It's been a week since we last talked, and I bet you were waiting with tense anticipation for the final instalment! Well, it would seem that my birthday celebrations, mother's day, and the fact my Bachelors of Arts degree left me with absolutely no artistic ability what-so-ever have come together against me.
So here, in all its glory - but without any cool infographics - is the conclusion. Enjoy!
So Flipboard for Android was supposed to be an exclusive on Samsung Galaxy S III but it didn't take long for an intrepid S III owner to pluck the APK from it's comfortable surroundings and throw out into the wild for all to enjoy!
So far I'm pretty impressed, Flipboard certainly looks beautiful and makes viewing media laden tweets a joy - although tweets who's media host is not integrated are still relegated to second place. And those tweets that link to an article an get a very fancy look with media from the article.
The headline over at Boy Genius Report is Jury says Google infringed on Oracle’s copyrights and over at Mobile Syrup it's Jury reaches split decision in initial Google/Oracle case while at the Verge they say Jury finds Google infringed Oracle copyrights in partial verdict; Google moves for mistrial and over at Phone Area they have Jury renders partial verdict copyright infringement in Oracle v Google case and finally Reuters wrote Google infringed Oracle Java copyrights: jury.
What's most interesting though is in other news about Google there's plenty of stuff besides the lawsuit. But the Oracle news is all lawsuit all the time!
So whether they won or lost I don't think Google really cares, they've already moved on! Oracle on the otherhand, doesn't seem to have anything else to talk about.
Cross-posted on 2FatDads
I've previously looked at what other sites like the big portals and popular news outlets have to offer investors who want to track their portfolios. But there's two other important players: the financial services web sites who are typically at the root of the financial data, and the brokerages where we hold our portfolios. In this part I'll see what they have to offer.
Last week I introduced on-line portfolio managers for your investments, and how to calculate the returns on your portfolio. I also looked at what the big portals offered their users. This week I'll start by looking at what other sites have to offer.
News papers and syndicates that deliver the news; in particular the outlets that have a business focus we expect to have a robust portfolio. We all typically have a news outlet we go to first for our news, and we might even log-in so we can leave comments. Most likely the newspaper offers an on-line portfolio.
Some of these news outlets offer premium features to paying subscribes, or even have entirely separate offerings for professionals. This review however is focused only on what's available to the general public as a free service. For the average individual, who just wants to keep tabs more frequently than monthly or quarterly statements, the fees to access the premium services are not justified.
In this installment I'm going to take a look at what the big web portals have to offer. But first I want to review how returns are calculated and what you should be looking for from those numbers.
There's a lot of ways to calculate your returns, but unfortunately all these web sites use the simplest of methods: Total Return. Basically, they compare the ratio of your gains (or losses) to your costs without taking time into account. This is fine if you bought all your investments in one shot (at least on the same day) and now you're going to sit back and watch them.
Pass the popcorn!
Whether it's just the curiousity for your favourite companies or fantasizing about what you'd do if you were Warren Buffet, or monitoring your RRSP, TFSA, and children's RESP having an on-line portfolio manager for your investments is fun and convenient.
Probably one of the best reasons to have your investments in a web-based portfolio manager is to avoid having to login - and stay logged in - to your brokerage whenever you want to see how things are going. And if your brokerage is also your bank and credit card issuer then it's really not something you want to leave open on your computer all day!
Besides, most of us automatically log in in to a portal (Google, MSN, or Yahoo) or news site (Globe & Mail, National Post, etc.) anyways so we may as well take advantage of their portfolio managers at the same time.
