Maybe it’s because the financial markets are currently having mild schizophrenic episodes, but the hedge fund that uses Twitter as a guide as to where to invest finished its first month of trading at the end of July, and it not only returned 1.85% in that time, but it also beat the S&P 500 during the same period. In other words: Social …
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Investors Wary of Tech Bubble 2.0
Webvan. eToys. Infonet. The Globe. Any of these names ring any bells?
In the late 1990s, they were the Facebooks and Twitters of their day. The hot properties that everyone wanted a part of. They were worth billions, and now they’re nothing but internet history.
If the thought of that bothers today’s tech investors, they’re not …
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Google (Or Maybe 11)
James Altucher writes great stories about his background in the world of investment, but his latest, 10 Things I Didn’t Know About Google reads like a secret history of the I’m Feeling Lucky search company.
Read it, and you’ll learn not only how long the guy used to spend playing Defender each day, but also what Google’s first Tweet …