February 9, 2007
For those of you interested in all things Microsoft, I note that as of today Microsoft stock has been down seven trading days in a row, dating right back to the consumer Vista launch. By way of comparison, that is...
While I know diddly about football, I was fascinated by a new academic paper out analyzing Superbowl XLI using matching price changes from a Tradesports futures contract on the game result. The most interesting part? The way it turns common...
Some very funny stuff in a Mark Gilbert column today on Bloomberg wherein he explains most of modern finance using "two cows" metaphors. Maybe you have to be a finance geek, but he had me laughing hard:Leveraged Buyouts You have...
While it's nice to see people not treating Google as inviolable, color me a natural-language search skeptic. Leaving aside how insanely difficult that problem is, and leaving aside that people who know the Parc technology that Powerset has licensed say...
Unsettling article in today's WSJ on the continuing rise of the luxury pied-a-terre. More and more high-end apartment units in Manhattan (and elsewhere) are owned by wealthy people who don't live there, and only ever visit maybe a few weeks...
Apparently not everyone likes the Google Kool-Aid: The two founders of dMarc, a radio ad insertion company acquired by Google almost a year ago for $102-million, have left the company. The gist is apparently that they didn't like Google's automated,...
