Tag: eBay

The Twitter IPO: Are We Partying Like It’s 1999?

Today, at roughly 9:45 a.m., I’m walking in Ess Eff Sea Eh on 2nd Street at Mission, heading towards Market, and my cool-car detector fires off, as I see a red Ferrari convertible going through the intersection, headed towards 1st Street. This is the car:   That’s it, right down […]

Luck vs. Skill: The Whitman Example

I knew folks at eBay while it was going through the steep part of the hockey stock — which is SiliconValley-ese for growing like all get out, the imagery being based on the shape of a graph of the revenues (and hopefully profits) of a company experiencing hyper-growth, with dollars […]

On the Brighter Side of Things

After yesterday’s post on violence, and a friend’s comment about it, how about we now feast on something compelling and uplifting? Yes: how about something more on the bright side of life? *  *  * Let’s start with the stock market: it’s doubled since March 9, 2009. So, if you’ve […]

The human zoo

  I’ve been meaning to take a break from writing this blog, to get back to my knitting, as they say, and was well on my way to doing that today, until I read a story about 10 top-rated internet stocks [as of checking the former link to the article on […]