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A Service to Make 401(k) Tweaking a Piece of Cake

in Personal Technology on August 19, 2009 at 6:09 pm PT

Cake Premium may be a helpful tool in confusing times. But its limitations make it an incomplete solution that’s no threat to a really good, honest investment adviser, writes Walt Mossberg.
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Piper Sees ’09 E-Commerce Down 10 Percent; Online Ads Up 2 Percent

in News on December 4, 2008 at 11:27 am PT

Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray cut estimates on 33 Internet companies today. He claims that it’s due to the “significant deterioration in the economic and consumer spending outlook.” Well, at least people are saving a little money. Munster sees e-commerce spending down 10 percent in the coming year, and online advertising up just two percent.

Sad Guys on Sand Hill Road

in News on October 15, 2008 at 2:05 pm PT

Sad Guys on Trading Floors may soon have some new photographs of dismay to catalog, if the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index is any guide. Released this morning, the index puts VC confidence at its lowest point in the five-year history of the survey.