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It is convenient that in a recent post [9]covering the latest historic Verizon M&A deal we showed a spaghetti chart, created by the WSJ [10], of the US telecom space because it lays roughly how many current subscribers that other US telecom giant, AT&T, has. [11] The reason for this is that according to the latest revelations from the […]
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An animated time-lapse map of worldwide protests from 1979 to 2013: About the creator: Animated Protest Mapping One of the primary shortcomings of the original protest map I posted was that it only captured a static picture of protest activity over a 6 month span. While this was interesting in its own right, many people, including myself, were […]
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Nearly four years after Zero Hedge first suggested an HFT tax should punish algos that “churned” quotes and blasted empty bids and offers to stimulate “momentum ignition [12]” strategies, and generally corrupt market structure in a way that lead to both the flash crash, the BATS IPO farce, the FaceBook IPO debacle and the Nasdaq 3 […]
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The Buffets and the Gates of the US will be shedding a few tears this week as the United States and Switzerland have reached an agreement that brings the status of the latter as a tax haven for Americans (or will they?). No more hiding their cash away in Swiss banks. No more tax avoidance […]
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Internet communication has evolved drastically, yet email still remains the foundation of communication for business and personal use. Based on the fact that it survived being overtaken by a number of other means, it looks like email will be the primary use for communications for the foreseeable future. Recent revelations about the NSA Prism program […]
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