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Microsoft Making an Offer for Yahoo: What Does it Mean?
February 1, 2008
Microsoft just announced an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion (see the letter from Steve Ballmer to the Yahoo! board). While Yahoo! has been struggling for a while now, especially compared to Google, apparently Microsoft sees enough there to offer a 62% premium to the market price. Wall Street thinks this might be “diworsification” for Microsoft, as its share price is currently down around 6%. What does it all mean for these companies and the tech sector in general, though?
Summary of the Candidates’ Tech Policies
January 29, 2008
Since so many people were interested in where the candidates stand on economic issues, I decided to put a summary up of other issues that I have researched. Today we take a look at where they stand on issues important to the tech community: things like net neutrality, net censorship, and copyright policy. We’ve lost a few candidates since the last time around - Duncan Hunter, Dennis Kucinich and Fred Thompson have all dropped out. Again, I’ll frame the question as an imagined answer by the candidate to the question,
“What do you feel are the most important issues facing the tech community, and what do you intend to do about them as President?” Answers below the jump…
Using Google Trends to Predict a Recession
January 23, 2008
My brother had an interesting idea… why not use what people are searching for to see how the economy is doing? I did a little bit of research, and came up with the following incredibly unscientific experiment.
1) Put in various words into Google Trends associated with an economic depression, limit the area to the United States in the last twelve months, and see how many people have been searching for those words.
So what were the results?
