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13 Sep

Customer Acquisition versus Retention: A case study in costs

by Barry Ritholtz
versus Is your contract up with your cellular carrier? Don’t renew it, cancel it. That’s how you can get the best deal from your...

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18 Aug

Google IPO: Too Clever by Half

by Barry Ritholtz
At approximately 3am this morning, Google slashed its IPO price range and cut the number of shares in its offering. The new expected...

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8 Aug

Tivo Economists

by Barry Ritholtz
Here’s a fun thing to do if you a) Have a TiVo, and 2) are an economics wonk: 1. “Select Programs to Rrecord” 2. Choose...

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25 Jul

Voluntary Collective License

by Barry Ritholtz
Ren Bucholz is a San Franciscan who works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His recent graphic on VCL’s (Voluntary Collective...

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9 Jul

Microsoft Chasing Google

by Barry Ritholtz
Fascinating discussion in the Circuits section of the NYT yesterday (Microsoft on the Trail of Google): “Despite its admirable if...

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18 Jun

Bloomberg.com sucks

by Barry Ritholtz
That’s it — I quit. Throwin’ in the towel, given’ up, jest not worth it. I am talking about the Bloomberg’s...

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3 May

Google to Goldman: Up Yours!

by Barry Ritholtz
Fascinating tale of how one of the nations largest IPO underwriters got tossed from consideration from the hottest IPO since the tech...

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26 Apr

Choice and Price are Just Data

by Barry Ritholtz
Virginia Postrel buys into MIT Professor Brynjolfsson‘s somewhat false dichotomy of the issue of Variety vs. Price on the internet:...

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3 Apr

Google Search “Big Picture”

by Barry Ritholtz
Search Big Picture Search WWW

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11 Mar

100,000 hits!

by Barry Ritholtz
Wow, not too shabby. The sister blog, “essays and effluvia,” is ~72,000. I hope to keep the commentary thoughtful, off the...

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      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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