El (bajo) precio de la acción de Twitter y su explicación

If You Think Twitter's IPO Price Is Silly, You Don't Get It HENRY BLODGET Twitter's IPO is ready to price, and, predictably, many pundits are going on about how stupid investors are to buy the stock. Twitter is losing money, these pundits observe. It's a social network, like the disastrous Facebook. Twitter hasn't proven anything yet. Twitter investors are so deluded and ridiculous, these pundits roar, that they've already agreed to buy Twitter stock at $25 a share! (A $15 billion valuation.) Whatever you do, don't get taken in by this. Anyone who bashes Twitter because it's "losing money" or "is like Facebook" or hasn't "proven anything" is the most dangerous form of market pundit: Articulate enough to...

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¿Que son los Bitcoins?

Programmer Robert McNally Put Together An Awesome Presentation On What Bitcoin Really Is ROB WILE Is Bitcoin the new gold? Some former gold bugs certainly think so. And its value has skyrocketedin recent months. But many readers at this point are probably wondering ... what exactly is Bitcoin? Robert McNally, an iOS developer at parking payment startup QuickPay, gave the following presentation to last year's Hackers' Conference in Santa Cruz, answering exactly that question.  With his kind permission, we have republished it here.  Let's begin ... Robert McNally And start with basics. Robert McNally In 2013, Bitcoin *is* money — at least for some — and that population grows each...

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Evidencia de que el sector tecnológico esta inmerso en una burbuja masiva

Here's The Evidence That The Tech Sector Is In A Massive Bubble JIM EDWARDS -  Business Insider The stock market is at an all-time high. Tech startups with no revenue have billion-dollar valuations. And engineers are demanding Tesla sports cars just to show up at work. Here's the evidence that we're in a new tech bubble, heading for a crash, just like the dot com bust of 1999. Interest rates are effectively at 0%. Fred / Think Progress Before we get into specific evidence that the tech sector is inflated, it's worth restating the macro-economic context: Interest rates are basically at zero and have been for some time. When borrowers are paying close to zero interest on loans, that makes money cheap to get. This...

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