The $44.6-billion Microsoft merger with Yahoo! may seem like a pretty pocket of jingle, but you may be surprised to hear that it doesn't even come close to the largest acquisition in history. Most of the really big record-breakers need to hit 12 digits, and generally fall within the 100...
Oil has broken the $100/barrel mark for the first time, and as our own Jessica Stillman reports, its driving up the price of gum. But exactly how much are the stratospheric oil spots truly affecting the bread-and-butter (or more appropriately, the milk and eggs)? Washington Post pins the YOY price...
Home prices may be plummeting, but there is another real estate that's steadily growing: .com domain names. Earlier this year, poker.com became the most valuable domain sale in history when it was reportedly sold for a whopping $27 million. In fact, the sales in...
Picture a consumer typing in a domain name that intends to reach you. Instead, the consumer slips up in typing the address and ends up with a goody bag full of spyware, viruses, and trojan horses on their computer. That hypothetical occurrence is far more common than you may think....
The movie industry has lost over $6 billion in sales every year due to film piracy worldwide, the vast majority of which is in China, where one can snatch up a copy of Harry Potter if it be your desire for a buck or two. In retaliation, Paramount has formed...
It may surprise you to find out that Google doesn't gain the highest click-through-rate for a search. Earlier, BNET1 had noted Google's brand recognition and market dominance, but Yahoo! trumps Google in one vital metric: Search relevance. According to data from Complete.com, 7.5 billion searches hit the Internet...
Since Sarbanes-Oxley a slew of new requirements and oversight found its way into the law books, one of which is the "outside director" requirement. Enron taught us that we needed a little more oversight in our boards -- and one solution was to require more independent board members. Are companies...
