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VMWare’s IPO: Wait?
It has been a strange summer of uncertainties elsewhere in the market, but certainly, VMWare’s hot IPO has not felt any of the pressure. In fact, it has made a slow August exciting with one of Tech’s most important events this year. Eric Savitz at Barrons reports: “EMC (EMC) today generated a massive return on
Trimble’s Compelling Growth Strategy
On Sunday, October 23, 2004 disaster struck the residents of Niigata Prefecture, a scenic spot in Honsh?, the largest island of Japan. Starting shortly before 6 in the evening a series of 15 earthquakes for the next 66 hours rendered more than a million people homeless, and their houses became heaps of rubble. Even as
InfoSpace’s Slide Down
It all began exactly 12 years back in August 1995 when Netscape Communications came out with an IPO. With no profit in its book to show, Netscape nevertheless sold stocks worth $2.2 billion. Thus commenced the Dotcom era. InfoSpace founder Navin Jain, who then worked for MSN, soon left to start his own company in
Electronic Arts (ERTS) On The Way Up
By Frank Lara, Guest Author If John Welch is building a new Electronic Arts then how is the real Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) doing and is it worth your time and money for a potential investment opportunity? The quick answer – they are worth your attention. Electronic Arts is the big daddy of the gaming
Tom Tom + Tele Atlas: Perfect Match
If there is ever a perfect marriage, this could be it. Tom Tom’s (AMS: TOM2) planned acquisition of Tele Atlas (AMS: TA) is perfect in more senses than one. For one thing, both are Dutch companies, with synergistic businesses, and a merger integration will be dramatically easier based on that reason alone. But of course,
Take-Two (TTWO) Takes Two Steps Back
By Frank Lara, Guest Author What happens when you delay your flagship product and you exist in the cut throat gaming sector? How about a 22% drop in your company stock and plenty of time to beat yourself up questioning – what went wrong? Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO) finished the week down 26% when
More on the LOCM Patent Situation
Here’s a must-read analysis of the patent by Marty Himmelstein, formerly from Vicinity. Marty also wrote to me privately: “Hi Sramana – I read your post on local.com today. As I tried to make the case in my post, the Local.com patent is fatally flawed. First, the copious prior art makes the patent irrelevant. I
Place and Location Services Growth Fuels Navteq
If you’re ever stuck in a big US city in never-ending traffic – which is perfectly commonplace these days – trying to figure out how soon you can reach your client’s office downtown, trust Navteq’s (NYSE: NVT) GPS maps to effortlessly guide you to your destination. Sounds too simple? The truth is it is. If
