Twitter is gearing up to handle an expected 10x onslaught during Steve Job’s kyenote at WWDC tomorrow. If they can, then all will be forgiven and forgotten about the outages the past several days.
My guess: They’ll hold up. And in a year Twitter will be mainstream handing volumes that will make the current volumes, even during a WWDC, seem small.
$138 a barrel. Where will it end? $150? Higher?
Much of the goods in America goes by truck. Diesel is now approaching $5 a gallon in most states. This means higher prices for everything that goes by truck, and really, what doesn’t, for at least part of the way?
Those who bought less-expensive homes further from metro areas to save money may well be spending hundreds more per month for gas.
Are the prices a bubble? Might be, but bubbles can go on a long time.
Just discovered Option News Network. They offer short videos about all facets of options trading, from basic education to hardcore trading strategies and possible trades. Excellent site, I’ll be there a lot.
A new FASB regulation means corporations can no longer, whether for legitimate reasons or otherwise, use QSPEs to keep transactions off their books. We’re talking trillions of dollars here.
LIBOR three-month spreads are increasing, signaling banks getting nervous again about lending to each other.
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Who would have thought World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) would be a well-run, financially healthy company with practically no debt and an 8.8% dividend. I didn’t, that’s for sure, until I looked at their numbers.
I recently bought some Nordic American Tanker (NAT) and Frontline (FRO), having traded them on and off for years. They are oil tanker stocks. The daily rates their ships charge are generally pegged to the Baltic Dry Index, which has been soaring lately.
They tend to be volatile stocks, so maybe they aren’t for the faint-hearted, but in addition to growth in the stock prices, they pay a whopping dividend. NAT currently yields 12% while FRO is at 17%, numbers which are not excessive for them. (I’ve owned NAT when it was consistently yielding above 20%.)
If you’re looking for big dividend yields, you might want to look at the tankers, especially oil tankers.
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Send Tweets by dialing a local number and speaking your message to TwitterFone.
WiFi Rail gets a nod from the Bay Area Rapid Transportation (BART) authority’s board: The board of the giant SF bay people mover has given a kind of tacit go-ahead for negotiations with WiFi Rail, a company that has been testing a unique form of delivering Wi-Fi using coaxial cable as antenna extensions. Cooper Lee, founder and CEO, told me that the approval lets them focus on nailing down a contract with the authority, which he believes should take just a couple of weeks, as WiFi Rail is eating the costs of the project.
Works for me. As for those who don’t want to be available and online all the time, do what my wife does, turn the device off. As for me, the more wifi, the better!
Holy Taco has the list.
My favorite: “Complicated Order Guy Who Needs his Coffee Right The F*&K Now.”
The corollary to this is, “The more makeup a woman has on, the more complicated her coffee order”
What better way to pass the time on a long flight than by being online? Multiple airlines are experimenting with wi-fi now and in a few years, I bet it’ll be commonplace. Good.
Microsoft expects corporate customers to accelerate their shift to the cloud computing model over the next five years, bringing changes in the company’s financial model.
Has any company that created a new paradigm ever dominated the one that replaced that paradigm? Nope. And Microsoft won’t either. Whether or not they buy Facebook and / or Yahoo Search.
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