Click the image to see Dow Jones falling 10.2% in 15 days.

Around fifteen days in the new year and all I can see is red candles in my graphics, reading my rss today was horrible, all markets around the world falling crazy, JPMorgan revenue, 34% less then predicted, Citi US$ 9.8 bilion loss, Goldman recommends selling Citi papers, Merrill Lynch reported a second straight quarterly loss after writing down US$ 11.5 billion of subprime mortgages and bond. Like we say around here, in a nasty fall, you’ll not pass the ground, buckle up.

This chart shows the market share of the six more important operating systems, after them you could see, SunOS 0.01%, HP-UX 0.00%, AIX 0.00%, FreeBSD 0.00%, SCP 0.00%, SCO 0.00%, OpenBSD 0.00%, OpenVMS 0.00% and NetBSD 0.00%. People should be careful interpreting this chart, all the data come from real users , 160M monthly, accessing important websites. Linux has been growing it’s market share monthly, started the year with ~.40% growth and closed with almost .70%. Very slowly Windows is loosing it’s market share to other operating systems, started with 93% and finished with 91.7%. Hype products came from 0…

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Credit crunch? Recession risk? You’d never know it, judging by the frenzy of startup activity. In fact, it’s a pretty good time to start a company. Those factors have combined to make a startup market almost as frothy as the dot-com bubble. Here are 10 pre-IPO, pre-acquisition companies worth watching in 2008. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/12/YE_10_startups