2 days ago
Linkorama : Capitalism to the Rescue - Green Tech Rising - Good thing the Valley runs on equity, not debt
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2 days ago
Linkorama : World on the edge | The Economist - Central banks have co-ordinated their liquidity operations. Now that oil prices have plunged and worries about inflation are receding, interest-rate cuts are possible. They would be more powerful if co-ordinated. But it is not only central banks that need
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4 days ago
Linkorama : Analyst cuts growth projections for Net, e-commerce companies - We are cutting our forecast for the global Internet ad spend by 2 percent for 2008 and 4 percent for 2009 and 5 percent for 2010. Now we estimate worldwide Internet advertising spend to grow by 22 percent in 2008 and 20 percent in 2009 verses our prior es
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17 days ago
Linkorama : Paul Kedrosky: Text of Paulson Plan - the two key numbers: $700-billion and $3-trillion. The former is the amount that Paulson would like authorized for securities purchases, and the latter is the amount by which Paulson would like to "temporarily" increase the U.S. debt limit.
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1 month ago
Linkorama : Google Chrome already beating Opera - Maybe Google really does have something here — in just two days, they have leapfrogged Opera in market share, and have their eyes set on bigger fish.
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mmb : Economics of POW Camp - Economics of POW Camp via POW camp economics (kottke.org) [via]
philgyford : Economics of POW Camp - Fascinating description of the bartering network in World War II Prisoner of War camps. (via Kottke)
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Linkorama : Google, Zen Master of the Market - The direct effects, he says, include software document formats and technology standards that are owned by one company and that are incompatible with a rival’s technology. The indirect effects, he adds, include large numbers of users, the ability to lear
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6 month ago
Linkorama : The only revolutionary that didn't sell out? - Why isn't there another Google?: Because every company that had the potential to be economically revolutionary over the last five years sold out long before it ever had the chance to revolutionize anything economically.
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6 month ago
Linkorama : Goldman Sachs's GSTrUE - Regulatory arbitrage creates a solution for private equity. Credit markets will follow this pattern soon enough. And by then, regulation itself will adapt to close the loophole or fix the imbalance itself
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6 month ago
nelson : Startups and acquisition - Well known VC points out that startups almost always suffer after an acquisition. Is a liquid private equity market the solution?
deusx : A VC: We Need A New Path To Liquidity - "But who am I to complain? We got paid right? So sit down and shut up. Except I am also a user of these services. I see what happens when a company gets purchased."
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6 month ago
Linkorama : The bubble to end all bubbles? - Did I just get intellectually stimulated by Valleywag? I feel dirty in a thoughtful way
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns - WSJ.com - The past six days have shaken American capitalism.
nelson : Bear Stearns deal - Day by day account of the negotiation
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Meebo raising round, valued up to $250 million. Bear Stearns sold for $236 million - headline of the day
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8 month ago
Linkorama : What to understand about new products and startups - What is the humble approach to product design? Pay attention. Notice which things are working and which aren't.
veen : Paul Buchheit: The most important thing to understand about new products and startups - Be humble. Pay attention.
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Human vs. Machine - The timeliness of this Conference is NOT only because "web 2.0" technologies and business models have reached critical mass in the financial markets. It is also because, as driven by the web more generally, the frontier between human and machine
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9 month ago
Linkorama : Information Ownership in an Information Economy - Information is going to be like money. And we’re going to move it around like money. [We already are.] Institutions that hold information are going to be like banks. With a variety of services, and with rights and duties associated with our information,
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis - Krugman: The bottom line is that policy makers left the financial industry free to innovate — and what it did was to innovate itself, and the rest of us, into a big, nasty mess.
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11 month ago
Linkorama : Goldman Turns Cautious On Software - The firm asserts that “with software a typically back-end loaded sale, if there is any concern on budgets in the early part of 2008, we would expect CIOs to hold off their purchases until later in the year.”
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15 month ago
nelson : Stock spam charts - Someone's graphing spam volume vs. stock activity
kaninka.net : Stock Spam Report
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15 month ago
Linkorama : IPOs Up - IPO Registrations at Near-Record Levels This Week, many in tech
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17 month ago
joshua : Unusually High Option Volume - Short Term Trading Center
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19 month ago
Linkorama : Has Open-Source Lost its Halo? - Is open-source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry?
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