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Ten Things I Thing I Think (and Personal Finance Links)
Once again, a homage to NFL analyst Peter King… It may be difficult to believe, but I went to an MLM tasting party yesterday. As best I can tell, it is a legit MLM and it does not appear to be an illegal pyramid scheme (as opposed to
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How HP/Palm’s webOS Can Compete with Apple iOS and Google Android
When I created this website more than 4 years ago, I said that I’d write about technology about 5% of the time. Well I lied. I almost never write about technology. Today I’m going to cash in some of those credits and write about technology. If this is the kind of thing that interests you, [...]
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Why the Google Admob Acquisition is Important to Me
Earlier this week Google made a $750 Million purchase of Admob a company specializing in mobile advertising. It surprised the market in two ways. It was Google’s 3rd largest acquisition (behind DoubleClick and YouTube) ever. The mobile advertising industry is fairly small at this time. However, Google is moving into mobile in a variety of [...]
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I Share My Asset Allocation (as do 7 other Money Writers)
The Money Writers is having a group writing project. Each of us have decided to share our asset allocation and performance from the first of the year to last Friday. You might want to put the children to sleep, this could get ugly. Asset Allocation I would like to say that I put together a [...]
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Lessons From the Microsoft – Yahoo Negotiations
The recently expired merger offer from Microsoft to Yahoo got me thinking about two things: what went wrong and what can we learn from it. On a lot of levels the merger makes a lot of sense. Microsoft needs to ramp up their search capabilities to compete with Google. Acquiring Yahoo would give them a [...]
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Asus Eee Purchased – Only One Catch
Yesterday, I wrote about my techno-lust with the Asus Eee. Not long after the post went live, the lowest possible version on Craigslist for $200. That’s $100 less than retail, and $40 less from any other price I’ve previous seen. I jumped at the opportunity to own it. I figured that in the worst case [...]
