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Tip o' the hat to super-searcher Tara Calishain who points out in her latest newsletter that Lycos -- which once battled AltaVista for search engine supremacy a million years ago -- is being shopped around.

C|Net says Lycos' owner Terra Lycos has hired investment bankers Lehman Brothers to see if anyone ...   more »

Nortel fired CEO Frank Dunn [pictured] yesterday. We had two pieces on CTV National News last night. [Look for the Video links at this page where you'll also find some additional information]
My colleagues at the Globe and Mail have a pile on this as well, as do most of ...   more »

Comcast, the giant U.S. cable company outfit, said this morning that it will not merge with the Walt Disney Co.
"It has become clear that there is no interest on the part of Disney's management and Board in putting Comcast and Disney together," Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said in a ...   more »

One of the neat things about the publishing platform this blog uses is that there is always some neat cool feature being added. Sometimes these features seem added in just because the good people at Tucows could. (Hello Address Book. Good to see you, not sure why you're here.) Others ...   more »

I'm a commuter, doing about 100 km round-trip each workday. And that means that gasoline is one of our family's big expense items. So, naturally, I'm not thrilled with various predictions that the price of oil is going to go higher and remain high. Oil prices were somewhere around $37 ...   more »

Tim Hearn is Imperial Oil's CEO. His presentation: "It was a record year on several fronts, including financial performance." The company posted earnings of $1.68-billion or $4.52 a share. (All prices CDN $) Return on average capital employed was 24 per cent. Imperial is the only Canadian industrial corporation with ...   more »

Audit committee recommends that PriceWaterhouseCoopers be re-appointed as auditors. PWC does not do any consulting work for PWC.
Sheelagh Whittaker, who used to run EDS Canada and now runs EDS businesses in Australia, is an Imperial Oil board member. She gave a presentation about the company's environmental and safety record.
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Blogging from the floor right now at the annual shareholders meeting of Imperial Oil Inc. held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto. Some Greenpeace protesters are outside the building handing out some material. I came in through a parking garage interest and missed them.
Inside the meeting, security ...   more »

The Associated Press said today it will launch a new service, AP Financial News, which will go beyond the top stories of the day to include more earnings announcements, regulatory actions, acquisitions and other data.   more »