Archives: Google’s Surge Would Make Casey Kasem Proud

Congratulations to all of those analysts who put a $700 price target on Google (even those who did so in the last six days or whatever). It’s been reached, just 16 trading days after crossing $600 — and with that milestone the company yesterday moved into the top five in terms of market capitalization for […]

Shai Oster has an important new story about China raising its state-managed energy prices by about 10% in response to soaring global prices and regional shortages. Click here for the full story.

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Hey patent geeks — and you know who you are! — a federal judge in Richmond, Vir. has issued an injunction against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s new rules, which were due to take effect tomorrow. It’s a big win for Kirkland & Ellis, which represented GlaxoSmithKline, the company that filed the lawsuit challenging […]

The latest Jason Calacanis Mahalo spin-off launches November 5 with a daily video podcast based around well…the rather unexciting topic of Mahalo’s content pages.
Mahalo Daily’s star, ex-C-Net producer Veronica Belmont seems to have a good presence on screen and the recording quality is good, even if the topic area going forward will be a challenge.
Classic […]

Teen pregnancy rates are declining more slowly among U.S. Latinas than in other groups, prompting public-health advocates to rethink educational programs aimed at the Hispanic community, reports Newsweek. In the past, pregnancy-prevention campaigns targeting Hispanics were identical to ones directed at black and white teens, apart from being translated into Spanish. This was designed in […]

Most workers have a love/hate relationship with their smartphones. On one hand, the devices let us check our email and field phone calls no matter where we are. That’s also the downside.
But would that love/hate balance change if you had a different phone? Probably not, according to a new study by J.D. Power and […]

“I’m Not Dead Yet”

Sure, the Charlotte, N.C., retail banking giant acknowledges that Wall Street sees sweeping changes in its Global Corporate and Investment Bank as a retreat from the business. And yes, Chairman and CEO Ken Lewis said he has had “all the fun” he could stand in investment banking and has been silent in […]

The 21st century doctor is supposed to be all about transparency, but legal liability, that seemingly eternal bugbear, continues to weigh on the profession.
Under legislation being considered in Massachusetts, if a doctor apologizes to a patient and admits making a mistake, the statements couldn’t be used in court, the Boston Globe reports.
Similar laws are […]

Robin Sidel writes of the ongoing plan to finance “The Entity,” the super-SIV that will rescue bank balance sheets from bad positions, cure cancer, and accurately determine which is butter and “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” in a blind taste test. “If the rescue plan failed and buyers continued to stay away from the […]

Matt Chambers has the latest on ever-resilient crude:
Crude-oil futures bolted to a fresh record high, rising after U.S. Department of Energy data showed a surprise fall in crude stockpiles and after the Federal Reserve cut rates by an expected quarter percentage point.
The front-month December light, sweet crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange […]