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High Frequency Trading – or “place” really matters when you’re working at the speed of light!
Office space near the Chicago exchanges goes for $2,000 per month for six square feet - because high frequency trading firms want to be...
John Sviokla
Sep 3, 2022


The Web is Dead? or Just in the Modularity Cycle?
Wired magazine recently announced on its cover that the Web is Dead. I confess I really like the magazine despite some of the...
John Sviokla
Sep 2, 2022
eBay Sells Skype – should Facebook have bought them?
At $2.75 billion and 405 million users, Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen and company are paying $6.79 per registered user, and a little...
John Sviokla
Sep 2, 2022


Brain Brandy: A plea for information density, not information for the dense
The other day I was reading the New York Times online which was reporting on the financial crisis a year after the crash. They created...
John Sviokla
Sep 2, 2022


Understanding Iconic Value
I love Ike Perlmutter. He understood that Iron Man, The Hulk, Spiderman and 4,997 other characters had tremendous long term value. He...
John Sviokla
Sep 1, 2022
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