Quick Money

Reply.com Files for $60 Million IPO

Following in the footsteps of QuinStreet, Reply.com files for IPO.   read more here...

Parallels Raises Money From Russian Mafia

The amount wasn't disclosed, but it was in the ball park of a minority stake.  Parallels makes pretty awesome software, namedly, the virtualization application Parallels Desktop for the mac.  I use it and it works better than vmware.

Encoding.com Raise $1.25 Million

Basically, the company offers a cloud service for companies that want to off-load video encoding to a third party service.  It saves some money...

Clicker Raises Another $11 Million

click click click...the online video-guide has raised a total of $19 million so far...

John Dvorak Continues his Douchebaggery of Apple

And I"m not even going to link to his hater article...the only backlash is the one you're going to get in your face when then iPad obliterates every competing tablet device! Dvorak, you are a douchebag! 

GameFly Files IPO to raise $50 Million

GameFly is the netflix for video games...

GameFly, which started in 2002, operates a rental service that had more than 334,000 subscribers and a library of more than 7,000 titles at the end of September, according to the filing. Like Netflix Inc., the largest U.S. mail-order movie- rental service, GameFly customers can have one or more games out concurrently, with no due dates, late fees or shipping charges.

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QuinStreet IPO - Raises $150 Million

Stock symbol is QNST and will begin trading on Feb. 11, 2010.

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IPO's Week

Company

Symbol

Offer Date

Price

Scale

Shares

Generac Holdings

GNRC

02/08/2010

$325

20.3125

Graham Packaging

GRM

02/08/2010

$349.9999

23.33333

QuinStreet

QNST

02/08/2010

$180

10

Piedmont Office Realty Trust

PDM

02/08/2010

$306

18

JinkoSolar Holding

JKS

02/08/2010

$74.186

10.598

Patriot Risk Management

PMG

02/08/2010

$169.6

21.2

FriendFinder IPO

I read their S1 filing and this is one very risky investment if you ask me.  They have been losing money for the past 5 years and debt piling sky high.  Honestly, I'm not sure why they even bother ipo'ing if it's going to eventually tank below $1 and get de-listed.

Amazon to Buy Touchco

It seems like Amazon has recovered from the iPad hangover and will build a new Kindle with multi-touch-screen capability.   If you check the touchco website - http://www.touchco.com/ , you'll notice they're no longer doing business.   I wonder how much amazon acquired them for?

Buy AAPL Shares

P&F chart shows a low pole reversal with the next resistance above $215.  Probably a good time to buy if you're looking for a good entry point.

Monster Acquires Hotjob

for $225 Million...seriously, I"ve never landed a job from either one of these sites.  I've gotten several interviews, but they were not good job matches just like those damn dating sites.

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Ford Taking Market Shares from Toyota

I can't blame the consumers for being scared of runaway camries and explosive unhappy endings. It'll probably take toyota the entire year to repair their image after this PR nightmare. In the meantime, sales of Ford F150 and Mustangs are going through the roof...thanks in most part to exploding autobot transformers made by toyota.

Mission to Mars Shelved

I guess we're not going to Mars anytime soon as Dubya Bush envisioned and wet dreamed because the country needs to cut its budget, reduce our deficit, and NASA will likely scale back.   Without space exploration and research, we'll never be able to achieve warp speed.  As a result, we won't make first contact with the vulcans and our society will continue its course of being a bunch of idiotic primates and the eventual destruction of both our planet and one another...oh well, we still got Star Trek 2 to look forward to...not to mention Avatar 2, where we'll go and try to destroy someone's else world.

Virtual Goods

It has been projected that virtual goods will rake in $1.6 billion smackeroo's this year. That's a lot of reward points and farmville coins.   Is it the next big thing on the internet?

Twitter IPO?

Nope, probably not until they make more than $100 per quarter. :-)  You know what I think they should do? Charge those dumb celebrities for usage.  I bet they'll rake in tons.  Market it as a tool for washout celebs and attention whores.

Facebook Doesn't Want to IPO

I think I know why...their valuation has plunged to $5 billion as of late.  Then again, they should IPO so they don't turn into a ghost town like Myspace.

Roku Seeks $30 Million in Funding

Personally, I don't own one because I can already stream Netflix movies from my PS3.  However, Roku supports other on-demand video providers such as Amazon and MLB.com.   I doubt I will ever get one because Sony and Microsoft will likely come out with a similar device.  Other tv makers may also include this feature.  So it's a pretty risky investment if you ask me.

iPad Responses - Bleh?

The launch was pretty much ho-hum...apple stock price took a dump after stellar earnings too...

Features that suspective apple haters and microsoft shills would like to see in the iPad:

• front facing camera so they can have cybersex
• multitasking so they can have cybersex while listening to techno and updating their excel spreadsheet, all at the same time and hopefully not get the blue screen of death
• a larger storage drive, technically this is available, but it's quite expensive (ie. 256 Gb SSD drive costs around $800) and of course, so they can record and save their cybersex sessions
• a screen that is easier on the eyes for reading ebooks, more like pornsites.  Not to be left out, it's also because these microsoft nerds wear coke bottle bifocals
• flash support, well, according to Apple, flash is buggy and crashes rampantly on os x. the alternate solution is html5 video streamer .  Again, the majority of the porn sites out there uses flash!