November 2011
1 post
Disruption is the key Mr. Bloomberg
This is the precipice of a new era. When a personal computer company is the most valuable in the world, when people interact with information in ever more personal and innovative ways, when the world is more akin to nodes on the social graph than countries, municipalities, or households. This is the beginning of a shift in the way that we do business, the way that we approach problems, the way...
June 2011
1 post
Hipsters Try to Buy Pabst Beer Co., The Man says... →
Goes to show, for their drab apparel, hipsters have a lot of money to protect their sacred PBR.
May 2011
8 posts
Mark Zuckerberg Only Eats What He Kills →
He’s really upping his manliness quotient.
Thiel Fellowship: 20 under 20 →
Isn’t this quite the group of starry eyed dreamers.
LinkedIn Up 90% in opening IPO trading →
Is this an indicator of how the Facebook IPO will play out? Will we see a $150 billion valuation on day one?
In Silicon Valley, Buying Companies for Their... →
500k to 1 Million an engineer? Sign me up.
Cornell's Ranger robot walks 40.5 miles on a... →
Well done Cornell Engineering!
Microsoft's acquisition of Skype for $8.5 billion... →
Microsoft is definitely a better home for Skype, at least culturally. I wonder what Ballmer is cooking up that requires an $8.5 billion telephone.
Palantir Valued at More than $2 Billion →
Really rolling in the money on those federal clients I see.
Applied Materials to Buy Varian for $4.9 Billion →
A lot of consolidation within the semiconductor space. More evidence of the new Internet Bubble or a legitimate move for new players trying to get into the market?
April 2011
9 posts
Apple Now More Profitable Than Microsoft Too →
Talk about a turn around.
An End to Quantitative Easing? →
With the Fed officially ending its $600 billion bond buying program, does this signal an end to quantitative easing?
My iPhone is tracking me!? Oh Noes! →
I just checked out where my phone thinks I’ve been with the above application. Noteably, it doesn’t think I’m at school very often. I’d have to agree.
The $5,000 Cab Ride from NYC to LA →
I make so much money I want to take a car from NYC to LA? Really?
The Fall of Gizmodo →
How does one squander 85% of their traffic? Decide to redesign their site so nobody can read their content. Fantastic!
Nasdaq and ICE Sweeten NYSE Euronext Deal →
US Regulators might be up for this, I’m not so sure about the europeans.
Chrome OS transitioning to touch? →
Talk about a change in direction? Why don’t they just focus on Android development.
The Money Network →
Pretty great visualization of Silicon Valley inbreeding.
March 2011
7 posts
Friends Don’t Let Friends Get Into Finance →
I’ll go into Consulting instead thank you very much.
DealBook is outside the NYTimes Paywall →
At least I’ll be able to get my Dealbook fix without shelling out to NYT Co.
Sponto Lands $200,000 For Realtime Party Sharing... →
More like real-time noise violation service.
Goodbye Zune, Long live iPod. →
Sources are reporting that Microsoft has killed the Zune as a hardware platform.
WebOS will be on 'every HP PC' shipping next year,... →
So the battle for the best touch-based OS begins. Can’t wait to see the full version of OS X Lion, the dev build is pretty great.
Microsoft to pay Nokia 'more than $1 billion' to... →
The deal just gets sweeter.
Finally the touchpad works #Cr-48 →
The thing has been relatively unusable to this point as a mobile device because I can’t use the mouse.
February 2011
12 posts
Groupon Revenue Hits $700+ million in 2010 →
They’re on track to make more money than Facebook in 2011 at a higher margin, can’t wait for this IPO, it’s the first one I’ve seen that makes actual sense.
BP to Pay Reliance $7.2 Billion for Stake in Oil... →
And so Mr. Ambani continues to rack up billions.
AOL, and the battle for Journalistic Integrity on... →
Is AOL killing journalism, or simply bringing it into the 21st century? After acquiring everything from Weblogs Inc to Huffington Post to TechCrunch, one has to wonder if their new approach to Journalism was the business plan all along.
Nasdaq and ICE Hold Talks Over Potential N.Y.S.E.... →
A bid to keep America’s exchange American?
Nordstrom Acquires Flash Sales Site HauteLook For... →
An interesting new way to liquidate inventory as a big department store?
Nokia to replace Symbian with Windows Phone →
This seems like a pretty fantastic play for Windows Phone to expand into emerging markets where Nokia still holds a huge lead over iPhone and Android. Whether it will be enough to bring the ailing Finns back into play in the developed world….well I’m not so sure.
AOL to Buy The Huffington Post for $315 Million →
AOL should really be rebranded, AOB — America On Blogs. Great move by Ms. Huffington, it appears she’ll effectively be the new media head for AOL. Is this the future of journalism? Cheap outsourced content with high flying editors?
Verizon locking WiFi on Motorola Xoom until you... →
Talk about Draconian. Oh, and it also costs $800.
Verizon breaks first day sales record with iPhone... →
The pre-order was only open to current Verizon customers, and therefore excludes the angry masses planning on ditching AT&T at the altar. Will be interesting to see how this affects Verizon’s relationship with Google.
Nokia, Microsoft announcing partnership next week →
Two slain goliaths trying to beat on Google and Apple? Too little too late.
Instructure Launches To Root Blackboard Out Of... →
Thanks the gods.
January 2011
9 posts
Facebook Check-in Deals launches in Europe →
I always thought this was the killer app for location, also makes me wonder if Groupon might be facing a fight from Facebook.
Google Replaces Schmidt with Page →
Lets hope he isn’t a Jerry Yang like CEO.
What if everything charged wirelessly? →
What if your electric car topped up every time you parked your car, your soup can heated up on any counter top, and cereal boxes could light up because of wireless energy. Hello future, you are very bright.
Communist Party News Site Set for I.P.O. →
Oh the irony.
WatchThe year of the tablet, part deux!
December 2010
11 posts
The Shadow Market for Facebook Shares →
The SEC is now actively investigating several tech companies to see if they’ve gone over the 500 shareholder limit for private firms. Intellectually, it makes sense to have secondary markets because they provide private investors access to liquidity (as well as a market derived value for firms). However, US law allows private companies to have a very small number of shareholders. Up until...
Google makes Android Voice Search smarter by... →
So now they have our location, every email from the past few years, our voices, and dare I say it…our minds!