Quoted: I've said it a few times on this blog recently as offhand comments, but I feel compelled to say it a bit more loudly. I think we will see the end of the IPO drought for venture backed companies within...

Quoted: I took some time on Sunday afternoon to read Warren Buffett's annual letter. I don't make it an annual practice to read the Berkshire Hathaway letter as many do (nor have I ever been to the shareholder's meeting which Buffett...

Quoted: That marks the first time homeowners' debt on their houses exceeds their equity since the Fed started tracking the data in 1945.

Quoted: How big is online video and music? Big enough to catapult Akamai to the top spot. Internet traffic is surging, and companies like Apple and MTV Networks rely on the content delivery company's technology to get the digital goods to their customers.

Quoted: Citing the standard “market conditions,” the company now says that such a move wouldn’t be in the interest of stockholders.

Not sure yet if this is smart or stupid, but it's definitely interesting.

Quoted: Dell takes a hard drive at advertising : Dell started out the day as a computer company. But by the time the markets closed it had become an advertising powerhouse. The company says it's going to spend $4.5 billion to create its own ad agency. Lisa Napoli reports.

Interesting editorial on the Citigroup deal from the normally free-market Journal.

Quoted: Investors seem delighted that Abu Dhabi is injecting $7.5 billion into Citigroup, bidding up stocks in general on new confidence that the mortgage solvency crisis might ease. We hate to spoil the party, but it strikes us as unfortunate, if not a tragedy

Indian companies have been making record numbers of foreign acquisitions recently -- creating many multi-national Indian-headquartered companies in the process. This article focues on Tata's acquisition activity. Didn't know that Tata now owns Tetley Tea, formerly a British company.

Quoted: Now Tata - after buying two British industrial icons in steelmaker Corus and Tetley Tea - has emerged alongside rival Indian producer Mahindra & Mahindra and US buy-out group One Equity Partners on Ford Motor's shortlist to buy Jaguar and Land Rover, its UK luxury marques.