Massively profitable gaming company Blizzard Entertainment just recently purchased IGN Sports league in a move that signals the increasing popularity and influence of E-Sports & Competitive Gaming events. I have also posted an great video below.
Some more facts on the rise of competitive gaming from Venture Beat and Forbes HERE and HERE
Wanted to share this informative pie chart showing which words pay Google the most.
Be ready to pay up if you want to advertise insurance, also random to see “Cord Blood” made its way into top 20!
Entertaining profile video below on Elon Musk, which delves into the intricacies of his amazing business endeavors and examines his risk taking.
Facebook suffered its biggest one day drop this week since its inception on Friday. Pretty interesting article from Market Watch. Facebook is basically half of what it IPO’d at ($38), with some saying it could go as low at $10/share. Article Link below.
Great Bloomberg Venture interview below with Pete Cashmore (CEO of Mashable). I recently saw Pete in Forbes’s 30 under 30 which states “with 20 million monthly unique visitors, [Mashable] is almost as large as Huffington Post was when AOL bought it for $315 Million last year”
Mashable is:
-One of the most profitable blogs on the internet
-The second most linked to blog only after the Huffington Post
-Top 10 Blog within a year and half after launching
Cashmore describes his background, the rise of Mashable’s vast audience, and the site’s monetization.
Forbes article on Cashmore HERE
Great old school video below of Steve Jobs rocking a solid beard and dishing some sound advice.
Jobs discusses how he called Bill Hewlett (co-founder of HP) at age 12, landing a summer job.
Ever wondered what Richard Branson’s business life is like. Check out this behind the scenes look below.
If you missed it previously, below I have posted the 60 Minutes Piece on Jobs.
Great Bloomberg Venture interview below with Pete Cashmore (CEO of Mashable). I recently saw Pete in Forbes’s 30 under 30 which states “with 20 million monthly unique visitors, [Mashable] is almost as large as Huffington Post was when AOL bought it for $315 Million last year” Mashable is: -One of the most profitable blogs on [...]
The below link has a huge list with some of the highest dividend yielding quality stocks. This is a perfect tool for all the cash flow kings out there seeking these kinds of investments. I personally own list maker ANH which has a yield of 13.3%. It’s most interesting to see stocks one wouldn’t expect [...]
If you are looking for books this Black Friday to buy for yourself or friends, take a look at this article from the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal Article located HERE It lists the specific books which successful business men and CEOs used to help improve their entreprise, and the aspects of the book’s [...]
Wanted to share this very interesting article from MSN MONEY. It highlights the entry level positions that some of the wealthiest and most influential people had at the beginning of their careers. Interesting to notice that Buffett took a tax deduction during his teens on his bicycle for running his newspaper delivery business. Also, Bloomberg [...]
Thanks to the recession, one of the best investments I have made to date was buying GE stock at $8 a share, simply because I knew that Warren Buffett had bought 4 billion dollars worth of stock at approximately $12 a share. Always interested in seeking opportunities like this I was pleasantly surprised to witness [...]
This is a great article featured in The Hollywood Reporter about Relativity Media’s Ryan Kavanaugh who received their Leadership Award recently. After graduating Ryan initially wanted to be a musician, but followed his fathers advice and took a job at a stock brokerage firm, which eventually led to him running a successful hedge fund. After [...]
I read a very interesting article today in the February issue of Vanity Fair about Warren Buffett. The online version of the article, which is shorter, is located HERE. The article (like many others) details Buffett’s modest lifestyle despite being a mutli-billionaire. However most impressive is the articles discussion on who may helm the mega [...]
