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Jackson's funeral: taxpayers foot the bill
in Sox First, on July 9, 2009
...r a dead superstar. The Los Angeles Times reports that inquiries are under way into how the city ended up paying $1.4 million for the funeral. That includes 3500 boxed lunches from Jensen's Fin...
Supply chain video: Preparing for the worst, managing supplier risk in the downturn (Part 1)
in Supplychainer, on June 30, 2009
...period. He continues with mentioning the fact that because of such uncertainty, many companies have ended up vulnerable and some of them going through bankruptcy or consolidation (acquisition by other...
Taking a Chance
in Next Nine Months, on June 19, 2009
...orse every time. We feared we were running out of time and started looking into alternatives.
We ended up getting pregnant once more, only this time it wasn't planned and we were torn between ha...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
... investors have been put in a position of years & generations (in my case 4) of lost investment earnings, homes, retirement, children's education and charitable contributions. My husband and I...
Data Center Overload
in Wangtam, on June 12, 2009
...rack Your Sales at Multiple Sites. By Image. Automatically.
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• LOOKBOOK.nu: collective fashion consciousness.
• Corporate Twitter Editorial Control...
Hard times for logistics and transportation companies...
in Supplychainer, on June 11, 2009
...arge logistics chain.
- The predicted growth haven't materialized so some logistics firms have ended up with extra resources.
So, like many other sectors, these companies have started cost reduc...
Climate change and business costs
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
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How will an emissions trading scheme affect business? Company earnings could fall from less than 1% to 117% under a cap and trade, according to some new research released by not-for-profit Inves...
Entry Level E-450 reviewed
in Digital Shot, on May 30, 2009
...ver, has a respectable price, around $500! Photography blog has got on the case of reviewing it and ended up giving it a quality 4 stars, with a special mention at the truely fantastic value it offers...
How much is Facebook worth?
in Sox First, on May 30, 2009
...ese social network companies is: How do they convert traffic and consumer interest into revenue and earnings? The jury is still out." And as Hasselback points out, Time Warner's decision to g...
Pay cuts fail to save HP jobs
in The CIO Weblog, on May 28, 2009
Despite the across-the-board pay cuts HP CEO Mark Hurd made (and I lauded ) two months ago, the latest quarterly results have proven disappointing and the outlook no better, leading the company to announce that it will be making recession-related layoffs after all... 6000 jobs over the next ...
Sony to reduce the number of suppliers to half
in Supplychainer, on May 23, 2009
...trong yen has eroded profits earned overseas. Sony didn't say how the new measures would affect earnings. But if the cuts are deep enough, Sony may be able to restore its electronics business to p...
Navigating the new mortgage roadmap
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 12, 2009
...t recent mortgage loan back in 2006. You might remember that this was right before the housing boom ended and the housing crash began. Bad timing on my part. Today, my home is worth far less than what...
宝马汽车第一财季净亏1.52亿欧元
in Wangtam, on May 7, 2009
• 宝马汽车第一财季净亏1.52亿欧元
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Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
... confident, they go out and buy but their decisions are not based on a quantitative analysis of the earnings of business 10 years from now. Similarly, when they lose confidence, they withdraw. The irr...
Swine flu hits business
in Sox First, on April 30, 2009
...pany CEO John Chidsey says the company is taking a more conservative approach to its fourth quarter earnings outlook because of the "ongoing market challenges and unknown potential effects of the...
微软公布 2009 年第三季度财报
in Wangtam, on April 24, 2009
微软今天发布了2009财年第三季度财报 。报告显示，由于全球经济滑坡导致技术支出下滑，微软第三季度净利润同比下滑32%，表现不及分析师此前预期。
在截至3月31日的这一财季，微软的净利润为29.8亿美元，每股收益33美分，这一业绩不及去年同期。2008财年第三季度，微软的净利润为 43.9亿美元，每股收益476美分。微软第三季度运营利润为44.4亿美元，比去年同期的42.9亿美元增长3%。微软第三季度营收为136.5亿美元，比去年同期的144.5亿美元下滑6%。
不计入一次性支出，微软第三季度每股收益为39美分。路透财经调查显示，分析师此前预计微软第三季度每股收益为39美分，营收为...
Another sucker's rally
in Sox First, on April 22, 2009
...cession. Roubini says there are a number of reasons why it's going to be long and slow. First, earnings are going to come in lower than expected because of the weak economy with deflationary forc...
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...
Model-Making Klutz Admires 1-6th Scale Corvette Engine That Runs
in Classical Drives, on April 17, 2009
...e aware of this story. Forty-five years after working together and with no further contact, we both ended up on Canada's west coast Vancouver Island, Diana in Ladysmith BC and me in Sidney BC, whe...
Deluxe gift glitch
in WebKinzBlog, on April 11, 2009
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All of a sudden we ended up with a SECOND Deluxe membership gift in our accounts at some point this week! Our Deluxe covers all of our accounts and I thought we got a second one before in another b...
Airlines in tailspin
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
...ich means you have the same costs per flight. Combine that with fewer passengers, and you get lower earnings. It will be interesting, and sickening, to see how many airlines file for bankruptcy....
Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum
in The CIO Weblog, on April 8, 2009
... talk on Social Network, Web 2.0, and Sharepoint could have been double the time he was alloted and ended up conflating the internal and external aspects of the subject in ways that seemed to leave th...
Fake Accounting Standards Board strikes again
in Sox First, on April 6, 2009
...which means it doesn't hit the bottom line which means the banks can artificially inflate their earnings. So let's expand that. If your company invested in entities that turned out to be dogs...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
... money myself ... As most of us have done nothing wrong, guilt is not a motivation to surrender our earnings. We have worked 12 long months under these contracts and now deserve to be paid as promised...
Fedex announces the quarter earnings are down 75 percent
in Supplychainer, on March 21, 2009
...the sales of logistics service provider as there is less freight to be relocated. The new quarterly earnings of Fedex is one evidence of this:
Net income for the Memphis -based company was down s...
China's Tencent - the World's Most Profitable Social Network
in The Social Networking Weblog, on March 19, 2009
...A couple of sources ( paidContent.org , VentureBeat ) had stories today on the wicked-huge earnings report from China's Tencent web portal and social network.
Tencent took in about a billion d...
The seven deadly sins of executive pay
in Sox First, on March 18, 2009
...interesting proposals. The first comes from corporate governance watchdog Regnan which has recommended capping "golden parachutes" and issuing share options that can only be cashed out af... ...ompanies commit seven big mistakes when they reward executives. The first is basing the package on earnings per share which can be affected by accounting tricks and doesn't account for the cost o...
Will RFID snowboard see the light of the day?
in The RFID Weblog, on March 13, 2009
...dded in affirmation. This was the start of an interesting discussion which lasted till midnight and ended when his wife called him wondering about his whereabouts.
I hope till now even you might hav...
Whither the call center?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 9, 2009
...e call centers economically competitive with off-shore options, but even as outsourcing as a whole tended to increase in recent years, companies have become increasingly ambiguous about off-shoring th...
Chess With a Six Year Old
in PCGamers Blog, on March 4, 2009
...coming to an end. Last week my wife and oldest son had some "mommy and me" time and they ended up playing checkers after lunch.
The next day I fired up Chess Titans and started playing i...
Auto catastrophe
in Sox First, on February 27, 2009
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 Government keeping the company going is throwing good money after bad. There is a structural shift going on i...
The recession's Spam index
in Sox First, on February 20, 2009
...he data showed strong sales of Spam as consumers tighten their belts and hunker down. That took its earnings to 60 cents a share when analysts on average were expecting profit of 51 cents a share, rep...
Yahoo 关闭 RSS 广告服务
in Wangtam, on February 5, 2009
Yahoo 本周宣布，从 2 月 2 日起正式关闭面向发行商的 RSS 广告平台 。
RSS 广告服务主要面向小型网络发行商，目前仍处于测试阶段，它允许发行商在自己的网站上放置相关广告。
Yahoo 发言人在一份声明中称："我们将于 2009 年 2 月 2 日正式关闭 RSS 广告服务，之后，我们将重点发展其他面向发行商合作伙伴的产品，如赞助搜索和网页竞价服务 Content Match 等。"
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Hot topics in consumer goods supply chain management
in Supplychainer, on February 5, 2009
...es gained from economic crisis (companies in food sector e.g. GENERAL MILLS ) and some companies ended up with lots of inventories (like the apparel producers and retailers).
In any case, the hot...
Apple iPhone: AT&T's Bread and Butter
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on February 2, 2009
...the industry at the end of the first month of 2009 by reporting a 24 percent fall in fourth quarter earnings despite strong wireless sales, due to high costs of supporting Apple's popular iPhone 3...
Rupert Murdoch's downturn blues
in Sox First, on January 30, 2009
...m Fox Interactive Media is axing jobs and many more are expected to go. Analysts have cut their earnings forecasts, warning that the company's profits this year could be halved. And Pali Rese...
The axe man cometh: get ready for a shorter working week
in Sox First, on January 27, 2009
...heck this little table from the Financial Times . The news everywhere looks bad. American Express earnings have fallen 79% , a sure sign of the credit crisis with slowing consumer demand and rising...
Oil price futures
in Sox First, on January 20, 2009
...oment, they have fallen below $35 a barrel in the face of weakening consumer demand and corporate earnings heading down the toilet. But look carefully at the futures contracts . According to the c...
Recession to last a year - CFOs
in Sox First, on January 14, 2009
...is expected to slip 4% on average, marketing and advertising spending is expected to drop by 7% and earnings over the next 12 months are expected to decline 9%. Based on those sorts of projections, i...
Maths and the meltdown
in Sox First, on January 14, 2009
... determine. For example, a young, promising company would fit the bill. "The combination of no earnings history and a highly uncertain future allows investors to defend valuations ranging from mu...
The Effect of Satyam's Revelation
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 10, 2009
... seen by now, Satyam (one of the biggest Indian-based outsourcing companies) is in the midst of an earnings misstatement crisis. Like many other companies, Satyam was subject to substantial pressure ...
Reshaping governance: interview with Lord Michael Hastings
in Sox First, on January 9, 2009
...It started off being every citizen's opportunity to have a stake in corporate business. What it ended up being is institutions taking mass stakes. It's gone from the individuals to the anonymo...
3900 Saturdays
in The Parenting Weblog, on January 4, 2009
...housand of them left to enjoy. So
I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended
up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1000 marbles I took them
home and put them i...
Working Hard or Hardly Working?
in WebKinzBlog, on December 31, 2008
...th Quizzy answering some of his questions before you try some jobs!
I checked ours - $31,100 total earnings on the main account....
Goldman Sachs tax lurk
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
...chs, the lower tax rate was "due to an increase in permanent benefits as a percentage of lower earnings and changes in geographic earnings mix". Translated, that means the bank paid less ta...
Inexpensive Point And Shoot Camcorder/Still Cameras For Holiday Fun
in Digital Shot, on December 11, 2008
...d Compact Flash cards, and allowed me to grab some impromptu video and unexpected still images that ended up being priceless, at least as far as the laugh factor.
I upgraded earlier this year to a ...
Can't wait for Christmas!
in The Parenting Weblog, on December 9, 2008
...l I can already tear it to pieces because each week that he accompanies me to the grocery store, we ended up buying other sorts of toys on display.
And he wouldn't budge, we gotta pick up one pie...
Running on empty - the global recession unfolds
in Sox First, on December 5, 2008
...l are cutting thousands of jobs. Consumer electronics giant Philips says it won't meet it's earnings target and its chief executive Gerard Kleisterlee is warning that the downturn is hap...
Speed Dating Is For the Pretty
in The Dating Weblog, on November 21, 2008
...oup grew, a small number of attractive individuals received all the offers. Less popular candidates ended up with few invitations or none at all."
The study went on to say that in smaller group...
Siemens' bribery bill
in Sox First, on November 10, 2008
...ongoing proceedings." the Siemens statement says. That sort of money would have to affect its earnings but Theo Kitz, an analyst in Munich at Merck Finck told Bloomberg the money allocated...
Toyota's day of reckoning?
in Sox First, on November 7, 2008
...er sign that hard times are well and truly upon us with Toyota announcing that it has slashed its earnings by more than two-thirds, or 69%. Look at the numbers carefully. In the first half, it expec...
Accounting regulators protecting banks
in Sox First, on November 6, 2008
...warrants as permanent equity rather than derivatives, the gains and losses don't show up in the earnings. As Bloomberg columnist Jonathan Weil noted last month, bending the rules to protect the...
EA Unveiles Game Titles for the Google Phone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 31, 2008
...or your new platform. In anticipation of the new G1 phone (from T-Mobile ) and Google 's open-ended Android operating System, Electronic Arts , makers of such industry staples as the Madden foo...
DHL ends its partnership with the American drugstore
in Supplychainer, on October 29, 2008
...ng to a news release by Logistics Management Magazine, DHL and Walgreens, the drugstore chain, have ended their partnership in SCM area only after nine months.
It was first in January that it was an...
微软公布 2009 财年第一季度财报
in Wangtam, on October 26, 2008
微软本周发布 了2009财年第一财季财报。财报显示，微软第一财季净利润为43.7亿美元，较去年同期的42.9亿美元增长2%；微软第一财季营收为150.6亿美元，较去年同期的137.6亿美元增长9% 。
在截至9月30日的第一财季，微软的净利润为43.7亿美元，每股收益48美分。这一业绩较去年同期上涨2%，2008财年第一采集，微软的净利润为42.9亿美元，每股收益45美分。微软第一财季运营利润为60.0亿美元，去年同期为58.5 亿美元。微软第一财季营收为150.6亿美元，较去年同期的137.6亿美元增长9% 。
微软第一财季业绩超过了分析师预期。汤姆森财经调查显示，分析师此前预计...
Apple Sales And Profits Up/ Stock Falling
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 24, 2008
...ted stellar iPhone sales and a better-than-expected profit margin through its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings. So what's the problem? Though profitable, investors are quick to note that the company...
Want More F1 Passing? Watch This!
in Classical Drives, on October 24, 2008
...e fences. Pironi led the championship at Hockenheim that year but suffered a wet-weather crash that ended his career. The young Italian retired from F1, took up powerboat racing , and was killed in...
Europe catches the US car industry disease
in Sox First, on October 24, 2008
...#39;s burning cash and it warns that its profit could fall 65%. The only reason its third quarter earnings were anywhere near respectable was on the back of farming machinery sales. Then Daimler cu...
Apple 公布 2008 第四季度财报
in Wangtam, on October 22, 2008
Apple 今天发布了 截至9月27日的2008财年第四季度财报。报告显示，得益于新款iPhone的热销， Apple 第四季度营收为79亿美元，较去年同期的 62.2亿美元增长27%； Apple 第四季度净利润为11.4亿美元，较去年同期的9.04亿美元增长26%，超出了分析师的预期。
在截至9月27日的这一财季， Apple 的净利润为11.4亿美元，每股收益1.26美元。这一业绩好于去年同期，2007财年第四季度， Apple 的净利润为9.04亿美元，每股收益1.01美元。 Apple 第四季度运营利润为14.42亿美元，高于去年同期的10.60亿美元。 Apple 第四季...
The Future of Exchange
in The CIO Weblog, on October 21, 2008
...where my attention seems to be at the moment. Would it mollify anyone if I mention that Apple's earnings report today totally rocked? I didn't think so.
Anyway, what this is all about is the ...
Warning signs for Amex: shares up
in Sox First, on October 21, 2008
...ys a mystery. Shares in American Express rose 9% after it beat analysts estimates for third quarter earnings. That's despite a 23% drop in third-quarter income from continuing operations. More fro...
They just hopped in the bag!
in WebKinzBlog, on October 18, 2008
... discounts. Can anyone resist webkinz on sale for 30% off? Well I know we can't so somehow four ended up coming home with us. Pink Google, Rhino, tiger snake and I think a lil'horse. The lil&#...
Google 公布 2008 年第三季度财报
in Wangtam, on October 17, 2008
Google 今天发布了截至 9 月 30 日的 2008 财年第三季度财报 。报告显示， Google 第三季度营收为 55.4 亿美元，同比增长 31%； Google 第三季度净利润为 13.5 亿美元，比去年同期的 10.7 亿美元增长26%。受此影响， Google 股价在随后的盘后交易中大涨 35.38 美元，涨幅为 10.02%。
Google 第三季度营收为 55.4 亿美元，比去年同期的 42.3 亿美元增长 31%，比上一季度的 53.7 亿美元增长3%。按照美国通用会计准则， Google 第三季度净利润为 13.5 亿美元，比去年同期的 10.7 亿美元增长 ...
Poverty and Education: the Circular Problem...
in The Universities Weblog, on October 15, 2008
There's no denying the correlation. People are who poor are also less likely to have a college degree. People who are poor are less likely to have parents who have a college degree. There is a negative correlation between poverty and education.
Without an education it's hard to break out ...
Bootstrapping key in tough economic times
in BootStrapMe, on October 13, 2008
...mes to survival.
• Offer far greater rewards to the entrepreneur. With less dilution of earnings among shareholders, this allows founders to keep much of what they have created, a key point often al...
A Car Movie Worth Seeing: Flash of Genius
in Classical Drives, on October 13, 2008
...s missing the 11 PM curfew his father had imposed while absent on business, my career as a designer ended before it started. Yet like most young guys I wasn't easily dissuaded so I tried selling c...
Forecasts of the economic disaster
in Sox First, on October 13, 2008
...t well beyond borrowers' ability to repay them. Meanwhile, banks and credit-rating agencies pretended that financial alchemy could convert bad mortgages into AAA assets, and the Fed looked the oth... ...ast quarter of a century"), Warren Buffett five years ago ("Derivatives generate reported earnings that are often wildly overstated and based on estimates whose inaccuracy may not be exposed...
University of Tennessee Faces Budget Cuts
in The Universities Weblog, on October 11, 2008
... the hole got deep enough that they (the governor and the legislature) couldn't do that, and we ended up with about a 4.1 percent cut across the state, which for us at the University of Tennessee ...
The Starter Wife Style
in Busy with Style, on October 10, 2008
...For Sex & the City fans, what do you do when your favorite show has ended and the movie has moved into the video/DVD market? Do you cry over your Manolos, bemoaning the lack of fashion inspirati...
This Weekend's Food and Drink Festivals
in Do you like to cook?, on October 9, 2008
...It's October and even though the King of Oktoberfests in Munich, Germany ended yesterday, the rest of the globe hasn't put down their steins yet!
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Paul G...
