Posts by Stourque

If I win, I want some of that cat poo coffee.

I'm going to bid $100 billion.

I'm getting sick of all the crap on facebook now. I just want to keep up to date with people and relatives I don't actively keep in touch with. But now it's about all the ads which I didn't ask for and all the sharing and likes of pages...

Quote:Originally Posted by rob53 Did he really buy it with real money or did he buy it with the type of market money where he only had to pay a certain percentage of the total value? The stock market has all sorts of ways of trading...

This the result if putting market share ahead of profitability. Consumers may gain in the short term, but in the long term companies need to earn money.

Kind of like a google search that gives top billing to their 'partners' - companies that pay google to get to the top of the list.

Funny how oil companies get away with price fixing everyday, but when Apple sets up a store where publishers set the price and Apple takes a cut, it is viewed as price fixing. I guess Apple doesn't spend enough paying off (lobbying)...

Quote:Originally Posted by Tallest Skil It can do that already, can't it? The third-gen iPod shuffle could do that. Only songs in your library. I think he was referring to a song you hear in the car - ask Siri to identify it.

Here's what apple got for its $2 million in lobbying: http://reut.rs/WbeiJW

Here's an artist's rendition of what the new Google store will look like: