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The world's oldest bible reunited online
in Wangtam, on July 7, 2009
...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... ......
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... ...mplicated balance of power in the Middle East. Here in the United States, we could delude ourselves into thinking that our consumer economy really was sustainable. We could put off the hard choices, a...
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... ...ons of dollars, euros, pounds and whatever other currency the world's central banks are pumping into the capital markets. "It is a meaningless exercise to gauge the inadequacies of U.S. banks...
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...
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... ...ough much has been invested).
That's a shame because much new and helpful technology has come into our lifes during the last years (and will come into in the next years). Unfortunately few of the...
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... ... have lost money and homes and are doing it hard but this is going too far because it's turning into a witch hunt. As lisa Solod Warren writes in the Huffington Post , these people aren't...
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...
GM - too big to fail?
in Sox First, on March 7, 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... ...id, I suspect that GM might be classified as "too big to fail". If GM is allowed to slide into bankruptcy, it will hit supplier companies and force them to close their doors and that will fl...
Warnings from Buffett
in Sox First, on March 2, 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 ...
Auto catastrophe
in Sox First, on February 27, 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 ... ...ll shut down banks that the tests reveal are close to insolvency, or whether it will put more money into them. As the New York Times reports, Geithner made it clear that he did not want to get bogge...
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.... ...te jet following criticism all around, including questions raised by President Obama. The it got into trouble over lending its name to a new stadium for the New York Mets baseball team. And now, ...
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... ...peans who held accounts with subsidiaries of collapsed Icelandic banks and public anger had erupted into violent demonstrations. For a good account of these, check this report from Icelandic journali...
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...
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 ...
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 ... ...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 are arisi...
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."... ...create another loophole that will divert billions of dollars away from the middle class economy and into the hands of wealthy investors."
Spencer Ante at Creative Capital : "Obama Did N...
Automaker bailout: at what cost?
in Sox First, on December 19, 2008
...hat was going through Congress as it is less stringent in judging their viability Bloomberg goes into more detail about the conditions for these loans. Under the terms of the plan, the loans will b...
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 23, 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 ... ...or consumer spending to survive.
It's typical of many such golf resorts now being built to tap into enormous pools of retirement savings belonging to aging Baby Boomers.
The story's author, ...
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... ... 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, for example by int...
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... ... Still, with VW's share price now tumbling, German regulators have l aunched an investigation into market manipulation. Watch this space....
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...
Hedge fund implosion
in Sox First, on October 16, 2008
... As the New York Time s points out, hedge funds are already down 17% and investors are withdrawing billions of dollars. And it's unusual because, as a rule, hedge funds tend not to have bad years...
Lehman & AIG & The Rest Can All Go Straight Down the Toilet As Far As I'm Concerned
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on September 16, 2008
...ts Lehman or Merrill Lynch or AIG or whoever else is in trouble. These massive organizations, with billions and billions of dollars of assets, make a series of risky moves in the mortgage/credit arena...
Its Time for Tata, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam and Others to Invest!
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 16, 2008
...t commissions together to figure out a solution, a consortium of private companies - who have made billions by providing offshored services - would be investing in their customer's market to help ...
Microsoft is thriving
in TJ's Weblog, on August 30, 2008
...y with the 'clients' and 'business' section of their business 'drowning' in billions of profits.
Sometimes it pays to take a closer look . Take a look at their Annual R...
Siemens close to deal with the SEC
in Sox First, on August 21, 2008
...hat the company is about to secure a settlement with the regulator. This is the company that spent billions in bribes to secure lucrative overseas contracts. One thing for sure: if there is a settlem...
Hedge Fund Round Up
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 21, 2008
...o see prices of the struggling company's debt fall further."
The funds, which have raised billions of dollars to invest on the hopes that a worsening global economy will depress debt prices,...
JP Morgan, Wachovia and UBS burning billions
in Sox First, on August 13, 2008
Heard management guru Gary Hamel talk about the US banks today. And he was savage. Forget all this talk about commodity prices and the US dollar. The name of the game is the US housing crisis and the banks that delivered it. We were reminded of this with JP Morgan Chase writing off $1.5 bil...
FASB delays the inevitable
in Sox First, on August 4, 2008
...losure that has hurt the US economy and had investors losing their shirts. Think of the hundreds of billions that Citigroup has off its books. Think of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The FASB has decide...
Bootstrapping aids women entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on July 24, 2008
... blog explains the problem:
[It's] not that the money isnt there. On the contrary, there are billions and billions of dollars in new venture capital funds and new angel groups. I track those fu...
GM staves off bankruptcy
in Sox First, on July 16, 2008
... in credit facilities. That didn't stop the analysts from warning that the company had to raise billions of dollars in cash to stay afloat. And now, GM has announced the way it will raise the c...
Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: the world waits
in Sox First, on July 14, 2008
...e US Government could not let them go under. Furthermore there are countries that hold hundreds of billions of dollars in US government agency debt, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Russi...
Disaster Recovery and Outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 2, 2008
...should disaster strike, many companies will not be able to recreate their lost information and many billions will be lost.
...
How to Think Like Warren Buffett, Part 31
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 1, 2008
...y enterprise, and at Berkshire we have an abundance of these managers. Their abilities have created billions of dollars of value that would never have materialized if typical CEOs had been running the... ... called me unless he felt a purchase was certain to work. In effect Murph whispered "buy" into my ear. But I didn't listen.
In 2006, the station earned $73 million pre-tax, bringing its...
Global corruption and water
in Sox First, on June 27, 2008
...ng more regulatory oversight although it is hard to see how this is going to change. And that means billions more will be living in water stressed areas, something that will have enormous implications... ...nal report . According to the report, corruption adds significantly to the cost of providing water into a network. In India, for example, contracts are estimated to be 25 per cent more expensive beca...
Adult Hedge Fund Acquires iPorn
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 2, 2008
...und and the Priapus Investment Fund, both also aimed at attracting the open-minded investor and the billions of dollars spent on adult entertainment in North America every year.
"Transparenc...
CTIA Says U.S. Economy Gets Major Boost from Wireless Broadband
in The Wireless Weblog, on May 29, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Kenneth C. Zirkel
CTIA - The Wireless Association today released a study by industry analyst Roger Entner which projects that the total value of wireless broadband and mobile voice services will exceed $427 billion by 2016, with additional benefits ...
Zeroing in on BAE
in Sox First, on May 22, 2008
... investigation BAE for alleged corruption and if found guilty, the company could be forced to repay billions of dollars in profit secured through corrupt activity. More details of Mike Turner's su... ... DOJ operatives are an extraordinary breed. "These guys do a few years crushing whatever comes into their path, before they either join Wall Street or run for election. A string of top fraud conv...
Which Gaming Company Has Loosened Its Purse Strings?
in Play Las Vegas, on May 21, 2008
... rather than tighten their belts the giant operators, such as MGM Grand, are expanding and spending billions on new Las Vegas casinos .
In fact some industry experts are predicting a huge turnaroun...
A fresh breeze from Hong Kong
in TJ's Weblog, on May 20, 2008
...lds freest economy but the status as main entry port to China is gone as China itself has invested billions in improving infrastructure and reducing red tape. Hong Kong so far seems to do well - growi...
Green investment - not for the faint-hearted
in Sox First, on May 13, 2008
... companies are not a matter of a couple of geeks and a website. Just as telecom companies laid down billions of dollars worth of fibre-optic cables, environmental companies require large amounts of ca...
PCAOB targets mortgage securities
in Sox First, on May 1, 2008
...these are the audits that are the most high risk and that Wall Street has been forced to write down billions of dollars because of the difficulties valuing securities linked to the subprime mortgage d...
Organized crime and markets
in Sox First, on April 26, 2008
...n the international energy market and have targeted the international financial system by injecting billions of illicit funds to try to corrupt financial service providers, says US Attorney General Mi...
It's jail time for tax evader Wesley Snipes
in Sox First, on April 25, 2008
...giant corporations that are based in the United States that have offshore addresses to avoid paying billions in taxes," writes Sand. "Somewhere I heard that was illegal. If that isn't ta...
Eshoo and Cannon Propose Family-Friendly U.S. Wireless Network
in The Wireless Weblog, on April 21, 2008
...he bill's prospects. "You want some well-heeled for-profit corporation to pay potentially billions for the privilege of hastily launching a network that it can't charge money for, and let...
The Rich List
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 14, 2008
... $2 million. However, assets under management would normally exceed $500 million and well into the Billions.
Family Offices started to evolve in the late 1800s - early 1900s on the sale of major fam... ...an exceed $2 million. However, assets under management would normally exceed $500 million and well into the Billions.
Family Offices started to evolve in the late 1800s - early 1900s on the sale of ...
BAE bribery fallout
in Sox First, on April 14, 2008
...Systems and Saudi Arabia. The Serious Fraud Office abandoned the inquiry into a 1985 BAE deal worth billions of pounds to provide Riyadh with fighter jets and other military equipment. At the time, th... ...High Court decision in London overturning the British government decision to drop an investigation into alleged bribery and corruption in a major deal between arms maker BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia....
UIGEA Committee Hearings: Banks Sound Off Against It
in Internet Poker, on April 3, 2008
... not the police. In other words, the banks are being pressured to become the law by sifting through billions of transaction records to sniff out those with POSSIBLE ties to online gambling.
The law&#... ...omestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade and Technology hearing for implementing some teeth into the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) began yesterday with a resounding thud o...
Social networks and your bootstrap business (Part 1)
in BootStrapMe, on March 29, 2008
...le in marketing over the web. But do you think the valuation given to them are right?
Facebook: 15 billions
Bebo: 850 millions
More also insisted that social groups:
...are great for niches but I...
FWD's Global Communicator Project
in The VoIP Weblog, on March 24, 2008
...s. The devices would have to cope with both rural and urban realities and scale from a few dozen to billions.
This sounds a bit like Nicholas Negoponte's vision of the "One Laptop Per Ch...
Going... Going... Gone! for $19,592,420,000.00!
in The Wireless Weblog, on March 18, 2008
...ne's Chloe Albanesius .
Still, it's not all good news. "While the auction will yield billions of dollars more than estimated, it fell short of hopes that it would establish new networks...
Book Review: The Biography of a Dollar by Craig Karmin
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on March 18, 2008
...while also ensuring there are no "inside jobs" by tempted employees who are surrounded by billions of dollars each day, then to a history of our dollar since richard nixon took the U.... ...h to remember that far back, it's a fascinating look at how this decision helped plunge the U.S into some very rough economic years in the 1970s and early 1980s, yet paved the way for an eventuall...
Climate change and banks
in Sox First, on March 13, 2008
...t for up to half the global financing needed in any given year, and that would run into hundreds of billions of dollars. So how well prepared are the banks for climate change? There are some encourag... ... These can account for up to half the global financing needed in any given year, and that would run into hundreds of billions of dollars. So how well prepared are the banks for climate change? There ...
You really love this stuff, don't you?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 11, 2008
...s a trope that calls itself into question.
When they say, "Analysts estimate that hundreds of billions of dollars are blown every year on IT projects that fail to achieve the desired goals"... ...a way common to fans of high technology, but from my perspective it's a trope that calls itself into question.
When they say, "Analysts estimate that hundreds of billions of dollars are blow...
Liechtenstein: the mouse that roared
in Sox First, on March 3, 2008
...tein and the rest of the world involving a world wide tax fraud investigation of its banks covering billions of euros. Bloomberg reports that Liechtenstein Prime Minister Otmar Hasler remains confi... ...cipality has so far resisted calls to lift its banking system's secrecy and help foreign probes into the tax fraud. Some good insights into what's going down in Liechtenstein from the Daily M...
