Trading the Microsoft/Yahoo! Buyout Showdown
The Players
Microsoft put forth an offer to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion or a 62% premium over the closing price on Jan 31. Yahoo! formally declined the deal today. Google denounced the merger and later appeared to have offered a deal in which Google would take over Yahoo!’s search function in exchange for [...]
Google Android
There has been much hype about Google developing a phone – the G Phone as it has been dubbed. Well there is no one G-Phone. What Google has done is chosen to develop a platform upon which handset makers and developers can create their own applications. They have released the SDK [...]
Google Spreadsheets – Part Deux
Last night I was preparing a spreadsheet for discussion with my brother about an investment. My original intent was to create the spreadsheet and email it to him. Any questions he had would be presumably dealt with via email or telephone. I started up my desktop when I realized something. I [...]
