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A number of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) shareholders and analysts have been critical of the lofty $26 billion price tag that Microsoft paid for LinkedIn Corp (NYSE: LNKD) this week. While the market typically analyzes these types of deals in terms of income, revenue and cash flow, one of...

There's a new search engine on the web and it could give well established leaders like Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) a run for their money. The company, Mobli Media Inc., is making its name in image searches, a space it says has long needed an update. A...

Okay, so Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer overslept and was two hours late for a meeting.  An important meeting. Still, she is likely not the first CEO of a major corporation to oversleep and miss part of a meeting. She is however, Marissa Mayer, and...

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) definitely wants in on the popular – and potentially lucrative – photo sharing social media action. New changes the company just made to Flickr with version 3.0 for iOS and Android, were designed to do the trick. Changes include 14 different live photo filters, including...

In a move that has become more or less standard for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer, the company recently acquired DreamWorks Animation’s (NASDAQ: DWA) Ptch startup, which it will shut down January 2. Mayer has made a number of such “acquire-hire” moves since she took over leadership at...

Investors might want to reconsider their plans for Twitter. Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, is not satisfied with the information that Twitter has provided before its initial public offering. "I think the S-1 filing has done a very poor job,"...

Online media company Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) released its quarterly financial results after the closing bell on Tuesday. The company reported earnings per share that were well ahead of Wall Street estimates, but revenue came in slightly light of expectations. In late trading, the stock was last...

Monday was a big day for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). First, it announced that it was buying social blogging platform, Tumblr for $1.1 billion in an all cash deal. Investors would agree that a billion dollar acquisition is plenty of news for one day but Yahoo! had more to announce. Yahoo CEO...

With the blessing of its board on Sunday, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) acquired Tumblr, the trendy social network most popular among teens, at a favorable valuation of $1.1 billion. This means Marissa Meyer and company shelled out about a quarter of the company's cash on the chance that they can...

When Facebook (NYSE: FB) acquired Instagram for $1 billion, many investors wondered if the company had overpaid for the photo-sharing app. Some argued that Facebook had to pay top dollar for the company to prevent its owners from seeking other buyers. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) was among the companies...

Kara Swisher at allthingsd.com has the scoop on major meetings that are scheduled at Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) for Tuesday, where Marissa Mayer is set to unveil her plans for turning the struggling internet company around. Swisher writes that "According to an internal memo Mayer sent out Friday, the...

Hello and welcome to Zing Talk, where Benzinga brings you the biggest names and brightest minds from New York City to Silicon Valley. Direct Download Subscribe in iTunes Today our guest is Caterina Fake, the co-founder of the popular photo-sharing service Flickr as well as a great new “...