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Deepwater Horizon Spill Size Estimates Keep Growing, As Do Costs
John is one of the ten most followed writers at Seeking Alpha and a Senior Contributor at TheStreet.com and Real Money. Last week I tried to bracket the cost exposure for BP as a result of the Deepwater Horizon well head blowout and…
Apple’s new iPhone is "one of the most beautiful things we’ve ever made"
iPhone? Try eye candy! “This is beyond a doubt the most precise thing, one of the most beautiful things we’ve ever made.” -Steve Jobs at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference The new iPhone comes in 16GB and 32GB…
BP: The Mother of all Egregious Violators
By John Lounsbury. Here is some astounding news: BP PLC (BP) has 97% of the most serious safety violations at U.S. refineries over the past 35 months. In the very top "egregious" category, BP has 99.9% of all…
Is Apple Ripe to Pick for a Short?
By Chris Wood of Casey Research
“We want to kick off 2010 with a truly revolutionary and magical product.”
That was Steve Jobs, preaching to a packed house at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco back on January 27, as…
The Perfect Game That Almost Was
On June 2, 2010, Joyce made a controversial call at first base, ruling baserunner Jason Donald of the Cleveland Indians safe. Had the call gone the other way, pitcher Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers would have completed a perfect…
Mark Zuckerberg Makes The Case For Facebook at D8
Facebook has been under fire of late because of growing privacy concerns amongst its users. At the centre of the debate is the company's constantly changing privacy rules for existing Facebook users. On occasion, the company has moved…
More on Steve Jobs’ comments at the D8 All Things Digital Conference
In the links this morning I highlighted the D8 All Things Digital technology conference hosted by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. Apple CEO Steve Jobs was there sounding off on all manner of topics from Google to Adobe to the iPad. The Wall…
Parallels between 1979 Ixtoc disaster and Deepwater Horizon
All of the techniques now being used to plug the oil spill in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in Macondo Prospect were tried 31 years ago with Ixtoc I and they failed. It was only when relief wells came online 10 months after the disaster…
How BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil find was originally reported in September 2009
Below are a few media reports from September 2009 discussing the BP Gulf of Mexico Tiber Oil Field find when it originally hit the newswires. This was the deepest oil and gas well in human history, going to a depth of 35,000 feet.…
Gulf Coast Industries Crushed By Deepwater Horizon Catastrophe
In addition to the already worrisome environmental implications of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the economic implications are now starting to look serious. We may see the military take over at some point unless BP can plug these leaks.…