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- Inside Apple — [VIDEO]
- Mitt Romney’s taxes — [LINKS]
- A critique of Apple’s multimedia iBooks. — [LINK]
- Does Apple lack “generosity”? — [LINKS]
- Apple Education Push — [LINKS]
- Water Crystals — [DOCUMENT]
- 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: March 2011
Pepsi invested heavily in so-called “social media” while de-investing in traditional advertising. — [ANALYSIS]
Result: – Pepsi-Cola and Diet Pepsi had each lost about 5% of their market share in the past year. #fail
Posted in Business, Business Administration, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Internet Strategy
Tagged benefits, branding, brands, cola, colas, Diet Pepsi, growth, marketing, Pepsi, Pepsi-Cola, sales, soda, sodas
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Are citations in science journals reflecting serious, genuine and productive R&D? — [CHART]
However the report points out that a growing volume of research publications does not necessarily mean in increase in quality. Via Jason Ruspini.
Posted in Inventions & Innovations, Research, Science, The Global Economy
Tagged China, citations, development, Europe, European Union, France, Great Britain, innovations, inventions, journal, R&D, Research, Science, technologies, technology, United Kingdom, United States Of America, USA
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MicroSoft stole BetFair’s marketing idea. — [PHOTO]
- June 2000, BetFair paraded the streets of central London with a coffin in a mock-funeral, to mark “the death of the bookmaker”. – September 2010, MicroSoft employees celebrated a mock iPhone funeral, to commemorate the launch of Windows Phone … Continue reading
The future belongs to hedge funds — [LINK]
Man vs. Machine on Wall Street: How Computers Beat the Market.
Posted in Finance, Financial Markets
Tagged Finance, Financial Markets, traders, trading, Wall Street
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Paul Allen on Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer during MicroSoft’s inception — [LINK]
Riveting. Paul Allen’s memoir (IDEA MAN) is out April 19, 2011.
Posted in Business, Business & Economic Models, Business Administration, History, Inventions & Innovations
Tagged Bill Gates, Business, business startups, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, History, innovation, innovations, inventions, Microsoft, Paul Allen, sofware, startups, Steve Ballmer
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We have become a nation of beggars. — [VIDEO]
Today’s society doesn’t value hard work and innovation.
Posted in Economics, Politics, Psychology, The Global Economy
Tagged beggars, Business, economy, Freedom, freeloaders, growth, incentives, John Stossel, liberty, motivation, Politics, taxes, taxpayers, US economy, US government, US politics
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What China is doing with all that copper… — [LINK]
Copper in China.
2 academic sites worth bookmarking — [LINKS]
http://thinkquarterly.co.uk/ http://theconversation.edu.au/
Posted in Resources - References
Tagged links, references, resources, The Conversation, Think Quarterly
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