Other Tech IPOs You Should Have Invested In, Or Not
Posted by Dewan Gibson | Filed under Personal Finance, Technology
Facebook is set to go public in a few hours. Chances are you won’t get a piece of the initial public offering (IPO) at the opening price unless you’re a big-time money manager who knows Mark Zuckerberg well enough to call him “Zucks.” In some cases that’s a good thing. Here’s a list of other tech companies IPOs, along with the amount of money you’d have today if you invested $1,000 at their opening stock prices.
Amazon (AMZN) IPO: May 15, 1997, Invested $1,000 @ $1.96 per share (split adjusted)=$111,503 (5/17/2012)
Apple (APPL) IPO: December 12, 1980, Invested $1,000 @ $2.75 per share (split adjusted)=$192,767 (5/17/2012)
Google (GOOG) IPO: August 19, 2004, Invested $1,000 @ $85 per share=$7,327 (5/17/2012)
Groupon (GRPN) IPO: November 4, 2011, Invested $1,000 @ $20 per share=$620 (5/17/2012)
LinkedIn (LNKD) IPO: May 19, 2011, Invested $1,000 @ $45 per share=$2,331 (5/17/2012)
Microsoft (MSFT) IPO: March 13, 1986, Invested $1,000 @ $0.09 per share (split adjusted)=$402,290 (5/17/2012)
Pets.com (IPET) IPO: February 10, 2000, Invested $1,000 @ $11.00 per share=0000 (company soon flopped)
Webvan.com (IPET) IPO: November 5, 1999, Invested $1,000 @ $15.00 per share=0000 (company soon flopped)
By the way, what ever happened to Tom from Myspace?
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Want An Honest Answer? Don’t Call, Send A Text
Posted by Dewan Gibson | Filed under Technology
It’s well-known that texting is great for breaking up with your significant other and seducing women into sending risque pictures that you can share with friends. But a new study shows texting encourages honesty, more so than phone calls.
Researchers from the University of Michigan asked 600 iPhone users questions related to drinking habits, exercise, the number of songs on their iPhones and the number of movies they watched in the past month. Identical question were asked via text and phone call. Some questions were asked by a computer, others by a human.
It was determined that, “texting may reduce some respondents’ tendency to shade the truth or to present themselves in the best possible light in an interview – even when they know it’s a human interviewer they are communicating with via text.” In addition, “With text, the researchers also found that people were less likely to engage in ‘satisficing’ – a survey industry term referring to the common practice of giving good enough, easy answers, like rounding to multiples of ten in numerical responses, for example.”
Read the study’s press release here, which is honestly much better than reading the entire study.
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Got Wood? Woman Goes To Hardware Store Bucknaked
Posted by Dewan Gibson | Filed under News
Barbara Lafluer, a 49-year-old woman who’s presumably at her sexual peak, walked into a hardware store completely nude. The store manager said to her, “Ma’am, are you aware you have no clothes on?” (Sometimes people forget to brush their teeth and put on clothes in the morning.) She confirmed that her clothes were in fact knowingly missing and was asked to leave the store. She was later arrested and is facing 90 days in jail. Whether naked or clothed she’ll be in more danger while incarcerated, considering nearly 10 percent of inmates are sexually assaulted, most often by correctional staff according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice. Buzzkill!
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Republicans Are Looking To Hire Black Men
Posted by Dewan Gibson | Filed under Politics
A Republican Super PAC is looking to hire black men. Well, one black guy to narrate a short film called “The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama” that rehashes the Jeremiah Wright “controversy” and questions the character of President Obama, whom they refer to as a “metrosexual black Abe Lincoln.” The outline for the ad reads:
While the potential narrator is listed as Jon Voight, perhaps there is someone in the Ricketts film world who would be appropriate? In particular, we should at least discuss this narrator being an African American.
There’s a $10 million budget for the five-minute film, which I could make on my Sony Bloggie for a cool mill, or maybe even $100 if they asked me a couple days before the mortgage is due. After all, Republicans are fiscally conservative, I guess.
It’s going to be a long, race-tinged summer.
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Puffy-Diddy Brags Of Multitasking On New Song
Posted by Dewan Gibson | Filed under Hip-Hop
Here’s Puffy and Ludacris on the “Same Damn Time” remix with Future. Puffy’s sh*t talking on songs is always cool, but then he raps and it makes me think he should stop multi-tasking behind the mic and focus on being hip-hop’s biggest mogul. By the way, dude, can you hurry up and release that sex tape with Cassie? I wanna see how well I can multitask while watching that.
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Looks Into His Eyes: Study Shows Gaydar Is Real
Posted by Dewan Gibson | Filed under Relationships
Many years ago I had a real job and was a contributing member of society, even though I forgot to pay taxes for a year or two or three. At said job I had a supervisor who mentioned in passing that he was gay. I told him, “Who cares…I knew you were gay the second I saw you.” Then a long discussion ensued and he said “straighties” often confuse gay-face with meth-face, but most people can’t tell someone’s gay by looking at him. His words. Still, I insisted my gaydar was accurate. He eventually fired my black ass, for reasons supposedly unrelated to that conversation.
Well, he may have won that battle, but I’ve won the war because science is on my side. A study from the University of Washington has found that people can tell if someone is gay with an accuracy 66 percent (for identifying gay women) and 57 percent (for identifying gay men) by simply looking at a picture of him or her . The pictures looked at by participants were cropped so hairstyles like fingerwaves wouldn’t show. Impeccably manicured facial hair and makeup was also not seen in the photos. According to the Telegraph, the study “suggests that we unconsciously make decisions about whether someone is gay or straight every time we meet a new person.”
Where’s my back pay, bitch?
NOTE: My extremely accurate, scientifically-backed gaydar suggests two of the three celebrities pictured above would like to rub their fingers through each other’s hair.
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What Fun! FDA Panel Backs Do-It-Yourself HIV Test!
Posted by Dewan Gibson | Filed under Health
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel recommended the Oraquick In-Home HIV Test be approved as the first in-home HIV test. The test is simple to administer; you swab your cheek, wait 20 minutes and then (if negative) keep the results in the pocket of your club jeans–chicks dig it. If positive consider sending a cryptic text message to current and former partners that reads, “It’s not how long you live, it’s how much you live.” The test is expected to retail for about $60; the feeling of (barely) passing the test…priceless.
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Female Teacher Breaks Off Student In Her SUV
Posted by Dewan Gibson | Filed under News
Heather Adams is a 41-year-old teacher from Cedar Rapids, Iowa who enjoys the fresh scent of badussy in her Chevrolet Suburban and smiling in mugshots. She was caught in her SUV having sex with a 18-year-old student, who is legally of age but obviously still refining his taste in women. Adams was charged with sexual exploitation by a school employee and resigned from her job. The student was let go but reprimanded for failing to realize that just because she’s a mom doesn’t mean she’s a MILF.
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Check Out These Fake Chuck Taylors I Got At Walmart
Posted by Dewan Gibson | Filed under Fashion, Humor
When I hear the phrase “Faded Glory” I think of my social life after starting a family. But it turns out that Faded Glory is also the name of Walmart’s clothing line. The shoes pictured above look just like Converse All-Stars, except for that silly hanging strap on the back (anyone hangup a pair shoes recently?) and imprint on the tongue that I cover with my jeans. But they only cost $12, compared to 40-something dollars for the real deal, which sort of changes my feelings about Walmart not providing health insurance to its employees and operating sweatshops.
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LeBron Wears Nut Huggers To Accept His MVP Award
Posted by Dewan Gibson | Filed under Sports
While posing with his third MVP trophy LeBron James wore pants fit for a king, a very slim king who rules over San Fran’s Tenderloin neighborhood. But I still think he looks cool, especially with the double-breasted jacket that will help get you into exclusive nightclubs that have unwritten rules against admitting black guys.
The outfit is a throwback to the late ’60s-early ’70s when men dressed like they had somewhere to go, even if they were only going to Vietnam. Plus the pants are functional in that they keep your junk snug so you won’t need surgery for a saggy scrotum 20 years down the road. Let’s just hope he’s able to accessorize this get-up with a fat ass championship ring sometime soon.
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