Archive for February 29th, 2008

29Feb

Sovereign Wealth Funds

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Interested in the details about these much talked about and little understood funds? Here’s an outstanding piece in Middle East Quarterly about the investment funds you are hearing more about in the news. Countries have used sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) as instruments through which to buy assets with their surplus foreign exchange since the 1950s [...]

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Mutual Funds - what's wrong and what needs to be done
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Read more on Mutual Funds at Wikinvest

29Feb

Lessons in Bad UI Design

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

I went over to PG&E, my local utility company, to setup automatic payment of my bill. I hate bill paying so having stuff get automatically paid is great for me, and better yet is the points I accumulate that turn into Apple iTunes gift cards on a regular basis from using my Apple Visa card. [...]

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Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) No Longer Tablet King
Big Trader Sees Big Upside in Apple
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Read more on Credit Cards, Apple, Pacific Gas & Electric at Wikinvest

29Feb

Act 2: Buyer’s Remorse

Posted by Jeff as Blogs

Yesterday I wrote about the Techmeme blogger reaction to Google Sites, basically critical of it because it’s a pattern that is all too familiar: Google comes out with something new or updated and says it’s x or y and A-list blogger first reaction is to throw the company up on their shoulders and take a [...]

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Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Acquires Waze
Google Glass Privacy Concerns
(GOOG) Google to Stream Music for a Price
Read more on Google, CLP HLDGS, Microsoft at Wikinvest

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