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When it comes to market capitalization, Facebook is officially bigger than IBM — Tech News and Analysis
“This Friday, August 8th, the stock market closed for the week with Facebook still holding a bigger market cap at $190 billion compared to IBM at $186 billion. It’s an impressive shift, given that Facebook is a much smaller company by other metrics. It has 7,185 employees to IBM’s 431,212, $7.87 billion in 2013 revenue […]
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Russia vs United States: A Visual Comparison
Relations between the former Soviet Union and the United States thawed a long time ago and we no longer live in fear of mutually assured destruction. But Russia remains an economic powerhouse and a major player on the world stage. Russia has a rich cultural history and a sometimes brutal military legacy and for most […]
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Who Uses Social Networks and What Are They Like? (Part 2)
Read Part 1 of this post here. In a recent study by Anderson Analytics, the demographics and psychographics of social networking users on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn were revealed. The ultimate goal was to provide marketers with information about users’ interests and buying habits as related to their network of choice. The end result […]
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Kapitall, Like a Wii for Investment, Puts Democratic Spin on Financial Tools
A startup in the finance vertical aims to democratize investment by providing a more usable interface for financial tools and perhaps even ward off future financial calamity by decentralizing control of financial markets. Current tools, such as Yahoo! Finance, are considered intimidating, complex, and overwhelmingly boring at a time when understanding of and interest in […]
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RBC Analyst Issues Note on Facebook’s Threat to Google
RBC Capital Markets analyst Ross Sandler issued a 15-page note analyzing the different reasons Facebook poses a threat to Google this morning. Henry Blodget over at SAI has all the pertinent slides (as usual), and here are the highlights: 1) Sandler says by RBC projections Facebook could surpass Google in worldwide uniques by 2011-2012: 2) […]
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Write the manual first.
You don’t really know a subject until you’ve had to teach it. In the same way, you don’t really understand your interface until you’ve written a manual explaining how to use it. It can be a frustrating experience. Take for example the two manuals for digital watch and analog watch. The section on setting a […]
