The TechCrunch conference, like the blog that puts it on, is all about startups and the unabashed energy of the new. That means, of course, that some companies debuting at the three-day conference are more ready for prime time than others.
Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google
In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine Internet search leader Google Inc. and will instead focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives.
Stocks futures rose early Friday, lifted by easing oil prices, although economic concerns and thin trading during the shortened session could lead to a volatile day on Wall Street.
The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled more than 100 points Monday after Citigroup shook up its management and announced further mortgage-related losses.
Stocks fell on Monday after Citigroup raised another warning flag for the financial sector, but pared losses after a reading on the service economy came in stronger than expected.
Major gauges remained lower Monday morning as Citigroup's warning that it could suffer billions more in mortgage-related losses fanned credit market fears on Wall Street.
The TechCrunch conference, like the blog that puts it on, is all about startups and the unabashed energy of the new. That means, of course, that some companies debuting at the three-day conference are more ready for prime time than others.
Ask.com has bought a stable of Internet reference sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google
In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine Internet search leader Google Inc. and will instead focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives.
Stocks futures rose early Friday, lifted by easing oil prices, although economic concerns and thin trading during the shortened session could lead to a volatile day on Wall Street.
The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled more than 100 points Monday after Citigroup shook up its management and announced further mortgage-related losses.
Stocks fell on Monday after Citigroup raised another warning flag for the financial sector, but pared losses after a reading on the service economy came in stronger than expected.
Major gauges remained lower Monday morning as Citigroup's warning that it could suffer billions more in mortgage-related losses fanned credit market fears on Wall Street.
Stocks fell sharply at the start of Monday's session as Citigroup's warning that it could suffer billions more in subprime mortgage-related losses worried investors about the health of the broader financial sector.
Internet conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp. posted disappointing quarterly results on Tuesday on lower revenue at its key HSN shopping channel and unexpected weakness at its Ticketmaster box office service, sending shares down more than 5 percent.
Ask.com became the first major search engine to promise users it won't store data on their queries, giving the privacy conscious the option of conducting research on the Internet in relative anonymity
Even as we live more and more of our lives online, the impulse to gather in physical space grows stronger. So we are organizing something called Fortune's iMeme: The Thinkers of Tech, a gathering in San Francisco in mid-July. There Fortune's staff will sit down together with some of the smartest technology leaders to make sense of where we are going.
Blackberry maker Research in Motion will face a patent lawsuit from mobile email company Visto seeking an injunction and monetary damages, according to Visto.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Barry Diller knows he has a tough fight on his hands. But the former media mogul turned Internet empire builder hopes that he can outdo Google, Yahoo! and MSN in the ultra-competitive world of online search.
It took nearly three years, but the Securities and Exchange Commission is finally mailing checks to some 34,000 investors burned by faulty Wall Street research.
By late 2001, anyone hawking a business plan that depended on selling online advertising would have been laughed off Sand Hill Road. After all, the idea that Web traffic could be converted into ad ...
Yahoo! kicked off the Internet sector's earnings season Tuesday with strong evidence that recent jitters over the state of the online advertising market have been overblown.
Blue-chip stocks slumped Monday as oil prices hovered near record highs and investors geared up for an expected interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve on Tuesday.
Online search stocks have defied gravity, with many investors apparently thinking that the Internet ad market would boom ad infinitum and that there would never be ugly pricing pressures to curtail growth.
Stocks rallied Friday, near the end of a tough week for the market, as investors took comfort in reports showing a rise in industrial production and a drop in a key inflation measure.
Former New York City mayor Ed Koch famously used to gauge his popularity with typical bluntness. He'd greet fellow Gothamites with a simple question, "How am I doin'?"
Technology stocks fell sharply Thursday as record high oil prices kept the Nasdaq under constant pressure in a trading session that grew progressively worse throughout the day.
Ten blue links. Kind of sounds like a band name, like that awful band Deep Blue Something from the mid-1990s. In fact, it's what Ask Jeeves is fighting against.
During the boom of the 1990s, it seemed that any idiot could run a company--and, in fact, too many did, as we learned once the bubble burst. Now the economy is brewing up another boom, and this one...
It's been a rocky six months for tech so it should come as no surprise that technology mutual funds are the second worst performing fund category, according to fund research firm Morningstar.
I'll never forget the moment back in 1999 when a colleague looked at me and asked, "What's with these Internet company names? Why can't they name themselves something that tells what they do?"
Ask Jeeves, the Internet search portal with the portly butler for a mascot, appears to have all the answers of late. A former dot-com flameout--shares rose as high as $186 apiece in 1999, only to p...
Ask Jeeves has just joined the rarefied "40 Club." I'm talking about the select group of Internet companies that have seen their stock prices rise by 40 percent in one day.
Technology stocks finished mostly higher Thursday as investors held out high hopes for good news from Intel Corp., which plans to give a mid-quarter update after the closing bell.
As is their normal state on a busy September trading day, Seth Tobias's phones were lit up like Times Square, and at the other end of the line was a broker with an investment "idea." "Have you look...
They're back. "It" stocks--the hot issues that defy all the laws of fundamental investing--have reappeared. These are the kinds of stocks that seem to keep heading higher for no other reason than t...
It almost looks like the '90s again. Once familiar names like Ask Jeeves, Coolsavings and Theglobe.com--Theglobe.com!--have racked up 1,000%-plus returns over the past year. (For more on Ask Jeeves...
Frank Sinatra sang that love is better the second time around, and Wall Street must believe it. The same sector that just a few years ago broke investors' hearts and helped devastate their portfoli...
Analysts have faced some ferocious criticism lately--much of it richly deserved. Not only did the profession routinely bang the drums for investment banking business, but its stars took the extra s...
For Silicon Valley venture capitalist Geoff Yang, there has never been a better time to back entrepreneurs who think their product or service is going to change the world. Thanks to the Internet, e...
For Silicon Valley venture capitalist Geoff Yang, there has never been a better time to back entrepreneurs who think their product or service is going to change the world. Thanks to the Internet, e...
A year ago, Beyond.com was a New Economy success story. The company had the smart idea of selling software over the Web--a perfect example of using the Internet to eliminate warehouses and lower co...
Dwayne Walker is CEO of ShopNow.com. He started his career as a techie writing software at Hughes Aircraft and then spent seven years at Microsoft. He has run the online marketplace since 1996.
If you're doing business on the Web, you've got mail. Lots of it. Lots of complaints, questions, and kudos from customers. Electronic mail is fast and direct, and an increasing number of companies ...
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