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Month of Change Ends on Familiar Note

Friday 29 Aug 08 20:38:14 GMT

Change your direction.You ain't gonna change it.Can't rearrange it.Can't stand the pain.Failing miserably to build on Thursday's big rally, major averages tumbled into the weekend leaving some (older) traders humming a few bars of Aeros

Housing Has Its Biggest Fall in a Decade. What's in It for You?

Friday 29 Aug 08 20:10:56 GMT

One-third of people who bought their houses in 2003 have negative equity, and if you bought your house at the peak of the market in 2006, things look even worse. But what about everyone else? Spencer Rascoff, chief financial officer of Zillow, was my gues

How Zillow Is Weathering the Housing Downturn

Friday 29 Aug 08 18:58:21 GMT

Is the peak of an epic housing bubble the best time to start a Web business all about real estate? Watching it all implode, Zillow wasn't so sure. But now, two years after the bubble's peak, chief financial officer Spencer Rascoff says yes. Zillow is all

Eric Schmidt: Google-Yahoo Deal on for October

Friday 29 Aug 08 18:44:52 GMT

From paidContent.org, Aug. 29, 2008:Various state and federal regulatory bodies are still looking into Google's ad relationship with Yahoo, but CEO Eric Schmidt says the deal is on for October. Schmidt made the remarks in an interview with

Heads Out of the Sand, Homeowners!

Friday 29 Aug 08 16:58:54 GMT

Calling the housing market weak is about as "duh" as calling gas pricey. So why do so many people think their house has more value than it does? According to online real estate site Zillow.com, only 40% of people think their house has lost value

Deficits Do Matter: Economist Sees More Inflation, Higher Taxes, Less Benefits

Friday 29 Aug 08 15:00:04 GMT

Dick Cheney was right when he said "deficits don't matter" -- but only from a political standpoint, says Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at Merk Investments. Although interest rates remain historically low, Brusuelas says deficits definitely d

iPhone 3G Apparently Even More Demanding Than Steve Jobs

Friday 29 Aug 08 13:31:43 GMT

From All Things Digital, Aug. 29, 2008: If you’re the owner of an iPhone 3G and you haven’t already updated to the iPhone 2.0.2 firmware, do so today–for your sake and that of all iPhone 3G owners. Why? Well, according to sources at AT&a

MSFT Buying Research, Shopping Engine Outfit Greenfield Online, Carving It Up

Friday 29 Aug 08 13:12:03 GMT

From Silicon Alley Insider, Aug. 29, 2008: Microsoft is paying $486 million for Greenfield Online, which runs an Internet survey businesss and Ciao, a European comparison shopping engine. Redmond plans on immediately selling off the survey business to an

Strong GDP Report 'High Watermark' for U.S., Not Sign of Upturn, Economist Says

Friday 29 Aug 08 10:00:00 GMT

Updated from 6:00 a.m. EDTLost a bit amid vacations, stay-cations and the Democratic convention, a series of reports this week have shown the U.S. economy to be in not as terrible shape as many believed.A trio of reports Monday and Tues

'You Can't Go Wrong': Stocks Still Cheap, James Altucher Says

Thursday 28 Aug 08 22:45:07 GMT

Stocks jumped Thursday thanks to a strong second-quarter GDP report and another drop in oil prices. The rally left the Dow up 213 points at 11,715, within striking distance of a weekly (and monthly) close above its 200-week simple moving average of 11,740