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An article in today's New York Times describes the evolution of the modern (mostly New York) hedge fund as the markets reshape that industry.  There are inevitable euphemisms: a person is not being "laid off," the Times identifies the phrase du jour as "It looks like we’ll ... Read more

So the day has finally come for Google to step into the smart phones market, if only at the browser level. Nonetheless, their Android browser on the G1 phone by HTC could be a major encroaching step into the market niche that Apple was already trying to carve away from Research in Motion wi ... Read more

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) tried to get several other US companies to stand by it as it called out the Chinese government about cyber attacks on its e-mail service. However, no other firms would “come forward”, despite Google’s requests. Bloomberg ran the story based on comments from &# ... Read more

Every day there are a number of significant stories that come my way that I do not have time to make in depth comments on. Here is a collection on my stack worth a quick peek. Google Walks Google China Threat May Reflect U.S. Companies’ Growing Unease Google Inc.’s threat to pull out of ... Read more

Google (GOOG) has set a deal to distribute its Chrome browser on Sony (SNE) PCs. Google has not had much success in getting computer users to switch from the two dominant browsers which are Microsoft (MSFT) Internet Explorer and Firefox. The partnership between the companies is too small to matter. ... Read more

| Peter Klein | A new item for our “by the numbers” series . Former Google lead designer Doug Bowman recently quit to take a position at Twitter, citing frustration with Google’s engineer-oriented, data-driven culture: When a company is filled with engineers, it turns ... Read the full ... Read more

So I'm watching the Mets game last night and it looks visually....awful. I mean the Stadium looks great, but seats on the lower level near home are virtually empty. At $700 a pop, apparently "real" fans would rather eat the tix than sell under parity or something. Seats beyond that looked ... Read more

Key earnings reports continue through the end of the month.  Below we highlight some of the more significant reports expected over the next several days.  Historically GOOG and ISRG are some of the more volatile names, and will likely create trading opportunities for those interested ... Read more

There have been a number of news reports recently saying that Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! are back in the process of negotiating a combination of their search businesses to take on the industry leader, Google (GOOG). Since Microsoft is a distant third in US market share with less than 10% by most ... Read more

Joe Weisenthal of The Business Insider In the eight years since Eric Schmidt got hired to run a hot private company called Google (GOOG) in 2001, the company has become one of the fastest growing and profitable companies the world has ever seen. This growth has propelled Eric from his prior status a ... Read more