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Keith Barrow wrote: Eclectic Nose Organiser?
Boxing glove?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience Greg King ----- I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin, Actress
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: There are times when life needs little extra.
Yeah, but firearms are unfortunately not legal in the UK.
I had a next door neighbour that liked to play the piano from 7 AM to 2AM (yes THAT late!) - WITHOUT breaks. That was fairly ok until he got the idea that it sounded much better if he sang along as well! Believe me: It DIDN'T.
Luckily it seems that he was so busy playing the piano that he forgot to pay his rent, because not too long ago he was chucked out of the appartment with piano and all!
In his place now lives a very nice lady with two children who do not (so far) play any instruments!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous ----- Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience Greg King ----- I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin, Actress
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The sound of flute can, in my opinion, never be classed as annoying.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: The sound of flute can, in my opinion, never be classed as annoying.
My 8 year old is adamant she is going to start learning the flute next year.
I'll invite you round, see if your opinion is challenged at all.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Give 'em time: the recorder practice is yet to come...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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That's what I'm going through at the moment.
I can't really complain after the years I spent abusing a violin at my mum and dad's house when I was a kid.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Whiskey and earplugs.
Whiskey and earplugs...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Johnny J. wrote: firearms are unfortunately not legal in the UK.
Oh well...
Johnny J. wrote: I had a next door neighbour that liked to play the piano from 7 AM to 2AM (
Fortunately this is illegal too, if it is in earshot of other houses.
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Be glad she's not the principal flatus without the BEANO[^], that would be an aural and olfactoral experience.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: There are times when life needs little extra
This is the hell of a double-sens.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Plays the flute well does she? *Snigger*
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You dirty minded little...
Upvoted for my morning giggle.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Anyone taking the plung today? What could possibly go wrong? It's just a company that's never made a profit. I'm sure it's well valued.
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ed welch wrote: It's just a company that's never made a profit. ..you're talking about a speculative market, one that cares little about value and all the more about perception. It matters little whether they're profitable; there's the prospect of a large internet-company going public, and prices "always" rise on the IPO.
Ask the average user; Twitter will be seen as "valuable". There's companies building complete marketingstrategies around it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Quote: ed welch wrote:
It's just a company that's never made a profit.
Yes, but with all that $$ flowing in from the IPO they may be able to find a way to make a profit!
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Now seriously, what is the business model ? I can understand how facebook survives (ads and selling personal information), but ... twitter ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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It is working on selling fertilizer, once the current crop of tweets has had sufficient time in the digester....
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Disclaimer: Information offered as an interested investor, not as a broker.
There's been a fair bit of analysis on this. For starters: Twitter Is Going Public. Here's How It Makes Money.[^] Basically, Twitter does sell ads, and it has been expanding into other social media which stand to improve the company's margins. Add in the fact that while Twitter will probably never make a lot of money, its revenue stream is expected to be quite steady.
Added: A better and more recent analysis. How does Twitter make money?[^]
modified 7-Nov-13 9:58am.
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You (resp. the article) almost convinced me. Thanks, good read !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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I have an order to buy 35 shares, with a limit of $35 USD. I should be able to get it, but it probably will not start trading until 10 am Eastern Time.
Ah, the advantages of working for a brokerage firm
Added: Alas, it looks like I was bypassed: the stock hasn't started trading yet, but bids are piling up to as high as $48 a share. Oh, well.
modified 7-Nov-13 10:10am.
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so, the underwriters made a killing
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ed welch wrote:
so, the underwriters made a killing
Yup, that's how an IPO works: the corporation raises its money by selling shares to the underwriters, and the underwriters make -- or lose -- a lot of money by selling those shares on the open market.
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I don't think they ever lose though.
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Oh, it happens. A good example is the IPO of Vonage in May, 2006. Rather than sell its initial offering on the open market, the corporation offered its stock to current subscribers via a special website. Because of a technical snafu, most of the customers were told their sales hadn't gone through. By the time things had gotten straightened out a week later and the customers had been notified that the sales had gone through -- often with the customer trying several times to make the purchase and thus making several purchases -- the price had dropped from the initial $17 to $11.80. There was a huge class action lawsuit with both the corporation and its underwriters lost a huge chunk of money.
A lot of other internet and tech stocks went the same way. The online pet supply store, Pets.com, for example: its share price was $14 when it started trading in February, 2000 and had fallen to 22 cents when the company went out of business nine months later. The underwriters lost their shirt, their shoes, their socks and their belt.
One of the worst recent IPOs was the biotech firm Omeros. It's based in Seattle, so the flop got a lot of local coverage. It went public on October 7, 2009 at $10 a share; a month later, it had lost almost half its value. It seems the underwriters had missed the fact that a federal investigation was gearing up to look at charges that the company had been lying on its reports to the National Institutes for Health.
It doesn't happen often, granted: that's because the underwriters are so incredibly cautious when doing their due diligence. They, quite literally, are betting the firm that the IPO is worth at least what they say it is worth. It is much more common for underwriters to back out of the deal if it looks fishy and just write off the resources used to do the research than to end up going bankrupt.
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