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I want to concentrate on the popped Web 2.0 bubble in the wake of Groupon's earnings and subsequent share price slide. Web 2.0 is for real. I know that may be a strange way to start a post on Groupon and the Web 2.0 IPO bubble but it's…

The latest Spotify move is significant in terms of its mounting challenge to Pandora in the US. This is going to be a real problem for Pandora and I anticipate that it will not be able to justify its market cap any time soon.

In less than a week's time, the Facebook IPO has gone from the most-hyped technology event since Google went public into "blame-storming" mode. Details concerning the stock's sudden drop, the market's inability to process orders, and the…

I spoke to Paul Waldie and Brian Milner of the Globe & Mail on BNN's headline on Monday. The big story was JPMorgan Chase and the London Whale trades. JPMorgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon, as the leading lobbyists for the hands-off…

This is just an update to this morning's post. The numbers were profit of $12.30 a share ($11.62 billion), up from $6.40 a share ($5.98 billion) last year.

There has been a lot of chatter about Apple recently because of the monster move it has sustained in the first four months of the year. Bloomberg reports that Apple gained more than $250 billion in market share in just four months to April…

"What made Instagram worth $1 billion to Facebook?" When asked this question recently, I responded with an immediate, "Nothing." I'm not usually so terse or emphatic with my answers, as any longtime reader knows. But in this case,…

Enemies of freedom will always tell you that there is some trade-off between freedom and civil liberties to get you to give up your freedom. This is a false dichotomy and always will be.

News links for 22 December 2011 including stories on the tech world, Europe, and the ECB

The Wall Street Journal's Stu Woo reports on how Amazon ramps up for the Christmas selling season in a much-read write-up for the paper with a focus on the thoughts of holiday season workers like 75-year old Ray Williams and his wife…