[TS] Talking Business: Revisiting Overstock.com and Utah
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The crusade against ânaked short sellingâ by Patrick M. Byrne, the head of Overstock.com, may be in the midst of a meltdown.
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One week ago, I submitted a bid for Google Inc. stock that overestimated the eventual auction price of the computer search company&#39;s initial public offering by nearly 30 percent. But I sold my shares shortly ...
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IT has never been able to prove it's true value to the business, and as such it is treated as a cost center, which is the first thing to get cut in poorly run companies. But with Web 2.0 booming, all the assumptions that you hold about IT should be put on notice: change is in the air. Web 2.0 companies have had to grow their own technology for economic functionality. Free means crap right? Wrong. How many of you keep Yahoo! Mail running on your BlackBerry's along with Exchange because you know Exchange will be down sooner or later?
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Is the market really overvalued? ALL of it?!? There are 6,000-plus listed companies -- at least one is a bargain.
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I donât like self-proclaimed prophets. So, you'll rarely see me quoting them. I guess my aversion originates in so many presentations where the next [insert application or company here] âkillerâ will emerge if we invest some money. And yes, I admit I sat on the side of the table talking about a couple  of those killer apps myself.
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Don't you dare say that Google is overvalued.
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Nutrition, obsession, global business:  an exploration of our second most basic desire.
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SAN FRANCISCO Naysayers used to assert that packaged-goods companies would never have much success attracting people to their Web sites because there isn't much tech sizzle in a bar of soap or box of crackers. New evidence on Web traffic would suggest otherwise. Companies such as Kraft, General Mills and Betty Crocker are attracting new unique users at twice the rate of the Internet as a whole, according to recent data from comScore.
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Today, Seesmic, the company founded by Loic Lemeur, announced their initial $6 million funding. Several people noticed that my name isn't on the list of investors.  I'll probably end up kicking myself when Seesmic becomes the next Google or YouTube. I remain a fan of the company and Loic and his team and will be rooting for them.  Why did I get cold feet? It has nothing to do with the product or the company, both of which appear to be outstanding. It's the stock market. I had to make the final Seesmic decision as I was getting out of stock, at a significant loss. The only stock I hold now is AAPL, and sadly, it's way under the price I paid for it a few months ago. Like a lot of other investors, right now stocks give me the willies. I will likely get back in, slowly, a little bit every week to average out the price, hoping the market has found a bottom.
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Some unscrupulous vendors manage to worm their way into price comparison site listings. Knowing how these shopping engines work can help you avoid the bad apples.
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Sellers uhappy with higher fees are looking to Overstock.com as an alternative.
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The new search-engine technology is meant to rival Google. Also: Reebok unveils a new version of the Pump & hellip;.  PeopleSoft still won't settle for Oracle's bid & hellip;. and more.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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Also: The truth about shopping engines. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Too often, retailers' Web sites don't work right, if at all...and they keep chasing after new customers instead of trying to retain their current ones. Are some big online retailers focusing too much on the competition at the expense of their own evolution?
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bulk messages clogging instant-messaging accounts. AOL and its Anti-Spam Alliance partners -- EarthLink, Microsoft, and Yahoo
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'Massive illegal stock market manipulation' One gets the feeling that Patrick Byrne, the boss of the online excess inventory dealer Overstock.com, would have an argument with himself if he were the only person in the room.â¦