Today in the Bay Area

[Tank]

$4200 a month for HOA? LOL. 'murica!

[mrwicked]

apple's new campus just got final approval.

the spaceship cometh.

AFAIK its the largest usage of curved glass in the world.

but the usual theory is when companies build their massive HQ it signals the start of their downfall.

 

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2013/10/apples_iconic_campus_approved_by_cupertinos_city_counci.html

 

 

 

 

Edited October 16, 2013 by mrwicked

[mrwicked]

more info on the "curse of the new HQ"

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/poorly-timed-headquarters-2009-11

Edited October 16, 2013 by mrwicked

[katie]

They should make it in the shape of the apple logo

[mrwicked]

they want it circular to keep non-apple people out.

since they're a hardware company (and a pretty popular one at that) they have to deal with a lot of espionage.

apple logo would be interesting though.

 

but man: 11,000 parking spaces. trippy.

Edited October 17, 2013 by mrwicked

[Tank]

I heard there will only be one ladies bathroom.

[mrwicked]

whoa GOOG.

up $120 to over $1000 a share.

delicious.

[mrwicked]

pinterest raises another $225m.

now valued at nearly $4b.

still not making money, but crazy popular with women.

insane user growth.

 

Pin this: Pinterest raises a jaw-dropping $225M at $3.8B valuation

http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/23/pinterest-raises-jaw-dropping-225m-at-3-8b-valuation/

[Brandon]

crazy. I am not familiar with it but hear people talking about it like instagram. know a bunch of chicks that use it. I think my girl even has it as a home page since Google is axing their set up she used to use.

[nate]

I think it is just a blog website for people to post their creative ideas.  It seems to be super popular.  All of the teachers at my daughter's school use it and give their name.  I have never once been to the website myself.

[mrwicked]

its pretty simple - basically instead of keeping bookmarks which are just txt URLs...

its a bookmark but for an image/product.

so you "pin" a link to something you like that you found on the internet, and can organize them.

its simple but brilliant. 

 

ive used it for ideas on interior design and remodeling ideas.

but you can save anything. 

 

also they've done studies and a "pin" lastly multiple thousands of times longer than a "tweet" or "like" and is thus more relevant.

 

but again insane growth.

fastest growing website in history. 

[katie]

Love it for recipes

[nate]

Apple stock up to $531.  Seems that investors like the news on the new iPads.  Also announced that the Mac Pros are being released by the end of the year.

 

The iWatch should also debut some time 1Q/2Q 2014.

[mrwicked]

yep, APPL has been a steal for a while.

just like GOOG when it tanked a couple years ago. 

such easy money. 

always aim to profit on the market's irrational fear and hype. 

[katie]

I think it is just a blog website for people to post their creative ideas. It seems to be super popular. All of the teachers at my daughter's school use it and give their name. I have never once been to the website myself.

That's cool, they can use it as a wish list for their classroom. You can have hidden boards too, do they can probably have their personal stuff there.

I personally unfollow all boards having to do with babies or classroom stuff. Hate having to scroll through it on my feed.

[nate]

Does Taco Bell have one you can follow?

[mrwicked]

twitter finally succumbs to their own hype and goes aggressive in IPO pricing.

first they planned at $17-$20 a share, now final number is $27 a share.

thats just about $15,000,000,000 valuation. my friends over there are very happy.

 

note thats more expensive than facebook's IPO.

and facebook was bringing in about a billion dollars of revenue by IPO (as was google).

twitter? losing hundreds of millions a year.

 

i hope they do well and it keeps the IPO wave going - enterprise has been killing it lately.

hope the consumer space doesnt f*ck it up again (thanks FB, groupon, zynga, etc).

 

Twitter Will List Its Shares At $27, Valuing The Firm At $14.7 Billion

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/06/twitter-will-list-its-shares-at-27-valuing-the-firm-at-14-7-billion-reports-indicate/

[Lhalo]

dotcom 2.0

[Lhalo]

Twitter Will List Its Shares At $27, Valuing The Firm At $14.7 Billion

It's set open at $46 a share. Holycrap!

[nate]

Trading at $49 right now.  Total opposite of Facebook IPO.

[mrwicked]

pretty crazy.

my prediction has been this will be a huge win, and it will jump start the IPO market that FB destroyed.

so far so good.

 

now employees have the fun of waiting 6 months before they can sell.

they better hope it stays up.

Edited November 7, 2013 by mrwicked

[nate]

Closed at $44.90.  Crazy.

[mrwicked]

a pop is expected, it creates positive momentum.

an opening day loss is virtually unheard of - it means they would have really f*cked up (this is why the banks showed up last minute and started buying FB to manually guarantee it stayed at/above $38 even though it was trending downward).

too big of a pop is not good either because it means they left $$ on the table.

 

great result for them though.

again lets see how it looks 6 month from now when the employees can actually sell.

today just the investors made $$ (avg price of twitter share before today was $2.22), and the company got a cash pile to invest into the business. 

[Tank]

put me down for 2500 shares.

[mrwicked]

hey tank is trying to corner the market!

hmmm he knows something i can feel it. 

lets get in on it!

 

sell 30 april at 142!!