Yahoo News is Now Linking to Blogs

Here’s a story mainly for other bloggers… Long time readers may remember that I’ve not been happy with Yahoo for a long time. I think it was about 4 years ago when they first contacted me about their plans to add blogs to Yahoo Finance. Those plans never came to fruition. I’ve also not been [...]

Yahoo! is Fade-o-licious (i.e., it’s One Heavy Stock)

There’s a ton of buzz about Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) replacing CEO Terry Semel with Jerry Yang. But in what seems to be becoming a trend for Yahoo, the market is yawning in the face of the news. We saw similar action in May, when news came out that Yahoo had discussions with Microsoft (MSFT) about [...]

Google’s Feed Reader Market Share is Huge

A lot of bloggers who use FeedBurner got a nice surprise this morning. One of the great features of FeedBurner is the stats they provide on the number of readers of a given RSS feed. The only problem is that for web-based newsreaders/aggregators they rely upon those services to report the number of actual subscribers [...]

Chart Request: Google (GOOG) Plus Some Fugly Net Stocks

Jerry wrote: I wanted to know your option on GOOG. For the first time GOOG posted good earnings and the stock goes down… I’m not sure if this is the first time it dropped post-earnings but I could be wrong… I’ve been watching GOOG the last several days as it’s tried to climb back above [...]

Testing Out the New Yahoo Finance Stock Chart Widget

The new Yahoo Finance tool for adding stock data to websites is now live. Let’s see how this works. (hat tip to Steve)