🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2024-12-01

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📈 Markets Monday for 2024-11-25

As a reminder, this is an end of day snapshot…

Quick Recap

For Market Monday, I continue to look at the same key indicator that I take from a simple Yahoo Finance webpage each week. It’s how I look at things through the lens of the closing bell on Monday.

Last week…

Once again, many green things continue to appear.
Green things appeared last week.

By comparison…

Double the green things appeared compared to last week.
Double the green things appeared this week.

Previously, I decided on a view from Yahoo Finance. For example, this was a view of intraday in Technology which usually gets around a dozen or so interesting companies when the market is moving and a smaller handful of companies when the market is not moving as much.

If you are using Yahoo Applied Filters for Stocks screener you can bookmark your own heat map view.

  • % Change in Price (Intraday):greater than 4

  • Region: United States

  • Market Cap (Intraday): Mid Cap and Large Cap and Mega Cap

  • Price (Intraday):greater than or equal 5

  • Volume:greater than 15000

  • Sector: Technology

  • Industry: Software—Infrastructure and Information Technology Services and Computer Hardware and Software—Application and Communication Equipment and Electronics & Computer Distribution and Consumer Electronics and Electronic Components and Scientific & Technical Instruments and Semiconductor Equipment & Materials and Semiconductors

🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2024-11-26

Two hot takes on the two stories caught my eye on Tuesday from companies both started in the ancient times of 2021.

🧬 + 🤖 Seeing a company like Cradle take $73M Series B is amazing and the funding may assist the creation of an open-source Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) dataset for antibody binders.

https://www.techmeme.com/241126/p9#a241126p9

🦄 + 🤖 Unicorns are born of funding and the… Halcyon days 🤓of applying Capsule Networks (CNNs) via CapNet to Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) has led to a $100M Series C.

https://www.techmeme.com/241125/p19#a241125p19

Bonus: Great Bluesky thread from Jack Poller

https://bsky.app/profile/poller.bsky.social/post/3lbrtl37pmd2f

Bonus bonus: Perhaps Halcyon (AI) will be so successful that another Halcyon (Eco AI) will be needed to better manage energy consumption used to combat attacks powered by… AI?

🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2024-11-27

Each Wednesday I go through dozens of Slack communities.

I then select the most interesting shared links.

This will always be a safe for work list. 🙈

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/15/restaurant-in-italy-offers-free-bottle-of-wine-to-customers-who-hand-in-phone

https://brand-innovators.com/news/kfc-hatch-help-you-fall-asleep-to-fried-chicken/

🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2024-11-28

In this Thankful Throwback Thursday I am thankful for the web browser technology that has arguably made my career since the 1990s possible starting with NCSA Mosaic to my modern day daily drivers — Safari and Chrome.

Click.

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Long ago, back in the ancient times of… 2008, Google Chrome was launched as a Windows browser alternative in that most Google of releases… a Beta. These were the days of desktops and laptops with phones being mostly feature phones.

Of course, the year before, Apple released iPhone with it, the Safari mobile browser. Safari on the Mac was ~4 years old by then and Safari on Windows was ~1 year old (but wouldn’t be around for more than a few more years).

Within just a few years, Google Chrome had been ported to reach most popular operating systems. Also, Google Chrome was now considered a browser worth tracking by market percentage use.

By 2010, alternative browser popularity was still solidly in the shadows of Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE). Meanwhile, the mobile world was growing rapidly.

https://www.techmeme.com/121002/p9#a121002p9

By 2012, Chrome became available (yes, as a Beta) on Android. Now, there was a growth in mobile browsers besides Safari on iPhone and Safari on Windows has reached its nadir — and Chrome reached parity with MSIE.

Browser stats 2009-2012
Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-200901-201206

By 2013, Safari on iPhone had taken a commanding lead as a mobile browser. Increasingly, mobile was part of the browser market share story.

https://www.techmeme.com/130403/p11#a130403p11

Fast forwarding to this year, Google Chrome isn’t just popular… it’s the most popular browser as measured by market share. But, as the saying goes about a tall poppy… it gets noticed.

https://www.techmeme.com/241120/p43#a241120p43

Why now? Here’s a hint:

Browser stats 2009 to 2024
Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-200901-202410

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2024-11-29

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hello-nexustek-jay-cuthrell-qp0oe/?trackingId=6qU%2FPp2nT4WLjcqoK5jZhA%3D%3D

For anyone that left comments on my LinkedIn Warrior post, thank you -- I tried to reply to everyone but the UI/UX isn't perfect. If for some reason, I didn't get a reply back to you --- belated THANK YOU!

The tech news story that caught my eye this week was a reported subsea fiber deployment plan. $10B is a large exclusive investment even for Meta (Facebook).

https://www.techmeme.com/241129/p7#a241129p7

Then again, Google has seen reporting of numerous regular subsea fiber deployments going back 15+ years.

https://www.techmeme.com/240410/p35#a240410p35

https://www.techmeme.com/211006/p8#a211006p8

https://www.techmeme.com/210609/p14#a210609p14

https://www.techmeme.com/180717/p33#a180717p33

https://www.techmeme.com/180404/p5#a180404p5

https://www.techmeme.com/180116/p3#a180116p3

https://www.techmeme.com/080826/p58#a080826p58

In fact, cooperation between Facebook and Google seemed possible 3 years ago.

https://www.techmeme.com/210816/p1#a210816p1

Prior cooperation included multiple partnerships 7 years ago.

https://www.techmeme.com/171031/p5#a171031p5

https://www.techmeme.com/170922/p9#a170922p9

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-11-30

By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.

Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀

Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.

In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.

Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/241130/p1#a241130p1

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/241128/p24#a241128p24

Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/241129/p16#a241129p16

Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/241130/p7#a241130p7

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

https://www.techmeme.com/241130/p4#a241130p4


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