News: Business & Finance

• Rising royalties send Yahoo's Launchcast to CBS
  Michael Liedtke
  Dec 04 2008
  Categories:
  • Business & Finance

  Yahoo Inc. is plugging its Internet radio service into CBS Corp.'s webcasting network in a move driven by dramatically higher fees for airing music online.Yahoo's retreat from operating a standalone ...

  More
  Comments
  0
• First NFL game in 3-D fumbles, then recovers
  Ryan Nakashima
  Dec 04 2008
  Categories:
  • Business & Finance

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first NFL game broadcast to theaters live in 3-D fumbled, then recovered Thursday night. Two satellite glitches blacked out the broadcast to theaters in Boston, New York and ...

  More
  Comments
  0
• No Santa this year? Consumer electronics group cuts quarterly sales forecast
  Dean Takahashi
  Dec 04 2008
  Categories:
  • Business & Finance

  In the no surprise department, the Consumer Electronics Association shaved its forecast for fourth-quarter sales as it reconsidered the impact of the falling economy. Yes, that’s right. Santa ...

  More
  Comments
  0
• Icahn facing huge loss unless Yahoo stock rebounds
  Michael Liedtke
  Dec 04 2008
  Categories:
  • Business & Finance

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If activist investor Carl Icahn is going to profit from his $1.8 billion bet on Yahoo Inc., the billionaire needs the struggling Internet company's stock to more than double ...

  More
  Comments
  0
• Facebook delays employee stock sale, citing recession
  Eric Eldon
  Dec 04 2008
  Categories:
  • Business & Finance

  Facebook was planning to let its employees sell some of their stock in the company per an unconventional plan we discovered this summer. But that plan is now on hold; although, from what we hear it ...

  More
  Comments
  0
• Google’s Joe Krauss: Friend Connect helps like-minded strangers meet across the web
  Eric Eldon
  Dec 04 2008
  Categories:
  • Business & Finance

  Up to this point, Google’s Friend Connect service seemed to lack two essential ingredients. Sure, it offers an easy way for web publishers to let users provide their identities on other sites. ...

  More
  Comments
  0
• Cut open your friends on your iPhone with Dr. Awesome
  MG Siegler
  Dec 04 2008
  Categories:
  • Business & Finance

  iPhone game-development house ngmoco is on a roll. Its first game, MazeFinger, was good (at least for a free app). Its next game, Topple, was great. And today it released its third game, Dr. Awesome, ...

  More
  Comments
  0
• Briefly: Ex-Yahoo exec Qi Lu to oversee Microsoft online services, aQuantive CEO departs
  Jordan Golson, The Industry Standard
  Dec 04 2008
  Categories:
  • Business & Finance

  Microsoft has put former Yahoo exec Qi Lu in charge of Microsoft's search, online-advertising, online-information, and online-communications businesses. Lu will report directly to Steve Ballmer. Lu ...

  More
  Comments
  0
• Ballmer’s email to the troops on Microsoft’s Qi Lu hire
  MG Siegler
  Dec 04 2008
  Categories:
  • Business & Finance

  Microsoft has hired Qi Lu, a former executive with Yahoo, as the new president of its Online Services Group. What does that mean? Lu will be in charge of search and online advertising for the ...

  More
  Comments
  0
• Circle of Moms gets circle of traffic
  Tam Vo
  Dec 04 2008
  Categories:
  • Business & Finance

  Save the drama for your mama, or at least take it online. Circle of Moms, a new parenting website launched in October 2008, can now celebrate its 850,000 registered users. Only two months after ...

  More
  Comments
  0