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Big Tobacco extends its reach
in Sox First, on November 11, 2009
Big tobacco has hit upon a brilliant strategy with reports that Reynolds American Inc, maker of Camel cigarettes, is planning to buy a company that's stopping people from smoking. The manufacturer of cancer sticks is apparently in talks to buy Swedish maker of nicotine gum Niconovum AB. No...
Al Gore, climate change profits and civil disobedience
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
Plenty has been written about Al Gore making mega profits out of global warming. As the New York Times reported last week, as a partner in Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , he has cleaned up big time with its investments in smart electricity grids. That...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
...the massive pay packets, saying they have been earned by people who helped generate the massive profits. But of course, one of the reasons for Goldman Sachs' spectacular success has been its links w...
Galleon scandal: just the beginning?
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
... or figure out that a company's earnings were better than anyone expected could reap almost instant profits. Edward Calahan invented the stock ticker (later improved by Thomas Edison and Alfred Vail) ...
Eight New Insider Trading Arrests, Fourteen Total
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 6, 2009
...llegedly participating in insider trading schemes that generated more than $20 million in illegal profits.
“If you talk on the phone, we may be listening, there’s always a chance the person you con...
Big profits: How Goldman Sachs bet on the US housing crash
in Sox First, on November 5, 2009
Earlier this year, I did a blog entry on Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone on how Goldman Sachs had engineered market manipulation since the Great Depression. Now, McClatchy Newspapers investigative reporter Greg Gordon has a piece that really raises serious questions about the leg...
2009, l'année du Mac
in Business Computer Blog (FR), on octobre 26, 2009
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Il ne s'est jamais autant vendu de Macs qu'en 2009 ! Et particulièrement lors du trimestre d'été, de juin à septembre : 3 millions de Mac vendus, record battu ! Le constat est étonnant pour une année de crise, de marasme général et de baisse des ventes pour la majeure ...
Profits are a gift: Soros
in Sox First, on October 25, 2009
The big profits made by the banks did not come through talent or hard work. They're just a free gift, says billionaire financier George Soros. In an interview with the Financial Times , Soros says soaring executive pay needs to be regulated because the banks have been getting hidden subsidi...
Boosting Productivity and Profits
in BootStrapMe, on October 14, 2009
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Small Business Trends had an interesting post last month on how the American work force is under untilized. In a recent article on MarketingProfs, Gallup research of 300,000 businesses indicated that 75-80% of employees are achieving much less and feeling far less ...
Red Hat Stock Soars
in HackITLinux, on September 25, 2009
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Red Hat Inc. 's stock jumped higher this week after the company reported its second quarter results.
"Revenue climbed 12 percent to $183.6 million, topping the $179.4 million expected by analysts... The company had a 15 percent jump in subscription revenue, fees for the u...
The phoney bull market
in Sox First, on September 24, 2009
Is this a bull market or a bear market rally? Commentators like Clem Chambers at Forbes say the market rally seems to have all the hallmarks of a bull market. "Another good augur for a bull market is that no one is calling this,'' Chambers writes. "You really know the end i...
Facebook makes profit
in Sox First, on September 18, 2009
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The big news is that Facebook is finally making money, and showing profits. That's one year before it was scheduled to start happening in 2010. Still, it's not convincing because the ad...
Accounting change to boost Apple profits
in Sox First, on September 17, 2009
Do accounting rules excite you? They probably have that effect on Apple shareholders. The Apple share price has hit a 52-week high after the Financial Accounting Standards Board brought in a tentative change to the accounting rules which would almost double Apple's reported profit. The ...
Twitter's advertising U-Turn
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
In its search for profits, Twitter has finally opened the door for advertising. As The Independent reports, it's a significant U turn with Biz Stone, one of Twitter's founders, revealing that the site had opted to "leave the door open for advertising". br />This changes ...
Unemployment boosts profits
in Sox First, on September 5, 2009
...reeping up close to 10%. And the evidence suggests it's good for business because it will boost profits. At 9.7%, it's just a matter of time until the official figures are in double digit terr...
The new normal
in Sox First, on September 4, 2009
Don't expect us to return to the "old" normal. Things will not be the same when the recovery comes, despite what the politicians and sections of the financial media tell you. PIMCO managing director Bill Gross says everything has changed and in this note , he calls it the "...
Great Lake Swimmers' Tony Dekker Credits P2P With Success
in P2P File Sharing, on September 1, 2009
ZeroPaid's soulxtc today picks up on an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that quotes the Great Lake Swimmers ' Tony Dekker as crediting filesharing with his band's success.
"It's not just something that's specific to a region anymore," Dekkers says. ...
Simmons Men's Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on August 26, 2009
Diamond and Stainless Steel Jewelry
Holiday 2005, the Simmons Jewelry Co. launched a men's collection of bracelets, chains, pendants, rings, and diamond earrings for the urban-minded man. Combining traditional diamonds and gold and alternative materials such as rubber and stainless steel...
Facebook's recruitment campaign
in Sox First, on August 26, 2009
...ng. That's expensive to service so the company is pulling out all stops now to start generating profits. The alternative is that it would keep depending on bailouts from venture capitalists. And s...
Trying to time the bottom
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 17, 2009
...?
Not a lot of people did this. It's not easy to sell a house, even if you are looking at big profits. And for many homeowners — those who planned on living in their homes for a long time ...
Something A Little More Creative
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on August 5, 2009
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This morning I woke up to find a Facebook message waiting for me. It was from the Youth Pastor at my church. I volunteer with the Jr. High kids and sometimes teach Sunday school so I went ahead and joined their Facebook Group (appropriately titled "HPUMC com...
Goldman Sachs reputation takes a hammering
in Sox First, on August 3, 2009
Despite its roaring profits, Goldman Sachs reputation took quite a hammering last month starting with Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone, which I covered here , where he accused Goldman Sachs of being behind every market manipulation since the Great Depression. The piece triggered a ...
Is Ryanair's pee fee the answer?
in Sox First, on August 2, 2009
Yesterday, I looked at how the aviation industry was nose diving, cranking up big losses from the global meltdown and swine flu. But one airline seems to be doing okay and weathering the storm. Ryanair is posting profits and continuing to attract passengers despite the recession thanks to ...
Lawsuit: Amazon Ate My Homework
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-02
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Airline losses soar
in Sox First, on August 1, 2009
Several weeks ago, I looked at how airlines around the world would be losing loads of money because of the financial crisis and swine flu. According to industry forecasts, they were set to lose $9 billion this year. That would be just a start. There is no relief in sight. Not surprisingly, t...
Is Ryanair's pee fee the answer?
in Sox First, on August 1, 2009
Yesterday, I looked at how the aviation industry was nose diving, cranking up big losses from the global meltdown and swine flu. But one airline seems to be doing okay and weathering the storm. Ryanair is posting profits and continuing to attract passengers despite the recession thanks to ...
Goldman Sachs in the gun
in Sox First, on July 30, 2009
At the beginning of this month I did a blog entry looking at Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone asking whether Goldman Sachs had been behind every market manipulation since the Great Depression. Now The Wall Street Journal reports that the US Senate is probing Goldman Sachs and Deu...
First SOX clawback
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
...lier this year, the SEC took action against former CSK executives for inflating the company's profits. It will be interesting whether the SEC, under its new leadership, will be cracking down ha...
Buffett cleans up on Goldman Sachs
in Sox First, on July 25, 2009
US taxpayers did well when Goldman Sachs repaid US Treasury's TARP loan of $10 billion. According to Bloomberg , they made a return of 23% which is not too bad at all in any market, let alone this one. But that's just lunch money compared to Warren Buffett's return. As the New Yor...
Can manufacturing be saved?
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
Can Obama save US manufacturing? That's the question raised by the New York Times which points out that US administration has so far pursued only ad hoc initiatives, like helping General Motors and Chrysler and looking to green energy as a way of rebuilding the manufacturing sector. The pa...
Swine flu profits
in Sox First, on July 21, 2009
...h produces Relenza, Roche which sells Tamiflu, SANOFI -Aventis, Novartis and Baxter with massive profits. The Financial Times reports that JP Morgan estimates that fresh antiviral sales could boo...
California's dope rush
in Sox First, on July 19, 2009
At the beginning of this month, I had a blog entry looking at whether legalizing marijuana would save the California economy. The Marijuana Policy Project is pushing for the drug to approved, claiming it will really do great things for the state's appalling budget. And so the debate con...
Reasons why Microsoft's profits are tanking
in Sox First, on July 19, 2009
Earlier this year, we saw Microsoft's sales falling for the first time in its history and its earnings heading south. At the time, it was blamed on the problems in the PC market with people switching to cheaper options. But Microsoft's problems are structural and systemic. The deterio...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
Much has been made of the extraordinary profits posted by Goldman Sachs with its best quarter since the end of 2007 when the recession was just beginning. As Phillip Silitschanu, a senior analyst with Aite Group told reporters : "Goldman really is in a class by themselves." But the...
Suddenly more bullish on housing?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 14, 2009
.... During the housing boom, people bought homes and then tried to sell them in a year or two for big profits. That's no longer a possibility.
This is actually good. Housing was never meant to be ...
Derivatives tripped up regulators: Geithner
in Sox First, on July 12, 2009
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is pushing the Obama administration's plans to regulate the exotic and opaque derivatives market, something that's long overdue. Let's face it, the US Government wasn't even aware of how serious a problem it's been. Associated Press rep...
Apple's lack of enterprise ambition
in The CIO Weblog, on July 8, 2009
... more every time you turn around. But a funny thing happened on the way to the bank with the iPhone profits... they started coming from corporate America. The iPhone, it develops, is just the thing fo...
Don't believe the homeownership hype
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 24, 2009
You should buy a home because it's the best lifestyle choice for you and your family. You shouldn't buy a house becasue it's a good investment.
There's a simple reason for this: Homes aren't as good of an investment as real estate agents and mortgage loan officers make them out ...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...o lobbyists to stymie any changes that would affect their business and stop them raking in enormous profits. So don't expect the banks to lie down and cop this one. As Bloomberg reports, lobbyis...
NIKA Water: Helping Body and Soul
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 12, 2009
With another hot summer on the way, proper hydration is on the top of everyone's mind. However, here is a unique twist on the classic summer water story:
An estimated 75% of Americans suffer from mild, chronic dehydration. But that number is nothing compared to the 20% of the world's p...
Problem Solving is Key
in BootStrapMe, on June 12, 2009
Success in starting a business is mostly about figuring out what to do when challenges arise. So I couldn't help but get a little excited when I say this point on problem solving .
In the piece Sid Kemp looks a six basic steps to assessing and solving problems. And in his view, most of it is c...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
I'm always amazed that so many people pin the blame for our nation's current housing crisis on homeowners facing foreclosures. Yes, some of these homeowners — but not nearly all of them — were greedy, and tried to buy too much home for their income levels. But if you want to pinp...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-06-03
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How much is Facebook worth?
in Sox First, on May 31, 2009
...make money but the Facebook business model doesn't allow the social networking site to make any profits. The report from ContentNextMedia found that "excitement over virtual currency has been...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
The implosion at Indian IT specialists Satyam raises many questions about corporate governance. As Madhukar Angur says in the Deccan Herald , the debacle suggests we have learned very little since Enron and WorldCom. And that's despite governments around the world tightening their corporat...
Economists predict recession ends this year. As if!
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
So economists are predicting the recession will end this year. They reckon the housing market will bottom out and they don't see the recession lasting longer than the first quarter of 2010. Still, they're hedging their bets, saying the recovery will be slow and painful. It's hard ...
Higher rents and sale prices for green buildings
in Sox First, on May 25, 2009
Despite the recession, the push for green buildings continues. But is green a justifiable expense when companies are struggling to stay alive in the financial bloodbath? A fascinating study Doing Well by Doing Good? Green Office Buildings , from academics at the University of California and Ma...
Sony to reduce the number of suppliers to half
in Supplychainer, on May 24, 2009
In a short piece from Kenji Hall written in BusinessWeek , he talks about the recent plans of Sony, giant Japanese electronics company, to cut supply chain costs.
According to Kenji, the tech giant has about 2,500 suppliers, but will reduce that number to 1,200 by March 2011. This effort in t...
Buffett says newspapers have no future
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
Back in 2007, Warren Buffett warned shareholders that newspapers were on the skids. In his letter at the time, Buffett said "the days of lush profits from our newspaper are over". The problem, he said, was that the industry was oblivious to the changes that were transforming the sec...
The next accounting battle
in Sox First, on May 3, 2009
If you thought fair value was an almighty bun fight, you ain't seen nothing yet. The International Accounting Standards Board is tackling off balance sheet vehicles that have destroyed so much wealth and the Financial Accounting Standards Board plans to put out new rules for the United S...
The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson
in Sox First, on April 30, 2009
...se who got injured plundering ships. This ensured pirates would continue to take risks and maximize profits. Pirates also had strict constitutions on how to behave in a ship and ensuring the business...
The Future of Golf is Online
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 17, 2009
Courtesy: Augusta National
On the day of the Par 3 tournament at The Masters, I wrote that it was unfortunate that live streaming of the event at masters.com was limited only to computer users with ISP addresses in the United States.
I argued that Augusta National could make a lot of money ...
New partnership to offer supply chain network design services
in Supplychainer, on April 11, 2009
It seems like, beside IBM and i2, new niche players are jumping into network optimization services: ChemLogix, a provider of logistics services, announced recently that it has formed a strategic alliance with Automated Decisions, to provide a Supply Chain Network Optimization Service to the chem...
Airlines in tailspin
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
The airline industry goes from bad to worse. A crumbling global economy means fewer seats on planes declining profits for the world's biggest airlines. More details here .The big problem lies in their fixed costs. As Morningstar analyst Basili Alukos told reporters , it's a high fixed...
Executive pay goes down - to just $7.6 million
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
Don't for a second think that the fat cats on Wall Street are doing it tough. The Wall Street Journal tells us that the pay of the people who have brought America to its knees has gone done 3.4% to a paltry median figure of $7.56 million. While unemployment continues to rise, small busine...
Getting the recession right
in The CIO Weblog, on March 31, 2009
I've spent my share of time haranguing all the companies out there who are busily and arbitrarily slashing costs and headcounts in response to the financial crisis; now it's time to acknowledge one that has by and large gotten it right: Hewlett-Packard.
I've already mentioned my ap...
Jewelry Sale at GenerousGems.com
in The Jewelry Weblog, on March 29, 2009
Gold and Gemstone Jewelry
Beth Gillman, and James and Lynette Herschel have more than a decade of experience in the retail and jewelry business. They design and sell fine jewelry . They also have a specialty line of awareness jewelry, with a portion of the profits from these lines going to n...
A good crisis for George Soros
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
George Soros is having a very good crisis. When the wheels started coming off in 2007, Soros came out of semi-retirement and took back control of his Quantum investment fund. By year's end, Quantum was up almost 32%, delivering Soros profits of $US2.9 billion. His fortune of $11 billion ...
Non-profit newspapers? No way!
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
And so the newspaper carnage continues with reports that the Ann Arbor News will fold after 174 years of operations and news that the Daily Mail in England will cut 1000 jobs because advertising is drying up. Now Reuters reports that US Senator Benjamin Cardin has introduced a bill that w...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-03-22
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China's Tencent - the World's Most Profitable Social Network
in The Social Networking Weblog, on March 19, 2009
A couple of sources ( paidContent.org , VentureBeat ) had stories today on the wicked-huge earnings report from China's Tencent web portal and social network.
Tencent took in about a billion dollars in revenue last year. MySpace, by comparison, hoped for a billion dollars in revenue but se...
BMW and Mercedes to Merge?
in carzz.org, on March 11, 2009
...ing up to the current recession/depression. Both built expensive (and pointless) SUVs to add to the profits. Both are famous for sedans and sports cars that carry the German banner of quality cars bui...
MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 5, 2009
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The MIT Sloan 2009 BioInnovations Conference: Revolutions in Healthcare is happening on Saturday, March 7, 8:30am-4:30pm at the Tang Center, Wong Auditorium, Building E51, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge. Here's the
Sloan campus map .
The VIP...
The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R Morris
in Sox First, on February 20, 2009
The book from Morris provides some interesting insights into the market's implosion. It's not that we didn't have any warning. Morris makes the point that the collateralised mortgage obligations crisis, the 1987 stock market crash and the collapse of Long Term Capital Management w...
互联网商业模式更应关注成本
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-07
美国风险投资合广投资 (Union Square Ventures) 合伙人 Fred Wilson 近日 发表 Blog 文章称 ，最近不乏关于互联网商业模式的讨论，大多关注的是营收问题，但营收仅仅是价值等式中的一半，另外一半是成本。以下为其文章全文：
关注成本
商业的价值在于未来现金流的净现值，现金流是利润的根本，所以一项业务的价值就在于未来利润的总和贴现成为净现值。如果对财务不甚了解，也可以用现金流的倍数作为净现值数据，本文将采用10倍的现金流作为净现值。
如此简化后，一项业务的价值就相当于营收扣除成本后数值的10倍。管理者可以通过推动营收或提高利润创造价值，但两者的做法却不尽...
Rupert Murdoch's downturn blues
in Sox First, on January 31, 2009
Rupert Murdoch is blaming the spending binge for the crisis, and warns that it will probably take some time until we emerge from it. But the reality is that his News Corporation has been hit hard by the downturn. Already, News Corporation's digital arm Fox Interactive Media is axing jobs...
Steve Jobs and board failure
in Sox First, on January 22, 2009
Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at why Steve Jobs' health was an issue for investors. It boils down to one simple equation: Jobs is Apple's most important asset and his health affects the stock price. Notwithstanding Jobs taking several months off to sort out his he...
NBA Says 12-Year-Olds Being Sized Up As Players
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 15, 2009
Life just keeps moving ahead faster and faster, and today's youth are being asked to grow up in less time than ever, but is the NBA serious about playing 12-year olds?
Well, not really, but they are serious about taking a close look at them to determine who's going to get serious considerat...
Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
Taking advantage of recessionary pressures to restructure IT
in The CIO Weblog, on January 5, 2009
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I mentioned last week that it is probably about time to shake off the shock of the downturn and start looking seriously at how to restructure your IT department to deal with tighter, more competetive markets. I'll put up a series of posts this...
