Yahoo Deal Is Big, but Is It the Next Big Thing?

In moving to buy Yahoo, Microsoft may be firing the final shot of yesterday’s war.That one was over Internet search advertising, a booming category in which both Microsoft and Yahoo were humble and distant also-rans behind Google.
Microsoft may see Yahoo as its last best chance to catch up. But for all its size and ambition, [...]

Foreign investors love U.S. real estate

Many Americans are anxious about the real estate market. But foreign investors see U.S. apartments, hotels, shopping centers, warehouses and offices as good investments, according to a new survey.
The weak dollar has made the American real estate market look attractive to foreign bargain hunters.
The U.S. rose to the top of lists of the “most stable [...]

Fannie and Freddie to the Rescue?

Policymakers want to give the mortgage lenders access to the jumbo loan market, in an effort to free up credit and stimulate home sales
Hoping to speed delivery of its $150 billion pick-me-up for the U.S. economy, the Bush Administration reluctantly agreed to temporarily increase the size of the mortgages Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac [...]

The Power Of Social Media and Living The Dream

Let’s take a look at an incredible program that worked quite well in the past few months: Yaro Starak’s Blog Profits Blueprint program. If you’ve studied a social site like Digg long enough, you’d know that the users there are receptive to blogging but not necessarily blog monetization or paid-services. Therefore, instead of using social [...]

Surprise! Barack Obama, Ron Paul win MySpace ‘primaries’

Iowa what?
Amid the frenzied press coverage over Thursday’s too-close-to-call caucuses in the Hawkeye State, 153,226 MySpace.com users have already cast their (unofficial) votes.
In a set of “virtual primaries” held on Tuesday and Wednesday, Republican Rep. Ron Paul and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama were declared the winners of the News Corp.-owned social-networking site’s polls.

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