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  • Still the Apple of my “i”

    • September 13, 2012
    • Posted by: Ted Bullen
    • Category: High-tech, Innovation, News, Stock Market, Telecommunications
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    Apple’s iPhone 5 announcement, yesterday, revealed nothing that hadn’t already been known about the product for some time. The ability to keep this product’s features a secret was relatively nonexistent. This said, Apple’s stock rose  more than 2% today to an all-time high of $682.98. Major securities analysts are predicting Apple shares will hit $,1000

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  • The New “Big Apple”

    • August 21, 2012
    • Posted by: Ted Bullen
    • Category: Brand Revitalization, High-tech, Information Technology, Innovation, News, Stock Market
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    Yesterday, Apple Inc. became the most valuable company in history in terms of market capitalization at $623.52 billion, surpassing the record set by Microsoft in December of 1999. It is ironic that a company that was near bankruptcy when Steve Jobs rejoined the company in 1997, and which Michael Dell once told an audience that

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  • Is Facebook Headed for a Face-plant?

    • August 20, 2012
    • Posted by: Ted Bullen
    • Category: IPO, News, Social Networking, Stock Market
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    On August 16, 2012, upon the expiration of a lock-up agreement which covered about 271 million shares held by early employees and investors, Facebook shares dropped below $20 per share, or almost half of the IPO price of $38 per share. Today, it was announced that Facebook’s first institutional investor, Peter Thiel, exited his position

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  • Facebook IPO – The Rising Tide Has a Noticeable Undercurrent

    • May 16, 2012
    • Posted by: Ted Bullen
    • Category: Information Technology, IPO, News, Social Networking, Stock Market
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    Facebook’s pending IPO has become quite a spectacle. It is sure to meet published expectations. There is a real possibility that the IPO will result in a market capitalization in excess of $100 billion. This said, there are two underlying details that are cause for concern: 1) The exit of early investors, mostly venture capitalists. Some of

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  • Hindenburg Omen – Strike Two and One to Go

    • August 27, 2010
    • Posted by: Ted Bullen
    • Category: Econometrics, Economy, Government, News, Stock Market
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    The Hindenburg Omen is an econometrics-based model that has been successful in predicting stock market crashes. The Omen has been behind every market crash since 1987, but significant stock-market declines have followed only 25% of the time. The Hindenburg, of course, was the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg which caught fire, and was destroyed,

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