Business

Rick Bookstaber argues that the rise of the super-elite is not a product of educational differences, but rather a result of the new capitalism which creates bigger winners, and does so much more quickly than in the capital-intensive…

Influential tech blogger Robert Scoble talked to Bloomberg earlier in the week about the social media scene. The main message I took away is that he believes Google+ is a successful product for Google which could spell trouble for Facebook…

The man is special.

Remember when I said that Google would get to scale "much,much faster than Facebook? Well this chart shows you this quite vividly. Wow!

I like how Summers’ prefaces it, noting his own notoriety for having a lot of swagger and then saying “Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind.”

Rick Bookstaber asks whether LinkedIn anything more than a resume warehouse? Is it simply a web-based Rolodex to make it easier to stay up with your business contacts? He doesn't know the business model for the company, and doesn't have any…

Technology guru Vivek Wadhwa of Duke University and Paul Kedrosky, a noted investor and analyst in the tech and finance space debated whether there is a bubble in technology shares on Friday. The interview is very good, so I am posting it…

If you had to start an online social network from scratch, how would you do it?

Android’s adoption is all about upgrades and not about switching. I see this as a land grab right now. The operating systems that can grab as much share as possible while people are upgrading from cheapie phones to inexpensive Smartphones…

Coal prices are surging ahead even as most other commodities pull back, spurred on by expectations that metallurgical and thermal coal production will again fail to meet rising global demand this year. The result? Record profits for major…