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Tuesday May 22, 2012 Morgan Stanley and NASD are being blamed for the poor performance of the FB Initial Public Offering IPO. This article is instructive by explaining how the underwriting process works, or should work. In this case, Second Market had already been managing the real IPO, which occurred in 2010 among private investors. They did well…
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Wednesday March 21, 2012 Two days ago I made a post titled Math Matters. It linkes an article describing how one Don Johnson, the gambler not the tv star, netted several million playing against various casinos. He only played when the odds were in his favor. That is the point of the article. Now today…
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Wednesday March 14, 2012 The 2010 print version of Encyclopedia Britannica will be the last. The 244 year old publication is going digital. This comes as Apple releases its thrid version of the iPad. Digital is here for real. And clearly for an encyclopedia, a digital version makes searching for information much easier. No doubt wikipedia led…
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Sat February 18, 2012 We are in the midst of a transition to new mediums of communication. Now you can rent movies on the internet. New networks are springing up Hulu offers a variety of shows. http://www.hulu.com/ Pajama TV offers right wing commentary with a twist, I of course enjoy Kalavan on the Culture,…
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Friday Feb 3, 2012 The Facebok IPO is big news and big money. Here is one Facebook Experience. The ads are cheap but do they get results, maybe not.
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Thursday Jan 19, 2012 Novices to high tech investing might think this is simple, just buy google and get rich. But picking hte winners is a lot tougher than that, just ask Mike Dell. Check out this excellent chart of high tech sales the last few decades. Can you spot the new trends?
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Monday Nov 21, 2011 Kirk Tuck likes the Kindle Fire. I do not know how compatible it is with various textbooks. The tablet business is about where the PC business as in the late 1980s. We have multiple platforms with no clear leader, other than IPad. As Kirk says having the AMZN warehouse is handy.…
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Thursday May 26, 2011 Martha Stewart Omnimedia has hired Blackstone to shop around for well, read the article and you tell me At age 69, Martha has done much better with MSO than her investors. From the get go analysts wondered if you could build a public company around one person. That has proven difficult. But…
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May 23, 2011, Monday An alert Tx A & M SA Student e mailed me suggesting LNKD was overpriced. Indeed, the MySpace experience suggests that investing in social media can be much harder than it appears. Gee what happened to Netscape, Lotus, WordPerfect, hmm all near gone or Atari from decades back. Investing in any high tech…
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Friday May 6, 2011 Oil was especially hard hit by Thursday’s follow-on crash, dropping as low as $99.35 during the North American session, its heaviest drop in percentage terms since April 2009. Crude futures continued to decline on Friday and were recently off over 4%. Marketwatch.com, May 6, 2011 We have been warning of extended prices…
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