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loverobots | 14 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg married

On the other hand the reality is that divorce does happen and for people with $20 billion fortunes is different. I wonder if the Google founders have prenups in place.

loverobots | 14 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg married

Chan's ring featured only a "very simple ruby," a source authorized by the couple to speak told the AP.

That explains why she isn't smiling :) . Seriously people, smile for crying out loud. You know billions of people will see that picture over the years.

loverobots | 14 years ago | on: ZTE confirms backdoor in U.S. phone

Let's just say that, generally speaking, Russian and Chinese companies work very differently from those in USA. If their "CIA" shows up and wants something added, you either add it or you may be out of business...and that's if they're feeling generous. You can't exactly file a whistle blower lawsuit or go public with the info.

loverobots | 14 years ago | on: Facebook closes at $38.23 first day NASDAQ trading, above IPO price $38.00

Still, this isn't necessarily a negative for Facebook. They optimized their take, and Zuckerberg won't be needing the market's approval or capital again for a while.

Technically, but the minute you go public you have to worry about the stock price. If the stock drops (IMO, it will drop here) expect a deluge of doom and gloom stories from the media questioning their business model and everything else in between. Then you may have unhappy employes due to the stock drop, harder time hiring, higher expenses since the stock price isn't rising and so on. Bezos did it so far, but it isn't easy. Zuckenberg sold a nice chunk of his $100 Billion company, buyers will be vocal if the price drops.

FB will have to do everything right for a few years just to justify the $100 billion price tag. It's not easy as ads can drive people away.

loverobots | 14 years ago

hmmmmm...google has no content either. It just rearranges other people's content and fills the top with ads

loverobots | 14 years ago

You're assuming Google would do that and/or that it will be allowed to do that once sites find out. They are a lot of businesses who have zero incentive to give their data to Google.

This "AI" is just scrapping and replacing wikipedia while serving ads.

loverobots | 14 years ago | on: Facebook IPO grows by 25%

To be fair, Acel, DST and others are really small investors, compared to Fidelity, Barclay's, BOA and the likes. Plus, Accel's and DST's business model is to score and more or less get out at the IPO.

loverobots | 14 years ago | on: Facebook IPO grows by 25%

I think (not a pro at this) all those shares have already been sold via IPO road shows to pension funds, banks, hedge funds and other investment houses. In fact, I read they wanted even more shares than FB offered to sell ("oversubscribed.")

So no major surprises. I doubt they just pick a number and just hope to sell $16 Billion

loverobots | 14 years ago | on: Facebook IPO grows by 25%

Considering that FB is profitable and that it has a decent war chest, it looks like FB is taking advantage of fools.

Smart move though, having $10+ billion in the bank must feel nice and leave a lot of room to maneuver.

Personally, I don't think FB is worth $100+ billion. Maybe $30 to $40 billion.

loverobots | 14 years ago

Conversions may be low but then clicks aren't $40 each ( to use an extreme example.) Ye

loverobots | 14 years ago | on: CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired

Not exactly Forbes but a "motivational speaker" and a blogger. No doubt he has the experience of running a company the size of MSFT and crippled by anti-trust settlements on both sides of the Atlantic

By the way, Microsoft is still growing all while investing in xBox, Bing and Microsoft Research (PE of around 11 and valued north of $250 Billion.) They have returned tens of billions to shareholders via dividends and still have almost $50 Billion in reserve. This blogger should send his resume and ideas to the board of top companies if he can do better as CEO.

Microsoft is about to make a cool and predictable $25 Billion in profit this year. 25,000,000,000.00 in just one year. Not sure what will happen 5-10 years from now (no one really does) but it's a great achievement for a "dead" company.

loverobots | 14 years ago | on: This is probably why everyone still relies on Google

From what I can tell, Bing is very picky in indexing pages, whereas Google will index and ignore them if not up to their standards.

I use Bing and DDG and maybe once or twice a week I need to use Google to double check. Bing is more than fine for "most users," but Google has a powerful brand, they have a lot of goodwill and they open their checkbook to buy traffic (Mozilla, Opera, iOS, portals etc.)

Edit: All the above (even extra Googlebot servers to index new sites in seconds) are because Google can "monetize better," or has a lot of traffic which in turn attracts advertisers that bid up prices. Google is also shameless in adding dozens of ads in all places so they have lots of money to maintain their status quo. Put Bing or DDG results on Google.com, under the Google logo and very few "regular" people will complain.

loverobots | 14 years ago | on: Quora's $50 million

Yes and no. I think he just gave a $500K check from his own funds so others will not see a cut of that, just losses from his other investments. But yeah, he made money for himself gambling /investing /a combo or whatever. However, not even his FB lottery win can get his record out of the hole.

He is connected, famous and rich so he can afford to and can pick the early stage companies to through a bit of money at, hoping a few strike. But, there's a difference between billion dollar sized funds and angel ones.

loverobots | 14 years ago | on: Quora's $50 million

Ummm, no. D'Angelo put $20 mil in his own company so it's just $30mil, unless I read wrong. That $30mil is nothing, Thiel is making over $2 Billion on FB so this is just some crumbs as a thank you and "just in case."

loverobots | 14 years ago | on: Wozniak calls for open Apple

"I think that Apple could be just as strong and good and be open, but how can you challenge it when a company is making that much money?"

I think he knows it well. Like it or not Apple is AAPL, or there to make money for shareholders. Would "being open" result in more money for the people that bought a tiny slice of a $500 Billion pie? Will any CEO try when they're making $50 Billion or whatever they're making this year in profit? Not sure

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