Articles of the week

Google insider stock sales are "staggering" say analysts

"If you add up every single penny of profit Google has ever made since they opened their doors, you would have an amount smaller than the value of stock those three execs have sold since Jan 1st of this year.

If you add in the amount of stock other low-level employees of Google have sold since last August, the total comes to over 1.8 billion dollars - which is more than five times the total amount of profit Google has ever made as a business."



How Yahoo got its Mojo back

"A handful of blog-evangelists, a couple of key buys and some libertarian friendly moves have turned Yahoo from a dot.has.been to the new darling of the chattering classes. It is only a matter of time when mainstream media rediscovers Yahoo, and a stock market resurgence follow."



Google ensnared in a war of words

"Google is a giant, but they cannot dictate the law [...] The growing number of lawsuits against Google around the world could diminish that advertising revenue by reducing the number of search words that could be sold to competitors."



Is Opinion tide turning against Google?

"There comes a time when a company gets so powerful, and the perceived potential to abuse that power so large, that public opinion begins to turn on it. [...] We've noticed a growing dissatisfaction with Google in various niche constituencies over the past several months."