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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...
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 ...
E-mail traffic analysis reveals disruptions
in The CIO Weblog, on June 23, 2009
...tion.
Researchers analyzing mail logs comprised of messages sent to and from 150 senior staff at Enron during the company's final 18 months found that volume increased and the correspondents be...
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....
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 ...
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...
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...
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!...
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...
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...
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...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...astrophes unfolding before their eyes. In the late 1990s, their faculties rushed to write paeans to Enron, the firm of the future, the new economic paradigm. The admiration was mutual: Enron was stuff...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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。
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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...
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'...
Oil shock ahead
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
...d to that the reports of warnings that oil prices have bottomed out and are likely to soar again. Investors are betting on a big spike with spot and futures prices for West Texas Intermediate crude ...
Market soars as trade collapses
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
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Sometimes I really struggle to understand investors and markets. They get overrun by the spirits of irrational exuberance and sent to another planet. Yesterday, the Dow soared 7% as investors e...
Why Geithner's plan won't work
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
...om the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and of course money from private investors, to create a fund that will buy the banks' so-called "toxic assets". It will...
Executive pay and shareholder greed
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
...shareholders a bigger say on whether a CEO is performing or not, maybe by putting it to the vote of investors. But is government intervention really the answer? Much of the problem is caused by share...
Clearwire Testing VoIP Over WiMax in Portland, Oregon
in The VoIP Weblog, on March 21, 2009
...ompete with AT&T and Verizon ," writes FierceVoIP's Doug Mohney . "Clearwire investors Comcast , Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks have the option to buy WiMAX acc...
Maddoff's accountant: bring on the rest
in Sox First, on March 19, 2009
... important is how many more out there? As this report suggests, there are plenty more. Obviously, investors need to do more due diligence. Letting regulators know who's auditing the books would ...
Madoff to jail, SEC in the dog house
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
...jail after pleading guilty to 11 charges including securities fraud. And he has apologised to the investors he scammed, claiming he was "painfully aware" that he had "deeply hurt many...
Newspaper futures
in Sox First, on March 12, 2009
...were dying. Now we have Gawker reporting that San Francisco Chronicle journalists are talking to investors about buying the paper and restructuring it into a non-profit, with the journalists chip...
Palm to Offer Stock While Finalizing The Pre
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on March 9, 2009
...preparations on its Pre for sale on the Sprint network by the end of the second quarter. Palm's investors remain extremely optimistic about the Pre's chance for success in a flooded market, ho...
GM - too big to fail?
in Sox First, on March 7, 2009
...ons of jobs and if they go, that could well trigger a global depression. Maybe that's why some investors are hanging in there, and counting on GM's stock to rebound. GM shares have reached re...
The long slump
in Sox First, on March 3, 2009
...s The Wall Street Journal tells us, stocks fell to their lowest level in 12 years with signs that investors were knuckling down to a long slump. The US economy shrank at a 6.2% annual rate in the fo...
James Galbraith: Obama not solving the financial crisis
in Sox First, on February 27, 2009
...han what's portrayed and that all the Treasury plan would do would be to preserve the wealth of investors and bank insiders. Everyone else would suffer. And any turnaround would be a long way down...
Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 27, 2009
...past two years is that the worst can happen, and then some. In times like these, the government and investors need to play 'What If?' even when it involves some outlandish possibilities. The f...
Tour Gets Burned Again
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 24, 2009
... Allen Stanford is another.
Corporate entities, too, can sometimes become embroiled in this mire. Enron was a perfect example in its time. Merrill Lynch proffering enormous bonuses on the eve of...
Dumb money and the meltdown
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...es-a tendency to debt-financed consumption-was actually something of a virtue ... Looking back, the investors who believed the stories told by Madoff and Stanford-that they could deliver steady, posit...
The Stanford-Madoff connection
in Sox First, on February 22, 2009
... of this meltdown and they won't be the last. Furthermore, both cases raise questions about how investors could be so gullible and how the regulators ignored all the warning signs. That's righ...
Hedge Fund Fat Tuesday Networking Event
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 21, 2009
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HedgeCo is inviting investors, hedge fund managers, and other industry professionals to come together and enjoy a night of sharing ideas and meeting new contacts at the first big networking event...
Greenspan wants to nationalize banks
in Sox First, on February 19, 2009
...rates to curb the market's enthusiasm and didn't even seek to impose margin requirements on investors. As a result, you got a stock market bubble that was followed up by an even bigger housing...
SaaS expected to grow through the downturn
in The CIO Weblog, on February 17, 2009
...nsion in the SaaS market despite our overall economic woes.
This isn't just good news for SaaS investors and vendors, but also for customers and potential customers; it's as clear a signal as...
Diamond Hedge Fund Prospers
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 17, 2009
...se would enable us to identify and purchase rare coloured diamonds that would grow in value for our investors, and the increase to our net asset value has proved this to be true," says Codiam man...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 16, 2009
...treet in 2005 that he thought Madoff was being less than honest about the returns he could make for investors but did nothing to prevent the fraud. Likewise, Joanne Hill, Goldman Sachs' global hea...
Twitter Raises $35 Million
in The Social Networking Weblog, on February 15, 2009
...uld that take away from its uniqueness?
Twitter is now $55 million in debt to its venture capital investors. Sooner or later it will have to begin actually making money. And that will mean changes...
Geithner's vague debut
in Sox First, on February 11, 2009
... detailed, technocratic explanation of the way forward. This might have been the clincher as far as investors are concerned." As Australian business commentator Alan Kohler says, part of the p...
Ponzi schemes proliferate
in Sox First, on January 28, 2009
...ietor Nicholas Cosmo who allegedly raised more than $370 million between 2006 and 2008 by promising investors 48% annual returns from funding commercial loans. Now of course, compared to Madoff's...
Sarbanes-Oxley: It's crunch time for small companies
in Sox First, on January 28, 2009
...erstand financial reporting and the internal controls that guarantee it are critically important to investors and to the efficient functioning of our markets. Right now, we have a system where some is...
Hedge Fund Operational Due Diligence - Book Review
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 25, 2009
... to run a hedge fund, from risk management to disaster recovery, all need-to-know material for both investors and hedge fund analysts.
Included are examples of past hedge fund management mistakes, sh...
PE Hub Interviews NVCA President Mark Heeson
in TJ's Weblog, on January 25, 2009
...gins looking at future regulation of the financial markets. Today we've seen a perfect storm of investors sitting on the sidelines, and regulation that's been made for one size fits all. So th...
