Make it happen, Activision Blizzard.
I’m just glad I own fake stocks in ATVI. Hooray for theupdown.
Zecco, when will you ever give me an account…
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While perusing Google Finance:
Remind me to buy some Consumer Cyclical tomorrow morning.
The past two days have been up up up. Zecco, freaking make me an investing account already!
EDIT
Okay, Google, fix this fast. Today, Financial seems to be down a bit.
Everything is so green!
Question of the Week: Buy Google or Yahoo?
I haven’t really thought about Yahoo as much as I’ve had in the past couple of days.
Google and Yahoo… to normal people, they might just seem like #1 and #2 in the world of online search (there’s a #3? who’s that? ahem). But really, I see that comparing the two companies as a whole is almost like comparing apples to oranges. The commonality that people misunderstand is “search”. But man, there’s so much more!
Both companies are trying to grow. Aggressively. Mind you, Google will be going after Microsoft Office’s market (PowerPoint, anyone?), no matter what Mr. Schmidt is saying at the Web 2.0 Expo (seriously, I only typed “2.0″ cuz it’s name of the conference).
“I don’t think we compete with them. We’re not as fully functional as MS Office — we’re more in line with how people use the web than how they use the desktop.”
I’m not sure how I’ll be using this presentation feature, seeing how I don’t normally create PowerPoints on a day to day basis… but I use Google all the time. The default search engine I use in Firefox is still Google (see how I didn’t say “I google all the time”? Dodged a bullet on that one). I use Gmail for all my email needs. I use Google Reader for my feeds. I also use Google docs, for budgeting and reporting hours for work. I even use Google chat from time to time.
But really, this is only because I haven’t had a reason to try something new. The funny thing is… Yahoo has already been a part of my world… for quite a while, now. While I haven’t really ever used Yahoo search (except to settle a little spat between two friends, Alex and Raj… pertaining to who is really “L Dopa Da Dopsta”..), Yahoo has Del.icio.us and Flickr… two companies very dear to my entrepreneurial heart.
Sadly… Yahoo took a beating on the markets today. Thank goodness I haven’t bought any of their stock. Yet…
What was the point of that? I don’t know. I just needed to relieve some Google/Yahoo steam.
I think this post borders on brain dump… Meh.
Apple released a statement on the 12th (and in a few weeks, this is going to be the wrong link), with my commentary, as much as I can remember having on that day:
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is.
Yes, Mr. Jobs. We want to give you money! We knew June. Of course, a nice rebate would be good.
[Sidenote: By the way, I'm most likely not going to get one. Why? Two reasons: Programmability and Power.]
However,
I don’t likes the looks of thissss.
iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.
“We screwed up. But you still love us, right?”
Of course, Mr. Jobs. We love you. Here, have some more money. When’s Leopard coming out so I know to save up my $150?
While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October.
October? Wasn’t the original date Spring 2007? What, is Apple pulling a Vista?
We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]
But of course, had I known this announcement would be made the day after I started my IRA Roth… if I knew about Leopard missing the already pushed back deadline… if I knew the market would look like this for the week to follow:
Blah.
This post made by an ex-Apple employee definitely sums up the possible reason as to why… things are becoming shaky, just a tiny bit.