Infospace (INSP) is an interseting stock: Here is a profitable company trading at a Enterprise value/EBIDTA of 1.5, a price to sales ratio of 1, with $223 million of

The market is pretty fascinating right now. It is currently featuring 100-point intra-month S&P swings, a solid rally in eccentric commodities like coffee, currencies bouncing around like ping-pong balls,

Well, the 3Par bidding war saga looks to be coming to an end as HP's final $33 offer has been accepted and Dell has pulled out of the race.

I'm a key influencer. I'm also a technology evangelist, analyst, and journalist. And I can also leverage core competencies. Uh-oh. Sick of me yet?

If only you could have the problem of having a 2% investment in a company whose share price has gone to the moon, right? Well, that's where Cisco is

What's on my mind this morning? Litigation. Like, Paul Allen suing everybody. And everybody suing Facebook.

This bidding war between HP and Dell for 3Par says something to me about big technology companies: They are stuck. They can't grow internally, so they have to look

Little storage player 3Par Data is suddenly the envy of many, as it gets caught up in a massive bidding war between Dell and HP which have caused its

Another day, another deal. Intel has agreed to buy security software firm McAfee for $7.68 billion (Wall Street Journal). That's $48 per share, or a 60% premium to Wednesday's

Let's catch up on many of the public companies and stocks we've been following:

After months of talking to smart people and taking notes, my latest notebook is filled. Usually what I do at this point is read back through the whole thing

Is there a more explosive economic concept than combining iProducts with China? Didn't think so. In that vein, MarketWatch reports that China Unicom starts to ship iPhone 4 in

The Internet advertising industry appears to be in denial about the growing momentum behind Internet privacy -- and it should start to prepare for more protection of data through

Dell is making a big move into the data storage market with a $1.15 billion all-cash deal for 3Par Inc. It comes at an interesting time, as 3Par's growth

The "Net Neutrality" debate has taken a interesting turn this week, triggered by Verizon and Google's joint statement to move toward more tiered services on the Internet.

Oh, this is fantastic, Oracle is suing Google. Larry Ellison vs. Eric Schmidt -- the Alpha Male vs. the Science Geek. This is going to be very interesting!

Quietly, the European Union is moving toward broad privacy tightening of privacy on Internet applications, specifically in relation to advertising.

Something on Cisco's earnings call last night went terribly wrong. In a rational business sense, Cisco made plenty of money, even though they missed analyst estimates: $1.9B in profit

Cisco shares are getting hammered nearly 6% after hours after the company missed targets set by analysts.

The Internet privacy movement appears to be gathering steam and leading to growing paranoia (warranted) among those who have the most to lose: Dozens of venture-backed ad networks and

BIG SKY, MT -- RightNow Technologies (Nasdaq: RNOW), a provider of customer-service software, today launched an ambitious new platform to open up the way customer service applications are built

Service-as-a-software (Saas) company Marketo is riding the trend of real-time analysis of customer behavior, making it one of the fastest enterprise software companies in the venture market and a

Still wondering why the market has such bizarre action? Why the Mom-and-Pop investor wants little to do with it? Wondering if fear of Flash Crash II runs high? Look

Well, what's more important -- a generous severance package or avoiding being disgraced by a sketchy expense-account scandal involving a sub-contractor that happens to be a reality-show actress? That's