Kara Swisher in News on February 2, 2011 at 10:38 am PT
In yet another sign that the Internet market is getting very interesting to Wall Street, well-known analyst Imran Khan is jumping from his perch as managing director at J.P. Morgan to become a banker at Credit Suisse, sources said.
In this new role, the high-profile Khan–well known for his reports on digital companies–will be running investment banking for Internet markets, including IPOs and M&A.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 21, 2011 at 9:08 am PT
Last night, Wall Street yawned at the Eric Schmidt-Larry Page swap at the top of Google. Today, it seems a little more confused about what the change really means.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 3, 2011 at 10:18 am PT
New year, same debate: Are people – real people, in real numbers – really dropping their cable for Web video? And do the ones who
say they might really know what they’re talking about?
Peter Kafka in Media on January 3, 2011 at 6:19 am PT
JP Morgan helps Goldman explain its $500 million bet, in six eye-popping bar graphs.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 15, 2010 at 10:27 am PT
Data point of the day: E-book sales are up 193 percent so far this year, and now comprise nine percent of all books sold. Context: That’s the equivalent of two mediocre Hollywood action movies.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 6, 2010 at 4:23 am PT
Google and MySpace have yet to announce a new search deal. But J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan thinks he knows what the new pact will mean to the search giant: A $200 million annual boost.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 8, 2010 at 12:07 pm PT
Google’s Instant is very fast, but the digerati are almost as quick: They’ve immediately started debating what, exactly, the new search feature is going to murder. But J.P. Morgan reminds us that, homicide aside, Google Instant won’t have an immediate impact on the company’s own revenues and costs.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 4, 2010 at 4:57 am PT
Quick summary for Jeff Bewkes’s Q2: A pleasant surprise.
John Paczkowski in News on July 21, 2010 at 2:00 pm PT
If eBay was hoping its second-quarter earnings would give it a respite from the beating its shares have been taking since it reported first-quarter earnings in April, it may well get it. After market close Wednesday, the company turned in a profit that exceeded analysts’ expectations.
Kara Swisher in News on July 13, 2010 at 5:05 am PT
Another month, another search data report from comScore.
In the June episode, both Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing gained a weensy bit of market share, while Google gave some up.
But, a caveat all around: There is still a lot of uncertainty in the results because of issues involving extra search-query clicks being generated via questionable techniques around contextual search, which comScore said it will eventually fix.