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Deflation? What’s it?
Minyanville wrote an interesting post on deflation. It’s an understandable (i.e. not technical) and condensed explanation of some fo the reasons why US is technically in deflation, and what it means.
I think it is definitely worth taking the time to read it. It’s just literally 3 minutes, a simple VSI (very short introduction).
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MSN Cashbacks: your personal ATM
Here (apparently) goes the story:
1- you register as an Ebay seller, or find one that has the product described below at poin 2)
2- set up a 750$ cash product (i.e. customer pays 750$ via PayPal to get 750$ cash)
3- the cashback appears to be 35%, i.e. 250$ circa
4- buy your own cash product
5- walk away […]
US economy joke
This is just hilarious.
Microsoft pays you to search: the war on margins has started
Recently Microsoft has announced the Live Search Cashback initiative. An interesting product that, if successful, can have far reaching consequences. And I am eager to see how it does.
Live Cashback gives you money back for shopping with selected merchants. Easy: make a search for a product (try here), select the appropriate result (or refine search […]
Procter & Gamble cutting adspend and moving it online?
It was on the WSJ a couple of days ago. P&G, a big fish in the advertising market, is rumored considering cutting ad spend this year by as much as 10%. No surprise here, considering real estate and finance are having what could be defined as a “soft” year to say the least. Apparently, retails […]
Length of real estate bear market
There was an interesting table on the FT last Saturday that reported the length and extension of house prices drop (the bear market) in 15 economies since 1970 (mainly Europe, USA + Japan, Korean, New Zealand and Canada).
On Average, the bear market has lasted 6+ years, and the prices dropped between 16% (Canada) and 50% […]
Facebook to borrow 100mn$?
Facebook is taking up 100mn$ to buy servers (?). And apparently it is burning at least 150mn$ per year. Noty bad for the enfant prodige company that was able to get 240mn$ at 15bn$ valuation from Microsoft. They had better figure out a way to make more money, pronto.
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Nomads and wireless: how your day will change
The economist published, a few weeks ago, an interesting special on mobility. The report is called “Nomads”, published the 10th of April, and all the articles can be accessed directly from this link.
I advise you to read them all. They are very interesting, and cover many different aspects of mobility driven by the new wireless […]
Recession probabilities for the US
Ok I admit it, I am passionate about the economy too, not only about the internet. So I cannot stop posting about it and, these days, more frequently than about the internet. There is a lot going on in the internet, especially with the recent Yahoo-Microsoft story. But I cannot and don’t want to comment […]
Nestoria - smart house search
Nestoria is a vertical search engine focused on real estate with operations in UK and Spain. Founded by a few Spaniards -amongst which friend and former top dog for Yahoo Search Europe Javier Etxebeste- it aggregates information and data from other vertical engines and estate agencies, properly and smartly aggregate and present in a pleasant […]