Reading Time: < 1 minute How much Google knows about you? The google dashboard. I found out the google search I did last Saturday on “enable root on Mac” (by going to google => “My Account” => “web history”). I believe there is a setting a google user can change to disable google to collect the data. But for me

Reading Time: 2 minutes I was a little busy recently, due to many reasons. Thus I did not paid much attention to stock market in the past week, and the big drop in last 6 trading days did not concern me as much (due to distance), another reason is I sold some stocks before and during those days, so

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Aug. 06, 2009) Strategic Hotels misses estimates, sees local revenue fall, quote: A closely watched measure of REIT financial performance, FFO is net income excluding gains or losses from property sales, plus depreciation and amortization. (May 1, 2004) Table Is Set for New Round of Hotel IPOs, quote: Historically, stocks in the sector traded at

Reading Time: < 1 minute From Fox Business News (via Youtube). The journalist also talked about Google and Android OS used in nook.

Reading Time: < 1 minute He talked about job market, compensation, and the events around crisis a year ago.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Mr. Peterson has background both in government and private sector: he has been commerce secretary and is co-founder and senior chairman of Blackstone (the private equity group). Very wise guy in my mind. Charlie Rose interview July 3, 2009 (link)

Reading Time: < 1 minute First let’s mark Oct 14 2009: Dow 10,000 2.0 (Yahoo Tech-ticker video below) (did you notice the Yahoo ~~~ in the end, Yahoo became more goofy under Carol) My topic today is IPO. I have not got much luck from IPO investing (to be more precise, speculating). My lessons are the following:

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 13Nov09) BBI released not so good earning report (Reuters). One interesting point is they are going to spend $10,000 to $20,000 to renovate the stores (about 1,700). (Original) Note I am saying “dying”, not “death”. This also does not demonstrate all the hard work of men and women at Blockbuster, from corporate to stores,

Reading Time: < 1 minute From Yahoo Tech-ticker. I don’t necessarily agree his view (but it’s always good to listen to both sides of the arguments).

Reading Time: < 1 minute Two things I wanted to talk about ESPP: personal bias and taxation. I remember I grew tired of my undergraduate college at the fourth year, due to various reasons. But after leaving my college for so many years, now I think that’s one of the best places I have been. Personal congnition bias also plays