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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by api on Friday August 16, 2013 @10:25AM (#6224147)
I've had a speculation for a while that this is why Google, Apple, and many other tech giants like to keep their stock float small and thus their stock price per share very high. I wonder if it's a way of trying to select for longer-term investors. ???
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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by wslh on Friday August 16, 2013 @10:33AM (#6224210)
I am not sure because you can own half of an stock. For example if you invest in ETFs you don't an integer number of stocks.
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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by dscb on Friday August 16, 2013 @11:00AM (#6224370)
The shares of stock in an EFT are controlled by an independent group. Essentially you are buying shares of someone else's shares.
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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by wslh on Friday August 16, 2013 @11:12AM (#6224441)
But this is a way to operate on fractional stocks. Can you elaborate on "api" original speculation?
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