Category: finance

How Google is currently feeling

Why Google’s Poor Earnings Don’t Matter

What does Google’s recent earnings fail and stock dip mean to you? Not much. It means I’m making a “killing” in the fantasy stock market speculating. The magnitude of these things is often overemphasized. The low numbers don’t mark a slowdown for google. They mark a shift as Google evolves its’ business model. The world is going mobile and tech companies are having to...

Can Blackberry Be Saved? Link Post

Can RIM and Blackberry save themselves. Everybody seems to have a different opinion. Even my own family is divided. Blackberry definitely has some valuable aspects such as their BBM proprietary messaging service, but everyone agrees that they must inovate beyond anything that has been done before to save their companies. This could me a new technology. A new hardware, A new Software. We don’t know, but we have...

A Big Unveiling- Even For Just Press and Stockholders

It’s official. Apple will be issuing a dividend to share-holders (a cash payment) of about $2.50. They will also be doing a stock buyback which will increase share value, and in theory rise the stock price. But why rise it? It’s already at $601 after passing the $600 a share mark today. Crazy. Microsoft by the way is at $32.20 a share. Another stunning...

Empire Avenue- First Impressions

Note: This is not a full review, because a game like this requires at least a month of testing before judgement. The game is simple. The more social you are on the web, the more eves (virtual currency) you gain, and the higher your stock price goes. For those of you who don’t know, EA (empire avenue) is a social stock market. Your friends...

Facebook Made $1 Billion profit in 2011

In 2004 at the advent of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg refused to monetize the site. As Facebook started raising money they began to advertise in their own style. Still, the most popular site in the world was the subject of concern over whether it could really make money. They did. They made $3.7 billion which led to a 2011 profit of $1 billion. It’s not...