Eric Jackson

The Mac maker is on the list of firms who could/should acquire the social media empire. But Google is a much more likely candidate. Whenever a major acquisition occurs, the world scrambles to figure out which companies will be acquired next, how much they will sell for, and who will buy them. If a...

Ironfire Capital founder and managing director Eric Jackson weighs in on the issue. "A lot of ex-employees believe that there is enormous fat there to cut and that it might even be possible to cut it down by half," Jackson, whose company specializes in long/short investments and corporate...

More changes could be headed to Yahoo! According to Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) could be looking to replace the ailing search engine partnership with a more lucrative deal. "Yahoo!'s relationship with Bing has been a...

Eric Jackson has the answer. "I think Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: AOL) are very similar companies," Jackson, the founder and managing member of Ironfire Capital, told Benzinga. "Everybody hated AOL up till last Friday. You couldn't find anybody to say anything positive about [that company...

On Monday, Sina Corp (NASDAQ: SINA) traded sharply lower after speculation circulated that the company could be the next target of noted short seller Muddy Waters. Earlier in the month, Muddy Waters released a report critical of Focus Media (NASDAQ: FMCN). That report sent the stock trading...

Since it was first announced in early September that Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz was fired, and Third Point's Dan Loeb had acquired a large stake in the company, there have been rumors swirling about who was going to eventually acquire the company. With last night's news that Chinese...

Last week, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) made the decision to spin off its computer business, and discontinue supporting and creating new products based on its acquisition of Palm, and its WebOS operating system. WebOS was supposed to save HP and let it compete with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google's...