Tag: STOCK MARKET

Free streaming stock quotes have made an appearance on Yahoo! Finance with little to no fanfare. Above the charts on the individual stock pages and on Yahoo Finance's front page you will see . Click the "On" button provides a drop down display of streaming stock price information. Click on the "?" and learn that you can leave this open for up to 25 minutes and although these are streaming, they ...

Veteran security and anti-virus company McAfee has agreed to pay a $50 million fine for inflating its revenues by $622 million between 1998 and 2000—131% in 1998 alone. According to Red Herring, "McAfee consented to pay the multimillion-dollar penalty to the SEC without admitting or denying the allegations of the complaint." The SEC will distribute the fine among investors. [Via ...

Rumor has it Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo!. On Sunday the L.A. Times reported on "speculation" that Microsoft offered the Sunnyvale company $80 billion for a buy-out, but Yahoo! claimed it was too low. Now the speculation is that Redmond will put up a higher offer, which has caused Yahoo!'s stock to jump. Though Microsoft is starting to show signs of finally "getting" the web, ...