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Are retail traders excited for the Facebook IPO? Or do they secretly fear it? If you listen to the mainstream media, you'll be under the impression that Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) initial public offering is slated to become the biggest of all time. Never mind the disappointing debut of Zynga (NASDAQ...

The search engine giant is one of many names being tossed around in the quest for Twitter's acquisition. Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWSA) are among the companies that are believed to be looking at Twitter, a company that is often criticized for failing...

There was an article on Reuters over the weekend that former Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang was looking to buy the company, and take it private. This begs the question: what does the former CEO see in the U.S. operations that no one else does? Yang wants to take the company...

According to Reuters, sources claim that Microsoft is considering to place a bid for Yahoo, three years after its first attempt to purchase the struggling Internet company. Back in 2008, Microsoft was close to acquiring Yahoo, but the deal fell through before completion. The report mentions that...

( click to enlarge ) Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) shares surged Wednesday on reports that the giant Microsoft may be an interested buyer. Reuters reported this afternoon that Microsoft, which made an unsuccessful bid for Yahoo in 2008, may seek a partner to acquire the Sunnyvale-based Internet...

If you Google “Wean a Baby from its Bottle,” you learn one important fact. The bottle must go. You can do it fast or you can do it slow, but in the end the baby has to stop the suckling. That is the nature of progress. Someone needed to tell that to Jerry Yang a long time ago. As a co-...

Yesterday, Yahoo began sending out invitations to the media for a press conference in New York on Monday, October 3, 2011, according to Forbes. The event, kicking off at 9 AM eastern time, will be led by Ross Levinsohn, executive vice president of Yahoo Americas. Levinsohn will be speaking and...

As many as three million people are signing up for Google+ every single day. That's according to Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research. Chowdhry's firm recently attended a series of social media events, during which Global Equities spoke to “no less...

The former Yahoo! VP of Product and Strategy is moving on. According to Business Insider, Kevin Krim was hired to save Bloomberg.com. Last December, he told Benzinga's own Jason Raznick about the progress that had been made. “We, according to comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), have over 20 million unique...

Earlier this week, it was revealed that now former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was fired from her position over the phone by the company's Chairman of the Board. The move didn't come as a surprise to most, especially considering Bartz's poor performance at Yahoo since she was hired as CEO back in ...