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FREE Yahoo! Finance Streaming Quotes

Posted in General, tagged , , , , on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was surprised when I saw the real-time quotes appear on Yahoo! Finance this morning. I suppose that it started yesterday but I didn’t see the real-time quotes. After a Google search, I found this link so I guess it will stay there for a while. This is very good for traders and investors alike, [...]

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"Dying" Tech Companies

Posted in Stock Picks, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Here are some companies that I thought are just “hanging over” in the tech industry:
AMD – Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
As I said earlier, AMD had lost ground and can no longer remain competitive with Intel. AMD has ambitious goals, but it doesn’t have deep pockets like Intel for research and development. Last week, it had [...]

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Microsoft Earnings Tonight

Posted in Earnings, tagged , , , , , , on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As much as I like Microsoft products, I don’t think they are innovative enough to compete with other companies such as Apple and Google. Microsoft keeps on releasing new versions of their software but doesn’t really add anything new to them. For example, I still prefer to use Windows XP and Office 2003 instead of [...]

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Microsoft is Buying Yahoo for $44.6 Billion

Posted in General, Portfolio, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sold 1000 shares of YHOO @ 27.75.
Microsoft is buying Yahoo for $44.6 billion! Now Google is facing some STRONG competition. In this market, it is all about timing. Microsoft released this news right after Google posted disappointing results yesterday.

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Alibaba and Yahoo

Posted in Portfolio, tagged , on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sold 5000 1688.HK shares @ 19.30 HKD. Will see what happens in the next few days. BTW, I am still holding the 1000 YHOO shares that I bought last month.

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Alibaba.com

Posted in Portfolio, tagged , , , , , on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Bought 2000 1688.HK shares @ 28.05 HKD
I bought Alibaba because of the following reasons:

Yahoo owns 40% of Alibaba. (Link)
It has recently fallen from its highs (~$40).
Biggest B2B business in China – “The Chinese eBay”.
HSBC appoints CEO of Alibaba David Wei as non-executive director. (Link)
28 and 1688 are good numbers. =)

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Yahoo!

Posted in Portfolio, tagged , , , , on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Bought 1000 YHOO shares @ 23.39 USD
I bought Yahoo because of the following reasons:

It is near the lows of the past 3 years.
It is the 2nd largest search engine in the world.
Online advertising is still a major trend in the Web industry.
It is not as volatile as other stocks like Google.

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