Chris DeMartine

Tech Sector: 10 Predictions for the 'Net in '09

I'm wondering about that. ETFC has a great service and a sound infrastructure. The recent million is a drop in the bucket for a company like that and the earnings have stablized.


On Dec 31 09:20 PM Tom B wrote:

> I'd like Google to buy Flickr; I use Yahoo E-mail for historic reasons,
> but the company is poorly managed. The best you can say about Yahoo
> is that they were smart enough to evade Ballmer's chubby embrace.
>
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> MSFT may bid for Facebook-- they've already invested in it.
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> Apple COULD buy Netflix and kill a competitor, but they prefer to
> strangle their opponents slowly, through technological superiority
> (as AAPL slowly buries Adobe and MSFT). I think we'll see a stronger
> AppleTV this year. I DON'T see Hulu or XBox movie rentals ever becoming
> dominant players.
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> GS to buy ETrade? Hmmm. Maybe.