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Carbon market bonanza for accountants
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
...l penalties that produce more greenhouse gas emissions than permitted. What all this means is that investors will demand more information because all this will have an impact on their results. The r...
20 Cholesterol Regulating Genes Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 8, 2009
© micahb37 Using RNA interference technology, researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have identified 20 genes involved in cholesterol metabolism , potentially leading to new treatments for heart disease and other cholesterol-related diseases.
Of the 20 genes the scientists...
How biotech companies can reduce supply chain risk?
in Supplychainer, on June 25, 2009
... I don't think I have written any post on biotech supply chain management in this blog (at least I don't remember any), but seeing this nice piece in ICIS website became a motivation to w...
3rd Party Blog
in Wangtam, on June 23, 2009
...s via Cellphone
• To Build Display, Yahoo Joins Self-Serve Ad Fray
• Apple Sells Over One Million iPhone 3GS Models
• How not to use Twitter: HabitatUK as a case study
• UxStyle Allows Custom ...
Directors warned about greenwash
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
...hether six companies - Rio Tinto, Woodside, Xstrata, Boral, Caltex and BlueScope Steel - had misled investors with their claims about the negative impact of the Australian Government's Carbon Poll...
Does Apple need Steve Jobs?
in Sox First, on June 20, 2009
...in January after news broke of him taking leave of absence. As the Atlantic Monthly says it means investors are coming to terms with the idea of their favorite CEO's mortality which raises a ver...
Recession drawing to an end. So what?
in Sox First, on June 20, 2009
...ulus policies of the Obama administration. Yes, the economy will be out of recession. But for many investors and ordinary income earners, it won't feel that way....
Fiber for Nerve Repair Derived from Chitosan and Polyester
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 19, 2009
Researchers have developed a promising new material that can be used to repair severed nerves by combining chitosan , a compound found in the shells of crabs and shrimp, and polycaprolactone , a strong, flexible, biodegradable polyester commonly used in sutures. The hybrid fiber combines the b...
Azotobacter vinelandii Genome Sequence
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 18, 2009
© MASH DnArt Researchers have successfully sequence the genome of Azotobacter vinelandii , a nitrogen fixing bacterium found in soil. The data gathered will help advance research on nitrogen fixation and other biochemical processes, using A. vinelandii as model organism.
A. vinelandii has o...
Blood Test for Aging Protein p16p16INK4a
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 17, 2009
© Divine in the Daily Previously, researchers haveidentified a key protein, called p16INK4a, that increase in mammalian organs as as cells and tissues age. Recently, they have found out that the protein is also present in human blood and is strongly correlated both with chronological age and wi...
Hedge Funds Up & Social Media Footprint Expansion
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 16, 2009
...ficant turnaround over the last three months as risk appetite seems to be returning to markets, and investors are encouraged by positive signs of global growth and rising commodities prices." Sch...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...tend college because Madoff stole his college fund as surely as he stole our future. "Madoffs investors have been put in a position of years & generations (in my case 4) of lost investment e...
Art Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 10, 2009
...s 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 growing importance of 'art investment' as bridge ...
Jasmonic Acid Treatment Cuts Down Pesticide Use
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 9, 2009
© jilly40uk US agricultural company Becker Underwood, in collaboration with Plant Bioscience Limited, now holds worldwide exclusive licence on the use of jasmonic acid as a natural seed treatment to help cut down on pesticide use on some commercially-important agricultural crops.
Researchers a...
Hedge Fund Competing To Buy British Bank
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 9, 2009
...h U.K.'s third-largest bank, Barclays Bank plc, about the potential purchase of Barclays Global Investors (BGI), including the iShares business.
BlackRock's BGI buyout will break its own rec...
Banks fight to keep accounting tricks
in Sox First, on June 6, 2009
...ing millions lobbying Congress. Not content with their $700 billion bailout, the banks want to keep investors in the dark. There's nothing US banks hate more than transparency. As Bloomberg colu...
OTC Prostate Cancer Test Kit in the Making
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 5, 2009
Researchers are developing a diagnostic test for prostate cancer wherein gold nanoparticles screen for the same cancer-related protein marker that is screened for by the FDA-approved Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) test.
Huo and her team at the UCF lab developed the new technique involving go...
Renewable energy and the recession
in Sox First, on June 5, 2009
...s is critical because government intervention is certain to hold up prices and provide security for investors. That said, setting up wind turbines, wave energy outlets and solar grids is capital inte...
Climate change and business costs
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
...rding to the analysis, 71 companies would see their earnings fall by 10%. What does that signal to investors? It might be time for them to watch out for greenhouse gas emission disclosures. The green...
Global Rejection of Genetically Engineered Wheat
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 3, 2009
Farmers, consumers and civil society organizations in Australia, Canada and the U.S. released a joint statement confirming their collective commitment to stop commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) wheat .
Here's the summary statement:
In light of our existing experience with ge...
SEC probe uncovers problems
in Sox First, on June 2, 2009
...or and using SEC computers to access pornography. And this is meant to be the agency looking after investors and ensuring the market is clean. What a mess!...
Eight Genes That Help Predict Patients Response to Melanoma Treatment
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 31, 2009
A group of researchers have identified eight genes that help predict a melanoma patient's response to treatment .
Dr. Tawbi and his colleagues examined the tumor tissues of 21 patients with metastatic melanoma, some of whom responded to chemotherapy and some who did not. Once the cases wer...
Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Can Repair Heart Tissue
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 29, 2009
© denn Using an animal model, researchers have shown that injecting adult bone marrow stem cells into skeletal muscle can repair cardiac tissue and thus reverse damages due to heart failure by doubling myocytes, or heart cells, and reducing cardiac tissue injury by 60 percent.
"Injecting ...
New HIV Microbicide Can Be Produced in Transgenic Plants
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 29, 2009
© Sully Pixel Scientists have developed a new anti-HIV drug as well as a possible means of producing the drug in large quantities using transgenic plants.
In the research paper, Ma and colleagues describe how they combined two protein microbicides (b12 monoclonal antibody and cyanovirin-N) in...
Windows 7: More of the New '7'
in Wangtam, on May 27, 2009
...u Share
• Visual effects shoot for realism in explosive 'Terminator Salvation'
• 10 Events That Changed History
• Top 10: The best new cell phones Japan gets this summer
• Apple preppi...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
... solutions. These include nuking the Securities and Exchange Commission which has failed to protect investors, stop letting companies hire their own auditors, and finally make each listed company pay ...
Economists predict recession ends this year. As if!
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...Times notes, people are just kidding themselves if they think this will blow over this year. "Investors are pinning their hopes on other people's hopes that things will get better. These are...
P[acman]-Generated Gene Libraries for Drosophila melanogaster
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 25, 2009
Using a tool called P[acman] , group of researchers has established a library of clones covering most of the genome of Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly), an organism widely used in genetics research.
P[acman]- developed by Dr. Koen Venken (http://flypush.imgen.bcm.tmc.edu/lab/koenv/index...
National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots
in TJ's Weblog, on May 25, 2009
...and improvements the way stock is sold and distributed in IPOs - improvements that would force some investors to hold IPO stocks instead of buying them to speculate on and flip quickly. And a final su...
Redder Antioxidant-Richer Lettuce Using LEDs
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 21, 2009
© Leeks 'N' Bounds A team of plant physiologists has developed a method of producing redder- and thus healthier, anti-oxidant-richer - lettuce using ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) .
To create red leaf lettuce plants enriched with these compounds, Britz purchased low-power LE...
Cashing in on the disgust with banks
in Sox First, on May 19, 2009
...s Financial Services Authority. Branson is also reportedly talking to US investment banks and other investors about financial backing. Virgin Money is also said to be interested in acquiring Northern ...
Anti-Inflammatory Constituents of Ginseng Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 16, 2009
© centralasian Scientists have identified immunologically active components in ginseng, an herb used in traditional Chinese and other Asian medicine.
Allan Lau led a team of researchers from the University of Hong Kong who identified seven ginseng constituents, ginsenosides , which showed imm...
Golden Rice is an Effective Source of Vitamin A
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 15, 2009
Golden Rice is a genetically modified plant developed to contain more beta-carotene in the grains, seen as a viable method of alleviating vitamin-A deficiency particularly in developing countries. In its current form, Golden Rice contains 35 micrograms of beta-carotene per gram. But how much o...
Bioscience Education in America: A State by State Analysis
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 12, 2009
...repared and supported by Battelle. BIO commissioned the report and had the input and support of the Biotechnology Institute.
WHEN: Monday, May 18, 2009, 2 p.m. EDT
WHERE: BIO 2009 International Co...
ZettaCore Raises $21 Million
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 12, 2009
...Inc. yesterday announced that it had raised $21 million in Series C financing from a wide range of investors, including Globis Capital Partners , Itochu Technology Ventures , Yasuda Enterprise Dev...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...ng talent away from American tech companies and into foreign firms and startups, according to this Investors.com article .
The problem is an outgrowth of a larger one, which is the US education syst...
The 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China is Making China Visas Hard to Get
in Global Mobility Report, on May 10, 2009
...tly on the situation ( here and here ). The situation is aggravated by the practice many foreign investors in China have of trying to skirt the law and form informal partnerships under the table. Th...
Bacteria with Multiple Antibiotic Resistance in Waste Treatment Plants
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 10, 2009
© DefMo Researchers have discovered increasing populations of bacteria with multiple resistance to antibiotics in waste water treatment plants. They found the so-called superbugs-bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics-up to 100 yards downstream from the discharge point into the Huron River....
GAO slams SEC
in Sox First, on May 9, 2009
...nard Madoff, letting him get away with his fraud for some time. It failed to do its job and protect investors. Now a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report shows us why that happened and how...
A Hippocratic oath for managers
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
... must recognize the multiple forms of value created by an enterprise: not only financial returns to investors, but also professional development for employees, value for clients and suppliers, new tec...
I never thought it would get this bad: Rupert Murdoch
in Sox First, on May 6, 2009
...following the Lehman Brothers collapse. And that's a warning to the rest of the media and their investors. It's going to get a lot worse. In this interview, republished here , Murdoch says h...
Franchises Coast Through Recession
in Biz Plan Hacks, on May 5, 2009
...ses have five great strengths. They usually rest on a proven business model. They provide start-up investors with formal training. They have marketing systems in place for you. They usually are tech s...
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
...aynard Keynes in 1936 in his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Keynes said investors based their decisions on "animal spirits" and a "spontaneous urge to action...
Lung Cancer Susceptibility Gene Identified
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 2, 2009
Researchers have identified a gene linked to increased lung cancer susceptibility and development . This gene, called RGS17, could result in a genetic predisposition to develop lung cancer particularly in those with a strong family history of the disease.
Using a genetically altered mouse mod...
Ratings agency crackdowns
in Sox First, on May 1, 2009
...lth. Now they're being held to account, not before time. Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings are being sued for negligence fraud and deceit and as Frank Part...
Walnuts May Help Fight Breast Cancer
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 27, 2009
© tvol In an animal study, consumption of walnuts has been demonstrated to help ward off breast cancer in mice .
Researchers led by Elaine Hardman, a cell biologist at Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington, West Virginia, compared breast cancer incidence in mice eating a di...
Urine Metabolite Identifies Smokers with Higher Lung Cancer Risk
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 27, 2009
© Saudi... Researchers have identified a metabolite in urine called NNAL that might predict risk of Lung cancer among smokers.
To evaluate the impact of NNAL, researchers identified 246 current smokers who later developed lung cancer and 245 smokers who did not develop lung cancer during...
One more step to bank nationalization
in Sox First, on April 24, 2009
...st US banks are well capitalized and will be okay in these stress tests, chances are the public and investors will still have to confront the n-word. Nationalization is on its way. Read carefully bet...
Adobe Extends Flash Platform to Digital Home
in Wangtam, on April 22, 2009
...ange
• AVG LinkScanner
• Google News Timeline
• Yahoo Investors Still Thinking About Microsoft
• 谁的声音？
• Tweetie for Mac OS X Hands-on
• The Art of the Title Sequence
• NewsTrendz - Disc...
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...
New Agricultural Biotechnology Blog
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 20, 2009
... The Council for Biotechnology Information has launched a blog dedicated to agricultural biotechnology news and information for the 2009 BIO International Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, May ...
Is all this free sustainable?
in The CIO Weblog, on April 16, 2009
...any of these sites exist not so much from their own innate value and revenues as by the largesse of investors, investors who are no doubt hoping for another Amazon revolution. As you may or may not re...
Small Wind: GE Is Investing
in IfEnergy, on April 16, 2009
...ower, which makes residential wind turbines, said on Monday it has raised $10 million from existing investors and General Electric to expand its operations. With the money, the Flagstaff, Ariz.-based ...
Full-sized House using GluBam Technology
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 15, 2009
In Changsha, Hunan Province, China now stands a full-sized California-style home made of bamboo, using the GluBam® technology, tagged by Popular Science in 'Best of What's New in 2008'.
Xiao's GluBam® technology utilizes the modern processing procedures to integrate the round, ...
IPOs: don't blame Sarbox
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...e sources of finance. Debt can be sold in the private market, there's private equity and retail investors hold less than 30% of publicly traded shares with the remainder held through mutual funds,...
Recession: neither the beginning of the end or end of the beginning
in Sox First, on April 13, 2009
...anged since then is that so many people got so badly burned that the trust necessary for consumers, investors, and businesses to repeat what they did then has vanished. Yes, banks will lend to highly ...
The best entrepreneurs of the year?
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on April 9, 2009
...ey business concepts: completing a cohesive business plan, generating ideas for funding sources and investors, and finding ways to increase their impact while maintaining positive cash flow.
The entr...
Varnish Alternative Derived from Glycerin
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 9, 2009
© Elsie esq. German researchers have developed a varnish alternative in which the majority of petrochemical components have been substituted by vegetable oils and sugars. It has identical properties to the conventional varnishes used today and is hard-wearing, scratch-proof and resistant to c...
Banana Briquettes
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 8, 2009
© choyaw99 Researchers have developed a method of converting banana crop waste into briquettes as a source of fuel.
First, the banana skins and leaves are mashed to a pulp in a hand-operated domestic meat mincer. This pulp is mixed with sawdust to create a mouldable material - in Rwanda it wo...
The Latest on PowerPlay Golf
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 7, 2009
...C companies are taking care before committing a red cent.
PowerPlay Golf is exciting many of these investors. The purpose of seeking investors is to create some very high profile made-for-TV events f...
The Panic of 2008-09
in Sox First, on April 7, 2009
...he Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In a speech to the Council of Institutional Investors, Warsh compares the conditions to the Panics of 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893, and 1907 where dep...
IBM 收购 Sun 的谈判濒临破裂
in Wangtam, on April 7, 2009
之前提到过 IBM 将收购 Sun ，甚至 已经接近达成收购 。可是最新的消息显示，这项交易处于濒临破裂的边缘。
据知情人士透露 ，Sun 的董事会上周六拒绝了 IBM 提出的正式收购要约。他们说，董事会认为 IBM 提出的价格过低。据信收购价格在 9.40 美元或更低。一位知情人士说，Sun 还担心收购要约给了 IBM 太多收购 Sun 的"选择"，意思是IBM会有太多的回旋余地可以从交易中退出。
最后阶段的交易磋商常常充满了"最后一搏"的味道，双方的立场变得更加强硬可能只是为了不久后达成全盘交易。不过眼下两家公司的立场还是有冲突的。
一...
Here we go again
in The CIO Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...guess is that this will take something of the same path that the Yahoo/Microsoft deal fallout took. Investors will rebel, executives will be shuffled, and negotiators will be back at the table. If so,...
Fake Accounting Standards Board strikes again
in Sox First, on April 6, 2009
...atement. The way the standard setters are moving, things are becoming less and less transparent for investors. Is it any wonder we have a breakdown in trust?...
Giving banks permission to lie
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
...her good loans from going bad (would you like a new loan to pay the interest on that old loan?) and investors won't get wiped out and employees and politicians won't get fired and everything c...
The lobsters and Madoff
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
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Hard to go past this hilarious Woody Allen story in the New Yorker about how investors, who came back into world as lobsters, take their revenge on a hapless Bernard Madoff at a swank Upper East...
Google to Invest in Biotechnology
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...velop, to comanage Google Ventures. The other managing partner, Bill Maris, who has a background in biotechnology and healthcare, will be based at Google's corporate headquarters in Mountain View,...
A Web 2.0 Obituary?
in TJ's Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...nown already:
- cloud computing (although recently over hyped, it's long term very viable)
- biotech has yet to show a broad range of success stories
- mobile will remain tricky as long as ther...
Clarifications on HP and Mark Hurd
in The CIO Weblog, on March 31, 2009
...could well be out on the street. Certainly Hurd wouldn't have risked anything from his board or investors had he simply kept his salary at its previous level and axed big bunches of staff. We'...
Microbes Convert Carbon Dioxide and Electricity to Methane
in The Biotech Weblog, on March 31, 2009
Researchers have developed microbial electrolysis cells using Archaea species that could use the current to convert carbon dioxide and water to methane without any organic material, bacteria or hydrogen usually found in microbial electrolysis cells.
The researchers created a two-chambered cel...
