Archives: Ask May Dump Teoma For Google, Layoff 100 People

Ask is rumored to be considering switching to Google for search and subsequently downsizing its engineering team.
According to Silicon Alley Insider, Ask may abandon or selling its Teoma search engine in favor of using Google for its search results. Teoma has powered Ask since it was acquired in September 2001. The decision will result in […]

On balance, with the onslaught of lousy economic reports, poor earnings outlooks and generalized malaise in the market, ending down for the week by about 1% might be some sort of moral victory. Particularly when Fridays tend to be the popular day for investors to puke up whatever they can’t digest. But it’s hard to […]

James Hamilton at Econbrowser takes a look at the inflation situation, and takes issue with Ben Bernanke’s assumptions on inflation (founded on his “dourness of the outlook for real economic activity”). He notes the sharp upward moves in commodities from A to Z, from aluminum to zinc. “If it were just a few commodities moving, […]

Getty Images: At $34 a share, Hellman & Friedman’s offer Monday for the photo agency is 39% higher than where its shares closed last Friday. That’s a nice premium given concerns that current market conditions would squelch the deal. In fact, as Deal Journal pointed out here, Getty Images had a thin pool of […]

Getty Images: At $34 a share, Hellman & Friedman’s offer Monday for the photo agency is 39% higher than where its shares closed last Friday. That’s a nice premium given concerns that current market conditions would squelch the deal. In fact, as Deal Journal pointed out here, Getty Images had a thin pool of […]

Here’s a question to think about over the weekend: Is capitalism immoral?
Stefan Thiel seems to think that is what is being taught to European school kids. In an article in the January/February edition of Foreign Policy magazine, Stefan Thiel concluded that Europe, particularly France and Germany, are teaching their children a “philosophy of failure,” based […]

Here’s a question to think about over the weekend: Is capitalism immoral?
Stefan Thiel seems to think that is what is being taught to European school kids. In an article in the January/February edition of Foreign Policy magazine, Stefan Thiel concluded that Europe, particularly France and Germany, are teaching their children a “philosophy of failure,” based […]

Is legal academia family friendly?
That’s the Law Blog twist on a question raised by an opinion column in today’s WSJ. The column looks at a study of why academia broadly is filled with more “liberals” than conservatives. The paper’s columnist homes in on this part of the study’s conclusion: conservatives are less likely to get […]

Should Verizon buy Sprint?
It would be a hard sell. Sprint Nextel is so troubled and such an obvious takeover candidate that investors and others have dreamed of a prince for years, ranging from AT&T to Comcast.
And last year, bankers got very excited about the idea of a Verizon combination with Vodafone. Verizon decided not […]

The multiple sclerosis treatment Tysabri is finding a welcome market among patients afflicted with the illness, despite the medicine’s risks.
“This has been a learning experience for a lot of Wall Street folks, myself included,” said Mark Schoenebaum, a Bear Stearns biotech analyst, in a recent video interview courtesy of The Healthcare Channel. The lesson, […]