Updated throughout the day. Merrill Lynch warned the SEC and Fed that Lehman was booking capital aggressively (FT) Apax Partner may buy Polycom (PLCM) for as much as $3 billion (FT) Palm (PALM), just off poor earnings, may be a buyout target for Dell (DELL), Nokia (NOK), or Microsoft (MSFT ... Read more

It's still startling that just ten years ago the government's lawyers were confidently asserting it would be extremely difficult --almost impossible! -- for anybody to compete with Microsoft. Guess again . (Also see " How Google stole mighty Microsoft’s thunder ".) ... Read more

Market analysts and experts on IT spending have taken a “wait-and-see” approach to pass judgment on whether the launch of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 7 would cause quick adoption of the software at businesses. Upgrades to Windows 7 should cause a wave of purchases ... Read the full p ... Read more

Corporate IT spending will pick up in the first quarter of 2010. That is the finding of a new research survey from ChangeWave. A total of 1,753 respondents involved with corporate IT spending in their organizations participated in the November 9-20 survey. Twenty-two percent of respondents report ... Read more

September sales for video game consoles were relatively good given the economy. Price cuts on the Nintendo Wii, Sony (NYSE:SNE) PS3, and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox stimulated activity. It appears that the initial surge in sales that those discounts caused is already over. Video game sales, includ ... Read more

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) posted EPS for its fiscal first quarter of  $.40 compared with $.48 last year. The company has revenue $12.92 billion. Both numbers were well ahead of Wall St. forecasts of  $.32 a share on revenues of $12.4 billion. The revenue figure was off 14% for the three mon ... Read more

“Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has ... Read more

The valuations of large social networks like MySpace (NWS), Facebook, and Twitters is that a visitor to a social network as the same value as a visitor to Yahoo! (YHOO), AOL, or Ask.com (IACI). Facebook is worth $10 billion because its number of members is close to the number of people who come to Y ... 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