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Long post on what Microsoft is doing to try to acquire Yahoo, and how hostile takeovers happen in general. gulfstream/2432

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Three reworkings (some quite radical) of the Bloomberg Terminal. gulfstream/2319

Leonard Cohen possibly broke. gulfstream/1832

Google bad news blog. This is pretty decent, although the most recent entry is wrong in claiming that the $90 million Google has offered to pay in click-fraud … gulfstream/2014

The sad story of Nauru: in the 1970s, the people of Nauru were amongst the richest in the world (the whole island is basically phosphate); now the government … gulfstream/2065

The shapeless official website of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffet’s $136bn (+ $25bn in B stock?) holding company. The Message from Warren Buffet … gulfstream/2081

Tips for presenting to investors (and for presentations in general). “… as you approach … a description of something that could be anything, the … gulfstream/2138

Google employees will soon be able to sell their options. One of the benefits is that it gives a tangible value to the options themselves. (I look forward … gulfstream/2202

The New Yorker will apparently make money this year (i.e. 2002), for the first time since 1985. Experts in magazine finance are unconvinced.  … gulfstream/995

“Nobody dumbs down the finance pages. Imagine the fuss if I tried to stick the word ‘biophoton’ on a science page without explaining what … gulfstream/1833

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Stocks -- Coach Class of Capitalism: Michael Lewis

redesigns of the bloomberg terminal
conceptual redesigns (some quite radical) of the bloomberg terminal from ideo, happy cog

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