GDP Data Stronger Than Financial Headlines Suggest

Ron Haruni|Jul 31, 2008| 

The Commerce Department reported on Thursday, real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 1.9 percent from April to June fiscal ‘08, versus... Read »

Freddie Ramps Up Mortgage Servicer Incentives

Ron Haruni|Jul 31, 2008| 1

Freddie Mac (FRE), one of the nation’s largest investors in residential mortgages, announced on Thursday the doubling of the financial incentives it pays for... Read »

Microsoft Redesigns Live Search With New Images And Hotspots

Ron Haruni|Jul 30, 2008| 

As Microsoft (MSFT) persists in its attempts to gain traction in the search engine market, where it remains a distant third behind leader Google (GOOG) and Yahoo... Read »

Amazon Takes On eBay’s PayPal With New Pay Service

Ron Haruni|Jul 30, 2008| 

The status of PayPal as Web’s reigning leader of payment and money transfer services via the Internet — is simply: unarguable. PayPal, as an e-commerce... Read »

Bush Calls On Congress To Allow Offshore Drilling

Ron Haruni|Jul 30, 2008| 

As pressure over America’s energy appetite gets more intense while panic over skyrocketing oil prices and supply insecurity continues to persist — President... Read »

Bush Signs Massive Housing Rescue Bill

Ron Haruni|Jul 30, 2008| 1

President Bush signed into law on Wednesday a sweeping housing rescue plan aimed at helping an estimated 400,000 homeowners pay off their troubled mortgages and... Read »

T. Boone Pickens Dumps His Yahoo Shares

Ron Haruni|Jul 29, 2008| 1

More news out of Yahoo (YHOO). Yes, I agree – it is getting rather old. This one however, doesn’t involve the usual duo Yang-Icahn. It’s Boone... Read »

Dell Launched The Studio Hybrid Mini PC

Ron Haruni|Jul 29, 2008| 1

Dell launched today its new ultra-small, most personalized and most environmentally responsible consumer PC Desktop called – ‘Studio Hybrid’.... Read »

Dell’s Comeback: New Smartphone May Be in the Works

Ron Haruni|Jul 28, 2008| 1

When Michael Dell resumed his role as CEO, on February 2007, of the company he founded nearly 25 years ago – he faced quite a challenging business environment.... Read »

New Search Engine ‘Cuil’ Launched by Ex-Google Engineers

Ron Haruni|Jul 28, 2008| 1

In every competitive environment, regardless of the industry — every co’s main concept and inclination is that of finding new and innovative ways to... Read »