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You’ve got to hand it to Amazon.com. For bulls and bears alike, the stock keeps making as many sudden and unpredictable turns as a Harry Potter novel. And it inspires as much debate as a passionate screed from Al Gore or Christopher Hitchens.
Of course, the plot turns have been much more enjoyable for the bulls [...]

There is a good deal of buzz in the tech-news world about a $3.9 million investment that Google has made in a company called 23andMe, a startup in hiring mode with dreams of “helping consumers understand and browse their genome”.
$3.9 million? What’s the big deal about a company that Google is investing less than 1/750th [...]

If you’re tired of the old cliché that information is power, here’s a new one: Disinformation is every bit as powerful.
That much we know from the mischievous email that was apparently sent out to Apple employees and that - naturally - quickly found its way into the tech-news cycle via the respected and highly trafficked [...]

We’re not even halfway through 2007 and I’m ready to make a nomination for worst IPO candidate of the year: Orbitz.
You may recall that Orbitz - the online travel site founded by five major airlines in 2000 - went public at $26 a share in 2003. It filed documents Thursday to go public again. But [...]

Hewlett-Packard caught Wall Street off guard by essentially giving a sneak preview into its second-quarter earnings 75 minutes before the markets opened. The announcement, the result of an errant email, caught a lot of attention. But just as interesting, I thought, was the way it all unfolded.
H-P was supposed to deliver its earnings a week [...]

ANALYSIS (Q1 2007 Earnings Season): Internet companies are playing a game of stump the analysts. And they’re winning.
For the second straight quarter, the research desks on Wall Street have significantly and pretty consistently fallen short in their earnings estimates.
This is no small matter for analysts. Their job is to query the company, talk to its [...]