Paris Hilton has been injected front, bathing suit and chaise lounge into the thick of the Presidential campaign by John Wayne McCain as a way to differentiate his approach from that of Barack Obama’s.  You know Paris is a silly sort of thing and so is Senator Obama.  All talk and no action. Rising... read more

I’ve been actively developing in the past year or so an idea. It’s an idea that takes the concept of an article directory and then tacks on the idea of selling those articles. No, it’s not a script to gain backlinks or to spread the word about the newest website. Instead, it’s... read more

IAC/InterActiveCorp, IACI, is a combination of some sixty-five or so mostly internet brands that was put together by Barry Diller, the chief executive and in a previous incarnation a television network chief. The stock closed yesterday at $38.64.   Because many of its brand components are familiar to... read more

The Motley Fool, http://www.fool.com, is a first rate web site offering financial news and advice primarily about the stock market and they use their ability to publish timely articles to make money through advertising, newsletter and other subscriptions, discussion boards and other financial services... read more

Feature length movie companies eventually left the two reel companies in the financial dust and even absorbed what was left of many of them meaning that the new companies which are in essence the forebears of what are now called Paramount, Fox, Universal and Warners, plus a few others including one that... read more

We have seen why Cisco, CSCO, and Google, GOOG, look like good investments. We have also looked at the businesses of EBay, EBAY, and Amazon, AMZN.   Well, EBay and Amazon are also publicly owned companies with guidance and financials that can be examined. EBay has trailing twelve month earnings of $0.79... read more

Purtian’s Pride is having another 89 cent sale. Pretty much the same products as last time are listed in the sales flyer. So you can buy 20 softgels with 30 mg. of Co Q-10. Puritan’s says its regular price is $6.99, which is also pretty good, since both the CVS and Walgreens across the street sell... read more

Were I to suddenly come into a large sum of money, something I can dream about, I would seriously consider buying a luxury watch. Why not? Watching time fly is a well known, time honored past time.   So as long as I am dreaming I have begun looking at watch advertisements to see what the industry thinks... read more

The internet has already and is currently exerting changes in the world.   Take the watch business, in general, and luxury watches, in particular. Nowadays most watch manufacturers not only sell through retailers who have convenient web sites, but the watch makers themselves often have interesting and... read more

So we have looked at Blockbuster and NetFlix as retail operations and also as investments.   Since we have also comparison shopped at both Amazon and Ebay, it is easy to follow up on these two companies with a look at their stocks as a way to get a better look at the dynamics of the stock market.   Amazon,... read more