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Shareholders start to file case against Yahoo

February 13th, 2008 by Sita | No Comments »

Yahoo’s board and users may not like microsoft. But yahoo’s shareholders love microsoft for sure. Since yahoo’s board has rejected microsoft’s offer, shareholders are starting to file case against yahoo.

Why are the shareholders so upset?
Before microsoft made the offer, yahoo’s shares were trading at 19$. So the 31$ offer by microsoft is almost 60% premium on the market price. More importantly yahoo has lot of cash on its balance sheet. The cash is equivalent to 12$ per share.

Now the market price of a share (19$) = cash on balance sheet (12$) + value of its operations. So the value of yahoo’s operations was only 7$. Since no one pays a premium for cash, you can safely assume that microsoft is offering 19$ per share for yahoo’s operations. That is almost 200% premium over the last market price. Is it any wonder that yahoo’s shareholders are so upset?

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The Thinnest Notebook on Earth : Now In India

February 13th, 2008 by Sita | No Comments »

Apple launched Apple Air in India today. It is the thinnest Notebook on earth, so thin that Steve Jobs had introduced it by pulling it out from a standard envelope. Considering that Apple Air was launched in US in january only, that was quick.

The retail price in India is Rs 96,100 ($2,421). Apple Air sells for close to 75k Rs in US. So if you want to buy one, then it makes sense to get one from US.

You can read our initial review of Apple Air.

Apple Air, The thinnest notebook

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Give yourself a hike

February 13th, 2008 by Sita | No Comments »

Imagine your boss telling you, you will get a 200$ or 10,000 Rupees per month increament after 6 months if you work for 2 more hours everyday. The best part is you get to choose the work you want to do in these 2 hours. Will you say no?? Then you will be surprised to know that everyday this deal is being offered to you and you keep saying no !!!

Here is a list of things you can do to accept that offer

  • Get paid to Code There are many websites where you can get paid for writing code. Topcoder is one. http://www.getacoder.com/ , http://www.project4hire.com and https://www.getafreelancer.com/ are some of the freelancing sites.
  • Get paid for finding bugs Programmers always had the option of freeleance programming. However the options for testers was rather less. However utest has started compesating the programmers for finding bugs.
  • Start a blog If you are passionate about a topic and do not mind typing, then you will love this option. Write about the topic that you love, do some search engine optimization, paste some adsense ads, get some initial users and voom..you have your raise.
  • Start a forum : If you have lot of knowledge about a topic like some programming language or mba colleges in india etc, then start a forum. The advantage with a forum is that you do not have to think about what to write next. The users will tell you what to write by asking you particulr questions.
  • Start a website If you do not mind a little bit of coding then you should start a website solving some particular problem of users. Look at some of the solutions in US and try to create a similar solution for India.
  • Get paid to contribute Many sites like ximmy and indianpad will pay you for contributing content to their site. This is the least favorite method with me but still check if it may be appealing to you.

    • Trust me earning money through these options are easier than you think. However make sure that you are ready to work for those 2 extra hours everyday. If you are interested in blogging but do not want to handle the problem of marketing it, then please leave a comment with your contact details. We will like to talk to you.

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