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Looks like the Amazon price is $16.79, and this customer chose to pay the full MSRP of $27.95 to buy from another store.

Market cap implies public company because by definition private companies are not traded publicly on a market. It's the same way start ups have "valuations" and not "market caps".

Seems like the math portion is becoming less about math and more like an MBA reading comprehension test.

I don't think GoPro went down because of the threat of the patent. Rather, investors are afraid Apple will start to compete against GoPro. People are seeing the patent as a possibl…

Honestly, it sounds like traditional enterprise software and should be valued similarly. Software like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Electronic Health Record (EHR) always r…

Agreed. I also wouldn't be surprised if he got paid >100X the average programmer with Oculus in the end as well.

1) Some programmers really are worth orders of magnitude more than others. Really great programmers will help drive product decisions that can change direction of the company and t…

Galleries want a 50% cut from every sale of new art. He's getting a discount by buying in bulk and going straight to the artist. Edit: TBC, I don't think there's anything wrong wit…

Are they trying to deter non-serious students in order to inflate their pass rate? If they want people to take their certificates seriously, I guess it would be important for peopl…

She's not really the highest paid. Most of it was a 10 year grant that finally vested. If you amortize the money over the 10 years, she's not paid more than other presidents. If an…

And averaged 1% return a day!

This video may be a better introduction to Boosted boards, but it's an old vid that lacks all the news I got from the posted one: new models/software/pricing/potential future produ…

The companies taking advantage rely on their marks/employees being naive, so you'll be fine once you know to be careful: 1) Get direct employment with a reputable US company instea…

The Krstic article is an explanation of the short squeeze that happened near the end. This is just a small part of the Priceonomics article. The Priceonomics article includes a lot…

I believe the first sentence is talking about SpaceX's "largest single contract" not NASA's largest contract.

Acquisitions are complex and take a long time to really close. Most of the time you see articles about a company being sold, the deal isn't actually done yet. WhatsApp agreed to te…

That's not necessarily the reason for Houston having such a large Chinese community. The majority of Chinese in Houston are legal and often more educated immigrants that would not …

Good article, but I think the more accurate title would be "a government bureaucrat stole my root beer in order to cover their ass"

Does it actually clean your clothes like real dry cleaning would? The video makes it sound like it just deodorizes your clothes and heats them up to remove wrinkles.

Do employee stock options usually not vest automatically upon acquisition? The SinglePlatform story made it sound like employees get screwed if there's an early exit before their o…

If you're poor, the most elite colleges are either free or nearly free. Some avoid using debt at all in financial aid. The most elite colleges can be a better deal than a state sch…

The Leica T has an outdated Sony sensor they used in one of their lower end mirrorless cameras (NEX 5). The NEX 5 was even more portable and you can use a large number of first par…

They could cache over wifi (eg sequential tv episodes for binge watchers) and actually decrease use of cellular bandwidth.

True, but most people only have credit to buy a home, which is another matter.

The idea is it's a backup battery instead of a backup gasoline engine. Being "nearly as expensive as gasoline" could still be a win because it could be used in electric vehicles wi…