Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer’s not-so-secret meeting with Abode CEO Shantanu Narayen to discuss a joint battle strategy against Apple raised the tantalizing possibility of an Adobe buyout. That deal wouldn’t just be good for Micr…
Among the day’s top online stories for investors: suggested names for a merged Microsoft-Adobe, companies that most often beat their earnings estimates, and the legal suit against Madoff’s sons.
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So far in 2010, U.S. companies have announced stock buybacks totaling more than five times as much as they had at this time last year. But evidence suggests that such buybacks a more likely to be money losing propositions — ex…
MSNBC management is thinking about changing the name of its website, according to The New York Times, to better distinguish it from its more liberal cable network.
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No less than four major mobile companies — Apple, HTC, Microsoft and now Motorola — are suing each other over cell-phone technology. At issue is the intellectual property that underlies several popular devices.
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