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A Useful Addition
Observations on Software - Markets, Technology, and Companies
Sunday, August 25, 2002
Observations on Software - Markets, Technology, and Companies
Sunday, August 25, 2002
Missing, Presumed Dead
Apple has killed the long-time "happy mac" icon that adorned computers as they booted. That's sad, but what sucks is the muted gray apple logo they've replaced it with...just not the same.
Microsoft's Major Mistake?
Arrogance, Thy Name Is Microsoft [Business Week: Technology]
No Correlation Between Options, Performance
The study asserts that "The relationship between executives' stock holdings and their companies' performance is so close to zero that it is zero in statistical terms." As the article notes, this means an alphabetical ranking of companies is as apt to predict their performance as a ranking based on executives' holdings."
Apple has killed the long-time "happy mac" icon that adorned computers as they booted. That's sad, but what sucks is the muted gray apple logo they've replaced it with...just not the same.
Happy Mac Becomes an Icon of the Past. Without fanfare, Apple Computer has retired the smiley-face computer screen logo that has been an emblem since the introduction of the Macintosh computer. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Business]
11:03:23 PM 
Microsoft's Major Mistake?
Arrogance, Thy Name Is Microsoft [Business Week: Technology]
9:02:09 PM
No Correlation Between Options, Performance
The study asserts that "The relationship between executives' stock holdings and their companies' performance is so close to zero that it is zero in statistical terms." As the article notes, this means an alphabetical ranking of companies is as apt to predict their performance as a ranking based on executives' holdings."
Options Do Not Raise Performance, Study Finds. Is the economic rationale for awarding managers stock to align their interests with those of shareholders as solid as it has always been? No. By David Leonhardt. [New York Times: Business]
8:00:49 PM