Financial writer Felix Salmon doesn’t think it’s fair or right for Henry Blodget to be writing about finance and investments. Read Blodget’s reply here.
I don’t know about this one, Henry actually seems to go all out to disclose everything, in a humorous manner to boot. continue reading...
Last year, I asked if Google would surpass MSFT by 2010, this year, with Google crossing $600 and $700 in a matter of weeks, Silicon Alley’s Henry Blodget and Tech Crunch’s Duncan Riley are getting in on the fun.
For the record, it is highly possible to think that Google will be worth a lot more than it’s worth today, but there’s also a lot to suggest that it won’t. When you break down the variables, it’s plausible to think that Google might be the world’s first trillion dollar company, too, but there is enough to suggest that that company will be based in China or India, and involved in wireless. Of course, these last three traits are right now very speculative, so Google is as good of a bet as any. But more on Google later, the thing that struck me most with Duncan Riley’s most, who is Australian, is that he asks: Imperium: Google’s March Towards Becoming America’s Biggest Company. continue reading...
Some time ago, Alley Insider pointed to Sandeep Aggarwal (an analyst at Oppenheimer)’s report on the impact of the mortgage crisis.
I’ve frequently raved about Alley Insider’s reporting, it’s a welcome addition to the landscape where most bloggers regurgitate corporate press releases and fail to question the institutional imperative… continue reading...
When I was in college finishing up my degree in finance from 1996-99, Mary Meeker and Henry Blodget were the top two analysts covering dot coms. We know how that ended up.
Seeing this, I wondered, where am I? What year is it? And how will this ride end? continue reading...
