Showing posts with label microsoft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label microsoft. Show all posts

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Economy

Facebook, Amazon, Nvidia, and Tesla stocks fall and drop market. Netflix, Google, and Twitter fall too. Is this the trigger?

Bounce back some today.
"Five titans of tech -- Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOGL) owner Alphabet, Microsoft (MSFT) and Facebook (FB) -- made up nearly a quarter of the market value of the entire S&P 500 as of the end of February.
Facebook, Google and Amazon have fallen sharply because of the possibility of more government regulations on the tech sector. That's dragged down the whole market.
The S&P 500 has fallen 5% in the past two weeks and the Nasdaq has tumbled 6%. Even the Dow, which has Apple, Microsoft, IBM (IBM), Cisco (CSCO) and Intel (INTC) as members, is down more than 3%.
But the market rebounded Thursday, led by solid gains in Facebook, Google and Apple."
And they represent all the gains.

Even CNBC predicts more pain to come.

Amazon yanks erotic romance novels from searches, hurting those authors. On the other hand, some writers were intentionally misrepresenting their books into the wrong categories.

Tesla's collapse would squander billions in taxpayer subsidies, but it would finally end them.

Tuesday, January 02, 2018

Politics

Tech's terrible year.

With Big Tech under fire, Microsoft turns the tables and calls on government to do more to work with tech. Funny, but scary.

Sunday, October 01, 2017

Economy

Alexa is Microsoft's nightmare. It's why Microsoft bought so many voice recognition patents and buried them years ago. Now that they've expired, Alexa will make Windows obsolete.

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Economy

Gymboree to close 350 stores, but the economy is great.

Microsoft laying off workers.

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Economy

America's big five tech stocks lost $97.5 billion in valuation Friday.

Monday, June 05, 2017

Police State

Microsoft releases software that bricks smartphones, calls it an accident. They're working with the government.

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Police State

Essential Home's privacy first claim may be a good marketing ploy, but no home assistant can put privacy first.

Windows XP was mostly immune to WannaCry, contrary to Microsoft's lies.  Obeying Microsoft makes computers less secure.

Saturday, May 27, 2017

Friday, May 19, 2017

Misc

Knee-jerk blaming of Windows XP for the WannaCry ransonware attack were unfounded as 98 percent of computers affected ran Windows 7. Blame NSA and Microsoft.

Now that cars are being hacked, somebody thought of anti-virus for cars. General purpose computers connected to the internet in cars are stupid.

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Economy

More American jobs likely to be taken over by robots than in other countries.

Robots to take 10 million British jobs.

American farmers forced to hack their tractors with Ukrainian code.

Bill Gates is still the world's richest man.

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Regulation

How come China gets a secure version of Windows 10 but not Americans. F*** Microsoft.

Sunday, March 05, 2017

Police State

Trump supports renewal of invasive spy law without modification.

We can only hope for an exodus of talent from the NSA. I'm skeptical.

NSA and GCHQ have intercepted in-flight mobile communications for years.

History of CIA incompetence.

Street lamps to be wired with cameras and microphones in San Diego. I won't visit there.

Spies have so much data on everybody they can selectively reveal whatever they want to benefit or destroy whomever they want. That's why I say NSA is the ultimate power in the country.

UK passes most invasive spy law in western world.

Hacked NSA tools for sale on market.

Prosecutors subpoena Alexa records in criminal case. Amazon claims Alexa is protected by the first amendment. That's a crazy argument. Regardless, Alexa and all other voice command assistants are spying all the time. The government gets that info whether it has a warrant or subpoena or not.

Amazon refuses to turn over Echo recording to Arkansas police.

Microsoft can call for a digital Geneva Convention, but all governments will break it. They always spy to the limits of technology. They limit themselves to legal spying.

Government allows Microsoft to sue it over email surveillance.

Twitter blocks government from accessing user data.

US-born NASA scientist detained at border and coerced into unlocking his phone.

State-sponsored hackers hack journalists.

DHS considers forcing US visitors to surrender social media passwords.

Man arrested for arson based on pacemaker data. Even medical devices are spying on you.

FBI reverts to using fax machines and snail mail to slow down responding to FOIA requests.

Secret rules make it easy for FBI to spy on journalists.

FBI hacked 8,000 computers in 120 countries based on one warrant. FBI uses malware like a grenade.

Fusion centers are a billion dollar boondoggle to promote paranoia.

Groupthink in the 17 member intelligence community which is focused on only expansion.

Obama signed new law against whistleblowers in December.

Why we need whistleblowers.

DHS and FEMA expose 10,000 trainees to ricin.

Anti-surveillance clothing hides people from surveillance cameras.

Local police building their own DNA databases.

Saturday, March 04, 2017

Economy

Microsoft nearing $1 trillion valuation, mostly thanks to android patents.
"Microsoft is generating $2 billion per year in revenue from Android patent royalties, says Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a new note on the company.
He estimates that the Android revenue has a 95% margin, so it's pretty much all profit. 
This money, says Sherlund, helps Microsoft hide the fact that its mobile and Xbox groups are burning serious cash. "
Thank the government.

Apple hits record high.

Alan Greenspan suddenly remembers gold is money.

Economic globalization versus political globalization.

Testosterone blamed for bubbles.

Another woman's retailers goes bankrupt.
"BCBG is just one of many retailers to announce store closures in 2017. The Limited shut down all brick-and-mortar locations, including local stores, and also filed for bankruptcy. Macy’s, Sears, Kmart and Ann Taylor will also cut select locations."
Nine retailers closing stores nationwide, but the economy is fine.

The bubble will soon pop despite Trump's reforms.

Big data will not enable a centrally planned economy.

GDP and ZIRP prove the economy is still bad contrary to the hype.


Skepticism of AI concerns voiced by plutocrats.
We need robots to take jobs.

Home ownership rate in 2016 lowest since 1965.

Technology can't prevent recessions because they are caused by misallocation of resources due to low interest rates and artificial credit.

Fractional reserve banking would be limited in a free market.

Bonds containing risky mortgages receive AAA rating as they did in 2007-2008.

There are no Christmas presents in broken Venezuela.

Ten fundamental laws of economics.

Inflation is about the money supply, not prices. Price inflation is a product of monetary inflation.

The correct definition of money is important.

Sunday, February 05, 2017

Police State

Judge orders Google to turn over emails stored on foreign server in contradiction to a previous ruling in favor of Microsoft not turning them over, setting up a higher court battle that will undoubtedly make companies surrender all data regardless of where it's kept.

Government failed to shut down child porn site, but Anonymous shut it down.

Saturday, December 10, 2016

Politics

There's still no evidence the Russian government tried to hack the US election. Of course, those non-governmental Russian hackers could have been working at the government's behest.

VP-elect Pence blames the free market for America's economic woes.

Microsoft ad promotes radical leftwing policies.

Thursday, September 08, 2016

Regulation

Tech giants form AI consortium so they can control the patents and market.

Sunday, September 04, 2016

Police State

Tech giants back Microsoft in fight against gag orders.

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Misc

Microsoft forces updates on Windows 7 and 8.1 users.