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It's a good observation. Private companies with more than 500 shareholders have to obey a different sets of rule from those with fewer owners and must disclose financial performance in a way similar to that of public companies. Most of
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Major Landlord Sends Warning About Rental Markets in NYC, San Francisco
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There are two main ways to force existing shareholders to sell: 1. You buy 51% of the shares (and voting rights), make an offer to buy the remaining 49% and call for a shareholder meeting to vote on the offer. You have the majority, vote ye
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Alibaba Discloses SEC Probe of Its Accounting Practices
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Snapchat is raising more money around $20B valuation
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Doubts rise over TTIP as France threatens to block EU-US deal
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Yahoo's $8 Billion Black Hole
(bloomberg.com)
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Earnings are reported per share so stock buybacks are actually a pretty common way to make earnings look better. Of course, it doesn't change the total earnings but the number reported by techcrunch would indeed change.
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No, it's EPS (earnings per share).
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What's newsworthy about this? First of all, 28% could almost entirely be attributed to noise. Second, the fastest hash rate increase recently observed occurred between Nov 2015 and Feb 2016, not during the last month.
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Do you have any source to back up those numbers (50% and 20%)? They're very unexpected to say the least...
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Theranos Director Defends CEO Holmes, Says Investors Have Faith
(bloomberg.com)
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Non sequitur. The point of active investment isn't to avoid having a market impact but to selectively pick over-performing assets. For example, assets indexed on the S&P 500 represent 2.2 trillions dollar; it's very easy to bu
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400 hours video/min = 400 GB/min = 400 x 60 x 24 GB/day = 0.576 PB/day. Close enough.
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Apple Brand Could Become Casualty of FBI Tussle Over IPhone Hack
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It's used in many quantitative trading models [1]. However, the time it takes compute the eigenvectors is irrelevant to the field because the stocks correlation matrix on which the which the PCA is applied is generally a long term corr
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The article isn't about energy storage, it's about graphene superconductivity. When it becomes superconductive, it allows the free flow of electrons without resistance which produces heat. One of the limiting factor of today'
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I have never heard of regression towards the mean in profits. It certainly doesn't exist for stock prices. You would actually tend to observe trends - the opposite phenomenon. For example, Google would have a 20% increase in profits on
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Sex and Startups
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U.S. Stocks Sink on Tech Rout
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Larry Fink Wants Companies to Talk More About the Future
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How Microsoft Plans to Beat Google and Facebook to the Next Tech Breakthrough
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Twitter Shares Jump on Speculation About Takeover Interest
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Do you restrict your consumption of MSG rich food like tomatoes, potatoes, walnuts? They contain a few hundreds mg per 100g which is probably more than what you'd get from soy sauce.
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They are remunerated more for the risk taken when they offer you a loan that they would if they unfroze your assets. If you accept the premise of your business being risky, then Paypal's approach seems fair as well.
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Why Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Want Your Vote
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That's a nitpick on a correct statement. Unless two tests are always perfectly correlated , you will reduce your uncertainty. They don't need to be independent.
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Faraday Throws It in Reverse with a 1,000-Horsepower Batmobile
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Apple 'to pay €318m' to settle Italy tax fraud case
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Just a typo. That position pays 100-150K + equity.
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