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- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
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- Apple’s e-book software will allow publishers to make textbooks more interactive. — [LINKS + VIDEO]
- Alain Soral is France’s most dangerous intellectual… (dangerous for the French plutocrats, that is). — [VIDEO]
- Computers thru time — [CHART]
- NASA has finally understood the theorical basis of LENR (low-energy nuclear reactions). — [VIDEO]
- Why Samsung is no Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney @ Bain Capital — [VIDEO]
- Central banks should set up prediction markets. — [LINK]
- Max Keiser on NADEX — [VIDEO]
- New Hampshire prediction markets screwed up political forecasting in 2008. Will they be right this time? — [CHARTS]
- The real reasons why prediction markets are accurate. — [LINK]
- Much better than a bike… and more affordable than a SegWay… –> The Me-Mover — [VIDEO]
- InTrade is not predictive, says notable financial journalist. — [SCREENSHOT]
- Drudge links directly to InTrade prediction markets, bypassing journalos. — [SCREENSHOT]
- BetFair’s glitch ruins a set of £23m prediction markets. — [LINKS]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Amateurish financial forecasters beat Wall Street financial analysts.
- Apple’s blow-out quarter: The bloggers called it, the Street blew it. – Apple’s Underdog Analysts Outperform Wall Street From Helsinki, Caracas. ADDENDUM: Yesterday’s post was specifically about the iPad forecasts. Please, see Paul Hewitt’s comment, and keep in mind … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Business, Finance, Financial Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Prediction Post-Mortem
Tagged Apple, Apple IPad, Apple iPhone, Apple Mac, Apple Macintosh, Business, earnings, Finance, financial analysis, financial analysts, Financial Markets, financials, forecasting, forecasts, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Macintosh, predicting, Predictions, profits, revenues, sales, stocks, Wall Street
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Wall Street analysts’s view is too short term.
They are incapable of forecasting a revolution. And that includes Jason Ruspini. UPDATE: – Keep in mind that, at inception, Apple also underestimated the iPad numbers. They had to ramp up production, later on. – See Paul Hewitt’s comment, below.
Posted in Analysis (Accuracy & Precision), Business, Finance, Financial Markets, Forecasting (Science & Practice), Inventions & Innovations, Prediction Post-Mortem
Tagged Apple, Apple IPad, Business, forecasting, forecasts, iPad, personal computers, predicting, Predictions, profits, revenues, slates, tablet computers, tablets, Wall Street
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“Don’t hold focus groups and ask people what they think.”
How Steve Jobs Took Apple From Near Bankruptcy To Billions In 13 Years.
Posted in Business, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce
Tagged Apple, Business, Steve Jobs
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2010 –> IBM was granted 5,896 patents. –> Apple was granted 563 patents.
Apple represents the future of computing, while IBM is a paper tiger. There is a disconnect somewhere.
The story behind the meteoric rise of the ARM stock – [CHART]
Via Jason Ruspini: – Who killed the Intel microprocessor? – Apple to expand CPU design group beyond iPad A4.
Posted in Information Technology
Tagged Apple, ARM, electronics, microchips, microprocessors, silicon, stocks
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Steven Johnson on KickStarter – [VIDEO]
32:10 into
U.S. futures regulators issued draft proposals to curb speculative trading in commodities, despite concerns that the regulators lack enough market data.
“The CFTC voted 4-1 Thursday to propose the trading curbs in more than two dozen commodities including oil, corn, soybeans and coffee.”
Posted in Exchanges & Markets, Regulations
Tagged CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, derivatives, futures, laws, Regulations, US CFTC
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Welcome to the new Midas Oracle subscribers…
I am very happy with the surge in feed subscribers. http://www.midasoracle.org/feed/ I just wanted to remind them that they can also subscribe to the comment feed, so they can also get the comments into their Google Reader, Reeder, or else. … Continue reading →