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Goldman Sachs riding high
in Sox First, on July 13, 2009
... the New York Times reports that Goldman Sachs is about to report a strong profit of more than $2 billion in the March-June period. According to the New York Times, the key has been its stomach for ...
Do you still have faith in Obama's stimulus plans?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 10, 2009
...ens no longer do.
According to the story, critics are lining up to point out that Obama's $787 billion stimulus plans were either too timid or too wrong-headed. Some critics aren't content wi...
Can dope save California?
in Sox First, on July 8, 2009
...nted out earlier this year, marijuana is California's largest cash crop. It's valued at $14 billion annually, or nearly twice the value of the state's grape and vegetable crops combined. &...
Can YouTube survive?
in Sox First, on July 7, 2009
... game continues. In April, according to this report , Credit Suisse said YouTube would take half a billion off Google's bottom line. But then we have other reports saying that analysts at Ramp...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
...encing was a nightmare about being forced to fly coach.") And when Paulson announced the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, Taibbi reminds us how Goldman Sachs converted from an investm...
Will California drag down the United States?
in Sox First, on July 2, 2009
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California has entered the new financial year in crisis with a budget deficit of $26.3 billion, up from $24.3 billion, because of the ineptitude of the legislature in missing a deadline and politi...
Jackson downloads soar
in Sox First, on July 1, 2009
...ll help clear up the estate or fix the financial problems. Jackson reportedly died more than half a billion dollars in debt and Associated Press reports he only had assets of just over $230 million....
The Mother of all Dashboards
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...hboard , which is a pretty impressive piece of work detailing spending and performance on almost 40 billion dollars worth of US government IT projects and I think "Hey, this is a really big deal....
DHL makes exansion in China
in Supplychainer, on June 30, 2009
...reign companies 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 futur...
Install OS X On SD Card
in Wangtam, on June 30, 2009
..... for a price
• LIVESTRONG: 1.9 Billion Calories Burned in One Year
• SharesPost Report: Facebook Worth $4-6 Billion. So Much For That $10B Valuation
• Sub DiggerPlus - Keep Track of Your Digg ...
July 8: China Cleantech Business Forum
in China Venture News, on June 30, 2009
... © star5112
2Point6Billion (a blog that looks at economic issues in China and India) has a write up online on the upcoming China Cleantech Business Forum.
The July 8th forum will be Asia's ...
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...
Beware the China bubble
in Sox First, on June 29, 2009
...the creation of an asset price bubble in that market. There was 4.57 trillion yuan (or about $US670 billion) of new lending pouring into the market but most of that was on speculative assets, not the ...
Logistics cost in the U.S. is dropping
in Supplychainer, on June 28, 2009
...als (CSCMP), total spending on U.S. logistics dropped to $1.3 trillion last year, a decrease of $49 billion from 2007.
Logistics Management Magazine also reported that the annual respected benchma...
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...
Stimulus packages create corruption opportunities
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
... a report from risk consultancy Kroll . According to the report, corruption could swipe about $500 billion out of the $5 trillion, equivalent to Japan's national output in just 18 months, being p...
Survival strategies for a deepening recession
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
...plunging trade and business lending. And world trade will contract by a gob-smacking 48%, from $707 billion in 2008 to an anticipated $363 billion in 2009. In other words, things are going to get wors...
Airline crisis strategy: screw customers and staff
in Sox First, on June 21, 2009
...o the dogs. The combination of the global financial crunch and swine flu will cost them at least $9 billion this year. So what's their answer? Screw passengers and staff. First, we have the rep...
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...
Mafia cashes in on crisis
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
... been cashing in on the financial crisis with two apparently "Japanese" men bringing $134 billion worth of fake Treasury bills into Switzerland. The men were questioned by Italian police who...
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 ...
The slow recovery
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...ng that Bank of America Corp is experiencing "horrific" loan losses and may set aside $46 billion in loan loss provisions this year. There might be a recovery next year. But it will so slow...
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
...ared to the 20% of the world's population that lack access to safe drinking water. Of these 1.1 billion people, about 80% of those lacking such access live in sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Asia and ...
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...
Who would buy a newspaper?
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...;ll find a buyer for it is another question. The New York Times bought the company for more than $1 billion in 1993 and it's worth nowhere near that now. So who in their right mind would buy a new...
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...
Apple 公布 iPhone 3G S 和 iPhone OS 3.0
in Wangtam, on June 9, 2009
在刚刚结束的 WWDC 2009 开幕演讲上，Apple 全球营销高级副总裁 Phil Schiller 发布了第三代 iPhone 手机，名字就叫做iPhone 3G S。其中，字母"S"代表了 Speed 速度。顾名思义，Apple 这一次将注意力放在了提升系统性能方面。
iPhone 3G S的外观设计和上一代产品iPhone 3G完全相同，整机、屏幕尺寸没有进行任何修改，重量从133g略微增加到135g。而在内部，iPhone 3G S对硬件配置进行了全面升级。根据苹果在发布会上的说法，iPhone 3G S启动短信应用程序的速度是iPhone 3G的2.1...
Crunch for airlines
in Sox First, on June 8, 2009
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Airlines are set to lose $9 billion this year with demand for air travel falling away as a result of the global recession and swine flu. A statement released by the International Air Transport A...
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...
Banks fight to keep accounting tricks
in Sox First, on June 6, 2009
... credit-card receivables off their balance sheets and regulators say the change will result in $900 billion in liabilities being put on the balance sheets of the nation's 19 largest banks that hav...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...is Reuters story .
Mozilo is a cautionary tale. At its height in 2006, Countrywide originated $461 billion worth of mortgage loans. Too many of those loans, though, were bad ones. When the subprime l...
Renewable energy and the recession
in Sox First, on June 5, 2009
... power by 29%. At the same time, the United Nations Environment Programme has revealed that $155 billion was invested last year in various clean energy technologies, including solar, wind and bioma...
What next for GM?
in Sox First, on June 4, 2009
...'s biggest car manufacturer? As Dennis Berman at The Wall Street Journal points out, the $65 billion in taxpayers' money is all part of the subterfuge. Instead of being handed over as a loa...
Climate change and business costs
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
...ns of companies listed on the S&P500. The report found that carbon costs would total nearly $93 billion, if there was a market price of $28.24. Not surprisingly, the sector with the biggest exposu...
Supply chain video: Innovations in air transport
in Supplychainer, on May 31, 2009
...f technology which is getting real momentum is not PC but mobile phone. Today there are more than 3 billion mobile user in the world. Mobile technology has the potential to put all parties in an airpo...
How much is Facebook worth?
in Sox First, on May 30, 2009
... Russian internet investment group. As reported in the Financial Times , it values Facebook at $10 billion. It's extraordinary because it suggests Facebook is still relying on bail outs while it ...
Windows 7: More of the New '7'
in Wangtam, on May 27, 2009
...cessible On the Web
• Smashwords Launches Flexible Ebook Affiliate Program
• Tweeji - Follow dead people on Twitter
• recent snippets - code snippets wiki / refactory.org
• Pope2you
• Church...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...nd integrity is addressed. As Angur points out, the company was able to inflate its profits by $1.6 billion and its auditors at PwC didn't pick up the problem. Francine McKenna at The Auditors b...
Batteries Get Stimulus Grants
in IfEnergy, on May 27, 2009
... VentureBeat pointed out last week that $2 billion worth of federal grants were being awarded to battery makers in the near future. Grants will run between $100 million and $150 million. The deadli...
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...
New in Labs: Inbox preview
in Wangtam, on May 23, 2009
... North Again. Up To $10 Billion Now.
• Make Your Google Analytics Data Public
• Do You know how #FollowFriday started?
• 马化腾兵挫广告：腾讯收入多极构想遇阻
• AWS Import/Export
• 朱翊：Gmail的野心是大一统互联网通行证
• 我国...
Tweeting Too Hard
in Wangtam, on May 21, 2009
...ys Data Domain for $1.5 billion
• Gawker Chief: 'Original Reporting Will Be Rewarded'
• OIOpublisher Ad Manager - Control Your Ad Space
• neighbo connects residents, owners and property ...
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...
NetApp Buys Data Domain for $1.5 Billion
in On Storage, on May 20, 2009
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NetApp today announced plans to purchase Data Domain for approximately $1.5 billion.
"This combination is a great opportunity for both NetApp and Data Domain," says NetApp CEO Da...
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...
Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 19, 2009
... can be addressed without the entire team in the room (and yes, I have done this successfully in a billion-dollar, multi-vendor procurement). Without the need for "legal theatre," the legal ...
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 &...
Bioscience Education in America: A State by State Analysis
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 12, 2009
..., and Health and Life Sciences. It advances scientific discovery and application by conducting $5.2 billion in global R&D annually through contract research, laboratory management and technology c...
Credit card losses to hit banks
in Sox First, on May 11, 2009
...imes . According to the bank stress test results, the 19 biggest US banks could expect nearly $82.4 billion in credit card losses by the end of 2010. Federal regulators called that a "worst case&...
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 ...
Bankroll blues
in Sox First, on May 7, 2009
... the past decade on lobbying and campaign donations. Top of the list was Countrywide which made $97 billionin subprime loans between 2005 and 2007. Countrywide was acquired by Bank of America which re...
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...
H.P. Labs Pulls Out the Measuring Stick
in Wangtam, on May 1, 2009
... The Venture Capital Math Problem (continued)
• 寻找猪流感"零号患者"
• Functionality based URLs
• Sand/Stone
• A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel
• Social Gaming Scores in the Recession...
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...
Director at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center becomes supply chain "Pro to know" of the year
in Supplychainer, on April 27, 2009
...ompany which is now part of UPMC's International and Commercial Services Division. UPMC is a $7 billion global health enterprise, which operates a 20-hospital system with nearly $2 billion in spen...
The Pirate Google Bay Gives the Finger to Record Companies, Studios
in Wangtam, on April 26, 2009
...pple hits 1 billion App Store downloads
• Why Apple's MobileMe Doesn't Work As a $100 Service
• Apple apologizes for Baby Shaker
• Salma Hayek's Apple MobileMe account hacked, couldn...
App Store hits 1billion
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 26, 2009
... which is where one can download various applications for the devices, has just celebrated it's billionth download... in around a year, less than, even, over 1billion apps have been downloaded.
C...
