July, 2000 Posts
Biggest Opportunity of Next Century
What is the biggest investment opportunity for the next century? Biotech, Medicine? Well, I believe that it is the electronification of cash. Financial transactions effect every one of us everyday. Whether it is paying the cashier at McDonalds, putting money in a vending machine, buying something online, or tipping someone, cash and payment processing [...]
Marriage Tax Relief
Well, finally the Senate passed a marriage tax break. As it is now, the deduction allowed for married couples is less than the same deduction that two single people would have. The plan is to even it out to that of two single people by 2001. President Clinton doesn't like the bill because he [...]
Making Money from failure
Free ISP company Freewwweb recently filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company unlike most other free isp's, doesn't display any ad banners. The company instead asks the users to select a homepage that displays the homepage of a paying advertiser. Well, not surprisingly, this hasn't been working and the company has been having problems [...]
Go2net reports profit
Today Go2net reported a profit of .22 cents a share. Revenues soared to $23.0 million from $5.7 million the year before. Meanwhile, pro-forma net income more than tripled to $10.8 million — or $0.22 a share (excluding acquisition and stock compensation charges). What is the big deal? This is an Internet company that owns [...]
A Search for good valued companies
I have been getting off the subject of investments with this site, and have been talking about technology and the Internet quite a bit. Now, I'm going to write an investment article and you will start seeing more of these in the future. Interest rates have been going up for about the past year [...]
Netscape 6 vs Internet Explorer
Recently Netscape came out with a early release version of its Navigator browser. The new browser has all sorts of new features to the browser. It has open support to new technoligies developed by the WC3 and is smaller and faster. It offers support for XML, the latest html and a host of other [...]
Targeted Web ads and the ad industry
While trying out free Internet services Bluelight and Astalavista, I was struck by the issue of targeted advertising. Both of these companies play a video commercial while you are connecting to the Internet. Companies pay for these ads, and they display banner ads while your online. I've heard that banner ads aren't very effective [...]
The FBI investigates auction site self-bidding
A recent article on Cnet claims that the FBI is investigating auction sites for self bidding to artificially inflate prices. The first thing that came to mind is why is the FBI getting involved? Don't they have better things to do? Besides being interested in finding out what is going on, is it really [...]
Oracle vs Microsoft
Most of us are aware of the feud between software companies and Microsoft. Some of the most public about this are two companies which are in good financial shape that have been very successful. The companies are Sun Microsystems and Oracle. The CEO's for these companies are Scott McNeally and Larry Ellison. They both [...]
The Information Piracy Revolution
Thanks to the Internet, information is now readily available at our fingertips. Some may say its too readily available. As a result of this we now have major software, music, and website copyright piracy. Other things that were stolen were domain names such as www.sex.com, credit card number theft, and websites designs and looks [...]