SATELLITE EQUIPMENT MAKER ViaSat BUYING WILD BLUE
ViaSat agrees to buy satellite Internet provider Wild Blue for $568 million in cash and stock
By Deborah Yao, AP Business Writer
ViaSat Inc. is acquiring Wild Blue Communications Inc., a provider of high-speed Internet access via satellite, for $568 million in cash and stock, the companies said Thursday.
Privately held Wild Blue, in which Liberty Media [...]
Microsoft Takes a Beating, Gmail Takes a Nap
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) More about Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a gathering of analysts that the company won’t be making any further layoffs, and once word got out, Wall Street proceeded to pummel the company mercilessly, sending its stock to an 11-year low.
Analyst Rob Enderle told us the no-more-layoffs decision made sense because there just [...]
Firefox 3.0 Becomes Most Popular Web Browser in Europe for First Time
Dublin and London; Tuesday, 31st March, 2009: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 became the most popular web browser in Europe last week, overtaking Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 for the first time on a weekly basis according to web analytics firm StatCounter (http://gs.statcounter.com). Firefox 3.0 took 35.05% of the European web browser market followed by 34.54% for IE [...]
Bing Overtakes Yahoo!
New York (US) and Dublin (Ireland); Friday, 5th June, 2009:
Microsoft’s Bing overtook Yahoo! as the number two search engine in the United States and worldwide Thursday (4th June) according to data from StatCounter Global Stats. StatCounter says that Bing grabbed market share from Google.
“It remains to be seen if Bing falls away after the initial [...]
Vista Breaks Through 30% U.S. Market Share
New York and Dublin, Monday, March 23, 2009:
For the first time last week Windows Vista consistently broke 30% share of the operating system market in the United States according to research by StatCounter which provides free website traffic statistics.
“Based on daily data Windows Vista has only topped 30% a few times before and only for [...]