Technology

Google is loaded o the gills with cash, yet today they are pricing up a bond issue. he Financial Times is reporting that Google will raise as much as $3 billion of 3, 5 and 10-year money. Here's my question: why do this? Acquisition:…

Though, in the eyes of Microsoft executives, virtually any outcome might seem better than letting the company fall into the hands of Google, which still has no strong foothold in social or communication software - one of the few online…

I spoke to Tadas Viskanta of Abnormal Returns on StockTwits TV about a lot of different issues this past week. We discussed commodities, bond market, QE, tech stocks, and a lot more. Here's the video below.

Back in December I wrote an article on how site scrapers were gaming Google's search algorithm in order to make advertising money from articles that they scrape from RSS feeds. Just after I wrote this piece, Google got religion about spam…

I would argue that this is evidence that these companies are wasting shareholder capital by plunking down for splashy acquisitions and large new capital investments that are not paying off. Cisco and Microsoft have huge cash balances…

I say fragmentation doesn't matter. Consumers are going to buy what is available and for offer. Distribution trumps ease of use. Ask Apple about Macintosh. And ask Microsoft about Windows. Market share trumps technological superiority too.…

As I was thinking about the competitive landscape for e-Commerce and Amazon's foray into the streaming music scene, it occurred to me that Amazon has a huge data mining opportunity here and that this will almost certainly raise privacy…

Amazon just dropped a bomb on the technology world in the form of a cross-platform cloud music player. This is at once a game-changing move in the Internet storage and backup world dominated by players like EMC, in the Internet Music world…

Here is an interesting video from the pre-IPO social media space. TechCrunch writer Alexia Tsotsis talks to StumbleUpon fonder Garrett Camp about its latest funding round in which it raised $17 million from August Capital and Accel Partners…

In the video below, Walt Mossberg reviews the iPad2 for the Wall Street Journal. He likes what he sees. He says, as far as tablet's go, it's "the one to beat" for 2011. Enjoy.