WWA Group Inc. is a company that trades and auctions transportation and industrial equipment worldwide. Through their wholly owned subsidiary, World Wide Auctioneers, Ltd. (WWA), they are one of the largest auctioneers of heavy equipment in the world. They focus their operations on under-served regions outside of North America. Founded in 1996, their corporate headquarters for the United States is in Tempe, Arizona. They also have a corporate office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

WWA auctions items that include mobile, stationary, earthmoving, and construction equipment. These include crawler tractors, excavators, wheel loaders, cranes, trucks and trailers, generators, compressors, agricultural tractors, and forklifts. WWA Group Inc. also sells light vehicles and related items, including boats and motorcycles. The company also owns and charters a shipping vessel called the M/V Iron Butterfly.

WWA Group Inc. has a market share of more than 65 percent of all industrial equipment auction sales concluded in

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Looking to create a profit-based "fast-lane" for its Internet traffic, search engine giant Google, Inc. (GOOG) reportedly contacted top phone and cable companies with a proposal, according to today's Wall Street Journal. This changes Google's previous stance on the issue -- Google had "traditionally been one of the loudest advocates of equal network access for all content providers," according to the news article -- but it also follows already announced plans by AT&T Inc. (T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) to charge for "fast-lanes" on the Internet.Of course, this would quite literally generate an entirely new revenue "stream" for these companies, but it flies directly in the face of net-neutrality laws already on the books, which date back to before the surge in Internet usage a dozen or so years ago. Champions of net neutrality cite leaps in innovation and development on the World ...

Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG) is well established as internet search-engine champion. And its rapid expansion into other technologies means the company is poised to bounce back strongly when the financial crisis is over. Money Map Report editor Horacio Marquez says the current market downturn provides the perfect opportunity to buy Google stock at a bargain price.

More from Horacio in this piece from Money Morning:

When – on August 22, 1851 – schooner-yacht America defeated 15 other yachts representing the Royal Yacht Squadron, racing around the Isle of Wight in England to win the renamed “America’s Cup,” Queen Victoria asked who was second.  The famous answer was: “Ah, Your Majesty, there is no second.”

Similarly, in the search-engine category, Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG), has run away with the trophy, leaving its competitors so far behind that they’re actually still over the horizon. Today, Google controls at

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With Priceline.com Inc. (NASDAQ:PCLN) – the name-your-own-price travel-services player – it’s time to either beam up or buy in.

Priceline – the online airfare and hotel-booking firm known for its kitschy TV ad campaign that stars “Star Trek” star William Shatner as “The Negotiator” – is an interesting possible profit play, thanks to its strong balance sheet and market muscle in the bargain-hunting end of the travel-services sector, the financial weekly Barron’s says.

The stock market has already factored in the challenges facing the travel and retail sectors into Priceline’s stock price, Reuters and Barron’s both reported.

According to Barron’s, as the current financial crisis deepens, consumers are going to devote an increasing amount of time to their personal and household spending budgets – a point that Money Morning has repeatedly made as part of its ongoing “Credit Crisis Safety Plays” series. As

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Mark Cuban Insider TradingMark Cuban Insider Trading SEC ChargesLast Friday I wrote a response to a blog post Mark Cuban published on hedge funds here. Today Mark Cuban faced charges of insider trading by the SEC. Apparently he sold shares of Mamma.com after learning of a PIPE transaction to be completed a day before that transaction had been publicly announced. Below please find his initial response followed by the full announcement by the SEC.___________Mark Cuban's Response:I wish I could say more, but I will have to leave it to this, and let the judicial process do its job.November 17, 2008RE: SEC Civil Action in the United States Districtfor the Northern District of Texas, Dallas DivisionMark Cuban today responded to a civil complaint ...

With Priceline.com Inc. (PCLN) – the name-your-own-price travel-services player – it’s time to either beam up or buy in. Priceline – the online airfare and hotel-booking firm known for its kitschy TV ad campaign that stars “Star Trek” star William Shatner as “The Negotiator” – is an interesting possible profit play, thanks to its strong balance sheet and market muscle in the bargain-hunting end of the travel-services sector, the financial weekly Barron’s says.

The stock market has already factored in the challenges facing the travel and retail sectors into Priceline’s stock price, Reuters and Barron’s both reported.

According to Barron’s, as the current financial crisis deepens, consumers are going to devote an increasing amount of time to their personal and household spending budgets – a point that Money Morning has repeatedly made as part of its ongoing “Credit Crisis Safety Plays” series.

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Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang thinks so. He believes that a Microsoft purchase of Yahoo would be a wise choice for the operating system giant. Jerry Yang spoke at the prestigious Web 2.0 event in San Francisco and openly expressed his opinions to an interviewer. “To this day, I believe the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo,” he said. While there are no talks happening at the moment, he continued by stating that the board of directors and himself would “remain open to everything.”

Now let’s take this idea one step farther. What does this potentially mean?

Microsoft’s last talks fell apart under unknown circumstances, but the potential deal was anywhere from $33-$37 a share. If Microsoft places their bid, it would most likely be under the reduced share prices of today, hovering around the $13 mark. Shareholders might see a bump in Yahoo’s stock price, which

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It’s got to be frustrating for Jerry Yang. The 40-year-old co-founder and CEO of Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) is sitting on top of the world’s most popular web site, yet he can’t compete with Google Inc.’s (GOOG) more effective search-engine advertising machine.

Google rubbed more sand in Yang’s eyes Wednesday when it walked away from a plan announced in June to sell advertisements on Yahoo’s pages after the Justice Department threatened to block the deal on antitrust grounds.

Google already has more than 70% of the search-engine driven advertising market. Yahoo has about 10%, according to BusinessWeek.

For Yang, it was a chance to revive falling sales, even if it meant falling on his sword instead of wielding it against its chief rival.

Now, his shareholders are livid. His future is uncertain. And his best option for survival is a partnership with Microsoft

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Local.com is a leading local search engine and the largest local search network in the United States. Powered by the company’s patent-pending Keyword DNA™ and local web indexing technologies, Local.com provides users with targeted, relevant local search results. The company provides over 17 million consumers each month with the most relevant search results for local businesses, products and services on Local.com and over 700 regional media sites. Businesses can target ready-to-purchase consumers using a variety of advertising products including subscription, pay per click, banner and pay per call ad products. Local.com consistently ranks in the Top 100 in U.S. website traffic according to Internet research firm, comScore.

During the 17th annual Conference on Information and Knowledge Management event, Local.com will be presenting a paper titled, “Experiences in Crawling Deep Web in the Context of Local Search,” that explores the process of crawling and extracting structured data from a wide variety of

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Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) just beat earnings estimates. The numbers were jaw-dropping. Over the last three months the internet search-engine company earned $1.35 billion, or $4.92 a share. But Andrew Snyder says the party could soon be over for Google. Management at the company are overconfident…and that’s always a a recipe for disaster.

This from Today’s Financial News:

All across the nation, companies that rely on advertising dollars to stay in business are desperately searching for the nearest trash can. They are so nervous about what the next few months will bring that they already feel their stomachs twisting and convulsing. They know gut-wrenching vomiting is on the way.

But that is not the case at Google.

In fact, the only way the search-engine giant’s executives will be praying to the porcelain god is if they drank too much champagne while celebrating their company’s third-quarter earnings results.

While, Google did not flat-out destroy Wall Street expectations like

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