Biotech, cancer, people Luke Timmerman wrote: Llew Keltner flies about 600,000 miles a year. The CEO of Light Sciences Oncology insists he can’t imagine...

Another telling excerpt from today's Ballmer memo: Apple (AAPL): In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is...

Or so this small excerpt from his reorg memo would suggest: I want to emphasize the point I''ve been making all along-Yahoo was a tactic, not a strategy. We want to...

The head of Microsoft's Platforms and Services Business (which includes the online business), Kevin Johnson, is headed to Juniper Networks. Microsoft is also splitting...

Want to know how efficiently your body uses its glucose or how much oxygen your body can consume during an exhaustive go on the rowing machine? A Boulder, Colorado-based...

A bit brief today but here are some links worth clicking: ***More on the Cubs auction. ***PE pros looking to go hostile, take note of the compare/contrast offered by...

Late today the U.S. House of Representatives okayed Treasury Secretary Paulson's aid plan for beleaguered mortgage financing duopoly Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. My...

We've been guessing for quite some time about sales of Amazon's Kindle e-reader. We have to guess, because Amazon doesn't give out any details about the product's...

Following Dan’s post on Mervyns, I heard through the grapevine that Cerberus managed to score 2.5X its money on the deal. Since the firm hasn’t disclosed its initial...

Two headlines caught my attention this week, both regarding the New York Times. The first was: NYT REJECTS MCCAIN’S EDITORIAL; SHOULD ‘MIRROR’ OBAMA, and the...

Every other year since 1994, hackers from all over the world have converged on New York City for the Hackers On Planet Earth conference. But this year's bash, held last...

Okay, yesterday, I dealt with the theoretical and philosphical in our discussion of moral hazard.   Almost more of a topic for a college class than a blog about...

So much for having the inside track. The Chicago Tribune is reporting that a group led by John Canning has not been invited to the second round of bidding for The Chicago...

John McCain is closing the fundraising gap with Barrack Obama, when it comes to contributions from private equity professionals. The Arizona Senator raised $50,000 in the...

Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage at 4:30 Eastern time at Facebook's f8 developer conference. We'll be liveblogging the keynote as well as his Q/A after the speech. See our...

I just bought one of these on eBay, and whenever someone asks me about it I’m going to say “100 billion dollars” in a Dr. Evil voice.

Release out: Processing now, but at first glance Amazon must have done a fantastic job with margin control: Revenue is inline, but EPS is through the roof. More soon....

Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia is the seventh most visited site on the Net (says Alexa), and Google (GOOG) isn't going to let all those pageviews escape its grasp. Today the...

networks, acquisitions, deals Gregory T. Huang wrote: Nobody’s going public these days, but the acquisitions market is certainly heating up. A day after...

For all the talk about the lowly light bulb being a primary front in the ongoing journey to becoming green, the fact is that there are few good options to replace the...