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USB 3.0 Is Coming Soon to Make Your PC Even More Obsolete
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 3, 2009
... that blazing speed in our computers and peripherals sooner than later. In fact, Nikkei Electronics Asia is reporting that USB enabled devices will be making their way out of Taiwan as early as this s...
DHL makes exansion in China
in Supplychainer, on June 30, 2009
...nies from entering its domestic express mail market.
DHL group has invested around $2.2 billion in Asia-Pacific and will continue to make significant investments in the region in the future, Mr. Mok ...
July 8: China Cleantech Business Forum
in China Venture News, on June 30, 2009
... has a write up online on the upcoming China Cleantech Business Forum.
The July 8th forum will be Asia's first cleantech business conference.
Cleantech is a growing industry focus for venture c...
NetworkingForPros.com Puts You on the Web
in Bizinformer, on June 30, 2009
© Dmitry Baranovskiy
I've been contributing over the last few months to the content of a vibrant and growing site that points toward the future of the Internet and has profound potential for eCommerce and business. The site is NetworkingForPros.com .
When I look across the web at the mome...
Your Company Website
in Bizinformer, on June 30, 2009
I talked yesterday over at BizPlanHacks about getting customers through your company website. Do you have a company website? You should.
SimplWeb has an online course available to help you start a website. They describe it as "a free 7 part guide to creating a killer content site that ca...
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3
in Wangtam, on June 26, 2009
...9;s Smith On Authentication: '70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work'
• Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading
• Habitat sorry for Iran Tweeting
• Did ...
HTC Hero Android Smartphone Officially Launched
in The Smart PDA, on June 25, 2009
...cover the Unexpected. The HTC Hero will be available in the European region in July and later on in Asia and USA.
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In Search of a Cool Summer: Da Lat, Vietnam
in Hidden Travel Gems, on June 24, 2009
...pital of Vietnam. It is a romantic French Provincial town snuggled into the cool hills of Southeast Asia.
Detailed day-by-day weather records are not available for Da Lat, but the temperature in the...
Can You Get Money from the Government? Maybe...
in TJ's Weblog, on June 23, 2009
Michael Sanibel had a helpful blog post recently on government grants. He looks at all the basics:
What is a grant?
Who can qualify?
How do you apply?
What types of grants are available?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of getting a grant?
Why would a grant application not b...
iPod Touch 2代升级OS 3.0新系统完美破解/越狱（附图文教程）
in Wangtam, on June 21, 2009
• iPod Touch 2代升级OS 3.0新系统完美破解/越狱（附图文教程）
• Embrace Your Femininity
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for Windows
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for Linux
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for MacOS
• Sony should beware - Activision chief is not simply playing games
• That Was Quick: Veodia Acquires Screen C...
US Immigration Overhaul "Essential"
in Global Mobility Report, on June 20, 2009
© jurvetson
The Obama Administration made it clear this week that overhauling the immigration system in the U.S. is a priority for his administration. Obama told the Esperanza National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and Conference that U.S. borders must be strengthened to thwart illegal immigrati...
Enjoying First Grade
in The Parenting Weblog, on June 19, 2009
My son is truly enjoying first grade. It has been 2 weeks and he is already having a blast.
Though we both have to adjust to waking up early (classes are from 710 to 1130 in the mornings and 1 to 4 in the afternoons), we have slowly gotten there. I don't just rely on one alarm clock, I hav...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
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If you've been retrenched as a banker or hedge fund manager, don't worry. There's plenty of work out there, if you want to become a spook. The CIA is now running a recruitment ad for...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...ve, and ultimately destructive side bets that financial institutions make. And finally, advisers of hedge funds whose assets exceed a certain size will be required to register with the Securities and ...
A GM name change?
in Sox First, on June 17, 2009
Last month, Harvard Business School set off the debate about a name change for GM . It suggested going for an American theme, although somehow I don't think Stars and Stripes Automobile Manufacturing Co. is going to cut it in a global market. But a name change might be necessary. "If ...
Hedge Funds Up & Social Media Footprint Expansion
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 16, 2009
... " Hedge funds finished up 4.06% in May , capturing the largest monthly gains since February 2000." Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index, said, "Emerging Markets funds wer...
Just Koogle it.
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
Now I've heard everything. We have reports of a new kosher search engine called "koogle" developed in Israel that allows religious Jews to search the Net without compromising their religious standards. Koogle screens out such forbidden material as sexually explicit images or pict...
Accelerating Relationships with Social Networking
in TJ's Weblog, on June 15, 2009
Business has always been at least partly about networking. More and more, it has come to be about social networking. I wrote recently about the need to focus your efforts in social networking. I came across this piece not long ago by Christopher Rollyson on how business relationships can, in h...
Unemployment: are the numbers lying?
in Sox First, on June 14, 2009
So unemployment in the US has jumped to 9.4% but are the numbers telling us the truth? Is unemployment actually worse than what the statisticians are telling us? As reported here , consultant John Williams says the number of unemployed in the US is actually more like 20%, which takes it up t...
NIKA Water: Helping Body and Soul
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 12, 2009
...hese 1.1 billion people, about 80% of those lacking such access live in sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Asia and Southern Asia.
Enter NIKA Water. NIKA Water, a San Diego-based brand, is changing the way...
Recession and marriage
in Sox First, on June 12, 2009
It seems the recession is saving marriages. Or it might be prolonging the agony. In Britain, The Independent reports that accountants Grant Thornton have found that fewer couples are divorcing. Plummeting property prices means it's just not worth it, even if it means prolonging a bad marr...
Art Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 10, 2009
According to Friedrich Kiradi, head of Merit Alternative Investments GmbH and director of the world-wide first Art Photography Fund. "Investments in material assets such as real estate, commodities, as well as art, continues to be an area that investors seem to be focusing on, with the gro...
50 Beautiful Flash Websites
in Wangtam, on June 9, 2009
• 50 Beautiful Flash Websites
• Blogs Falling in an Empty Forest
• Internet Privacy Study
• Jolicloud
• CodeRun - Online Development Platform
• Free Everest Ultimate Edition 4.6 License
• 50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design
• Unconfirmed Reports of Massive T-Mobile Breach
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Hedge Fund Competing To Buy British Bank
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 9, 2009
... (BGI), including the iShares business.
BlackRock's BGI buyout will break its own record in a hedge fund transaction, when in 2006 BlackRock took over Merrill Lynch's asset management busine...
Entrepreneurial Life
in TJ's Weblog, on June 7, 2009
© tedmurphy
I came across a interesting piece last week from Small Business Trends : Entrepreneurial Lessons From The Experts. It was a list of simple observations about the life of entrepreneurs in general. Author Lisa Bourne was lucky enough to get Copyblogger's Brian Clark, John Jantsc...
Social Networking With Purpose
in BootStrapMe, on June 7, 2009
Entrepreneur.Com had a piece recently that made a simple point: You should be selective with your social networks.
The simple truth is that social networking can be a time consuming endeavor. It's easy to get bogged down trying to read all your Twitter posts. Social networks can become redun...
T-Mobile To Release Second Android Phone While Samsung Targets Photogs
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 5, 2009
... popular social networking sites like Facebook and Flickr.
The Pixon is expected to hit Europe and Asia but plans to bring this handset to the US have not been finalized just yet. It looks like we Am...
LG GD910 Wristwatch Phone available in July
in The Smart PDA, on June 5, 2009
...ill be available in the European region exclusively on Orange Network. It will also be available in Asia, Australia and Latin America laster this year.
Here are the details:
Dimensions: 13.9mm
Ne...
Fujitsu expands to Australian ERP market
in Supplychainer, on May 31, 2009
...t has expanded its SAP and Oracle portfolio through the acquisition of the Australia and South East Asia operations of Supply Chain Consulting Pty Ltd, a market leader of SAP and Oracle enterprise sol...
In Search of a Cool Summer: Baguio, Philippines
in Hidden Travel Gems, on May 29, 2009
Asia is hot in the summer. At least most of it is. But there are a few spots where the summer traveler can enjoy moderate, perhaps even cool, weather. Chief among those locations is Baguio City, Philippines.
Baguio is referred to affectionately as the summer capital of the Philippines. The title...
Nokia N900 Rover Internet Tablet coming soon?
in The Smart PDA, on May 27, 2009
... Flash 9.4 support
Battery: 1320 mAh
Launch dates:
USA: August/September 2009
Middle East & Asia: July 2009
Europe: October 2009
Source: Phone Mag ...
The Genius Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on May 25, 2009
© Keith Allison
You've probably never heard of the genius visa. Les than 10,000 people a year are allowed into the U.S. on it. People who are at the absolute top tier of their field in the arts, athletics, sciences, education, or business. Its formal name is the O-1 visa, and BusinessWeek...
MBAs and Entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on May 21, 2009
...nation with the comings and goings of MBAs as obsolete as our lionization of investment bankers and hedge-fund managers? Is it time to look elsewhere for the "best and the brightest" of what...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...ecently, the majority of Harvard's MBAs went into jobs in investment banking, private equity or hedge funds. These were the careers of choice. You can make long lists of high-profile MBAs who brou...
Franchises: WYNTK
in Biz Plan Hacks, on May 19, 2009
We talked recently about how well franchises do during a recession. To balance that I thought I'd point out this piece by Jeff Elgin on buying a franchise. Elgin looks at some things you should know about a franchise contract.
One of the things he points out is that strong franchises usual...
Hedge Fund Administrator of The Year
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 13, 2009
... Along with an award for Hedge Fund Administrator of the year for their alternative investment services (AIS), the Bank of New York Mellon received 6 other awards at the International Custody &...
Downturn easing without recovery
in Sox First, on May 12, 2009
...l the stimulus packages are starting work and that the financial crisis is easing. He predicts that Asia will be the first to emerge out of the crisis, and that China will overtake the United States a...
A Look at Japanese Saké
in Celebrate Wine, on May 10, 2009
...Having spent a sizable chunk of time in Asia, I'm familiar with saké . It's often called rice wine, even though it isn't technically a wine in any real sense. Vinography recently took...
A Hippocratic oath for managers
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
The global crisis is as much a failure of ethics as it is of finance. Business at the end of the day has to serve society which gives it its licence to operate. Creating virtual products as they did in financial markets wasn't serving anyone. Neither was flogging subprime packages to people ...
No recovery yet
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
Is the US economy on its way to recovery or not? Some would point to the results of the bank stress tests as a green shoot with 10 of the 19 largest banks needed to boost their capital by a combined total just shy of $75 billion. Not as much as many expected, prompting officials and industry ex...
An End to Tax Havens?
in Bizinformer, on May 5, 2009
© marcn
A vast number of news sources have been covering President Obama's proposal to close tax loopholes and shut down corporate tax havens. Some examples of the coverage include:
The NY Times , Agence France Press , The Washington Post , Financial Times , Mother Jones Bloomberg...
The next accounting battle
in Sox First, on May 3, 2009
...les were one of the reasons the markets went into meltdown. Using borrowed money, investment banks, hedge funds and commercial banks made reckless bets. They created and sold exotic investment vehicle...
60 余款免费搬上 iPhone 的经典桌面游戏
in Wangtam, on May 1, 2009
... Connect 5 Free
• GameBox Asia
• GNU Go
• HuaRongDao
• iGobang Lite
• iMahjong Free
• Moonlight Mahjong Lite
• Shanghai Mahjong Free
• Stones
• Tetsuki ...
Swine Flu
in The Parenting Weblog, on April 30, 2009
...m North American swine and avian influenza, human influenza, and swine influenza normally found in Asia and Europe, according to CDC officials.
As of today, there are 91 confirmed swine flu cases, in...
LG KX500- LG Cookie with CDMA
in The Smart PDA, on April 29, 2009
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LG is soon going to release a new CDMA touch screen handset known as the LG KX500 in the Asia Pacific region. It will be similar to the LG Cookie but optimized with 3G connectivity. Launched in...
How Sound is Your Business Plan?
in BootStrapMe, on April 27, 2009
I recently reported at BizPlanHacks on some research that shows that business plans don't get start-ups funded by VC's. But what do we care?
A business plan takes on a whole new meaning in the context of a bootstrapped business. PE Hub 's Joanna Glasner rightly points out that the...
More Wall Street greed
in Sox First, on April 27, 2009
...irate Citigroup executive to a colleague. "I'm not giving to charity this year!" one hedge-fund analyst shouts into the phone, when I ask about Obama's planned tax increases. "...
Nouriel Roubini: we're not even at the bottom yet
in Sox First, on April 27, 2009
...ting growth cycle will come from. "We had the real-estate bubble, tech bubble, housing bubble, hedge-fund bubble, private-equity bubble, commodities bubble, even the art bubble-and they are all b...
HedgeCo.Net Spring Manager Showcase on Wed next week
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 26, 2009
... HedgeCo.Net and HedgeCo Securities is holding the Spring 2009 Manager Showcase. This event is open to all accredited HedgeCo.Net members and will profile some of the leading fund managers.
T...
Chimento Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on April 24, 2009
...Chimento has since grown into a successful jewelry manufacturer with a global presence in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The production studio has over 140 skilled employees, some of whom manually ...
PC Maker Acer Launches its Cellular Line
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on April 22, 2009
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Computer giant Acer launched a complete line of smartphones for the Asia-Pacific region. The Taiwan-based company, best known for its PCs and laptops has finalized its ambitions to gain a share ...
Hedge Funds in the Cayman Islands
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 21, 2009
... Sophia Harris, the firm's Managing Partner.
"The recent significant stresses placed upon hedge funds, particularly in Q4 of 2008, have given our investment funds group invaluable insight in...
Resources for Women Entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on April 19, 2009
Adam over at Blogtrepreneur points out the prominent role women play in the bootstrap community and the larger world of entrepreneurs today. He uses suffrage as a point of reference; 90 years ago women couldn't even vote. "You've come a long way, baby." (Hope that doesn't...
Urlaub: Alternativen zu Thailand
in Das Reise-Weblog, on April 16, 2009
...laysia:
Indonesiens Nachbar verspricht seinen Besuchern mit dem Slogan "Malaysia - Truely Asia", das "wahre Asien" zu sein. Die Malaiische Halbinsel und die vorgelagerten Inseln ...
HTC Snap headed for T-Mobile
in The Smart PDA, on April 16, 2009
... are the details:
Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900,
3G Network UMTS 900 / 2100 for Europe and Asia
UMTS 850 / 1900 for North America
OS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard
Processor: 528 MH...
New Hedge Fund Manager at SilkInvest
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 15, 2009
... investment bank Renaissance Capital, to spearhead its move into Frontier Fixed Income, an emergent hedge fund asset class.
"We will offer a liquid Frontier Market Fixed Income product, " Z...
IPOs: don't blame Sarbox
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...nvestors hold less than 30% of publicly traded shares with the remainder held through mutual funds, hedge funds and other institutional investors. Which, as Davidoff implies, makes the arguments about...
The new consumer
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
Last year, I did a blog entry looking at the way consumer patterns have changed in the recession. The earlier this year, I did a piece looking at thrift chic, the latest trend where people are embracing frugality and a new conservatism. The lessons of the 1930s taught us that when an economy...
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...
Defending the Hedge Against Coyotes
in The Outdoor Weblog, on April 8, 2009
...nt of indigenous species. An interesting angle on this situation can be seen in the movie Over The Hedge, but it does little to provide you with solutions to real life situations like coming face to f...
Communities printing money
in Sox First, on April 7, 2009
It had to happen. USA Today reports how cash strapped communities have taken a Depression era idea and started printing their own money. Ylu buy it at a discount and spend it at stores that accept currencies like Detroit Cheers, Ithaca Hours in New York, Plenty in North Carolina or BerkShares ...
Two Equity Fund Launches
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...t Ltd, successfully launched The African Lions Fund and the Arab Falcons Fund, which helped the hedge fund manager achieve its goals in becoming a specialist in Arab and African equities.
The Lux...
Advertising market crash
in Sox First, on April 2, 2009
Last week, I did a blog entry asking whether the Internet was shattering the advertising industry Well, if it's not the Internet, it's certainly the recession. The Wall Street Journal reports that spending on online advertising is starting to cool down. While online-ad revenue surge...
The Economist to Launch London Theme Park
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 1, 2009
As part of a strategy designed to broaden the revenue base, leverage content over new platforms and promote The Economist brand to a young and dynamic audience, The Economist Group is delighted to announce the development of a public-entertainment facility that combines the magic of a theme P...
Do You Have a Jellyfish?
in IfEnergy, on March 28, 2009
The commercial-industrial efforts to turn wind into energy for money seem to get a lot more attention than the smaller efforts to enable individual citizens to use wind energy as a means of opting out of the power grid altogether. So I found the Jellyfish Wind Appliance to be fascinating as a pe...
Netflix to hit the PS3?
in The Wired Home Weblog, on March 27, 2009
I love my PS3. It sits at the hub of my media centre and plays blu rays, dvds, cds, and even my occasional SACD (I have an early model!). It's quiet, reliable, and it does almost everything I want, and will be even closer when I get round to aquiring a PlayTV.
However, for you US guys it just ...
Oil shock ahead
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
Last week, I did a blog entry on the International Monetary Fund warning that there might be a small recovery next year if there are comprehensive and co-ordinated global policies, and if commodity prices remain low. So far, there's been no sign of global co-ordination. Add to that the r...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...g reporting that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is moving to tighten up the rules for monster hedge funds, private- equity firms and derivatives markets, it's worth looking at what's ahe...
The New Ho Chi Minh Trail
in Eagle Par Birdie, on March 25, 2009
... Courtesy: golfasian.com
Ho Chi Minh is a name that many Vietnam War veterans will never forget.
Nor will the nation of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh was instrumental in founding and then leading the ...
US dollar under fire
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
...r will lose its power as the world's reserve currency . He reckons the the premier currency in Asia will have a leading reserve function to sit along side the US dollar and Euro by 2030. With th...
