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Facebook's neocon links

Writing in today's edition of The Guardian newspaper, Tom Hodgkinson does a complex hit job on Facebook, or more precisely, Facebook's founding investor Peter Thiel. Hodgkindson begins by accusing the "social utility" of being anti-social ("since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and...

Tags: Facebook, PayPal, Hodgkindson, Thiel, Bloomberg Markets, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-01-14

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Will the Palm Pre come to Verizon? Analysts debate

Do any of you realize that analysts get paid to GUESS about things?So here we have a bunch of idiot analysts GUESSING what might, or might not, happen regarding Verizon and the Palm Pre. Give me a break.It's like the report I heard in Bloomberg TV the other morning. The...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Federal government, WebOS, Verizon Communications Inc., Pre, Palm Inc., Palm Pre, phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

Cisco CEO Chambers: IBM a friend; HP a foe

As the tectonic plates shift below the data center the vendor lines are becoming more clear. HP and Cisco are on a collision course and IBM appears to be playing Switzerland's neutral act nicely. If you want to know how Cisco's move into servers has altered the...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Bloomberg Mobile (iPhone) 2.5 (Mobile)

More than 280,000 professionals around the world trust Bloomberg to give them accurate and timely information about the world's financial markets. News- Read the news that is moving the markets. Stories are selected by Bloomberg editors as the most important of the day. Market Data- Find the latest information on...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Stock, Bloomberg L.P., Investment, Finance

Software downloads 2009-07-24

The one risk that bit Goldman Sachs: The internal data theft

Goldman Sachs is a master at gauging risk. It managed to get out of toxic mortgages before they unraveled and shorted them on the way down. We detailed in a lengthy case study the approach to managing risk and the systems and processes behind Goldman. The one risk Goldman didn't...

Tags: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Sergey Aleynikov, Mortgages, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Security, Finance, Capital Structures, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Unisys has looming debt, credit pickle

Unisys could lose its credit line at the end of May and that could make it tough to pay off its bonds without issuing a lot of shares. Unisys' problem is a common one these days with credit tight as numerous companies try to rearrange debt payments...

Tags: Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-17

Zucker Vs. Stewart: "Completely Out of Line" On Cramer and CNBC

Zucker Vs. Stewart: "Completely Out of Line" On Cramer and CNBCI think Stewart was right onIf NBC's financial reporters had been doing real investigative reporting rather than luring people into investing in ways solely to make money, they could have made people aware a long time ago of what was...

Tags: Financial accounting, Financial services, Zucker, Stewart, CNBC, Cramer

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

Apple roundup: Jobs-less meeting, to netbook or not, and an iPhone rumor

updated below What better way to kick off a Monday than with an Apple roundup that includes a pretty weak, albeit juicy, rumor. First there's the look ahead at this week's shareholder's meeting, which will be the first without CEO Steve Jobs since...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Blog, Apple Inc., Verizon Wireless, Netbook, Blogging, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Internet, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Lenovo confirms window shopping for acquisitions

Lenovo on Thursday confirmed that it is talking to "independent third parties" about potential acquisitions and investments. In overseas trading Wednesday--Lenovo trades on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong--shares spiked 27 percent in heavy trading on various reports that the PC maker was going to pull the...

Tags: Brazil, Acquisition, Lenovo Group Ltd., Window, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-11

It's 1:02 P.M.: Does Your Online News Service Know Which Way The Market Is Moving?

The great competitive advantage of online news is that it is supposedly always up-to-the-minute. At least that's the theory. But the stock market's gyrations mean this: Watch the number, not the news. Here's how the market looked to editors of various prime business news services online at...

Tags: Stock, Investment, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-10-17

Eight ways to track your portfolio on the iPhone

In case you haven't been paying attention, U.S. financial markets are in a tailspin (Dow and AAPL both down 4 6+% today). Securities continue on their relentless roller coaster ride that could make veteran stock brokers lose their lunch. If you'd like to stay more in touch...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Stock, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Analysis, Google Finance, Investment, Digital Music, Digital Media, Finance, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solution

Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solutionMissing Facts...You're missing several key facts about our current mess...1) The banks were forced into making high risk loans by our delightful government. Based on a study later determined to be flawed showing bias in lending, the Clinton administration passed laws requiring banks...

Tags: Government, Obama, JFK

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

News to know: 64-bit Windows; JavaFX; Net neutrality; Apple

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Suddenly, 64-bit Windows is mainstream Dear Adobe, can we please have a 64-bit Flash player? Larry Dignan: JavaFX SDK preview launches: Can Sun play the RIA game? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft launches new search...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Broadband, Apple Inc., Net Neutrality, Microsoft Windows, 64-Bit, Network Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking

Blog posts 2008-07-31

EU probes U.S. online gambling crackdown

EU probes U.S. online gambling crackdown...Looks like the days of pushing people around are coming to a close. With our economy on the brink of collapse, world opinion at an all time low of our government and a nation of apathetic morons addicted to "reality tv". Yup! our time in...

Tags: Free trade, INTERNET, World Trade Organization, gambling crackdown, online gambling crackdown, government, crackdown

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Facebook infltrating the enterprise: the ups and downs

My colleagues at Enterprise Irregulars are not your typical Facebook demographic. Heck, I can't even make the top end 40-49 age group. But that doesn't stop us from arguing whether Facebook and other forms of social media are appropriate for enterprise usage and if so, where they fit.Some of us...

Tags: Social networking, Social software, Enterprise applications

Blog posts 2007-07-29

SAP posts strong quarter; gains share

SAP said Thursday that its second quarter revenue was up 10 percent from a year ago as it gained market share. The enterprise software giant also said it is investing more into "untapped" markets in the midmarket.By the numbers, SAP reported second quarter revenue of 2.42 billion euro and net...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, General, ERP

Blog posts 2007-07-19

PocketStreamer PLUS: Mobile Entertainment Center 2 (Mobile)

Special Introductory offer ONLY $26.95 for A LIMITED TIME! Enjoy music, TVs, weather, news, radio and short movies from your hand.Listen to your favorite music including Jazz, Rock, Blues, 80s, Classical, Latin, Contemporary, Country and more...Get the latest headline news, market commentary and sports teams and comedy and talk show...

Tags: Mobile, NPR, British Broadcasting Corp., Radio, CNN, Music, TVs, Advertising & Promotion, Pocket PC, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-04-13

Why Salesforce.com's Merrill Lynch move is important

Salesforce.com announced its big enterprise customer--Merrill Lynch--and the news was anticlimactic (everyone knew what was going to happen already.) While the announcement that Salesforce.com is trying to take on Bloomberg and is rolling out large installations isnt a barnburner...

Tags: Salesforce.com, Software Infrastructure, SaaS, General

Blog posts 2007-02-27

Salesforce.com's big customer: Mystery solved

Salesforce.coms big enterprise customer that will be announced Tuesday is apparently Merrill Lynch. BusinessWeek reports in its latest issue subscription required that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is looking to take on Bloomberg. For the non-Wall Street types Bloomberg provides a...

Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, SaaS, Salesforce.com

Blog posts 2007-02-24

Massive fraud, 'free' trades roil online stock brokerage

The FBI, the SEC and the NASD are investigating losses at TD Ameritrade and ETrade stemming from “one of the biggest cases of identity theft to strike the U.S. securities industry,” online infiltration of customer accounts by computer hackers in Eastern Europe and Asia, according to Bloomberg reports: In one...

Tags: TradeKing

Blog posts 2006-10-24