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Online advertising revenues among the four largest Web advertising companies (Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT), and AOL) ramped up 10.2 percent in the fourth quarter to $9 billion. This marks the second quarter of positive growth following last year’s advertising recession, and growth accelerated from 1.2 percent in the third quarter.
Local.com (LOCM) reported another strong quarter last week and again guided to strong growth in 2010. All in all they reported 47% revenue growth in 2009 amazing considering the economic environment and the history of LOCM failures. For Q4, they reported 8% sequential growth and generated $2.8M in cash. All of the reported numbers and guidance handily beat estimates (not that many exist). LOCM ha
IBM(IBM Quote) has unveiled the latest version of its Power processors, which it claims will lay the foundation for companies' green IT efforts and help it tap into new revenue streams. With an increasing heap of IT equipment packed into corporate datacenters, firms have been wrestling with spiraling energy costs, prompting companies like IBM and Microsoft(MSFT Quote) to beat an increasingly eco-
Microsoft (MSFT), the tech giant behind the Windows operating system, whose colleagues include Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), IBM (IBM), and Yahoo! (YHOO), issued Q2 numbers after the bell on Thursday. Revenues increased 14%, and diluted earnings per share went up well over 50% to 74 cents.
Since Steve Jobs’ return, Apple has been formulating this strategy. From the time the first iMac was introduced and then the iPod. The change in name from Apple Computer to Apple Inc should have been a clue, but it was largely understood. The iPhone had everyone bamboozled, because people thought it was about an Apple branded phone. Wrong. It was really the initial incarnation of a mobile communi
Back in September we wrote Is Google International Growth in Jeopardy? and today our fears came one step closer to being realized with the news that France is now seriously looking at a tax on the advertising revenue collected by companies like Google (GOOG) in France.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court's $290 million patent infringement ruling against Microsoft that will prevent the world's largest software maker from selling the current version its popular Word program.

The injunction goes into effect on Jan. 11, but Microsoft said sales of Word will not be affected: The company will have a new version of the
Thanks to questionable regulations and a flaky market, the initial public offering business is pretty grim, especially for lively and unique new companies such as Yelp.

Yelp has been used since its inception as a phenomenal way to explore local businesses especially restaurants. It all changes if Google Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!goog/quotes/nls/goog (GOOG 596.42, +2.48, +0.42%) buys the compan