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Several theories in finance relate to stock price analysis and prediction. The efficient markets hypothesis states that stock prices for publicly-traded companies reflect all available information. Prices adjust to new information instantaneously, so it is impossible to "beat the market." Furthermore, the random walk theory asserts that changes in stock prices arise only from unanticipated new information, and so it is impossible to predic...more
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Polese describes the development of Java at Sun and the various things that made it a success.
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Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla, talks about how Firefox played a significant role in changing the consumer side of the Internet. She describes how Mozilla is a key contributor in moving the Internet towards a more complete space. She also explains how the Mozilla project made the Internet serve as a platform for application development.
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In the beginning, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to license Google to other companies because they wanted to finish their PhD's, but none were interested. Google was started out of desperation; they had no other option but to start the company themselves. Though the founders do worry about competition, the barrier to entry is continuously increasing as Google indexes more and more documents and becomes the foundation of so ma...more
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Microsoft came knocking, but they and Yahoo! could not agree on a price, says Sue Decker, president of the search engine and online community. Decker attributes the incomplete partnership to a difference of vision in the potential value of the company, and says that in its wake, Yahoo! is weighing a number of options for the future.
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Google increasingly has a global focus; as of 2002, traffic is now around 60% outside of the United States and growing. The search supports 74 languages, including many Asian languages, says CEO Eric Schmidt. There is tremendous growth in Japan, where the majority of portals and online services now use Google.
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Polese believes that entrepreneurs should open source their proprietary software only if the open source supports and enables their core business.
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Yahoo! President Sue Decker explains the search engine's testing of Google tools to help close the gap between user search and moneymaking ad clicks. She explains that the partnership was part of the due diligence necessary to benchmark Yahoo!'s own capability to turn search engine users into those who buy from well-targeted on-site ads.
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As a well-known champion of Google, Doerr describes some of his favorite services that Google offers.
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Google's advertising model has been extremely successful, says CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founder Larry Page. Google has invested in technology to better target ads - and they've found that targeting ads well is in fact comparable to targeting search results.
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Polese explains the concept of the "long tail".
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If you love something, set it free and it will come back to you, says the old adage. But as Sue Decker, President of Yahoo! explains, this sentiment also applies to advertising-driven online real estate. The front page of the popular search engine has always been a popular destination - and a great source of revenue for the company. But Decker explains why Yahoo! has chosen to eschew solid revenue in exchange for allowing that space to be ...more
