Category Technology

Facebook: An IPO Investment Timeline

SecondMarket provides a timeline of trades in Facebook (FB)’s common stock since April 2008.  If one applies a discount (let’s use 30% for example purposes) to account for a limited supply of shares available via SecondMarket versus a larger supply…

Central Ohio Grows More Than Corn

Map of U.S. with Ohio highlighted This April, Manta Media, based in Columbus, Ohio, raised $44 million from Norwest Venture Partners, which is headquartered in Palo Alto, California (aka Silicon Valley). Manta provides a free online database and social media…

2011: A Bot Odyssey

BizarroComic.blogspot.com When comic relief is needed, the likes of Goolsbee, Bernanke and Fama is fine. However, if seriousness about a task or topic is warranted, then a genetic algorithm-based bot might be more useful, thankyouverymuch. The cover story of Wired…