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The difference between a good business and a good investment

Oleg Kokorin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:24:54 +0000

A good business is a company that generates profits. A good investment is the investment that grows significantly better than the market on average. If a company (Apple) exceeds another company (Microsoft) in market capitalization (i.e. it’s a better investment), but their profits don’t catch up, that means that the investment growth is based on faith. The faith that Apple will eventually generate better profits than Microsoft. That might happen or might not. And if that doesn’t happen soon enough, the investors will be disappointed and they will punish Apple’s capitalization. Simple as that.

Despite all the criticism, Microsoft is a very innovative company. They created tablet PCs, ebook readers, and Windows Mobile ten years ago. Too bad these things were too early for that time.

They created this 5 years before iPad:

NSFW: Catch the latest news about eyePhone, twitcher, and the Killer App!

Oleg Kokorin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:48:22 +0000

The Always Amusing Futurama is back! You surely want to know about the Third World, the eyePhone, and the evil Killer App a thousand years from now. Watch episode 3! Did I say a thousand years?

TechCrunch was just hacked

Oleg Kokorin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:36:34 +0000

As of this exact moment, the TechCrunch site is definitely hacked. There is some offensive messsage at the top of the homepage. I’d post the screenshot, if it hasn’t contained lots of f-bombs. So, “turns out” LAMP isn’t more secure than Windows?