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Sarbox Lite or the end of Sarbanes-Oxley?
in Sox First, on November 25, 2009
...ost companies to never comply with the law. Norris quotes former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt saying: "That the Democratic Party is the vehicle for overturning the most pr... ...use passing the perversely named Investor Protection Act of 2009 which allows most companies to never comply with the law. Norris quotes former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Le...
The war industry's victory: more tax to pay for Afghanistan
in Sox First, on November 22, 2009
...Us lawmakers are proposing higher taxes to pay for sending more troops to Afghanistan. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee has proposed an "additional income tax to the upper ... ...n are our military families. We believe that if this war is to be fought, it’s only fair that everyone share the burden. That’s why we are offering legislation to impose a graduated surtax so that the...
Glass-Steagall and the market meltdown
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
...can Banker reporting on the celebrations. "To mark the historic occasion, House Banking Committee Chairman Jim Leach played host to a group of his closest collaborators on the bill, including Federa...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
...bin); the treasury secretary under George Bush (Hank Paulson); the current president and former chairman of the New York Federal Reserve (William Dudley and Stephen Friedman); the chief of staff to th...
MBA turkeys and the market
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...l Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal and his successor John Thain, bank bail out master Henry Paulson, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Christopher Cox, former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin R... ...Christopher Cox, former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines and his successor Daniel Mudd and of course, everyone's favorite and the wort President in US history, George W Bush. Now Ray Soifer from Soife...
Emanuel presses for another Sarbanes-Oxley exemption
in Sox First, on November 3, 2009
...ese businesses to comply with the rules and there have been multiple exemptions dating to 2004. SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro had granted yet another reprieve, giving small firms until next year to start... ... Democrats will agree, if only to save their own skins. The Securites and Exchange Commission has never required these businesses to comply with the rules and there have been multiple exemptions dati...
Seen that? - Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse
in P2P File Sharing, on October 31, 2009
... you get.With that in mind, it's worth checking this provocative warning from Thomas A. Basilo, chairman & CEO of WithumSmith+Brown Global Assurance in the latest Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Jou...
Breaking up the banks
in Sox First, on October 28, 2009
...axpayers to provide catastrophe insurance, King said, was just wrong. Former federal reserve chairman Paul Volcker has called for the reinstatement of laws that stop banks from owning and trading ...
Hulu PLans to Start Charging for Its Content
in Web 2.0, on October 25, 2009
... are sounding more like a sure thing. At a broadcasting summit in New York today, News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey declared that “it’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online.” T...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-10-22
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A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...loded with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. As a result, former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Arthur Levitt says we need to have a new system that allows institutions to fail without cr...
DJ Hero track list: 100 songs, 93 mash-ups
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-10
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Seen that? - Digital music is 6% of industry sales
in Digital Music - The Future, on October 9, 2009
...rates and concludes a series of postings over the past week on digital music trends. Mitch Bainwol, Chairman of RIAA, recently told CNET "Digital sales are rising at a value that is larger than t... ...ounterpart, has sued 8,000 more people across the world. IFPI is spreading its message of love to several new countries, including Brazil, Mexico, and Poland. IFPI has sued individuals in 17 countrie...
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in Wangtam, on 2009-10-05
...ideo Game, TGS 09: Official US Trailer HD
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Net Neutrality is Here - Almost
in The Search Engine Weblog, on September 25, 2009
A number of sources ( PC World , PC Magazine , V3 , Mashable ) have been covering the Obama Administration's announcement that it would work to establish net neutrality as government policy.
Mashable describes the camps for and against net neutrality: It wasn't that long ago whe...
No one believes Bernanke
in Sox First, on September 17, 2009
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Investors might be cheering with US Federal Reserve chairman declaring that the recession is over, but they should take a deep breath and wait. It's not over yet. If the recession is well ...
Madoff: contender for SEC chairman
in Sox First, on September 3, 2009
...r blog . Bernard Madoff, now spending the rest of his life in jail, was actually a contender to be chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. That's the revelation in this SEC report i... ...was wrong. The report concludes: "Despite numerous credible and detailed complaints, the SEC never properly examined or investigated Madofi's trading and never took the necessary, but basic,...
Up to 1000 more bank failures
in Sox First, on August 28, 2009
...ional types of retail and commercial loans that have been hit hard by the recession,'' FDIC chairman Sheila Bair said. This is going to get worse. As reported here , analysts predict the num...
Loan deals Italian style
in Sox First, on August 24, 2009
...an cheese as collateral so why not do the same with chianti classico and prosciutto? Gianni Zonin, chairman of the Banca Popolare di Vicenza and head of wine producer Zonin told the newspaper it coul...
Will We Soon Be Paying for Content?
in Web 2.0, on August 24, 2009
...looked in some detail at the most obvious of those choices recently: paid content. News Corp. (NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch said recently, though, that he plans to charge readers for content at all th... ...ght to do so. I browse news headlines and blog post titles constantly. If I had to pay 19 cents for every Reuters story and TechCrunch article I've half read and abandoned - well, I'd be a ver...
Coal industry forged letters in anti-climate change fight
in Sox First, on August 19, 2009
... other words, the industry forged letters from "citizens" to frighten Congressmen. "Chairman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) released the letters today as part of the Select Committee o...
Pebble Beach Retro Poster Returns to the Golden Age of Automobile Art
in Classical Drives, on August 5, 2009
...e participation in a tour to Carmel's famed Mission San Carlos led by none other than company chairman Charles Morgan. Layzell has chosen to illustrate a pair of Morgan three-wheelers on wha... ...Concours d'Elegance for those who appreciate automobile fine art is the annual poster. Now, however, there are three. One for the Concours, one for the Tour d'Elegance drive, one for the Retr...
The Google-Apple collision course: why Schmidt had to go
in Sox First, on August 4, 2009
...n said the interlocking directorates of the companies will still be investigated. GENENTECH Inc Chairman Arthur Levinson also serves as director at both Apple and Google. But what does that mean ... ... sit in the cloud and are accessible from all devices-mobile phones, Macbooks, Dell laptops, or whatever. As much as is physically possible, it wants to replace the operating system with the Web."...
微软与 Yahoo 达成为期 10 年的搜索合作协议
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-31
微软和 Yahoo 今天共同对外宣布，双方已达成为期 10 年的搜索和广告合作协议，称该交易将为全球消费者和广告主带来更多选择，并有利于进一步加强全球互联网产业的技术创新步伐。
微软、 Yahoo 称，总而言之，通过该交易，微软将成为 Yahoo 搜索的技术提供商，而 Yahoo 将独家负责两家公司全球范围内的搜索广告销售事务。
两家公司称，对网民和广告主而言，该交易在整合双方产品资源和搜索平台后，将推动互联网产业的持续技术创新。网民们会发现，他们查找信息的速度将更快，所获得信息准确性也更高。通过微软具有市场竞争力的搜索平台，将为广告主、内容提供商带来更多价值，并提高网民们的互联网活...
Bonuses for bankers, despite losses
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
...ss and we can expect the politicians introducing measures to bring the banks back into line. As the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Barney Frank told the Post, the amounts of money ... ...
Never stand between a banker and a bag of money. Despite their massive losses, bankers are still raking in enormous bonuses. The Guardian reports that the House of Mack, Morgan Stanley has set ...
Sun Shareholders Approve Oracle Acquisition
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 20, 2009
...un for $9.50 per share in cash, or $5.6 billion including Sun's cash and debt...
Neither Sun Chairman Scott McNealy or Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz attended the meeting, and the vote was over i...
Should we do strategic planning for our supply chain?
in Supplychainer, on July 15, 2009
...o make decisions with respect to international outsourcing, dealer closures and according to new GM Chairman Edward Whitacre, Jr., "a shuttering of plants." Adds Karrenbauer, "There is ... ...to INSIGHT, an international provider of supply chain planning solutions. The company suggests that every firm should be using strategic supply chain planning tools on an ongoing basis, whether in tim...
What economy? CEO private jets take off
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...s included GMAC CEO Alvaro G. de Molina who knocked up $2,259,595 of jet expenses, American Express Chairman and CEO Kenneth I. Chenault ($414,702) and Ford President and CEO Alan R. Mulally ($344...
The Man Who Might Have Saved General Motors
in carzz.org, on June 10, 2009
...nce in the auto industry included executive time with BMW , presidency of Ford of Europe , and co-chairmanship of Chrysler where he was one of a team that helped create the sensational "cab f... ... that GM's board of directors would disapprove but instead he was given his own blog site where everyday folk like you and me could interact with the great one. I should add that Lutz' physica...
Will the Volt save GM?
in Sox First, on June 10, 2009
...ites, GM itself has mixed feelings about the Volt. It's summed up in the words of GM's vice chairman Bob Lutz. "If you look at most of the mainstream media, you get the impression that 95...
PCAOB chairman Mark Olson quits. What now for Sarbanes-Oxley?
in Sox First, on June 9, 2009
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The big news around now is the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board announcement that its chairman Mark Olson is resigning "to establish new priorities". Whatever that may mean. T... ...nnouncement that its chairman Mark Olson is resigning "to establish new priorities". Whatever that may mean. The interesting part about this announcement is that it comes a few weeks after...
National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots
in TJ's Weblog, on May 25, 2009
...d the NVCA's suggestions in mind.
The NVCA's suggestions were straightforward enough. NVCA chairman Dixon Doll pointed out that only six companies went public in 2008. From the standpoint of ... ... April. The suggestions were aimed at the larger financial industry in the US for the benefit of whoever might be listening. A few days later Chris Bulger at PE Hub described (rather thoroughly, I t...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...9;s George W Bush, Hank Paul-son, the former US Treasury secretary, and Christopher Cox, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a remarkable trinity who more than fulfill...
CostPlus supply chain chief steps down
in Supplychainer, on May 15, 2009
...ime commitments, particularly his role as senior advisor with The Carlyle Group. Mr Dodds served as chairman of the company's audit committee. Ken Stevens, already a member of the company's au...
Neu: Webisodes zur Oasis of the Sea
in Kreuzfahrten, on 13.05.09
... isn´t just a bigger ship - this is fundamentally different" - so bringt es Richard Fair, Chairman von RCCL auf den Punkt! Und das kann man wahrlich sehen und im Video erleben...
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Gorton: LimeWire Is Secure
in P2P File Sharing, on May 11, 2009
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In response to a government investigation, Lime Group chairman Mark Gorton has sent a letter to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform stating that LimeWire 5 is "t...
Amazon 推出新款 9.7-inch 显示屏的 Kindle DX
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-07
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Lost American Marques: Hupmobile
in Classical Drives, on May 1, 2009
...being waged by management, stockholders, and a character named Archie Andrews who briefly served as chairman and was determined to control the company. He was soon ousted by other board members but in... ...six accompanied it the following year, at which point the venerable four was dropped.
Styling, however, was not something Hupmobiles were noted for, at least until the talented designer Amos Northru...
Oracle 出价 74 亿美元收购 Sun
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-21
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...
Back door bank nationalisation
in Sox First, on April 20, 2009
... nationalizing insolvent banks include ANZ chief executive Mike Smith and former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who now advocates the US Government taking "temporary control"...
Economic recovery a long "slog" - Volcker
in Sox First, on April 19, 2009
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While Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn suggests that the worst of the recession might be over, the impact of the economic catastrophe is likely to last for some time. With unemploym...
The Pirate Bay Goes to Jail
in P2P File Sharing, on April 17, 2009
...näs . "It spells the beginning of the end for The Pirate Bay, according to Jonas Sjöström, chairman of the Swedish Independent Music Producers trade group. He added that sites such as The Pirate ...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 11, 2009
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First, we had Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke talking about "green shoots" and how the recession will come to an end this year. Now we have Lawrence Summers, director of the Whit... ...giveaways of taxpayer money. We've seen how horrific AIG - and remember, they kept secrets from everyone. How important is hope, the kind of stuff the Obama administration is peddling? Black remi...
An Augusta Website Rant
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 8, 2009
...WiFi areas around the world.
It would be a gold mine for Augusta National, believe me. Talk about leveraging a brand!
Get with the program, Billy Payne. Embrace the 21st century. And if you want any...
New directions on the IFRS roadmap
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...ed Public Accountants has sent a letter to the SEC slamming the road map put up by the previous SEC chairman Christopher Cox requiring US public companies to use international financial reporting stan... ...old me we could just ignore her. Yeah right! Now it appears, the journey to IFRS has slammed into reverse with CFO.com reporting that the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants has se...
Fedex announces the quarter earnings are down 75 percent
in Supplychainer, on March 22, 2009
...ly lower during the quarter due to the global recession," said Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corp. chairman, president and chief executive officer, in a statement. "While we are gaining market s... ...e gaining market share in all of our transportation segments, the downturn in our industry and the severity and expected duration of the recession require that we take additional actions."
Accor...
Hedge Fund Manager Joins Water Reclamation Company
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 12, 2009
...und manager, Eric D. Pedersen has been appointed to The position of Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors at fresh water reclamation company, STW Resources, Inc.
Pedersen...
Interview with Warren McGregor, IASB board member
in Sox First, on March 11, 2009
...forces. We are in regular contact with the SEC, both at the overall administration level and at the chairman level and also on the staff level.
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Ulysee-Nardin: Handy wie Automatikuhr
in Das Handy-Weblog, on 07.03.09
...st dabei, dass es in etwa wie ein Automatikuhr funktioniert:
Das Gerät trägt den Namen "Chairman" und verwendet ebenfalls einen Rotor - der die Bewegungsenergie allerdings in Strom umsetz...
The long slump
in Sox First, on March 3, 2009
...y tell us how people expect the market will be performing months out from now. As Hugh Johnson, chairman of Illington Advisors in Albany told the Dallas Morning News : "Right now, the stock ...
The Bernanke-Obama dance
in Sox First, on February 25, 2009
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Write it down, store it away and let's take a look at it next year. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says the US recession could end in 2009 and recover in 2010. That, of course, is ass... ... plan that won't help speculators or that neighbor down the street who bought a house he could never hope to afford, but it will help millions of Americans who are struggling with declining home v...
Dumb money and the meltdown
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...e nation's central bankers. In the Era of Cheap Money (the fall of 2001 through June 2004), Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan convinced us that we could have low interest rates despite inflationary pres... ... positive, market-beating returns in any type of climate, despite the manifest failure of virtually every other money manager to do so-were obviously foolish. But our best financial minds also spun ta...
The Great Depression Ahead by Harry S Dent
in Sox First, on February 21, 2009
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With billionaire investor George Soros and former federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker saying the global financial meltdown is worse than the Great Depression, it might be time to look at Dent&... ...ent and corporate bonds. There will be a rally, probably from mid 2012 to mid 2017 and then a less severe downturn until about 2020, or possibly 2023. and worse still. he warns of the next dramatic te...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...off to get away with fraud, is stepping down. Apparently, it's part of a shake-up under new SEC chairman Mary Schapiro. Thomsen will return to private practice. It's a bit like closing the gat... ...ood to be true. Like Gross, Hill did not alert her superiors or regulatory authorities. She did, however, tell friends and colleagues about her suspicions." This is potentially alarming because ...
The meltdown's rogue gallery
in Sox First, on January 26, 2009
...a Finch picks out the 25 who were at the heart of the meltdown . The list is headed by former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan who allowed the housing bubble to develop as a result of his low interes...
Satyam: do we need a global Sarbox
in Sox First, on January 21, 2009
...same for corporate governance? But first, some history. Last week, Ramalinga Raju, the founder and chairman of India's fourth largest software exporter, admitted he had intentionally overestimate... ...t;Golden Peacock Award" for global excellence in corporate governance. As BusinessWeek's Beverly Behan says, the award process might require deeper scrutiny. But if we are already down glo...
Congress Intros Nanotech Safety Bill
in Nanotechbuzz, on January 18, 2009
...from electronics to energy transformation and storage, to medicine and health," says committee chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN). "It is important that potential downsides of the technology be a...
ASUS Eee Phone coming soon?
in The Smart PDA, on January 17, 2009
...eractive features that will allow users to control a number of digital devices by ASUS.
ASUS's Chairman, Johnny Shih made the following comment in a recent interview conducted by the New Yo...
Satyam stranger than fiction
in The CIO Weblog, on January 8, 2009
...e, it takes a sudden turn for the worse. Such is the case for Satyam with today's revelation by Chairman Ramalinga Raju that he has been cooking the books... to the tune of more than a billion dol...
Business of Biotech Conference At Moffitt Cancer Center
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 6, 2009
...Annual Business of Biotech Conference will be hosted by Moffitt Cancer Center with David F. Hale, chairman and CEO of Hale BioPharma Ventures LLC as the keynote speaker.
Topics include:
Governm...
Ryder System makes a new logistics acquisition
in Supplychainer, on December 28, 2008
...and complementary solutions to our established portfolio of supply chain services," said Ryder Chairman and CEO, Greg Swienton. "We are pleased to further develop our Asia-related capabiliti...
Cox defends his legacy
in Sox First, on December 25, 2008
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Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox has defended his regime in a way that would just leave the public gob-smacked. The culture of slack oversight allowed US financial inst... ...icipants...When these gale-force winds hit our markets, there were panicked cries to change any and every rule of the marketplace: 'Let's try this. Let's try that.' What was needed was...
The Madoff lawsuits roll in
in Sox First, on December 25, 2008
...ot;sovereign immunity" defense remains to be seen. Still, it's interesting in light of SEC chairman Christopher Cox last week announcing an investigation into why the SEC missed warning sig...
How about a DIY RFID Poker Table for your living room
in The RFID Weblog, on December 17, 2008
...er than to say it will be a completely different concept to the original video poker table. I'm chairman of technology services company L7 Solutions, based in Perth, and was a director of ISP iiNe...
SEC and Madoff: shutting the stable gate after the horse has bolted
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
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The Securities and Exchange has switched into damage control mode with SEC chairman Christopher Cox announcing an in-house investigation into why it did not detect the $50 billion fraud case soo... ...oing, going back to at least 1999, were repeatedly brought to the attention of SEC staff, but were never recommended to the Commission for action. I am gravely concerned by the apparent multiple failu...
The Madoff debacle: how did people get sucked in?
in Sox First, on December 14, 2008
...er Philadelphia Eagles owner Norman Braman, New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon and J. Ezra Merkin, the chairman of GMAC Financial Services, the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation in Massachusetts whi...
JDA and i2 merger won't happen
in Supplychainer, on December 14, 2008
...rong financial position with significant cash balances," said Jackson L. Wilson Jr., executive chairman of i2's board of directors, in a statement, "And the company will not walk away em...
Madoff and SEC neglect
in Sox First, on December 13, 2008
...t piece, it's clear there was nothing transparent about Madoff's operations. He was keeping everyone in the dark. "But what few on the Street know is that Bernie Madoff also manages more...
Bush Administration Expresses Opposition to Free Wireless
in The Wireless Weblog, on December 11, 2008
...z writes, "Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez sent a letter to the agency's Republican chairman Wednesday afternoon expressing the administration's displeasure with the idea. 'The...
PCAOB to auditors: turn up the heat
in Sox First, on December 9, 2008
.... And fair value will shape up as a critical issue, particularly in relation to derivatives. PCAOB chairman Mark Olson, according to this report , has warned auditors they will need to get tougher b...
