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Goldman Sachs loading up on guns
in Sox First, on December 2, 2009
...nightmare. For the merchant bank, it's as if the financial crisis never happened. After paying back billions of dollars in taxpayer funded bailout money, it paid annual bonuses that rivaled the record...
Bankruptcies soar with no recovery in sight
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
...ince the US Government started tracking this sort of data 25 years ago. Despite the banks receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer funded bailout money, they are not willing to repay the favor. But t...
The Dubai con job
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
...I did a blog entry on how Dubai was likely to join Iceland and go broke. It's about to default on billions of dollars of debt accrued to create that bizarre financial center out in the middle of the...
Apocalypse Fatigue: losing the battle on climate change
in Sox First, on November 18, 2009
...s need to recognize psychology as the missing link in the climate change debate. Until they do, billions of dollars will be spent for little return.
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Taxpayers lose out on bank bailout
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
...rogram, has conceded that the program will result in a loss to taxpayers to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. Barofsky said: "We need to temper or be realistic about our expectations, a do...
US unemployment to hit 13%
in Sox First, on November 12, 2009
...Obama's stimulus packages are not working as intended. They need fine tuning. When you are spending billions of dollars, it needs to be better targeted. ...
Seen that? - Big Sur Bonanza #2
in The Outdoor Weblog, on November 9, 2009
... belief. Merrill Lynch was in serious trouble and the US government had to bail it out with tens of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money, but Thain continued to lavish himself with payments and...
The psychology of climate change
in Sox First, on November 6, 2009
...nize these psychological forces because unless they do, nothing will change. Governments will spend billions of dollars for little result. As Adam Corner writes in the Guardian : "If the thought of...
Infonetics: VoIP Providers Earning Billions
in The VoIP Weblog, on October 31, 2009
According to a recent report from Infonetics Research , revenue from VoIP worldwide reached $20.7 billion in the last six months alone.
That's billion, with a b...
"Residential VoIP services remain healthy, comprising the majority of worldwide VoIP services revenue, and subscribers...
Seen that? - BIG SUR BONANZA #3
in The Outdoor Weblog, on October 31, 2009
... belief. Merrill Lynch was in serious trouble and the US government had to bail it out with tens of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money, but Thain continued to lavish himself with payments and...
Seen that? - Christina Aguilera Pregnant for Sure
in Next Nine Months, on October 30, 2009
... many of today's young pop music queens Christina has shown the world how it's done without attracting attention to herself for all the wrong reasons. Check out this exclusive interview in &...
Seen that? - Outsourcing to Africa
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 29, 2009
...with other locations in the world, the citizens of the African continent are very interested in the billions of dollars that multinational corporations can offer in trade for services. What makes afri...
Pay cuts for auto firm executives. What about banks?
in Sox First, on October 23, 2009
...ices firms. The Economist reports that despite the fact that Citigroup and Bank of America lost billions of dollars in the last quarter, they still ended up paying a combined $13.7 billion in comp...
Dubai can't meet debts
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
...id over the next three years. The only solution to the problem, as I see it, is for Dubai to issue billions of dollars in bonds. And indeed, Dubai is now looking at a $10 billion bond offer at the ...
Montenegro Becoming Mediterranean Hotspot
in Hidden Travel Gems, on September 28, 2009
...e country has its drawback. Infrastructure is not the greatest. But the scenic beauty and charm are attracting tourists in growing numbers.
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FBI probes BoFA-Merrill deal
in Sox First, on September 21, 2009
...to pay $33 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading shareholders about the billions of dollars of bonuses paid to executives at the failed financial services firm Merrill Lync...
Cyber crime pandemic
in Sox First, on September 18, 2009
...t geeks is kidding themselves. As reported here , it is now a secret economy with criminals making billions of dollars from stolen identities and selling credit card and bank account information. Cre...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
...nks is back with a vengeance with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and others - which received tens of billions of dollars in federal aid - once more betting big on bonds, commodities and exotic financia...
$4.5 billion go into Hedge funds in Aug 2009
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 9, 2009
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Net inflows for hedge funds reached $4.5 billion in August, with over 50% of the reporting funds attracting capital during the month.
Preliminary reporting from Eurekahedge finds that August mar...
Climate change and national security
in Sox First, on September 2, 2009
...At a moment when the U.S. government is scrambling to ratchet down tensions and preparing to invest billions of dollars to strengthen Pakistan's capacity to deliver for its people - climate change...
Costs of fighting climate change to treble
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
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We all know that fighting climate change will cost billions. But how much cash do we need? A new report from scientists says world leaders have massively underestimated these costs. The UN Fra...
Link Baiting: a Key to Building Traffic
in The Search Engine Weblog, on August 23, 2009
... to build traffic, it's an essential skill.
SubmitEdge published a list of tips this week for attracting links. It's one of the better such lists I've come across. Tip number one? The &q...
Who says you are a CIO?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 13, 2009
...ade as one to join an industry group?
Kundra, a federal employee responsible for the allocation of billions of tax dollars, may be a different matter, but it seems as if Dvorak has been supping too o...
US mortgages underwater
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
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The Washington Post reports that the US Government is considering plans to take hundreds of billions of dollars in troubled loans out of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, stick them into a so-called ...
微软与 Yahoo 达成为期 10 年的搜索合作协议
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-31
微软和 Yahoo 今天共同对外宣布，双方已达成为期 10 年的搜索和广告合作协议，称该交易将为全球消费者和广告主带来更多选择，并有利于进一步加强全球互联网产业的技术创新步伐。
微软、 Yahoo 称，总而言之，通过该交易，微软将成为 Yahoo 搜索的技术提供商，而 Yahoo 将独家负责两家公司全球范围内的搜索广告销售事务。
两家公司称，对网民和广告主而言，该交易在整合双方产品资源和搜索平台后，将推动互联网产业的持续技术创新。网民们会发现，他们查找信息的速度将更快，所获得信息准确性也更高。通过微软具有市场竞争力的搜索平台，将为广告主、内容提供商带来更多价值，并提高网民们的互联网活...
Buffett cleans up on Goldman Sachs
in Sox First, on July 25, 2009
... from bigger risks and the concern is whether other banks will follow suit because of the allure of billions. Unless that problem is addressed, we could well have another crisis....
US banks face more losses from commercial property collapse
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
...me bomb" which could result in another wave of losses at US banks. The banks have already lost billions in residential mortgages and business loans but the collapse of the commercial property mar...
The world's oldest bible reunited online
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-08
...to be billions in 5 years
• Google Chrome 3.0.191.3 Dev For Windows
• The Return Of The Pay Wall
• Yahoo to Formally Launch New Research Tool
• Venture Capitalists Look for a Return to the A B...
Virtual Goods and Real Value
in Bizinformer, on June 19, 2009
...virtual steak any time soon, or start getting to my day job in a virtual car. But the potential for attracting buyers to virtual goods goes up everytimes someone registered for Facebook or Twitter.
W...
The Ultimate Fathers Day Gift for a Classic Car Guy
in Classical Drives, on June 17, 2009
...ded by many of America's car designers and automotive decision makers and is therefore aimed at attracting cars whose styling represents the crème de la crème of automotive beauty. As a bonus it i...
Sun CEO Announces Plans for Java App Store
in Java Entrepreneur, on May 22, 2009
...deployment mechanism, providing a distribution channel that Schwartz says will reach an audience of billions."
"While details on the Java store otherwise remain scarce, Schwartz added cand...
US and China: the drug dealer-addict relationship
in Sox First, on May 20, 2009
...ates and China is worrying and dangerous. American consumers buy Chinese-made goods, China piles up billions of dollars from US trade and buys US debt. That has flooded the market with cheap money and...
Stack and Tilt Loses 2 Stars
in Eagle Par Birdie, on May 16, 2009
...bandoning the Jim Ballard method or giving up on the One Plane Swing?
This time it's attracting attention simply because Stack and Tilt has been controversial from day one.
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Climate change and health
in Sox First, on May 14, 2009
...hange on health will affect most populations in the next decades and put the lives and wellbeing of billions of people at increased risk." According to the report, much of the impact will be fel...
Testing stress tests
in Sox First, on May 5, 2009
...points out, it's a meaningless exercise when taxpayers around the world are on the hook for the billions upon billions of dollars, euros, pounds and whatever other currency the world's central...
Oracle 出价 74 亿美元收购 Sun
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-21
Oracle 同意以 74 亿美元或每股 9.50 美元的价格收购 Sun ，预计该次并购于今年夏季完成。
Oracle 公司总裁 Safra Catz 称，预计该并购交易完成的第一财年，将促使 Oracle 公司依非国际公认会计原则（Non-GAAP）计算的每股盈利至少增加 15 美分。
Catz 指出，预计其收购 Sun 电子计算机公司的业务在并购第一财年将为 Oracle Non-GAAP 运营利润贡献 15 亿美元 ，第二财年贡献逾 20 亿美元。而并购 Sun 电子计算机公司第一财年将实现的每股收益要高于 Oracle 并购服务器软件供应商 BEA 系统公司的计划每股收益...
A Web 2.0 Obituary?
in TJ's Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...subscriptions services and 'digital roses' but there is no big underlying trend generating billions of revenue. In fact all startups summed up together excluding the TOP 15 in the Web 2.0 spac...
IBM Buying Sun?
in Java Entrepreneur, on March 21, 2009
... reasons IBM would be willing to pay a premium for Sun is that Sun owns Java, and Java IP is worth billions in future revenue to IBM," agrees InformationWeek's Charles Babcock . "IBM...
AIG witch hunts: the new McCarthyism
in Sox First, on March 21, 2009
...ington Post , these people aren't criminals and to attack them at a time when the US is pouring billions into zombie banks and financial institutions is missing the point. The ghost of Joe McCarth...
Diana Vincent Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on March 17, 2009
... Vincent's work, establishing her as one of the country's preeminent jewelry designers, and attracting a loyal following of international jewelry connoisseurs who eagerly await each new Diana...
The politics of AIG
in Sox First, on March 16, 2009
...umnist Thomas Friedman says , fairness has left the building. Congress is shelling out hundreds of billions of dollars on toxic assets and the money is going to keep coming. While people say it's...
Warning to CFOs: don't trust HR
in Sox First, on March 11, 2009
...niversity , HR people have it around the wrong way. Most companies spend too little time and money attracting and retaining top talent, and too much on keeping the rest of the workforce happy, a part...
GM - too big to fail?
in Sox First, on March 8, 2009
... sure aren't planning on going away. The White House, which is still considering a request for billions of dollars in more aid, is not so sure. "Whether the auto industry as we have it now i...
Warnings from Buffett
in Sox First, on March 3, 2009
...ector's dependence and usage of derivatives is dangerous. "Receivables and payables by the billions become concentrated in the hands of a few large dealers who are apt to be highly-leveraged ...
Nokia's CEO Confirms PC Rumors
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on March 2, 2009
... PC industry since late last year. While strong profit margins in the smartphone industry have been attracting PC builders in droves, the attraction of the low-margin computer industry is less obvious...
Auto catastrophe
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
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When are they going to take this company off life support? General Motors has lost billions more than we expected with its latest result . The question is whether the funds from the US Governmen...
Geithner's vague debut
in Sox First, on February 11, 2009
...et is dead, is about 1c to 2c in the dollar. "In other words, we are talking about hundreds of billions in assets that have essentially no value at all, but have not yet been written down by the ...
Bank bailout failure
in Sox First, on February 3, 2009
...hurts taxpayers, too little and the banks have to write down assets. And we are talking hundreds of billions of dollars. That strategy could well end up going the way of Bush's bailout bonanza....
Citigroup greed
in Sox First, on February 2, 2009
...eill used a corporate jet to travel to a swish Mexican resort. The jaunt comes after Citigroup lost billions of dollars and cut 75,000 jobs. These people are a breed apart....
President Obama Shocked At Wall Street Bonuses
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 29, 2009
...ck and outrage at this revelation citing the fact that Wall Street has been gifted with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars in bail out money.
Read the details here .
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Most Corporations That Were Bailed Out Still Being Run By The Same CEOs
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 26, 2009
...It's been a while since the United States Government disbursed many billions of dollars to various corporations and the taxpayers are beginning to ask if the money delivered the desired effect.
C...
Will Bank Of America Go Belly Up?
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 25, 2009
...ist.
Just a short while after the Federal Government infused the banking industry with hundreds of billions of dollars in bail out money some banks have their hands out again.
Read about the contin...
Financial meltdown claims its first casualty
in Sox First, on January 25, 2009
...ime Minister Geir Haarde has resigned . Iceland is likely to be hit with a bill that could run to billions of dollars to repay Europeans who held accounts with subsidiaries of collapsed Icelandic ba...
Thain's bonanza
in Sox First, on January 23, 2009
... belief. Merrill Lynch was in serious trouble and the US government had to bail it out with tens of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money, but Thain continued to lavish himself with payments and...
Mother with kids can now shop in peace with KidStopper
in The RFID Weblog, on January 21, 2009
...ve them their share of peace of mind. Also with recession looming large it could work as a means of attracting shoppers who seemed to have almost vanished since the economic crisis.
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Sony BMG...become Sony!
in Digital Music - The Future, on January 11, 2009
...going through for Sony to buy out BMG, the music giant will from now on, thanks to a deal worth billions of dollars just be known as Sony Music.
It's not likely to have any sort of affect on ...
Cartier Platinum Engagement Rings
in The Jewelry Weblog, on January 8, 2009
...g, brilliant-cut diamond. Caratage available: from 0.50 to 4.99 cts. Prices available on request.
Attracting royalty, celebrities, and socialites for over 150 years, some of the world's most exqu...
Biofuels May be Obsolete Before We Can Make Enough to Matter - Part III
in IfEnergy, on January 2, 2009
...39;t burn anything in our cars - not even ethanol. I hope when that day comes we don't have billions of dollars invested in cellulosic ethanol infrastructure, money that serves as an incentive...
Busting Myths About Open Source Application Development
in Java Entrepreneur, on January 1, 2009
...development is much more prevalent and productive than most people think.
"There are tens of billions of lines of open source code available on the Internet, Black Duck says, and 23 percent of ...
Corporate jets nosedive
in Sox First, on December 26, 2008
...orporate jet market is still booming, reports Associated Press with financial firms that received billions in bailout dollars still owning and operating fleets. But, as the report says, some are sta...
Madoff fallout continues to spread
in Sox First, on December 22, 2008
...out some assistance. Which is why accounting firms which looked after the feeder funds that pumped billions into Madoff's Ponzi schemes are in the gun. As the New York Times reports, questions ...
Venture Capitalists Karen Gordon Mills Nominated to Head the Small Business Administration
in Bizinformer, on December 20, 2008
...together for over a year now. It looks like he is going to create another loophole that will divert billions of dollars away from the middle class economy and into the hands of wealthy investors."...
Automaker bailout: at what cost?
in Sox First, on December 20, 2008
US automakers will finally get a $17.4 billion announced by the White House, reports The Wall Street Journal . This rescue might well create more problems down the track. Certainly, it's no guarantee to fix a badly-run industry. The WSJ reports that the deal is a lot more lenient than the ...
Is there a bailout strategy?
in Sox First, on December 3, 2008
...stry with high costs and an unbelievably slow to market response time. So if the US were to provide billions to the auto industry to prop it up, what new value proposition would we actually have? The ...
Gouging with the bailout?
in Sox First, on November 24, 2008
...ment Oversight group to Congress. The note raises key issues like where the hell did Treasury find billions of dollars more to prop up AIG and why Treasury head Paulson authorized the purchase of $10...
Do we get depressed?
in Sox First, on November 24, 2008
...Obama government with enormous liabilities, state, municipal, corporate pensions losing hundreds of billions on derivative swaps, the big three automakers near bankruptcy and US unemployment set to re...
Going Broke Going For Broke
in Eagle Par Birdie, on November 22, 2008
...y Resort Courtesy: JW Marriott
You know times are bad when even the casino corporations are losing billions. How far behind can golf resorts be?
The Las Vegas Sands Corporation is halting a 13 ...
GM: Death or bailout?
in Sox First, on November 12, 2008
... car on the road for every American old enough to drive. Car sales have fallen off a cliff. Pouring billions of dollars into the sector is pointless. Encouraging the industry to embrace new technology...
Hedge funds pummelled by Porsche and VW
in Sox First, on October 30, 2008
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There is a wonderful irony in the way hedge funds now are up for billions of dollars in losses after making a wrong bet on Germany's Volkswagen. As The Wall Street Journal tells us, they bet...
Competing for bailouts
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
... cash should come with a bright light. Otherwise, we'll just have more of the same: hundreds of billions of dollars passed in darkness. That's not a bailout, and it's not an investment. It...
