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The Dubai con job
in Sox First, on November 27, 2009
... how Dubai was likely to join Iceland and go broke. It's about to default on billions of dollars of debt accrued to create that bizarre financial center out in the middle of the desert. The news has s...
Dubai goes for broke
in Sox First, on November 26, 2009
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Back last month, I did a blog entry looking at how Dubai was struggling to pay its debts. Now, it looks like the once opulent kingdom of Dubai could go the way of Iceland and go broke. Now, ...
US to pay $500 billion to service mega debt
in Sox First, on November 23, 2009
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry warning of worse times ahead with the US debt hitting $12 trillion. Just how bad is it going to get? As the New York Times warns, the US is now faci...
M9 开始接受预定 ($6995)
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-21
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Seen that? - Self-Employed have CPP Woes Bigger Problem is Income Taxes
in Small Business Unplugged, on November 19, 2009
...tives still be in power to follow through their plan? I hope so, because without a reduction if net debt our economy will become increasingly inefficient. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty Thursday releas...
Students Take to Online Gambling to End Their Debts
in The Gambling Weblog, on November 19, 2009
...Gambling advisory service GamCare has warned that students, in an effort to relieve their growing debts, are turning to online gambling and in particular poker . One US study has apparently found th...
Firefox 3.6 Beta 3
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-19
... The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It's Coming Soon
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Economy to get worse with debt hitting $12 trillion
in Sox First, on November 18, 2009
...im where the going is slower than expected . The US economy is facing a long hard haul back with debt levels now topping $12 trillion . That only adds to pressure on the economy from weak bank len...
Playfire 获收 210 万美元投资
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-17
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融资方： Playfire
投资方：Atomico Ventures 领衔该轮投资，以及 Bebo 的创始人 Michael Birch、LastMinute 联合创始人 Brent Hoberman、LOVEFiLM 联合创始人 William Reeve 和 Alex Chesterman、EA 前 COO David Gardner
涉及金额：210 万美元（第一轮...
New fair value rule to face test
in Sox First, on November 16, 2009
...ules dealing with the classification and measurement of financial assets, such as loans, as well as debt and equity securities using fair value. Sox First will remember how the banks were screaming ab...
Is China about to collapse?
in Sox First, on November 12, 2009
... up producing a massive amount of goods that it won't be able to sell. The big problem is China's debt. As Fortune magazine reports, Beijing has shoveled $1.27 trillion in new loans into the econo...
EA 出价 4 亿美元收购 Playfish
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-11
EA 发表声明称 ，将以 4 亿美元的价格收购游戏厂商 Playfish ，后者专业开发用于 Facebook 网站的游戏。EA 将首先支付3亿美元来收购 Playfish ，如果后者能达到特定的盈利目标，则将再支付最多 1 亿美元。
分析师称， EA 的这桩收购交易是对社会化网站游戏的押注，认为这种游戏将成为行业增长的推动力。今年截至目前为止，游戏机游戏的销售已经下滑了 12%。据美国投资公司 ThinkEquity 的数据显示，到2012年，由 Playfish 和 Zynga、Playdom 等竞争对手所组成的社会化网站游戏市场总额将达 20 亿美元，较当前水平增长近两...
Seen that? - Germany in trouble?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on November 9, 2009
... Business process Outsourcing or BPO is clearly one of the must successful outsourcing ventures in the world. Though that is the case, its success could be cut-short according to research...
HealthGuru 获收 320 万美元投资
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-30
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融资方： HealthGuru Media
投资方：Castile Ventures 和 Village Ventures
涉及金额：320 万美元（第三轮）...
Palaran 获收 100 万美元投资
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-30
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融资方： Palaran
投资方：True Ventures
涉及金额：100 万美元（第一轮）...
Seen that? - SNOCAP nets $15 million more
in Digital Music - The Future, on October 28, 2009
...a combined $10 million from two venture-capital firms, Walden Group's WaldenVC and Morgenthaler Ventures."Congratulations! Not much to see yet on the homepage but certainly worth to watch [.....
Pay Yourself First
in BootStrapMe, on October 27, 2009
... it’s hard. That money could be used someplace else. You could pay the phone bill, could pay down debt... The people at Get Rich Slowly look at the why and how of paying yourself first. And at the...
Seen that? - Why the SBA may not be the best bet for entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on October 23, 2009
...unities in what GEM researchers call 'high-potential entrepreneurship' -- fast growing, new ventures involved in the latest technologies and knowledge-transfer businesses. Nine out of ten U.S....
Dollar to tumble even more
in Sox First, on October 22, 2009
...enback highlights the parlous state of the US economy. The Economist writes: "A country heavily in debt to foreigners, with a government deficit it is making little headway at controlling, is creatin...
Endless unemployment and the new pledge of allegiance
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
...this report : "The new American Pledge of Allegiance: children, I pledge allegiance to America’s debt, and to the Chinese government that lends us money. And to the interest, for which we pay, compou...
Dubai can't meet debts
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
...in this crisis. Now we have BusinessWeek reporting that Dubai does not have resources to pay its debts. The sheikdom and state-controlled companies cranked up $80 billion of debt building man-made ...
A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
.... Writing in the Financial Times , Levitt says we need a system that ensures investors, long-term debt holders, lenders and management suffer pain commensurate with the risks they allowed an institu...
Skype 与 eBay 赢得专利侵权诉讼案
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-10
Skype 法律顾问 Robert Miller 表示 ，近日一家美国联邦法院上诉法庭认定 eBay 和 Skype 并没有对 Peer Communication 公司持有的两项点对点（peer-to-peer）专利技术进行侵权。
Peer Communication 是 Acacia Technologies 公司的一部分，位于加州 Newport Beach，是一家专门负责审核发放专利许可证，以及对已发放的技术专利进行监管的机构。该公司于 2006 年 8 月向美国德克萨斯州东部的联邦地区法院提起该项诉讼的。
Skype 法律顾问 Miller 在其公司博客上透露，起初法院裁...
Seen that? - legal file sharing and movie downloads
in TJ's Weblog, on October 7, 2009
...a combined $10 million from two venture-capital firms, Walden Group's WaldenVC and Morgenthaler Ventures."Congratulations! Not much to see yet on the homepage but certainly worth to watch [.....
California - America's first failed state?
in Sox First, on October 4, 2009
...nia is like a patient on life support. At the start of summer the state government was so deeply in debt that it began to issue IOUs instead of wages. Its unemployment rate has soared to more than 12%...
Seen that? - Stream DivX to the 360 without re-encoding
in XboxSpace, on October 2, 2009
...d that it takes four to five years for the right product and business model to emerge, the Crescent Ventures study concludes that "a funding strategy that deploys capital [...] Read More ...
Twitter 完成新一轮融资，涉资 1 亿美元
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-27
...前的投资估价已经达到 10 亿美金，但是 Twitter 公司创始人坚持在不被收购的前提下独自向前发展。 Twitter 创始人 Evan Williams 和 Biz Stone 正想方设法在互联网以外的领域得到融资。但 Twitter 公司并没有提供此次融资的具体数字，只是含糊的说数目比较大。一位熟悉该公司的消息人士称，此次交易最快将于今天公布。
Twitter 公司此之前已经融资了 550...
Luxury hotels the latest victims of the recession
in Sox First, on September 25, 2009
...a $100 million loan is at risk of default. These hotels were financed aggressively on the oxygen of debt during the boom and now the chickens are coming home to roost. This is serious and dangerous. ...
Hyper inflation on its way?
in Sox First, on September 23, 2009
...in Wolf warns that "the U.S. government and British government will never mange their public debt problems. That means "there could be a real flight from these currencies and that would ge...
The financial meltdown and tell-tale emails
in Sox First, on September 15, 2009
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Should UBS be held accountable for selling toxic collateralised debt obligations? The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS staff knew these debt securities were bad and sent off emails making t...
Nothing learned from Lehman collapse
in Sox First, on September 14, 2009
...d pooling them with slices of bonds comprised of low-risk mortgage securities. With the blessing of debt ratings agencies, banks are then selling this class of bonds as a low-risk investment. The mark...
First Business? Some Tips...
in BootStrapMe, on September 14, 2009
...portunities are often wolves in sheep's clothing. Avoid getting side-tracked. Juggling multiple ventures will spread you thin and limit both your effectiveness and productivity. Do one thing perfe...
Will the dollar be replaced?
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
... long? The US dollar is effectively being kept on life support by countries like China buying up US debt. It's only a matter of time before before they put pressure on the US to move to a global c...
The US consumer economy is dead
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
...he 1980s until a year ago is smashed. Once-ravenous U.S. consumers are saving money and paying down debt. Banks are building reserves and hoarding cash. And governments are fashioning a new global fin...
Investor Group to Buy Skype?
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 31, 2009
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"Investors in the proposed purchase may include newly-formed Andreessen Horowitz , Index Ventures (who were early investors in Skype before the ebay acquisition), and one or more multi-bill...
Commercial real estate to create a new mortgage crisis
in Sox First, on August 31, 2009
...;Banks hold $1.7 trillion of commercial mortgages and construction loans, and delinquencies on this debt already have played a role in the increase in bank failures this year. But banks' losses fr...
Double dip recession looming
in Sox First, on August 24, 2009
...untouched they will be punished by the bond market. That will raise interest rates on their massive debt. Inflation could also rise. The second reason why we might be headed for a double dip recessio...
Who is buying up US debt?
in Sox First, on August 23, 2009
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Much has been said about China buying up US debt. China has accumulated the most US debt followed by Japan. But Caribbean countries? Luxembourg? They are in there among the top 10 debt holder...
Headed for the double dip
in Sox First, on August 20, 2009
...me. What that means is that the long term future is uncertain and we need to wind back the massive debt that got us into this mess in the first. There's no sign any of that's happened. As War...
The internet wants your money
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on August 19, 2009
...n handle 2.5 million viewers) and the level of backlash will pave the way for future online video ventures.
So if you want to see the qualifying game, or just want to see the future of video, go che...
Readers Digest: another private equity failure
in Sox First, on August 18, 2009
...r Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The latest bone-headed plan is to convert $1.6 billion worth of debt into equity. How feasible is that when the magazine's readership is dying off and young peo...
Lease accounting trouble looms
in Sox First, on August 16, 2009
...ount of liabilities on a company's balance sheet. This might force some entities to renegotiate debt covenants. As Tammy Whitehouse writes in Compliance Week , the new rules will cause all sorts...
Health care reform and a fat tax
in Sox First, on August 16, 2009
...ion is fueling obesity. A German study, reported here , found that one in four people seriously in debt were also obese. Only 11% of the 9000 people studied were not in debt were obese. The researche...
Paymetric 获收 800 万美元投资
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-14
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融资方： Paymetric
投资方：Palomar Ventures，和上一轮的投资者 Austin Ventures
涉及金额：800 万美元...
A Word of Caution about Balance Transfer Credit Cards
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on August 13, 2009
... Rueda
While balance transfer credit cards appear to be an ideal way to reduce your credit card debt, you need to be aware that it may not be all that simple. In order for you to save money and get...
Spooks and the financial crisis
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
...uot; With the US wasting money on wars it cannot win in Iraq and Afghanistan when it is heavily in debt, it will be fascinating to watch the priorities of intelligence agencies develop....
Want a good retirement? Pay off that mortgage loan first
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 3, 2009
...age loan. Financial experts say this is a mistake. It's far better to relieve yourself of extra debt before retiring.
So do yourself a favor. If you can pay off that mortgage — even if it m...
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...
The looming credit card disaster
in Sox First, on July 28, 2009
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Credit card debt is the canary in the coal mine. It is the signal that tells us which way economies are tracking. And those signals are looking bad. USA Today reports that credit card debt is r...
Banks misused TARP funds
in Sox First, on July 20, 2009
...program will reveal that of the 360 banks surveyed, nearly half had used the money to invest, repay debt or buy other banks. While most say they had used some of the money for loans, the revelations s...
Sun Shareholders Approve Oracle Acquisition
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 20, 2009
...le is set to acquire Sun 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, a...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...isk trading and investing in everything from mortgages to commodities and underwriting of stock and debt offers. And that raises an obvious question: how long can they keep it up? Part of the success ...
An X-shaped recession
in Sox First, on July 14, 2009
...ecause the track we were on for years - featuring flat or declining median wages, mounting consumer debt, and widening insecurity, not to mention increasing carbon in the atmosphere - simply cannot be...
Can YouTube survive?
in Sox First, on July 7, 2009
...naged to extend past the bursting of the dotcom bubble back in 2001, and the options for new online ventures seem to be as follows: either produce something that people are willing to pay for, or come...
Did Palin quit to head off an embezzlement scandal?
in Sox First, on July 5, 2009
...e complex cost the city an additional $1.3 million in legal fees and threw it into severe long-term debt. For SBS, however, the bloated and bungled project was a cash cow." This stuff is politic...
Neverland's future: up for grabs
in Sox First, on July 4, 2009
...nch newsletter points out, Jackson was headed towards bankruptcy. He was believed to be paying 20% debt interest on approximately $270 million in loans or roughly $54 million per year and with insuff...
Jackson downloads soar
in Sox First, on July 1, 2009
...e 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. Which suggests th...
The True Story of True Ventures
in Wangtam, on 2009-06-30
...• Hulu not working on PS3
• The True Story of True Ventures
• BlackBerry Tour hitting Verizon Wireless on July 12th, selling for $199?
• Gmail Raises Attachment Limit to 25 Megabytes
• Firefo...
Michael Jackson's debt legacy
in Sox First, on June 27, 2009
...the pop icon was bogged down in controversy. But more to the point, he was trapped in a quagmire of debt. As The Wall Street Journal tells us, he left this world with $500 million in debt after def...
Recession drawing to an end. So what?
in Sox First, on June 21, 2009
... People will spend less for years to come, we are in for a long period of bear markets with no more debt-powered growth, there will be lots of volatility with a series of downturns (think of it as row...
Unter 25 Euro: das Sony Ericsson J100
in Das Handy-Weblog, on 18.06.09
...00 berichtet? Ich denke schon, denn schließlich ist der Preishit des schwedisch-japanischen Joint-Ventures bereits seit gut zwei Jahren auf dem Markt. Doch nun ist das Sony Ericsson J100 ein richtiger...
Want a better credit score? Manage your money
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 12, 2009
...ore you want to take out a mortgage loan.
Your second step should be to eliminate your credit-card debt. Homebuyers with too much of this debt will hurt their credit score. And pay your bills on time...
Blame the recession on Reagan: Paul Krugman
in Sox First, on June 1, 2009
...merica's economic woes on Ronald Reagan. Basically, Krugman says deregulation, the piling up of debt and the scrapping of financially prudent rules like for example limiting the ability of familie...
Lansinoh Ventures Into Diaper Rash
in Straightfromthedoc, on May 26, 2009
A breastfeeding company - Lansinoh - has now ventured into diaper rash ointment for babies.
The product is called Lansinoh Diaper Rash Ointment - an odorless formula that absorbs right into baby's skin without leaving goopy, clumpy, white residue. It washes right off parents' hands...
Krugman, Soros and Roubini: how to fix the crisis
in Sox First, on May 26, 2009
...sive deficit to save the economy. It is a finely balanced thing, he says. "We are currently in debt about 60 percent of GDP,'' Krugman says. "We have in the past been as high as 100 ...
You can lower your mortgage interest rate -- BEFORE you take out that loan
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 26, 2009
...g your bills on time - and the good credit report to prove it - and a high income and low amount of debt, you'll qualify for a lower interest rate. That's because lenders will view you as less...
Britain to lose AAA rating, US is next
in Sox First, on May 24, 2009
...its of 10 percent annually as far as the eye can see. At some point over the next several years the debt of each may approach 100 percent of GDP, which is a level at which country downgrades tend to o...
