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No Recovery in I.P.O.'s Yet

in Wangtam, on 2009-10-04

• No Recovery in I.P.O.'s Yet • The PSPgo Launch Guide • GE Is in Talks to Spin Off NBC, Give Comcast 51% of New Unit • Refine your search results with new Search Options • UK court orders writ to be served via Twitter • Spotify goes offline • Keyboard Shortcut To Quickly Open A Jum...

IPO boom out of sync

in Sox First, on September 29, 2009

...n 2007 and the previous high of 11.22 times in 2003. Somewhere in another universe, the market for IPOs is booming . Just in the US alone this week, IPOs are set to raise $3.5 billion. It will be t...

New Final Fantasy XIII 720p HD Screenshots

in Wangtam, on 2009-08-05

• New Final Fantasy XIII 720p HD Screenshots • Now on YouTube, Local News • 4Chan Users Attempt To Incite Mass Fear, Succeed Only In Creating Really Tidy Block List • Why Apple needs a Tablet PC • Google City Tours • Fantasy baseball and fantasy football games - Daily drafts | FanDuel • ...

Safe Harbor Seafoods and Grilled Tuna Zucchini Pasta and Artichoke Sauce

in Do you like to cook?, on July 28, 2009

... Buying fish is tricky nowadays and the thought of mercury poisoning is enough of a deterrent to eating fish. Unless, you get those with the Safe Harbor certification. Damon Stainbrook, former s...

VC in Q2: a Grim Picture

in TJ's Weblog, on July 17, 2009

There are two basic numbers to look at when you consider how the venture capital industry is doing. How many individual funds were started in a particular quarter? How much money was raised for those funds? The second quarter of 2009 saw grim numbers for the venture capital industry. VentureBeat r...

Madoff gets the max! What now?

in Sox First, on June 30, 2009

..., the SEC should be brought to account for the suffering it has caused? And will his sentence be a deterrent? One would imagine that Allen Stanford might be a worried man today, assuming he is found ...

Three US IPO Listings for Chinese Companies

in China Venture News, on June 29, 2009

...has an informative write up online at the moment for three Chinese companies that recently released IPOs on the US market. Duoyuan Global Water Inc. listed on the NYSE. The company describes itself a...

National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots

in TJ's Weblog, on May 25, 2009

... a venture capital firm some return on their investment in the new company. So the meager number of IPOs last year means that most VC funds aren't getting a return on their investment at the momen...

IPOs: don't blame Sarbox

in Sox First, on April 15, 2009

... Extraordinary that the debate about the impact of Sarbanes Oxley on IPOs still continues almost seven years after it was introduced. Particularly in this economic climate. Last week, The Wall St...

Detroit's Beauty on the Lawns of a Mansion built by Matilda Dodge Wilson. Yes, that Dodge

in Classical Drives, on April 2, 2009

...motorcycles. The Birmingham driving Tour will visit the Birmingham/Bloomfield Hills area. One major deterrent from buying classic vehicles like these is the cost of car or bike insurance ...

RFID to Thieves: Just stay away from Saguaros

in The RFID Weblog, on March 13, 2009

... could be easily tracked and might get caught by the law. This aspect is certainly acting as a huge deterrent for thieves as of now. There has already been a case where a man walked off with more than...

Finally Papua province realizes that its condoms and not RFID which can prevent spread of AIDS

in The RFID Weblog, on December 29, 2008

... be implanted with microchips so that a watch on their sexual behavior could be kept and act as a deterrent to spread infections to others but this step had invoked criticism from various sections o...

For a While, No More IPOs in China...

in China Venture News, on October 12, 2008

...O applications in an effort to boost stock prices. The move is not unprecedented. China suspended IPOs for a full year in 2005-2006. The CSRC stopped reviewing applications back on September 16. We&...

Kunda Technology Floats IPO in Singapore

in China Venture News, on October 4, 2008

..., investment in new plant and production facilities, and for research & development. Singapore IPOs gave some financial details on the company. According to them, unaudited 9 months sales for 200...

The Monetization of Hedge Fund Management Firms

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 4, 2008

...elling less than 100% of the equity or (5) selling a revenue interest. Examples of traditional IPOs would include Man, Och-Ziff, Gottex, RAB Capital; BlueBay, Polar , and Ashmore (plus Fortres...

Chinese IPOs - From Riches Back to Rags in New York

in China Venture News, on August 2, 2008

Last year was a record year for Chinese company on U.S. stock exchanges. A record 31 Chinese companies raised $6.8 billion from public offerings in the United States in 2007, according to PE Hub . But this year there have been exactly two public offerings from Chinese companies so far in the ...

Does Sarbanes-Oxley make fraud worse?

in Sox First, on July 23, 2008

...ot;Internal controls are like locks on a door. The more sophisticated a lock you have, the better a deterrent it is, but someone who is truly knowledgeable can defeat any internal control." ...

Unternehmen: Börsengang immer unattraktiver

in Das Börsen Weblog, on 09.07.08

...raum erfassten Werte. Von den acht Neuzugängen in Frankfurt waren lediglich drei echte IPOs, also Börsengänge, die mit einer Kapitalerhöhung verbunden sind. Und sieht man mal von der SMA Solar Tech...

BAE vows to clean up

in Sox First, on June 30, 2008

...prospect of getting these sorts of deals up will not improve its reputation. Won't be much of a deterrent either....

Warren Buffet and value investing

in TJ's Weblog, on April 28, 2008

...he value approach to other sectors/ industries or situations of companies (i.e. turn-around or even IPOs) but Warren has managed to bring in 22% of portfolio growth on average with hardly any year loo...

Send Wesley Snipes to jail: prosecutors

in Sox First, on April 16, 2008

...the criminal tax scofflaw must be commensurate with the gravity of the offense, and should act as a deterrent to other potential violators. This case cries out for the statutory maximum term of impris...

The winners from underpriced IPOs

in Sox First, on April 2, 2008

... The pricing of initial public offerings (IPOs) always raises one interesting question. Who benefits? Data shows that IPOs in the United States are underpriced an average of 15 percent. Translated...

Fraud and IPOs

in Sox First, on April 1, 2008

...raud affected by investor beliefs about business conditions? How is that reflected in the data from IPOs? A study by Tracy Wang and Andrew Winton from the University of Minnesota, and Xiaoyun Yu from...

China Delaying IPOs Over Green Regs

in China Venture News, on February 26, 2008

...China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) held up at least ten IPOs last year because the companies involved didn't meet new anti-pollution guidelines, according to The Wal...

SPONSOR POST: What is Prime Brokerage

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 21, 2008

...tory consulting. Other prime brokers specialize in niche segment of the financial markets, such as IPOs . For example, Triad Securities provides comprehensive data on the global new issue market. ...

Bad apples and bad trees

in Sox First, on February 20, 2008

...bility. In addition, a clear, transparent standard for criminal liability produces a more efficient deterrent mechanism. The threat of liability in these circumstances can cause firms to engage in cum...

BP's double standard

in Sox First, on February 8, 2008

... Lee Rosenthal that the settlement between BP and the US government be thrown out. "This is no deterrent to BP, nor does it provide incentive for BP to take the kind of action necessary to preven...

Spam Reaches Record Levels

in I got Spam?!, on January 9, 2008

Despite the arrests of several major spammers in 2007, spam levels rose to record levels in December, accounting for 97% of all emails sent that month. Viruses accounted for .11%. Researchers at Softscan released a list of the top five viruses sent in December: 1. Phishing: 87.54% 2. Dropper:...

China Stocks Up 97% in Shanghai, 39% in HK for 2007

in China Venture News, on January 3, 2008

stock markets in both Shanghai and in Hong Kong had a record year in 2007, and became forces in the global economy according to the China Post . "In February, for the first time ever, a plunge in Chinese stocks triggered a global market sell-off, suggesting the potential sway th...

kayak and sidestep merge

in TJ's Weblog, on December 21, 2007

...k co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Paul English said. "It's more than a lot of tech IPOs raise." The acquisition of SideStep accounted for more than $150 million of the venture f...

Easy time for corporate crooks

in Sox First, on December 20, 2007

...t of those sentenced got no prison time and only 6 percent received 10 years or more. Not much of a deterrent at all. In her White Collar Crime Prof Blog , Professor Ellen S Podgor questions whether...

Enron, stakeholders and the consequences for corporate governance

in Sox First, on November 28, 2007

... issues, concern for harm to employees and the community, and hopes that the outcome would act as a deterrent. What he found was that most common type of statement noted the bad character of Ken Lay ...

Keeping up with the Joneses: bubbles and herding behavior

in Sox First, on November 21, 2007

...y logic is there in all bubbles. In the dot com bubble, for instance, there was enormous money from IPOs in start-ups that not only had never made a profit. Some hadn't even made any revenue. Why ...

Zoho Suite vs Google Docs

in Wangtam, on 2007-10-28

- Zoho Suite vs Google Docs - Blogger与垃圾站长 - MySQL Gets a Gift from Google - Frokk: Free Online Dating Site - FoxiFly: Collective Browsing Community - Collective-Media: Targeted Advertising - SignUpForCards: Search, Compare, Apply - RealSelf is a new product review site with a nic...

Dell Offers Networked Approach To Desktop Support

in Networking for Pros, on October 15, 2007

... the IT department to control security risks posed by viruses and spyware, and is also an effective deterrent to hacking. The centralized approach also allows an organization to maintain close control...

Buried treasure, corporate pirates and Sarbanes-Oxley

in Sox First, on October 10, 2007

...ues that the Act is weak. She says tough asset forfeiture sanctions are needed to make it more of a deterrent. She says there are laws that allow the seizing of illicit proceeds in the fight against ...

China Digital A Big Hit on NYSE

in China Venture News, on October 8, 2007

We talked a few weeks ago about little known China Digital TV (NYSE: STV ) and how they planned to float an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. Well boy did it float! In looking at the stock's debut performance, Tom Taulli said, "it was inevitable it would do well" based simply...

Hedge Funds In Europe Vs. US

in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 1, 2007

...uropean hedge fund assets moved up from 12% of US assets in 2001 to 42% in 2006. Growth in European IPOs has been even more dramatic, increasing ten times between 2002 and 2006 and were well ahead of ...

Illegal ATV Drivers Riding in Northwest Georgia

in The Outdoor Weblog, on August 13, 2007

...een quickly destroyed. And rangers complain there's too few patrolling officers to be much of a deterrent. "We've got eight officers - that's almost a million acres we're coverin...

Foreign Investment Up in China

in China Venture News, on July 17, 2007

...This is especially true when Chinese companies go public on foreign markets. June saw a number of IPOs from China, like solar power firms LDK and Yingli Green . June also saw a number of foreign ...

China High Speed IPO: Wind Power Wins Big

in China Venture News, on July 6, 2007

...ina at the moment, but most of the recent activity has involved solar power companies. Solar energy IPOs, however, seem to have saturated U.S. markets at the moment. The last solar power IPO in the U....

Nanjing, Ningbo Banks to Float A-Shares

in China Venture News, on July 4, 2007

... commercial banks, the Bank of Nanjing and the Bank of Ningbo, have decided to float A-share IPOs to raise capital. They become China's first two city-level commercial banks to go public. ...

SOX and bubbles

in Sox First, on July 4, 2007

...... the first signs of the political/regulatory cycle shifting direction have appeared. Second, the deterrent effect of these regulations will be undercut by the dynamics of the next bubble as complia...

中国移动,这里还有,继续盗用的话就拿去。

in Wangtam, on 2007-06-24

...ckStone's IPO, Information Cascades, and Oversubscribed IPOs - Blackstone IPO to be Delayed? - New NIKE Lance Armstrong 10/2 Limited Edition Watch Collection - Business.com On The Block - ...

Does Sarbanes-Oxley stop risk-taking?

in Sox First, on June 22, 2007

...reased their cash holdings in a big way since SOX. Risk measures for US firms also decreased. With IPOs, there was a greater likelihood of them being conducted in Britain post-SOX. Significantly, thi...

Now the Cops Will Know if You're Yapping While Driving

in The Smart PDA, on June 20, 2007

...sed to be using your smartphone or PDA while driving in the first place, but here's another deterrent to make sure you play it safe. According to Newlaunches.com , you're four times m...

首例站长诉谷歌AdSense案昨开庭 谷歌未出庭

in Wangtam, on 2007-06-14

- 首例站长诉谷歌AdSense案昨开庭 谷歌未出庭 - 《數位之牆》Web 2.0 再思考(四)「私人財產」與「階級不平等」 - Feedsky吕欣欣:Feed服务商更关注用户精度 - Blackstone Update - Who Makes What - Macworld Podcast: WWDC Roundtable - 在互联网上,有人知道你是一条"狗" - Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6 (2007.06.12) - Reactee - Cause a Reaction Combining fashion, SMS and...

Harvesting the Sun in China

in China Venture News, on June 3, 2007

If you haven't been paying attention to the solar energy industry in China over the last couple years, perhaps now is the time to sit up and take notice - and maybe the time to buy in, as well. In December of 2005, China Sunergy (also called Suntech and listed as STP ) became the f...

74 种开源 VoIP 工具

in Wangtam, on 2007-04-19

- 74 种开源 VoIP 工具 - Port 25 : Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin - Download 最新的官方插件 - Adobe Flash Lite for BREW Publisher Preview Release - 广东"扫黄打非"销毁1000万张盗版光盘 - 被Google收购未必有好下场 已有创始人大呼上当 - 华体网裁员土豆网再获投资 网络视频冰火两重天 谁都说自己获得了风投,钱真是多啊,老外们都疯也似的跑来中国了。

无敌的汽车防盗系统

in Geeker Vision, on 2007-04-06

  总是怕自己的汽车被偷了?现在小偷的技术越来越高明,似乎总是"魔高一丈"?不用怕,下面隆重介绍一种超级无敌的汽车防盗系统。它是全自动的,并且不用钱。不信?

Clawbacks: how to recover the money

in Sox First, on March 23, 2007

... Can't take It With Them says these sorts of policies would stand as a "carefully focused deterrent". "The adoption of some form of restatement clawback policy is practically a no...

How Google Blog Search Ranks Results

in Wangtam, on 2007-03-22

- How Google Blog Search Ranks Results - Twitter / HUNG: 网谈订阅数超19000, 逼近20000大关. - YouTube视频大奖赛2006正式开始 - Hello Kitty空气清新器 - 个性化G时代来临!Google已提供主题皮肤功能!(已放出截图,更新3) - Youtube案例分析:Widget营销时代到来 - Golla Bag:Gadget便携包 - WM 5和6的功能对比 - EVEREST Ultimate Edition v3.80.955 Beta

Chapstick 2GB Flash Drive

in The Gadgets Weblog, on February 14, 2007

...a 2GB Flash Drive that looks like a tube of chapstick. I got to admit, it is definitely great theft deterrent. A common tube of chapstick is the last thing info-thieves will suspect being a flash driv...

CD Bonus Explosion and Piracy

in Digital Music - The Future, on February 7, 2007

...about the unintended effect on unauthorized downloading. Bonus features often are cited as a piracy deterrent. But when there are several different CD packages they actually encourage rather than dete...

CD Bonus Explosion and Piracy

in P2P File Sharing, on February 7, 2007

...about the unintended effect on unauthorized downloading. Bonus features often are cited as a piracy deterrent. But when there are several different CD packages they actually encourage rather than dete...

Why managers fail to do the right thing

in Sox First, on January 20, 2007

... How effective a deterrent is the threat of a jail sentence or heavy fine? Why do managers keep stepping over the line when it come to ethical behavior? And why do the same things keep happening ov...

Towards a Better Understanding of WiMax

in The Wireless Weblog, on January 17, 2007

...; Recent reports have stated that 2007 will be the ' year of WiMax ,' or that the leading IPOs this year will be for WiMax network operators," the article states. "Whether or not ...

Top 10 business shenanigans for 2006

in Sox First, on December 25, 2006

What a year it's been! The stories have just kept coming, and certainly kept me busy here. Scandals and litigation have all been part of the mix covered by Sox First this year. And Governments and business are copping plenty of heat to lift their game. And it's now coming from all Quar...

RFID: Das waren die Toptrends 2006

in RFID Weblog, on 23.12.06

... Top Ten: 1. Die Industrie als solche 2. Gen2 Delights 3. Pharmaindustrie 4. Das Fehlen eines IPOs 5. Item-Level Surprise 6. HF versus UHF 7. WalMart und die DoD 8. Cover Your Assets 9. RFID...

Paulson and SOX: the backlash

in Sox First, on November 28, 2006

...nt this new form of CEO looting." At the same time, questions are being asked the downturn in IPOs, purportedly as a result of Sarbanes-Oxley, is necessarily a bad thing. Indeed, it might even b...

Pelosi, venture capital and Sarbanes-Oxley

in Sox First, on November 15, 2006

...icians and regulators hard to water down the legislation, claiming it had resulted in a decline in IPOs . Now Bloomberg reports that the presumptive new speaker of the House, nancy Pelosi, ...

The private equity boom: back to the "greed is good" era

in Sox First, on October 30, 2006

... are profound social costs here with job losses and investors losing out with private equity-backed IPOs tanking. The greed is also self-destructive and hazardous because it pushes people into taking...

Hong Kong overtakes US for IPOs - don't blame SOX

in Sox First, on October 24, 2006

The debate about whether SOX is driving companies away from the US market, and whether more are listing overseas because of SOX-related costs is about to move into over-drive. But the big shift will have nothing to do with Sarbanes-Oxley. The news is that Hong Kong is overtaking New York and Lo...

摘录: Supersize My China Bank IPO

in Wangtam, on 2006-10-10

...ina (CIBC) IPO in context: - Amount to be raised by CIBC IPO: $21.8-billion - Amount raised by all IPOs on U.S. exchanges in first half of 2006: $19.2-billion [ via ]...

SOX and the regulation myths

in Sox First, on October 10, 2006

...set by net savings in cost of capital; one of the reasons for the drop in the US share of worldwide IPOs is the dramatic decrease in the number of IPOs by U.S. companies but there was no commensurate ...

China Finance Conferences Still Red Hot

in China Venture News, on September 16, 2006

...n highlights will include: China's Domestic Capital Markets. 
* The re-emergence of domestic IPOs -- how big an impact will they make and will they really compete with offshore IPOs?
* What is th...

Special Report: Early Stage Invesment in Chinese Tech Companies

in China Venture News, on September 9, 2006

...ginning in China's east coast cities. I don't mean to suggest that the dozens of technology IPOs of the past ten years do not qualify as well build companies. They are however not representati...

SOX and the lure of the IPO

in Sox First, on September 2, 2006

SOX-bashers say Sarbanes-Oxley and US accounting regulations are deterring companies from listing in the US. But the numbers tell a different story. Like Mark Twain 's death, reports of the demise of the US exchanges are premature.

SOX and the foreign affair

in Sox First, on August 26, 2006

The debate continues around whether SOX is driving companies away from the US market, and whether more are listing overseas because of SOX-related costs. The latest pitch comes from the conservative US think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, which tells us that the growth of foreign secu...

Quattrone's deferred deal: more on the way?

in Sox First, on August 24, 2006

...uy who had been charged with hindering an investigation into whether Credit Suisse had been rigging IPOs is likely to collect $100 million to $120 million in back pay from Credit Suisse, just as long ...