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TheStreet Goes BlackBerry, for Free

TheStreet.com, the well-known New York-based financial company, has announced that it is now offering a special application created in order to allow BlackBerry users to easily access all its content. Thus, owners of RIM-made smartphones who need to stay updated with the latest financial news, stocks, quotes and othe...

1 October 2008
04:46 GMT

New York Judge Finds Dell Guilty

American hardware and technology manufacturer Dell was found guilty by a New York judge of engaging in deceptive advertising in promotional credit and warranty offers. Yesterday, judge Joseph Teresi ruled that the company and its affiliate Dell Financial Services have to pay restitution for engaging in fraud, false a...

28 May 2008
04:36 GMT

Google's Users: the Latest Update "Stinks"!

Yesterday, the Mountain View-based company Google rolled out what was supposed to be one of the most important Google Finance updates but, unfortunately for the search giant, consumers had quite an unexpected reaction following this improvement. Google proudly announced on the official Google Finance Blog that the se...

25 April 2008
01:59 GMT

SplashMoney and SplashID Mac Versions Out

Formerly available only in the form of productivity software for smartphones, SplashMoney and SplashID have been confirmed as Mac OS X applications too by developer SplashData. Users are able to sync the applications with the apps on their handsets. Free trial versions are available for both SplashMoney 4 and SplashI...

23 April 2008
06:30 GMT

Yahoo Boosts Profit, Microsoft to Rethink its Acquisition Strategy

The Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo has published its financial results for the first quarter of 2008, reporting revenues of no less than $1,818 million, an operating income of $121 million and compensation expense of $433 million. According to the report, the marketing services revenues brought $1,572 million in the f...

23 April 2008
03:19 GMT

Realtime Worlds Gets 50 Million

Realtime Worlds, a Scotland-based developer that is currently working on gang themed MMO All Points Bulletin, managed to secure a 50-million-dollar financing line from Maverick Capital, with consulting handled by Montgomery & Co. The company has now acquired its third financing line and apparently plans to use the mo...

2 April 2008
18:06 GMT

Yahoo Spreading Out to Finance Videos

The first time the idea lit the electrical bulb above someone in the Yahoo staff was about 7 or 8 years ago, back in 2000, but it feels like it was a century ago. Finance Vision was launched in March of the same year, but it was closed down just two years later, in June 2002. After the same period since Yahoo has be...

5 December 2007
04:43 GMT

Motorola Opens Finance Company in China

Motorola will fully own from now on a finance company in China. Its name will be Motorola (China) Finance Limited (MCFL) and will provide financial services for Motorola's subsidiaries, joint ventures and affiliates in this country.Just how did Motorola end up having its own finance company in China is rather un...

9 November 2007
10:03 GMT

Microsoft: Vista Brings Us Money!

Microsoft Corporation today announced that the quarter which ended on September 30, 2007 brought no less than $13,76 billion in revenues, representing an increase of 27 percent compared with the same period of the last year. "Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $5.92 bill...

26 October 2007
10:40 GMT

120 Million Users for Firefox

Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler at Mozilla, posted a huge message on the Mozilla blog to underline the company's 2006 financial results and to mention some numbers recorded by the company's applications. Mozilla's revenues were no less than $66,840,850 and the firm's official admits an impor...

24 October 2007
06:37 GMT

Google and the Story of the $4.23 Billion

Following Yahoo's third quarter 2007 financial results, the Mountain View company Google today published its results revealing revenues of $4.23 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007. It was already known that Google is one of the richest companies on the web and today's results come to confirm t...

19 October 2007
14:06 GMT

Yahoo - $1,768 Million in Revenues!

We all know Yahoo is one of the most powerful companies in both virtual and real world with an impressive financial power. Today, the giant portal wanted to confirm this statement and rolled out the third quarter 2007 financial results which reveal revenues of no less than $1,768 million! Although I'm not a book...

17 October 2007
03:29 GMT

Google: Need Help with Your Money? You Got It!

The Mountain View based company proudly announced that it officially rolled out a new version of the Google Finance help center, providing more information about all sorts of things related to the search giant's "money channel". Ben Softness, Google Finance Support Lead, announced the update of the help manual, ...

22 August 2007
05:09 GMT

Google: Where's Your Notebook, Dude?

Google Notebook is one of the solutions powered by the Mountain View company that was somehow abandoned by both the users and the search giant. In a blog post published today, Nick Fey, Google Finance designer, reminds us of this great product and reveals that it can be easily used with the financial information prov...

17 August 2007
03:24 GMT

What If You Could Download Everything from Google?

Today, the moment when the Google employees had to answer the best questions sent by the users and concerning the Finance solution, finally took place. However, some of the answers are not quite what we expected because Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product Manager, Google Finance talked about only a few interesting to...

20 July 2007
04:07 GMT

Google's Answers Is Dead! Or Not! Or Yes!

Google announced the closure of its questions and answers technology a long time ago when it considered that this kind of service is not useful anymore for the company's consumers. However, it seems like the Russian side of the search giant is now preparing a similar solution that might become globally available...

18 July 2007
03:15 GMT

What's The Connection Between Google's Money and a Mobile Phone?

Google Finance is the latest solution built by the Mountain View company that joins the mobile family owned by Google. Today, Google Finance, the web-based service that provides instant access to financial information provided by Google, is now available from any handheld device connected to the Internet. The mobile ...

26 June 2007
04:03 GMT

Google Likes Money Too

Google was quite reticent in the recent period when it came to financial services although it's well known the fact that the search giant wants to offer a large variety of solutions. However, Google Finance was apparently abandoned by its father Google since the latest improvement was announced. If you remember,...

21 June 2007
04:20 GMT

Yahoo Wants To Boost Its Finances

Yahoo hired a new chief financial officer after the company named Blake Jorgensen the new leader of the financial domain. The 47-year-old man, who will replace Susan Decker, is the co-founder of investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners. The Houston Chronicle reported that Jorgensen would begin the new job at Yahoo on J...

15 May 2007
10:45 GMT

Google's "Money Channel" Improved

Several improvements in Google Finance are now available for all the users of the search giant's service, updates that are especially meant to improve the functionality of the product. Among other important changes, the Mountain View company included historical prices, allowing you to view and download them at t...

8 May 2007
03:21 GMT

Keep a Close Watch on Your Money

It's said nothing is certain but death and taxes. Those who hope to cheat death either end up in alien spaceships or hell (just kidding...), while many (well..., few actually) of those who try to trick the IRS end up in jail. I'm not much into occultism (not these days, anyway), so I won't say anything...

3 April 2007
11:06 GMT

Record All Business Transactions

Managing a business, large or small, has never been easy without the help of the computer. In fact, I can't conceive that a manager can handle the company affairs without using a computer. The machine will practically do half the job or even more, provided it has all the data to work with and the person handling...

3 April 2007
10:04 GMT

Free Money Management

More and more users would rather be paid in e-currency instead of real money. The reason is simple. The administration costs are lower and you can make the payments yourself for a very small fee. Additionally, there are online stores that accept e-gold or e-bullion credit. This almost eliminates some of the costs.As ...

13 March 2007
09:53 GMT




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