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On Apple shares

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Enough said:

Right away, one ought to notice the staggering growth rate in both revenue and earnings that Apple displayed in 2008. Apple’s real revenue grew 54.5% from $24.637 billion in FYE 2007 to $38.041 billion in FYE 2008 — a full $13.4 billion growth in revenues. Even more impressive is Apple’s 81.2% growth rate in adjusted net income. For a company that is trading at 12 times 2008 earnings, it doesn’t take a genius to conclude that Apple is severely undervalued. Especially since Apple currently trades at about 3.37 times its cash position — which is objectively and significantly lower than every other large cap tech company.

GOOG trades at 7.18 times its cash position, RIMM at 15.51 times cash, AMZN at 9.15 times cash, MSFT at 9.13 times cash, CSCO at 3.62 times cash, IBM at 10.96 times cash, INTC at 6.54 times cash, and HPQ at 5.15 times cash. What is more, only GOOG, AAPL and MSFT have no debt of the companies mentioned above. Apple has the largest net cash position than any of those companies and Apple has more net cash than RIMM, GOOG, AMZN and IBM combined.

Via Daring Fireball. That could explain today's gains.

Video clip made in Excel

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Don't you love when someone makes something completely out of the box? I do. AC/DC made the first video clip made entirely in Excel, a video for the "Rock N Roll Train" music. Download the spreadsheet from http://www.acdcrocks.com/excel/ or see it working:

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Wassup 8 years later

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A brilliant parody mixing the famous Wassup campaign with today's concerns and a great dark humor.

A timeline of information history

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A very interesting interactive timeline of information history, described by the author as:

This timeline presents significant events and developments in the innovation and management of information and documents from cave paintings (ca 30,000 BC) to the present

Click the image to jump to the website and try it for yourself:

The financial crisis explained

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The best explanation so far (via Melo):

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