Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang missed his chance to get top dollar for the company"s stakes in Asian Internet firms.[...]
Warren Buffett is sometimes portrayed as a septuagenarian superhero with a $ on his chest. So when America"s favorite capitalist crusader recently swooped into Wall Street with a $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs, steadying the august investment house amid the greatest turmoil since 1929, it was interpreted as both [...]
DETROIT — A General Motors official says the automaker could consider selling its downtown Detroit headquarters as part of a way to raise cash, but plans to stay in the towering complex.[...]
Ford Motor Co. is receiving a $10 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department to develop plug-in hybrid vehicles.[...]
Eli Lilly agreed Monday to pay $6.5 billion to acquire ImClone Systems, the biotechnology company that is controlled by Carl C. Icahn and whose stock was involved in the insider trading scandal that sent Martha Stewart to jail.[...]
Auto executives agree: their industry is headed into a giant storm. The clouds of global economic turmoil cast a pall over the opening of the Paris Motor Show on Thursday "" although a staged display of thunder and blue lightning bolts provided a dramatic backdrop for the introduction of BMW [...]
As the financial crisis deepens, venture capital firms that bankroll high-tech and life sciences start-ups are experiencing the slowest market in a decade for recouping their investments.[...]
It"s the first time in at least 5 years that Stephen Newberry has owned a stake in the company he leads.[...]
Chinese solar company Suntech Power said Thursday it will triple sales in the United States next year through large megawatt and commercial projects and an aggressive expansion in the residential market. Suntech is broadening its reach into commercial sector by acquiring EI Solutions, the California company that helped convert Google"s [...]
The first of the Google phones is controlled using a method that is finally gaining momentum in mobile computing: swiping a finger across the screen. The touch sensors in T-Mobile"s G1 phone, which hits the market Oct. 23, are made by Synaptics, a little-known but influential Silicon Valley company co-founded [...]
LOS ANGELES — The federal Copyright Royalty Board left the rate for royalties paid to songwriters for CDs and digital downloads unchanged.[...]
Pessimism about a protracted economic downturn washed over the financial markets today, sending stocks plunging and further tightening the credit markets. News of declining factory orders and a seven-year high in jobless claims stoked fears that the government"s financial rescue plan won"t ward off a recession, and the Dow Jones [...]
Hewlett-Packard agreed to buy LeftHand Networks for $360 million in cash to expand its storage offerings.[...]
IPhone developers and publishers of iPhone-related books cheered Wednesday after Apple said it would lift the software non-disclosure agreement that had prevented them from discussing the process of creating programs for the device.[...]
Royalties that digital music companies from Apple to record labels pay songwriters for selling their music as ringtones, CDs and permanent digital downloads are to be set Thursday by a federal agency. This is the first time in nearly three decades that the industry has been unable to decide the [...]
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is buying $3 billion worth of General Electric preferred shares, even as the diversified conglomerate is preparing to sell at least $12 billion worth of common stock to the public.[...]
DETROIT— Tight credit, economic worries and high gasoline prices combined to cut Ford Motor's U.S. sales once again in September, with the beleaguered automaker reporting a 34 percent decline from the same month last year.[...]
Last week, I watched the presidential debate at an event co-sponsored by Current TV and Twitter. Anyone watching could post comments that appeared in real time on the screen. It was glimpse of the promise and problems posed by interactive TV.[...]
EBay said Netscape Communications co-founder Marc Andreessen has joined its board of directors, effective immediately.[...]
Last week, I watched the presidential debate at an event co-sponsored by Current TV and Twitter. Anyone watching could post comments that appeared in real time on the screen. It was glimpse of the promise and problems posed by interactive TV.[...]
One low-profile sector of the Silicon Valley economy figures to directly benefit from the financial crisis at hand: the secondary venture capital funds. These firms don"t fund start-ups, but rather provide financial flexiiblity for the primary VCs and their limited partners (LPs), such as pension funds, university endowments and wealthy [...]
Last week, I watched the presidential debate at an event co-sponsored by Current TV and Twitter. Anyone watching could post comments that appeared in real time on the screen. It was glimpse of the promise and problems posed by interactive TV.[...]
WirelessRival for WiFiVodafone, Microsoft and Ericsson are among 17 companies working together to promote laptop computers with built-in tools for making broadband connections to mobile-phone networks.[...]
In an effort to combat the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression, government officials on Sunday unveiled a 110-page, $700 billion bailout proposal. Reaction in the Bay Area was cautiously optimistic. Bush confident in new bailout deal Questions and answers | Market update Citigroup to buy Wachovia assets[...]
High-profile Silicon Valley venture capitalist John Doerr endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for president today.[...]
