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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.... ...re 2.6 million downloads of his work in just one week. The week before, only 48,000 Michael Jackson songs were sold. What makes it even more extraordinary is that no artist has had more than one milli...
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 ...
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...
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3
in Wangtam, on June 26, 2009
...wer of Word in Outlook
• CBS Interactive's Smith On Authentication: '70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work'
• Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading...
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...
Jammie Thomas-Rasset Hit With $1.92 Million Fine
in P2P File Sharing, on June 21, 2009
...mmie Thomas-Rasset's filesharing trial this week found the defendant guilty of downloading 24 songs from Kazaa, and hit her with a $1.92 million fine — or $80,000 per song.
But The Inqui...
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...
ASUS 与 Disney 联手打造儿童用 NetBook
in Wangtam, on June 18, 2009
当前经济衰退中，许多玩具公司避免推出高价产品， Disney 却逆势而行，打算在假期销售旺季来临前推出售价 350 美元的儿童 netBook 。
这款 netBook "Disney Netpal"将于7月底起在美国和加拿大的 Toys "R" US 店铺和 Amazon 销售。
美泰和孩之宝(Hasbro)等玩具公司以及 Toys "R" US 等零售商则认为，因失业率上升、楼市低迷及信贷紧缩影响到父母的消费能力，因此价格便宜的玩具会更受欢迎。
Disney 表示，这是该公司首次在北美推出笔记本电脑，五年前该公司曾试图...
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...
Motorola Rival Coming to Verizon
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on June 12, 2009
...l be optimized to run (and will include) Verizon applications such as VCAST Music with Rhapsody for song downloads, VZ Navigator for turn-by-turn directions and Visual Voice Mail to organize voice mai...
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 ...
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...
Camara vs. the RIAA
in P2P File Sharing, on June 10, 2009
...plan to argue that MediaSentry , a firm hired by the RIAA to collect evidence on IP addresses and song sharing, is not licensed as a private investigator," writes DMW's Mark Hefflinger . &q...
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...
Hedge Fund Competing To Buy British Bank
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 9, 2009
...ransaction, when in 2006 BlackRock took over Merrill Lynch's asset management business for $8.5 billion.
More at HedgeCo.net ...
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...
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...
Napster Turns 10
in P2P File Sharing, on June 3, 2009
© bixentro
Ten years ago this week, college student Shawn Fanning released the first version of Napster — and the music industry has never been the same.
"Without the original Napster, we'd be far behind where we are now," writes Technologizer's Ed Oswald . "...
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...
One Visitor Wonders
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 31, 2009
...? How about David Essex ( Rock On )? Now for the tough question: Can you remember even one other song by either of them? Probably not. So, is your website a one visit wonder ...?
Ben McKay had a...
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...
微软确认 Zune HD
in Wangtam, on May 27, 2009
微软今天确认了之前的传言，将推出新款 Zune HD。微软 Zune 全球市场主管 Chris Stepheson 在接受采访时表示："该设备是为了与 iPod Touch 相抗衡。
根据微软公布的信息，Zune HD 配备 3.3 英寸的 OLED 触摸屏，支持 multitouch，分辨率为 480x272。Zune HD 中 HD 的意思是指支持 720p 的高清视频。以下为官方新闻稿：
For Immediate Release
May 26, 2009
Microsoft Announces the Expansion of the Zune Entertai...
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...
Cheap Food in London
in The Flyaway Weblog, on May 24, 2009
The nature of reality has changed. And it's good news. Not only can you now get cheap food in London, it's actually worth eating, according to Gridskipper. It used to be that travelers didn't look forward to eating in London because the food was both horrible and outlandishly expensive...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
I am the Walrus
in WebKinzBlog, on May 17, 2009
...For all you youngin's, that's a line from a very popular song by the Beatles in 1967 and a tip to the newest Webkinz arriving in July - a Walrus! How cute is this little fellow? Everyone will ...
Mother Says...
in The Parenting Weblog, on May 15, 2009
As you rattle off yet another reminder for your son to turn off the tv in 10 minutes, or for your daughter to "get off the phone, or else...", do you wonder whether other parents have it easier? If it's any consolation, you're not alone. millions of mothers all over the world say p...
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...
Das muss ich haben!
in Pimp your Mac, on May 11, 2009
...araoke von der Firma Griffin. Schließt einfach das Mikrofon an Euren iPod an, startet einen Song aus Eurer Playlist und trällert los. iKaraoke unterdrückt den eigentlichen Gesang der abgespielten Son...
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&...
No recovery yet
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
...t 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 experts to say it's a si...
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...
1 Million copies of Slacker Blackberry App downloaded in 16 Weeks
in The Smart PDA, on May 5, 2009
... Blackberry devices and recently it has achieved two milestones. Firstly, it now has over 2 million songs in its Library and secondly, it has hit 1 million downloads in just 16 weeks since its launch....
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...
50 Ways to Leave your Outsourcer
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on April 28, 2009
...ting potential future problems should a company wish to move.
So, in the spirit of the Paul Simon song...
"Don't pay the bill, Will"
"Threaten to sue, Lew"
"Benchmark th...
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...
Big bonuses at imploding banks
in Sox First, on April 26, 2009
... anyone's guess. The New York Times reports that six of the biggest banks set aside over $36 billion in the first quarter to pay their employees. This is significant because their workforces ha...
Oracle and Sun: What's Next?
in Java Entrepreneur, on April 24, 2009
... © storem
Following Oracle's $7.4 billion purchase this week of Sun Microsystems , what does the future look like for both companies?
"Sun made its name as a supplier of server hardw...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...nto possible securities fraud, tax violations, insider trading and other crimes related to the $750 billion bailout. And that's just the first wave of investigations. Doubtlessly, there will be mo...
Oracle 出价 74 亿美元收购 Sun
in Wangtam, on April 20, 2009
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...
Oracle acquires Sun
in The CIO Weblog, on April 20, 2009
...after the Sun/IBM deal fell through last week. The companies report that the deal will come to $7.4 billion with Oracle paying $9.50 per share, cash, trumping IBM's reported final offer of $9.40 p...
Griffin Navigator Inline iPod Remote Controls Convenience
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 20, 2009
...y, pause, forward, backward, and volume. You also get a small OLED screen that has all of the handy song, album, and artist information from your iPod screen, and full play list navigation. A handy fe...
新款 Final Fantasy XIII 高清壁纸两张
in Wangtam, on April 19, 2009
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• Facebook rejects funding at $4 billion valuation, may not raise more
• Apple Researching Movement-Aware Interfaces for iPhones, Depicts Front-Facing Video Camera
• Sun Said to Be Willing to R...
A way to link to a specific part of a youtube video
in Wangtam, on April 18, 2009
...s Gmarket stake for $350 million
• Kutcher/CNN Twitter Fight Day 3: EA Ups The Ante
• TwitPub invents paid Twitter accounts
• Next Wave of Microsoft Office Products Will Redefine How People Work...
Sony Ericsson Delays Android Phones
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on April 17, 2009
...Japan's Sony, the company said sales in the January-March quarter tumbled by 36 percent to $2.2 billion, from $3.5 billion a year earlier.
It blamed the sales drop to weaker demand for mobile ph...
Microsoft Stops Mainstream Support For Windows XP
in Wangtam, on April 16, 2009
...able
• Yahoo Could Save $1+ Billion Per Year Outsourcing Search To Microsoft
• Time Warner delays meter program
• Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories
• Tweet this: Rapid-fire media may confu...
Nick Jonas and Bayer Diabetes Care Launched Creativity Contest for Kids/Teens with Diabetes
in Daily Diabetic, on April 13, 2009
...ries for managing diabetes. The personal video submission can be a visual demonstration of original song lyrics, photography, painting/drawing, acting or another form of creativity.
To enter the con...
