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Dog Bite Insurance Claims: Unbelievable Statistics »

The Insurance Information Institute estimated that nearly $479 million in dog bite claims were paid by all insurance companies in 2011…

May 18, 2012 4:37 am / No Comment / Read More »
THIS JUST IN

The Magic Number 41 »

App downloads are definitely on the rise.…

May 16, 2012 4:40 pm / No Comment / Read More »

Which Image Site Gets A Billion Pageviews A Day? »

It’s not a photography site. The images it hosts are a mix of photos that have been manipulated in Photoshop,…

May 16, 2012 4:18 pm / No Comment / Read More »

Gogobot Stats: Is Social Travel The Missing Piece? »

Social travel could very well be the missing piece, particularly with so many smartphones all around us. …

May 16, 2012 3:06 pm / No Comment / Read More »

Howcast Reaches 1 Billion Views »

The site produces 1,000 videos per month and has a video library featuring around 15,000 ‘how to’ videos…

May 16, 2012 2:51 pm / No Comment / Read More »

What Is The Population of The Bay Area? »

It should have been 16 million, it is not. Why?…

May 15, 2012 3:50 am / No Comment / Read More »
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THIS EQUALS THAT

Mobile-Connected Devices To Exceed Earth’s Population »

By the end of 2012, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on earth.…

March 12, 2012 9:36 pm / No Comment / Read More »

Apple’s Market Cap Now More Than Microsoft Plus Google »

With Steve's devices taking over our lives, Apple's market cap reaches new highs. Well, we live in the iAge.…

February 9, 2012 9:25 pm / No Comment / Read More »

‘Facebook Timeline Is Basically A CarFax For People’ »

Even cars were smarter, they use a VIN and not a name.…

February 5, 2012 4:25 pm / No Comment / Read More »
HOW THEY COUNT

Who Is Standard & Poor’s To Dictate America On Debt Terms? »

The Rating agencies are in the drivers seat now.…

July 28, 2011 2:56 am / No Comment / Read More »
Fooled By Randomness

Yahoo: ‘We Need More Revenue. Let’s Fire Some People’

Yahoo commits the classic mistake of confusing revenue with profitability.…

April 5, 2012 3:15 am / Read More »
Reverse Engineering

Microsoft’s Nokia Deal

Trying to reverse engineer the success of the PC Era's MS DOS/ Windows will in all probability be an exercise in futility.…

March 8, 2011 5:38 am / Read More »
LUDIC FALLACY

BRIC helping US Exports:Geithner

To argue that emerging economies are helping US exports is Ludic Fallacy, at best. …

March 8, 2011 5:56 am / Read More »
NARRATIVE FALLACY

Blaming Bernanke For QE2

The key argument being put forth is that the bond buying program did not achieve enough.…

April 25, 2011 6:22 am / Read More »
Problem of induction

Bitcoin: Taleb’s Thanksgiving Turkey?

The rise of Bitcoin reminds us of Taleb's Thanksgiving Turkey.…

June 3, 2011 1:45 pm / Read More »
Confirmation Error

Selling Apple Stock In Jan 2009

Selling Apple stock in early 2009 demonstrates our need to fit a story or pattern to a series of connected or disconnected facts…

April 22, 2011 8:24 am / Read More »
Distortion Of Past

Tapping The Oil Reserve

Is NOW the time for the United States to dip into its Strategic Petroleum Reserve? Is $100-a-barrel oil a national emergency?…

March 8, 2011 6:34 am / Read More »
ROUND-TRIP FALLACY

Wealth And Risk-Taking

Do the wealthy take more risks because they are wealthy, or are they wealthy because they take more risks?…

June 7, 2011 10:50 am / Read More »




 
   

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