Copyright (c) 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker Technology stocks & Silicon Valley: the inside scoop on investing ideas and trends, featuring all-star contributors, CEOs, entrepreneurs and money managers. en-us http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/fi/pr/40197.gif http://finance.yahoo.com 144 17 Friday 09 May 08 19:35:19 GMT http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/yftt_16434/Apple:-The-Customer's-Dream,-The-CIO's-Nightmare?tickers=aapl,msft,intc BusinessWeek's Peter Burrows and I continue our discussion of Apple's surprising-- and perhaps unintentional-- inroads into the corporate computing office. In this segment, we drill down into why customers dream of that moment their Mac arrives, and why C Friday 09 May 08 19:35:19 GMT http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/yftt_16419/Bernanke's-Bind:-Fighting-Inflation-Could-Crimp-Consumers,-Credit-Markets?tickers=AIG,WMT,COST Crude's remarkable run resumed Friday as "black gold" surged above $126 per barrel at its intraday peak. Not coincidentally, crude's rise has been accompanied by a falling dollar, which saw its recent rally halted this week by some tough anti-in Friday 09 May 08 18:57:13 GMT http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/yftt_16404/Priceline,-Activision-Cut-Through-the-Gloom?tickers=PCLN,ATVI,TTWO,ERTS,NVDA The stock market is taking it on the chin Friday as AIG's gaping loss has put the financial sector back in a harsh spotlight. But beneath the gloomy surface some tech stocks are shining, most notably Priceline.com and Activision. Friday 09 May 08 17:32:28 GMT http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/yftt_16378/MSFT-YHOO-GOOG:-High-Stakes-Chess-Match-Ain't-Over-Yet?tickers=MSFT,YHOO,GOOG Is Microsoft giving Yahoo a face-saving way to come back to the negotiating table? That's one interpretation of Microsoft's latest statements and decision to dismantle is proxy board slate. It's also a plausible explanation for why Yahoo shares have been Friday 09 May 08 16:13:12 GMT http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/yftt_16370/Credit-Crunch-Ending?-Somebody-Forgot-to-Tell-AIG?tickers=AIG,C,JPM,BSC,WMT,COST,BJ Wall Street titans keep saying the credit crisis is ending, but the headlines from financial firms say otherwise.Thursday evening, AIG became the latest firm to produce shockingly bad results, posting a first-quarter loss of $7.81 billion and saying it wi Friday 09 May 08 15:32:48 GMT http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/yftt_16360/Circuit-City-Opens-Door-to-Blockbuster,-Icahn-May-Buy-Chain-Himself?tickers=bbi,cc From paidContent.org, May 8, 2008:The awkward pairing of Circuit City and Blockbuster is past the spitball phase and into the handholding phase. The struggling electronics giant says it will allow Blockbuster and its investor Carl Icahn to conduct due dil Friday 09 May 08 14:40:12 GMT http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/yftt_16358/Google-Confirms-Plans-to-Put-Display-Ads-on-Google.com?tickers=goog From Silicon Alley Insider, May 9, 2008:The most pressing question for Google (GOOG) shareholders is what product will drive the company's next growth boom as the search product cycle ends. Most likely candidate? Not sexy mobile or video. Just boring o Friday 09 May 08 14:15:47 GMT http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/yftt_16296/Microsoft-Steps-Further-Away-from-Yahoo:-Proxy-Board-Let-Go,-WSJ-Reports?tickers=MSFT,YHOO In another sign it has "moved on" from Yahoo (at least for now), Microsoft has released members of its potential proxy board slate from their obligations, The Wall Street Journal reports. ... Thursday 08 May 08 21:02:54 GMT http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/yftt_16266/RIM's-iPhone-Killer:-Not-Terrible,-but-No-iPhone?tickers=rimm,aapl From Silicon Alley Insider, May 8, 2008:How's RIM's iPhone-killer BlackBerry 9000? Not bad! So says Kevin Michaluk of CrackBerry.com, who managed to get his paws on a way-before-release test unit from eBay. Kevin's in the process of posting a multi-part, Thursday 08 May 08 20:16:22 GMT http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/yftt_16253/Macs-Make-Corporate-Sales-in-Spite-of-Themselves?tickers=msft,aapl,dell Peter Burrows wrote a popular and, as always with Apple, controversial BusinessWeek cover story about Apple's gains in the corporate world. Never mind, its utter lack of trying. He joined me to talk about the story, how this plays in the Mac's overall mar Thursday 08 May 08 19:44:03 GMT