Catching Up: Niall Ferguson, VC Investing, & Nasdaq IPOs
Catching up before a busy day:
- Nasdaq saw the most first-quarter IPOs since the same period during the bubble (AP)
- VC investing was up during the first quarter, but IT investing was down overall, and southern California is staying ahead of New England (VentureOne)
- Niall Ferguson on Cho Seung-Hui and black swans (Telegraph)
- Global mobile phone shipments fell by 12.8% in the first quarter (EETimes)
- Quel surprise ... Toyota Prius buyers are not classic technology early adopters (Topline)
- Matt says Boris Yeltsin has died (Drudge)
- The irony of instant communications firm RIM failing to communicate over the BlackBerry system outage (AdAge)
- Morgan Stanley's Stephen "perma-bear" Roach is becoming chair of Morgan Stanley Asia. Doesn't that mean he has to be optimistic now and then? (Bloomberg)
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