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KaosPilot revolution
in Sox First, on November 21, 2009
Earlier this year, I looked at the way business schools had contributed to the recession by producing the financial engineers, Masters of the Business Apocalypse (MBAs) who ended up destroying the markets. How refreshing then to read about the most unusual business school in the world. K...
Seen that? - The Wind Report
in IfEnergy, on November 20, 2009
... The industry easily broke earlier records in 2005, installing over 2,400 megawatts (MW) or over $3 billion worth of [...] Read More Canada's Largest Wind Farm at IfEnergy ...
Hedge funds and brokers turn to poker
in Sox First, on November 21, 2009
...vesting and poker have often been compared. But it's not surprising that financial recruiters for hedge funds and broking houses are scrutinizing professional poker to find talent and analytical too...
Growl for Windows 2.00:00
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-20
...How to Buy a Television
• Cyrank
• TourMapr.com - A System That Finds Bands & Gigs
• Plurchase.. Shop with friends
• Dropico ...
Now Wearable RFID Sensors for detecting airborne chemical agents
in The RFID Weblog, on November 20, 2009
...ing films which can pick up specific volatile organic compounds and chemical agents with part per billion detection limits.
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 3
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-19
...s: Top e-tailers profitting from billion-dollar Web scam
• American Express Acquiring Steve Case's Revolution Money For $300 Million
• Digg CEO: Profitability Is Not A Problem Anymore
• Why i...
Seen that? - Connecting the Pieces with SOA
in Java Entrepreneur, on November 15, 2009
... writes, is "whether the expansion of wireless phone service across rural America under the $7 billion fund should be capped while federal officials redesign the program for [...] Read More ...
Seen that? - Currency trading with Retirement money
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 15, 2009
... Currency trading with Retirement money at The Hedge Funds Weblog I saw a story the other day , How Retirement Funds are looking into the world of C...
Greenland melting fast
in Sox First, on November 15, 2009
...rate. According to the report, Greenland lost an estimated 1500 gigatons (one gigaton is equal to 1 billion tons) of ice from the year 2000 to 2008 and if it does lose all its ice, seas will rise seve...
Gartner Says Worldwide SaaS Revenue to Grow 18 Percent in 2009
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-13
... is Changing the Face of Media
• Bill Gates' Plan for Fixing the World
• Mozilla Jetpack Gallery
• Online Advertising Stops Falling, Thanks To Search
• 百度知道：文档分享平台
• Keyword Tool
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Taxpayers lose out on bank bailout
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
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Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), otherwise known as the bank bailout or banking welfare program, has conceded that the...
Gold price rises as supply runs out
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
The price of gold continues to rise, now hitting an all-time high of $1,123.38 an ounce . For good reason too. Investors now see it as an alternative to the slumping US dollar. But we can expect the gold price to just keep going up with reports that global gold production is in terminal ...
Is China about to collapse?
in Sox First, on November 12, 2009
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Hedge fund manager James Chanos will go down in history as the first to predict that Enron was a disaster in the making. Chanos is in the business of scrutinizing companies for their flaws a...
HP continues growth with 3COM acquisition
in The CIO Weblog, on November 11, 2009
...ced plans to acquire network company 3Com to extend its reach in the networking sphere.
The $2.7 billion deal causes HP to raise its outlook for FY 2010 and puts it in a strong position to compete ...
What Not to Say When You Hand Out Pink Slips
in Biz Plan Hacks, on November 11, 2009
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BusinessWeek ran a good article this week on things not to say when the time comes to hand someone their pink slip.
People are getting laid off. Right and left, east and west, all over the place. And it's not always because they deserve to be let go. Job cutting ...
The Trade War That Wasn't
in China Venture News, on November 11, 2009
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Remember the Obama Administration's new tariff on tires made in China? When it was announced back in September, analysts said it was going to be the start of a new trade war . In case no one noticed, that hasn't happened... China appears to have little inclination to escala...
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...
Ubuntu 9.10 安装指导截图
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-09
...App Engine
• Superbad Anti-Whaling Stealth Boat
• China Pledges $10 Billion to African Nations
• Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009
• Why the mainstream media is dying
• TwitCr...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
...ess. And this is someone representing a bank that has assets of $1 trillion and profits of $3.4 billion in the last quarter. Average pay there is $700,000 and the top rainmakers pull in millions. In 2...
Galleon scandal: just the beginning?
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
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The biggest prosecution of hedge fund insider trading went into overdrive this week with 20 people, including Galleon Group LLC co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, getting hauled up on criminal charges....
MBA turkeys and the market
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...n 30% of Harvard MBAs end up in "market-sensitive jobs" like investment banking, private equity and hedge funds, it's a long-term sell signal. If that number is below 10%, it is a long-term buy signal...
Seen that? - Hubbert Peak v. Actual Peak
in IfEnergy, on November 7, 2009
...wing especially [...] Read More logiENERGY launches Peak Oil Fund at The Hedge Funds Weblog Hedge fund investor, logi ENERGY LLC., has annou...
Unemployment and the failed stimulus
in Sox First, on November 7, 2009
...ondly, there are political machinations. As this New York Times piece point out, 84% of the $1.05 billion in "green" stimulus funding distributed since September had gone to foreign companies buildi...
Eight New Insider Trading Arrests, Fourteen Total
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 6, 2009
... The SEC’s ongoing investigation of insider trading at hedge funds and stock trading firms has brought allegations against 14 Wall Street professionals.
The charged defendants include hedge ...
Fall Hedge Fund Networking Event At Nikki Midtown
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 6, 2009
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Yesterday's Fall Networking Event attracted 200+ investors, hedge fund managers, and other industry professionals for a night of food, drink, music and mingling with other members of the alter...
Facebook and scammers
in Sox First, on November 6, 2009
Facebook has announced in its developer's blog that it is cracking down on scammers. It's not before time, given the publicity and uproar. We've had instances like phishing campaigns where users are robbed of their Facebook user names and passwords, we've had instances where users have...
OpenOffice.org Portable 3.1.1 简体中文版
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-04
...Gets Streamlined In An Attempt To Fend Off Facebook And Twitter
• DVR, Once TV's Mortal Foe, Helps Ratings
• Do-It-Yourself iPhone Apps
• Skype for Linux to go open source... eventually
• ...
India goes for gold: dollar to lose out
in Sox First, on November 4, 2009
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Extraordinary developments with India paying $6.7 billion for IMF gold , giving its bank the about the tenth largest gold holdings of all the central banks. At the moment, gold now makes up a...
Joel Klein To Receive The 100 Women in Hedge Funds' Effecting Change Award
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 3, 2009
... 100 Women in Hedge Funds’ Board of Directors today announced that Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, will receive its 2009 Effecting Change Award at its New York ...
Hedge Fund Expert To Launch Own Fund
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 3, 2009
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CEO at QuantZ Capital Management, Milind Sharma, is in the process of launching his own hedge fund, sources say.
The hedge fund manager is reportedly in talks to raise $500 million for the Qu...
Dubai's Technosphere Concept Would Fit Right Into a Disney Park
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-02
...卡拉OK侵权经营场所执行证据保全
• 27-inch iMacs reported to have Flash playback issues
• Google's fade-in homepage confuses
• How Google Voice Is Growing
• Bing for mobile now live at m.bing.com
• Twi...
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 servi...
Seen that? - An introduction to thin provisioning
in On Storage, on November 1, 2009
.... [...] Read More Evan Rapoport on Capital Introduction - Excerpt at The Hedge Funds Weblog Capital Introduction is a service usually provid...
Outsourcing and Security
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 31, 2009
© CarbonNYC In a GlobalServices article published on October 29, 2009, IT managers were found to have some concerns regarding the security of their outsourced processes. It is unclear whether these concerns were based upon suspicion or actual discovery of security issues, or whether tho...
Abu Dhabi 的 Yas Marina 赛道前瞻：设计效果图一览 (14P)
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-31
...avy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3
• 《华尔街疯人日记》连载84
• Amazon PayPhrase Tries to Make Paying Online Easier
• Nyko's DSi Zoom Case is A Little Bit On The Ridiculous Side (but I still want one)
• Cast...
Virtual Goods Becoming Real Money
in Web 2.0, on October 31, 2009
...ig money. Virtual goods in games and social apps have taken off and revenues are expected to hit $1 billion in 2009. The summit focused on "the emerging market opportunity for virtual goods and econom...
$1.26 billion: PepsiCo pays the price of not turning up to court
in Sox First, on October 30, 2009
...m PepsiCo stole their idea to sell bottled water and sued the snack and drink maker and won a $1.26 billion judgment last month after the company didn't respond. As the National Law Journal reports,...
Cap & Trade 101
in IfEnergy, on October 28, 2009
© James Jordan
The fact that you're reading this blog at all tells me that you're probably at least a little familiar with Cap & Trade. But just in case you have problems explaining it to other people, or in case you have friends who don't know about it, VentureBeat recently published...
Profits are a gift: Soros
in Sox First, on October 25, 2009
... 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 ... ...e says: "That would push the risk takers who are good at taking risks out of Goldman Sachs into hedge funds where they actually belong, because hedge funds take risks with their own capital, not with ...
Sun Microsystems to Cut 3,000 Jobs
in Java Entrepreneur, on October 22, 2009
... workforce -- are the latest in a series of cuts by the struggling company, which reached the $7.4 billion deal with Oracle in April," writes Times Online's Mike Harvey . "Sun said in a fil...
Seen that? - How to act in a company takeover ?
in Tech Intelligence, on October 21, 2009
...days, EA has revealed that it has launched a takeover bid for GTA creators Take Two, worth up to $2 billion, showing just how much money the games industry is really worth nowerdays. However, Take Two...
!0 more to be charged with insider trading
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
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Charging Wall Street hedge fund boss Raj Rajaratnam with insider trading is just the beginning. Bloomberg reports that US investigators plan to charge another 10 securities professionals with...
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-19
...et View: We can trike wherever you like
• Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough
• iSteadii 2.0 - Image Stabilizing Unit
• Managing your reputation through search results
• Hulu Desktop Window... ...herever you like
• Android 2.0 screenshot walkthrough
• iSteadii 2.0 - Image Stabilizing Unit
• Managing your reputation through search results
• Hulu Desktop Windows 7 Media Center Integr...
Did brilliant minds create the recession?
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
...ue of Harvard’s General Operating Account, a pool of cash from which bills are paid, fell to $3.7 billion from $6.6 billion. Intellect and finance don't necessarily go together. Whether it's because ... ...del did not take into account Russia defaulting on its government obligations. The guys at LTCM had hedged their positions by selling rubles. Disaster struck when the ruble collapsed and the Russian G...
No autographs, say auditors
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
Earlier this year, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board came out with a proposal requiring engagement partners to personally sign corporate audit reports. The PCAOB writes: "A requirement for the engagement partner to sign the audit report could improve audit quality in two ...
Privatization - Not a Silver Bullet
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on October 17, 2009
... privatization experts. Apparently, it didn't turn out that way, as Indiana canceled its US$1.34 billion dollar deal this past Thursday (see AP Report ).
Like any other process, outsourcing isn't...
Big Picture: Venture Capital, Private Equity Still Drying Up
in TJ's Weblog, on October 17, 2009
I wrote recently about how rosey the venture capital picture was for greentech firms. Several stories (Venture Beat here and here , TechCrunch ) have stressed the continuing downturn in private equity and venture capital fundng.
In the world of venture capital funds, only 17 funds even r...
Could YouTube Finally Find a Way to Monitize the Site?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 17, 2009
... TechCrunch noted as a few days ago that YouTube could be on the way to monitizing its billion-video online library in the near future. How do they know? Google says so... YouTube is on the path to p...
Lie To Me Season 2 : Ep. 3 - Control Factor
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-17
...illion Mobile Users, Twitter Strikes SMS Deal With Largest Indian Carrier
• Acer Android smartphone hands-on!
• Is Steve Jobs more popular than Jesus?
• Five tips to help ease the migration f...
iPhone and Blackberry squeeze Nokia
in Sox First, on October 17, 2009
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Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker has suffered a whacking $1.36 billion loss - its first loss in more than a decade - with sales plummeting 20%. Nokia has a smart phone problem ...
Seen that? - Generic Allegra from Mylan Laboratories
in Allergies, on October 16, 2009
...adine hydrochloride tablets, 30mg, 60mg and 180mg. Uh-oh. Aventis won't be happy to share this billion dollar market. As it is, there [...] Read More Generic Zyrtec Syrup Gets Tenta...
Louisiana Tech Researchers Seek to Improve Biofuel Processing
in Nanotechbuzz, on October 16, 2009
...estimates range from approximately $32 million for each cellulosic ethanol plant to a total of $7.5 billion if a federally-established goal of 16 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol is achieved.&quo...
What is hedge fund third party marketing?
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 15, 2009
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Third party marketers (3pm's) are essentially hedge fund brokers. They represent various hedge fund products and introduce and sell these products to qualified investors.
The Third Party Mark...
Starting A Hedge Fund - Seminar
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 15, 2009
... Starting A Hedge Fund In The Post-Madoff Era, a seminar organized by Andrew Schneider and Hedgeco Networks , 220 managers, investors and service providers came together at the U.S. Trust Build...
Bloomberg's plans for BusinessWeek
in Sox First, on October 15, 2009
So Bloomberg has picked up BusinessWeek for between $2-5 million. It's a significant deal because as BusinessWeek's Tom Lowry reports, the deal is unprecedented for both buyer and seller. It's the first major acquisition for Bloomberg and signals its shift into the consumer focused media. ...
Hedge funds lied to investors
in Sox First, on October 15, 2009
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Hedge funds have been badly exposed in a new study Trust and Delegation . Hedge funds were instrumental in buying bad securities and and helping bring the world's financial system to its knee...
Shared folders and more in Google Docs
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-14
...ur PR Pitch Plan
• Venture Funds Raise Only $1.6 Billion In Third Quarter. Most Of That Went To Vinod Khosla.
• StatsMix
• Logo, Flyer, Web site, Banner, Business cards, advertising creation ...
Dubai can't meet debts
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
...oes not have resources to pay its debts. The sheikdom and state-controlled companies cranked up $80 billion of debt building man-made islands and opulent high rises, and $50 billion of that needs to b...
Soros invests $1 billion in clean energy
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
...This is why it's not surprising to read reports that George Soros has announced he will invest $1 billion in clean-energy technology and donate $100 million to an environmental advisory group to aid...
Seen that? - Roulette, a laser, a cellphone and 1.3 million later
in The Gambling Weblog, on October 12, 2009
...888.com, Pacific Poker and Reef Club Casino looks to be the next online gambling giant to have a $1 billion floatation, following the footsteps of PartyGaming Looking for a quick IPO in September, the...
Seen that? - Ridge Crossing in the Dunes
in Under My Helmet, on October 11, 2009
...d plum tones with just a hint of vanilla from the French oak in [...] Read More $1.45 Billion Blue Ridge Fund to Focus on China at China Venture News ...
Seen that? - VIDEO POKER PLAYER WINS THEN LOSES
in Play Las Vegas, on October 11, 2009
... of slot machines is analysed in the local press According to the Miami Herald, Americans put in $1 billion per DAY into slot machines as casinos generate $30 billion annually in profit from slots - w...
Seen that? - Nanotech market to top $1 trillion by 2010
in Nanotechbuzz, on October 12, 2009
...e world market by the end of 2010. Government spending on nanotech R&D has increased to over $3 billion per annum, and venture capitalists have increased their investments six times over the previ...
Seen that? - Generic Allegra is coming
in Straightfromthedoc, on October 11, 2009
...adine hydrochloride tablets, 30mg, 60mg and 180mg. Uh-oh. Aventis won't be happy to share this billion dollar market. As it is, there [...] Read More Allegra Oral Suspension Now FDA...
Thailand Joins the Renewable Energy Push
in IfEnergy, on October 11, 2009
...ergy expects investment over the 15-year period, from public and private sources, to be some 488 billion Baht (US$ 14.6 billion).
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Greentech Sees Venture Capital Growth
in TJ's Weblog, on October 11, 2009
...nd the greentech sector. Q1 this year saw 59 deals worth $826 million. Q2 saw 85 deals worth $1.2 billion. Q3 saw 112 deals worth $1.9 billion. So the flow of money has more than doubled since the ...
Keep Yourself Sharp
in BootStrapMe, on October 11, 2009
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In any endeavor in life, keeping yourself mentally well tuned is extremely important if you want to be successful. Entrepreneur.com 's Scott Halford recently had some tips to help you keep yourself sharp. The foundational idea is simple: be a life long learner. Consider t...
Bankers' cocaine binge
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
To what extent can the market's failure be blamed on cocaine? According to this alarming news report , there was a clear link between the heady trading during the boom and snorting. And professionals in the detox business in London say they've been flooded with calls since the financial cri...
Seen that? - Digital music is 6% of industry sales
in Digital Music - The Future, on October 9, 2009
...ble from last year * Mobile music sales are over $400 million * Total digital music sales were $1.1 billion, up from $380 million in 2004 * Total digital downloads were 420 million singles, 20 times t...
