finances

iPad 3 Coming Soon?

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on November 15, 2011 at 3:27 pm PT

Walt answers readers’ questions about the iPad 3 and avoiding having financial information stolen.

Exclusive: Groupon’s Mason Tells Troops in Feisty Internal Memo: “It Looks Good.”

Kara Swisher in Commerce on August 25, 2011 at 3:02 pm PT

Facing a barrage of negative press about its upcoming IPO, Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason took up a pen to counter critics of the social buying service in a pugnacious email to employees.

Intuit, Salesforce.com Team Up to Target Small Businesses

Cari Tuna, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 31, 2011 at 4:01 pm PT

Intuit and Salesforce.com are teaming up to take more small businesses to the cloud. The two companies on Friday are set to announce a partnership that marries Intuit’s accounting software for small businesses with Salesforce.com’s sales-automation offerings–-all handled over the Web.

The Numbers Behind the World’s Fastest-Growing Web Site: YouTube’s Finances Revealed

Peter Kafka in Media on March 19, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Life before Google for Chad Hurley and Steve Chen: Lots of users, not much revenue, and big costs that got bigger every month. Don’t try this at home!

YouTube’s Ad Push Creeps Forward

Peter Kafka in Media on February 17, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

How are Google’s efforts to turn YouTube from a money pit into a profit center coming along? From the outside, it’s hard to tell. But we can see that an increasing number of its top videos have ads.

Altera's Tim Morse Tapped as Yahoo CFO

John Paczkowski in News on June 11, 2009 at 1:24 pm PT

Looks like Yahoo has found its new CFO. This afternoon, the company said Tim Morse will take charge of its finances. Morse, who has served as CFO for chip maker Altera since 2007 and spent 15 years at GE before that, will start work on June 17 and assume CFO responsibilities on July 1. Welcome news, since Yahoo has been looking to fill the position since Blake Jorgensen said he would step down from the company last February.

Altera’s Tim Morse Tapped as Yahoo CFO

John Paczkowski in News on June 11, 2009 at 1:24 pm PT

Looks like Yahoo has found its new CFO. This afternoon, the company said Tim Morse will take charge of its finances. Morse, who has served as CFO for chip maker Altera since 2007 and spent 15 years at GE before that, will start work on June 17 and assume CFO responsibilities on July 1. Welcome news, since Yahoo has been looking to fill the position since Blake Jorgensen said he would step down from the company last February.

Psyonara, Redux

John Paczkowski in News on May 26, 2009 at 10:51 am PT

Interesting turn of events in the Apple-Psystar spat. The unauthorized Mac clone maker has filed for bankruptcy. Seems Psystar’s acrimonious legal battle with Apple and the souring economy have had a deleterious effect on its finances.