Blogger recently announced the end of ftp publishing and after 7 years on that platform, I decided to migrate my blog to a self-hosted WordPress platform, and after a few days of tweaking the conversion is finally over. Yeah I know, the template looks nothing like WordPress. I actually had to "uglify" a classic template — Continue reading »
Google Stock Drop
📆 April 18, 2010
Google earns $2 billion in its last quarter and investors reward it with a 7.5% drop in share? Here's my list of why it dropped: People like to sell into the earnings news. With not much more to expect until the next earnings report, the money is best invested elsewhere. Some companies just can't get — Continue reading »
Apple Stock Run-up
📆 April 13, 2010
Which tech company currently holds the highest market capitalization amongst its peers? That would be Microsoft of course, but Apple is second behind by a mere $50 billion. With a market cap of $220 billion, Apple is worth more than just about any other venerable tech company name you can think of. It's worth more — Continue reading »
The Chinese Yuan Dilemma
📆 April 8, 2010
The senator from New York, Chuck Schumer, is right. The Chinese government has pegged its currency, Yuan, artificially low against the US Dollar and that gives the country an unfair trading advantage. Branding China as a currency manipulator, isn't far from the truth at all. The cheap Yuan gives China the power of pricing where — Continue reading »
eBay Classifieds
📆 April 3, 2010
I just happened to do a drive-by eBay's homepage today and noticed a promotion for their new eBay Classifieds. The first thing that popped into my head was Craigslist competition. I'm not much of an eBayer and I've never used Craigslist, but I do know about the on-going feud between the two companies. eBay has — Continue reading »
Yahoo Publisher Network Ends
📆 March 31, 2010
Can't say I was surprised when today I received an email from Yahoo announcing the end of the Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN). Yahoo introduced YPN a few years ago as a competitive product to Google Adsense. Those are the text and graphic banners you see on many sites (including this page) with a small type — Continue reading »
Class Action Beneficiaries
📆 March 30, 2010
I received the notice below informing me that I'm a part of the AT&T DSL class action lawsuit. Lucky me. by choosing to stay in the class action, I could receive a whopping $2 in 6 months after filling out and mailing a form to AT&T. This is so beyond stupidity, it's not even laughable. — Continue reading »
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