Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
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Not all that sparkles is Gold…
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Today I read the news about Gold reaching an all time high of $1,000 per ounce. It comes to show that when currency value (see $US) keeps falling, people turn to well tested alternatives with age old demand in human history. Gold!
Since the turn of the year, the price of gold has increased 20%, can [...] -
Leave Yahoo Alone! Please?
Monday, February 4th, 2008
News of Microsoft’s unsolicited offer to buy Internet legend Yahoo at $44.6bn, caught me by surprise. I never though of Yahoo as something you can “buy”. Yes, it is a company, so certainly there must be someone out there with the cash to buy it.
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Jaiku goes to Googlewood
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Popular mini-blog service Jaiku, made an official announcement today, breaking the news of being acquired by Google. I cannot say this came as a surprised, considering the rate of Google and its rivals are buying everything new and promising on the Internet these days. First reading about it on the Ken McGuire blog, and [...]
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Give and Take, the $100 laptop
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
I’ve spoken about the One Laptop Per Child project before. It is a wonderful initiative founded by MIT’s Nicholas Negroponte. The goal is to promote world education by constructing affordable laptop PCs, best known as the $100 dollar laptops, and branded as the “XO laptops”, and delivering them to children in developing countries.
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iPhone : Seriously iMpressive
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
iPhone promises to be a smart mobile phone, portable media player, and portable game console - all in one. So, owning an iPhone should mean you will have one gadget to place calls, play games, watch videos, photos, play music, browse the web, check your e-mail, and organize.
All through the ease of a quality, wide [...]
