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The Investing Value blog archives is a categorized selection of all the
news archives of the investment weblog. Newest news posts are listed at
the top of each category.
Major
Company News - Includes recent news posts relating to big businesses,
multi-nationals, major brand companies, and large international corporations.
Companies include : Google
News,
See also Internet
Companies News
- Google Breaks $500 a Share - What can you say about Google, it just keeps pushing forward and increasing in value. The companys share price has risen above US$500 and you have to wonder how much higher it can go.
- Hewlett Packard Scandal - You have to love a good scandal from a large company and this one from Hewlett Packard who have prided themselves on privacy and codes of conduct is good.
- KFC
Reduces Trans Fats - As people start eating healthier worldwide,
fast food giants are struggling to move with this trend. KFC America
has recently announced that they are cutting back on the use of artery
clogging Trans Fats.
- Enron's
Jeffrey Skilling get 24 Years - Former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey
Skilling has been sentenced to twenty four years and four months. Federal
Judge Sim Lake ordered the disgraced Enron executive to forfeit $45
million in ill gotten assets from his time at the giant energy trading
company.
- Australian
Media Ownership Laws Change - Not long after new media ownership
laws were passed through the Australian Government, big deals were made
with Rupert Murdoch taking a 7.5% share in it's media giant rival John
Fairfax Holdings.
- Google
Trumps Yahoo Again - Google has payed $1.65 billion for YouTube.com
the largest user contributed video website on the net. This increases
Google's dominance over Yahoo even further in the race to take over
the world.
- Women
at the Top - 48 women are at the top of big business up from 35
last year and as the increase continues, it seems women can cause just
as much scandal as the men can.
- Windows
Live Search - There's now a new competitor for Google to contend
with and it's called Windows Live Search and is Microsoft's attempt
to crack into the internet search business.
- Google
and eBay Partnership - Google has partnered with eBay to supply
text based advertising on eBay's international websites while Yahoo
supplies adverts for the US website.
- Microsoft
Buying Companies - The giant software company, Microsoft purchased
23 companies in the past year, up from just 9 the year before. The big
difference is that those 23 companies are much smaller than previous
years.
- Dell
Exploding Laptops - While Michael Dell is spending some time in
Sydney, Australia, the media are discussing the recall and how it could
impact future sales. Pictures of Dell laptops exploding into flames
have been splashed across every television channel and newspaper around
the world.
- AOL
Job Cuts - With the recent decision to open up the content of AOL
to the general public, there has also come some job cutting. Not just
a few jobs here and there either, it's serious job cutting!
- The
Future of Hybrid Cars - One of the worlds largest car makers and
leader in the hybrid car market Toyota Motor Corp has released plans
to make hybrid vehicles that can have it's batteries recharge by a standard
power outlet found in the home.
- Windows
Vista Update - Microsoft's latest windows operating system called
Vista is due out soon and with another beta having been released for
testing, hopefully many problems will have been ironed out.
- Kerkorian
and GM - Major investor in GM and billionaire businessman Kirk Kerkorian
hopes to bring French car maker Renault and Japanese car maker Nissan
on board. The General Motors board will look into a deal where Renault
and Nissan would buy about 20% of GM, and share production facilities.
- Bill
Gates Stepping Down from Microsoft - The richest man in the world
announced this week that he will giving up his daily responsibilities
at Microsoft in two years time. After thirty years at the giant software
company Bill Gates will be stepping down to work full time at the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Enron
Fallout - The mighty Enron company rose from 11 cents to 15 cents
after the recent guilty verdict of the infamous former leaders, Ken
Lay and Jeff Skilling. Gone are the days of the $90 per Enron share!
The now penny stock used to be a darling of the stock market.
- NYSE
and Euronext Merger Bid - Plans have been made for a $21 billion
New York Stock Exchange and Euronext merger beating a German company
called Deutsche Boerse who also wanted a merger with Euronext.
- Avoiding
Hidden Bank fees - In the last 10 years bank fees have more than
doubled and in the last 4 or 5 years they have sky rocketed again to
all time highs pushing bank profits through the roof.
- Microsoft
vs Google vs Yahoo - Microsoft must be a bit worried about it's
future when it come to it's internet business as they have tried to
buyout Yahoo's search engine in a bid to catch up to the ever growing
Google.
- Berkshire
Hathaway Profits Rise 70 Percent - Warren Buffett will surely please
his flock of loyal followers this weekend as he speaks to them at Berkshire
Hathaway's annual meeting. The first quarter profits of the company
have rose by 70 percent.
- Microsoft's
Office Live - The Office Live site by Microsoft that is still in
beta recently surged in traffic by more than 50%. Not to be confused
with their Microsoft Office software, Office Live is an online resource
for businesses to establish a presence on the internet.
- Nasdaq
Invests in London Stock Exchange - The American based, technology
heavy NASDAQ stock exchange has invested heavily in the London Stock
Exchange by purchasing 15% of it. The LSE has been eyed up by a few
substantial investors in recent years. Nasdaq has paid $781.5 million
for it's share of LSE.
- More
Virgin Group Acquisitions - A news story over on Reuters reports
that Richard Branson's Virgin Group which includes a health club called
Virgin Active, is looking to expand the Virgin Active name throughout
the USA.
- Don't
Get Rich Quick on eBay - eBay is a hugely popular marketplace for
selling your wares, and it didn't take long for eBay businesses to startup.
- Freddie
Mac 2005 Results - Now that the accounting scandals have settled
at the giant American mortgage company, Freddie Mac has announced that
2005 has been a good year for them.
- Google
Finance - A new finance portal has just been released by the search
engine company, Google. Google Finance is still in beta, but will offer
similar services and information as Yahoo Finance.
- Sell
It On eBay - eBay has become more that just a place to sell off
all the junk you don't need anymore, for some it has turned out to be
a business oppotunity making them real money.
- Designs
by Google - Looking to create your own webpage but wouldn't know
where to start, well Google may have the answer for you? Google is releasing
it's newest tool called Page Creator to allow people to easily make
their own websites with a minimum of knowledge using premade template's
and design's.
- Google
Stocks Drop - It seemed that Google could not make a wrong move
with Wall Street, with its stock price moving higher week after week.
Investors that got in on the ground floor were happy to see GOOG reach
a high of $475 per share in just a couple short years, but more recently
the stock has taken a pounding.
- Amazon.com
Shares Plunge - Investors have been voting with their feet and jumping
out of the online retailing giant Amazon.com recently. Even though fourth
quarter sales rose 17%, they were still below analysts' estimates.
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