash. Its hidden assets in Japan and Chinese affiliates — Yahoo Japan Corp and China’s Alibaba Group — ...

From ERIC AUCHARD, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  26 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Microsoft Corporation,  Asiah Epperson,  SoftBank

Forget Microsoft, Yahoo's value is overseas

The fate of Yahoo Inc. YHOO-Q has become intertwined in the public's imagination with the success or failure of its dealings with Microsoft Corp. MSFT-Q in recent years. That's despite the fact that as much as 70 per cent of the value investors put on ...

From ERIC AUCHARD, Globe and Mail,  25 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Microsoft Corporation,  Asiah Epperson,  SoftBank

The rise of the temp in the top office

LONDON: The revolving doors are spinning ever faster in the executive suites of corporations. Turnover among chief executive officers has reached an all-time high, according to figures by the recruiting company Challenger & Gray. Last year, 1,484 U.S. ...

From ERIC AUCHARD, International Herald Tribune,  9 Mar 2009

Why MySpace eats Facebook's lunch

LONDON Social networking phenomenon Facebook has beaten out arch-rival and former market leader MySpace by most measures of popularity, except the one that pays the bills. While Facebook has outpaced MySpace in bringing in members – it has 175 million ...

From ERIC AUCHARD, Globe and Mail,  24 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Mark Zuckerberg,  Harvard University

iPhone Features Everywhere in Rivals' New Phones

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Copying a few pages from the playbook of Apple's iPhone strategy, which brings many of the powers of the Internet to mobile phones, is no way to beat the computer interloper at its game. But that's exactly what many of the world's ...

From ERIC AUCHARD, Wired,  19 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Samsung Electronics,  Sony,  Microsoft Corporation

Cost-cutting squeezes outsourcers

LONDON: Outsourcing, Indian-style, is challenged as never before by an erosion in business confidence that makes corporate spending, even to generate quick savings, harder to justify. "No New Investment" is the order of the day; cost avoidance, the ...

From ERIC AUCHARD, International Herald Tribune,  28 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Accenture Ltd.,  IBM,  Hewlett-Packard

As growth stagnates, tech companies' dividends rise

LONDON: One oddity resulting from the market rout of technology stocks is that growth investors find themselves sitting on potentially rich dividend payouts as yields have multiplied while stock prices have plunged. Technology company officers who once ...

From ERIC AUCHARD, International Herald Tribune,  16 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Taiwan Semiconductor,  IBM,  Seagate Technology,  Analog Devices, Inc.,  Texas Instruments

Nokia CEO takes aim at BlackBerry

SANTA CLARA, California The chief executive of Nokia, the world mobile phone leader, gave credit to new competitors from the computer world on Wednesday, but said his company was set to respond to all challengers. Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka ...

From ERIC AUCHARD, Globe and Mail,  2 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  Apple, Inc.,  Motorola, Inc.,  Sony

Technology stocks feel the pain

San Francisco, Calif. Shares of the world's hottest technology stocks joined hard-pressed financial stocks in a sharp sell-off Monday as investor fears mounted that the crisis on Wall Street was dampening U.S. consumer demand. Apple Inc. tumbled 18 per ...

From ERIC AUCHARD, Globe and Mail,  30 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Apple, Inc.,  U.S. Congress,  Circuit City,  NASDAQ

Tech industry still buoyant, Ballmer says

SANTA CLARA - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday he still sees a "certain buoyancy" among technology and telecommunications customers worldwide, despite recent U.S. economic woes. "Our industry is not immune to what goes on ...

From ERIC AUCHARD, Canada.com,  26 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Steve Ballmer,  Microsoft Corporation

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