This morning I got an email from a company we are looking at acquiring that really bothered me. I had to bite my tongue to stop myself from immediately calling ‘bullsh*t’. Understanding the risk that the company might read my blog I ... Go to Full Article

Harvesting the Sun's Energy with Antennas -- it sure seems like at some point we may see a "moore's law" type effect in solar cells -- dramatic increases in efficiency with dramatic cost drops. Will never be as longlived as the Moore's ... Go to Full Article

Just ordered Amazon.com: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin: Video Games based on the NYTimes review today. Have to wonder -- when will we see a DS with wireless integration like the Kindle? I don't buy games that often, cartridges and manuals ... Go to Full Article

Like many people I have a mess of extra cables -- displays, ethernet, usb, sound/speaker of many flavors, firewire, etc etc etc. I used to just keep them in a tangled mess in a drawer. But I had an unused shoe rack like this one ... Go to Full Article

The Best: Extinct Animals, From an Elephant Bird to a 10-Foot-Long, Four-Eyed Spider -- a 7 foot long centipede. a 4 eyed spider-like thing. eek. Go to Full Article

And more time for blog entries because last week, I said goodbye to an online community of which I was a member since 2003. Message boards are strange phenomena to begin with, and my time with this particular community was... Go to Full Article

Hyderabad-based risk management solution firm Goose Technologies is in talks with a few venture capital firms to raise $2 million or about Rs 8 crore. The funds proposed to be raised would be used for developing new solutions in ... Go to Full Article

Today's WallStrip might be the best ever. Julie and her friends act out what people that are heavy into public equities are thinking. Go to Full Article

Herb Greenberg was saved by Ma Bell today in our scheduled "blogger bears" debate live on CNBC. The network was getting a bad signal from the studio here in San Diego, so they yanked the segment at the last second. ... Go to Full Article

Good missive today from Tom Sowanick of Clearbrook Financial arguing that most investors are filtering out good economics news, ignoring the Fed's highly stimulative econo-therapy, and their portfolios are therefore not aggressive ... Go to Full Article

Images When Amazon announced their Kindle last year, I bought one. I wasn't too optimistic, as I had read a lot of bad reviews. However, to my surprise, I've really enjoyed my Kindle experience. The screen is extremely readable -- and ... Go to Full Article

The stock market volatility has started taken its toll in the primary equity market. Two prominent initial public offers have been forced to announce a cut in the issue price, given the state of affairs at the stock exchanges. ... Go to Full Article

This topic I posted on earlier took me on a trip down memory lane this morning. A comment to my earlier post took me to this blog in search of a link to William Ackman's letter to the SEC. In... Go to Full Article

I was reading the NY Times business section today and came across this paragraph in a story about the potential collapse of bond insurers. Mr. Ackman, who runs a New York hedge fund called Pershing Square and has bet against... Go to Full Article

Kubera Cross-Border Fund Limited (KUBC), an India focused private equity fund listed in London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market, has invested $10 million for a 10.20 per cent stake in GSS America Infotech Ltd, ... Go to Full Article