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Seen that? - Silicon Valley Bank Bridges Sandhill Road and Shanghai
in China Venture News, on November 8, 2009
...ina Venture News The Hina Group, an investment banking and private equity firm, launched only two years ago is capitalizing on the increased cross-border opportunities...
MBA turkeys and the market
in Sox First, on November 8, 2009
...if more than 30% of Harvard MBAs end up in "market-sensitive jobs" like investment banking, private equity and hedge funds, it's a long-term sell signal. If that number is below 10%, it is a long-term...
Buffett bets big on US recovery
in Sox First, on November 4, 2009
...nt of the price in stock. That said, it's a damn sight cheaper than it would have been during the boom so Buffett would say he is still getting a bargain for the returns it will deliver. But there a...
Hedge Fund Expert To Launch Own Fund
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 3, 2009
... of the Merrill Lynch Large Cap Series Funds with Bob Doll, who is now Global CIO for BlackRock’s equity arm. At BlackRock (MLIM), his investment role spanned a dozen quantitatively managed funds & se...
China Business Myths
in China Venture News, on October 29, 2009
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Forbes ran an interesting piece on China this week. It looked at three myths that are widely believed to be true, but are, well, not quite as simple as people (and the media) tend to think...
Myth number one: China's economy is led by exports. Myth number two: China's su...
预订「战国BASARA」官版人偶 伊达政宗 / 真田幸村 限量首发
in Wangtam, on 2009-10-28
... Will There Be an Android App Boom Soon?
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• Extending Facebook Share
• Roadmap for Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) Documentation
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Pay cuts for auto firm executives. What about banks?
in Sox First, on October 23, 2009
...3.7 billion in compensation during the same quarter. In other words, executives got 27% of the core equity while shareholders got absolutely nothing. And attempts to regulate compensation at financia...
Big Picture: Venture Capital, Private Equity Still Drying Up
in TJ's Weblog, on October 17, 2009
...ies (Venture Beat here and here , TechCrunch ) have stressed the continuing downturn in private equity and venture capital fundng.
In the world of venture capital funds, only 17 funds even rai...
China's Entrepreneur Confidence Index is Up
in China Venture News, on October 14, 2009
...reneurs, ranges from zero to 200. When it is higher than 100, it indicates optimism for an economic boom. But when it is lower than 100, it means there is an expectation of economic downturn. Computer...
il suffirait d'une bonne grève...
in Location de Voitures Blog, on octobre 13, 2009
...iturage de Lyon et sa périphérie, encore balbutiant, a aussi connu un boom avec une augmentation de 7% des requêtes enregistrées sur le site du Grand Lyon. Les retombées sur le système Autolib' mi...
Soros invests $1 billion in clean energy
in Sox First, on October 13, 2009
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In September last year, I did a blog entry looking at the green technology boom. In that blog, I was looking at the prospect of green investment making the investment in the Internet look lik...
Seen that? - Ridge Crossing in the Dunes
in Under My Helmet, on October 11, 2009
... Fund to Focus on China at China Venture News Private equity firm Blue Ridge is moving into China in a big way. The company has developed a China-focused ...
A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...obligations sold to healthy firms, assets sold off, intra-institutional lending, cancelling debt or equity and special protection to certain creditors. Levitt writes: "We need a process that is known...
Bankers' cocaine binge
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...cording to this alarming news report , there was a clear link between the heady trading during the boom and snorting. And professionals in the detox business in London say they've been flooded with c...
Kreuzfahrten - Stockholm immer beliebter
in Kreuzfahrten, on 08.10.09
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Viel habe ich in der letzten Zeit über den Boom deutsche Kreuzfahrthäfen geschrieben. Doch ist die Liebe zur Kreuzfahrt kein rein deutsches Phänomen sondern erstreckt sich auch a...
Seen that? - Saif Partners Picks China TV Home-Shopping Network as the Next Big IPO
in China Venture News, on October 6, 2009
... Zero2IPO recently released the China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Ranking for 2007 and this year's number one venture capital firm is SAIF Partners....
Magazine publishers want a digital store
in Sox First, on October 3, 2009
...lu for magazines. The venture would also include newspaper publishers with all the partners taking equity stakes in the business. The most interesting part about this is that it promises to deliver a...
Seen that? - NBA's Marc Cuban Blogs his Plans to Launch Betting Hedge Fund
in The Gambling Weblog, on October 2, 2009
...1.4 billion ($2.7 billion) invested in hedge funds by December. "We have been divesting our equity portfolio to buy other [...] Read More Barbarian Investments Launch Film Productio...
Recessions boost your health
in Sox First, on September 30, 2009
...all sorts of reasons this could happen. For a start, traffic tends to be heavier when the market is booming so more people would be knocking themselves off on the roads. Also during boom times, people...
Kreuzfahrt: Boom in Norddeutschland
in Kreuzfahrten, on 28.09.09
...r ähnlichen Worten getitelt doch trifft es einmal mehr ins Schwarze. Denn die Kreuzfahrt -Branche boomt, was sich auch in den Häfen Norddeutschlands bemerkbar macht. So schreibt es auch der NDR auf ...
Luxury hotels the latest victims of the recession
in Sox First, on September 25, 2009
...oan 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. As the Atlantic...
魔鬼辞典之金融危机
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-23
随着金融危机从"狼来了"变成活生生的磨难，金融业的一些特有隐语也进入到了日常对话中。对于不熟悉华尔街这个小圈子的人来说，这种出乎意料的变化可能让他们不快。
安布罗斯•比尔斯(Ambrose Bierce)在1906年出版的魔鬼辞典《愤世嫉俗者词汇手册》(The Cynic's Word Book)中对当时的政治和文化用语给出了独出心裁的解释。按照这种精神，《华尔街日报》也在雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)倒闭一周年之际编写了一个缩写词、新词和滥用词入门手册，这些词可以让人通俗、形像地了解雷曼倒闭给世人留下的烂摊子。
AAA，名词，废词。一种修辞工...
Dubai: neues Kreuzfahrt -Terminal im Bau
in Kreuzfahrten, on 18.09.09
...einige Veranstalter haben sich für Dubai als Basishafen entschieden.
Das nennt man dann wohl Boom und allein im ersten Halbjahr des laufenden Jahres fanden bereits 86.000 internationale Kreuzfahrtgä...
logiENERGY launches Peak Oil Fund
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 16, 2009
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The fund's investment strategy employs five approaches: 1) Publicly Traded Equities and Equity Options; 2) Investment in oil in storage; 3) Investment in Oil, Gasoline and Heating Oil spre...
The US consumer economy is dead
in Sox First, on September 9, 2009
...s filed for bankruptcy. Hall writes: "One year later, the easy-money system that financed the boom era from the 1980s until a year ago is smashed. Once-ravenous U.S. consumers are saving money a...
Investor Group to Buy Skype?
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 31, 2009
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TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that a group of venture capital and private equity firms are working together to acquire Skype from current owner eBay .
"Investors in ...
China's Consumption Gap
in China Venture News, on August 30, 2009
Paul Kedrosky over at Seeking Alpha last week pointed out one of the primary obstacles China faces if it is to continue its transition to a Western-style consumer-oriented economy. China has a consumption gap... There is non-stop chatter about China's challenge in transitioning from being ...
USA - Boom der Öko -Aktien
in Bio Channel, on 30.08.09
...hält. Dort heißt es nämlich unter der Überschrift Amerikanische Öko-Aktien stehen vor einem Boom , dass die Umweltbranche in der nächsten Zeit einen ähnlichen Hype erzeugen könnte, wie vormals die In...
Costs of fighting climate change to treble
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
We all know that fighting climate change will cost billions. But how much cash do we need? A new report from scientists says world leaders have massively underestimated these costs. The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) estimates that annual global costs of adapting to clima...
No relief from foreclosure mess
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 24, 2009
...employment rate starts seriously dropping. Homes became far too expensive during the recent housing boom. This means that mortgage loans, and the monthly payments that come with them, took up a greate...
Autovermietung: Krisenfestigkeit bei Avis
in Das Mietwagen-Blog, on 24.08.09
...die Finanzkrise zu kommen scheint. In diesem Kontext wird sogar von einem übersehenen Mietwagen-Boom gesprochen, denn nicht zuletzt hat Avis sogar die Preise erhöht, ohne dabei an Kunden zu verliere...
Readers Digest: another private equity failure
in Sox First, on August 18, 2009
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Another example of a private equity screw-up. Readers Digest, the media outlet that started in 1922 and made its name publishing condensed novels and edited articles from other magazines has fil...
Is renting the new American Dream?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 15, 2009
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I've long argued that renting actually makes better sense for many people. During the housing boom, though, everyone wanted to own a house. People viewed homes as quick money-makers. Of course, w...
Foreclosures dogging the middle class
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 14, 2009
...Remember when the number of housing foreclosures first started to boom? We liked to say it was because of all those greedy homeowners who took out high-risk subprime mortgages to get into homes they c...
Liquidia Technologies Raises $7 Million
in Nanotechbuzz, on August 13, 2009
... filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals the company raised $7,031,130 in equity," according to TechJournal South .
"Liquidia has developed a nanotechnology prog...
VMWare Buys SpringSource
in Java Entrepreneur, on August 12, 2009
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VMWare this week announced plans to acquire SpringSource for $362 million in cash and equity, plus the assumption of approximately $58 million of unvested stock and options.
"No open ...
Family to lose home because of seven cents
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 11, 2009
...ive a boost to the mortgage crisis with all the bad loans the company passed out during the housing boom.
The story gets even more interesting when you consider that the family's home loan was o...
Odds are good you'll be "underwater" by 2011
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 10, 2009
...that many of these homeowners will have bought their residences sometime during the recent housing boom. That's when housing prices across the United States rose significantly. Once the housing cr...
Sperm banking boom
in Sox First, on August 7, 2009
...t's harder now for the banks to do business and make loans. But one type of banking business is booming. Sperm banks are doing a roaring business, according to this report . There's been a h...
Bring Business to Your DoorStep with Local Search
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on August 4, 2009
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So we know purchasing on the internet is on the rise, but how do you get an online advantage if your company provides a service instead of a product? Sure, you can throw lots of money at Google and pay-per-click ads but you'll be fighting against everyone else for one or two ...
Kreuzfahrt: Boom in Griechenland
in Kreuzfahrten, on 04.08.09
... andererseits aber auch nicht. Denn was soll ich tun, wenn der Begriff Kreuzfahrt immer wieder mit Boom zusammenfällt und sich die Erfolgsmeldung geradezu überschlagen. Dieses Mal geht es mal nicht um...
Islamic banking booms
in Sox First, on August 4, 2009
...fit-and-loss-sharing" (PLS) and this is based on concepts such as: trustee finance (mudaraba), equity participation (musharakah), cost plus financing (murabaha), leasing (ijara), payment financin...
Handy-TV wird zum Flop
in Das Handy-Weblog, on 04.08.09
...n Deutschland und bei der Euro 2008 in Österreich und in der Schweiz blieb der erwartete Boom aus.
Wenig verwunderlich, wenn man mich fragt. Doch ein bisschen Erstaunen löst der Artikel dann doch no...
Copper and Steel
in China Venture News, on July 27, 2009
Seeking alpha had a couple of interesting pieces earlier this month on how China is impacting two particular commodity markets - copper and steel .
Chna has come close to cornering the market on copper. Enticed by low prices, China stockpiled copper and other commodities and now controls the f...
Making mortgages easier to understand
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 24, 2009
...lations hanging over their heads.
This is true. Unfortunately, during the busy days of the housing boom, a lot of mortgage lenders didn't explain things clearly to borrowers. Of course, borrowers...
Can Twitter and Facebook make money?
in Sox First, on July 25, 2009
Twitter's Biz Stone has gone public talking about how he expects Twitter will start making money. He talks about putting in value added services that Twitter can charge for. Trouble is they still have to do the business plan. As he told CNBC , Twitter won't be making money out advert...
Tourismus: Hamburg weiter erfolgreich
in Das Reise-Weblog, on 23.07.09
...Verlustierungen nicht jedermanns Sache sein dürfte. Was aber letztlich der Grund für den Hamburg-Boom ist, dürfte kaum in einem Satz beantwortbar sein.
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Kreuzfahren: Ibiza immer beliebter
in Kreuzfahrten, on 22.07.09
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Wenn es "nur" um Strandurlaub oder um gelungen Partys ginge: Ibiza hielt sowieso einen europäischen Spitzenplatz inne. Doch neuerdings beweist die Baleareninsel, dass sie durchaus auch das Potenzial zu einer Top- Kreuzfahrt -Destination besitzt. Das weiß auch das Ibiza-Netz...
Is buying nearly as affordable as renting? Don't believe the hype
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 22, 2009
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I first started covering residential real estate during the housing boom years. At that time, every real estate agent I interviewed would always run down a list of reasons why owning a house made...
Swine flu profits
in Sox First, on July 21, 2009
The news about swine flu is getting grimmer and grimmer. First, we have reports of the US Food and Drug Administration warning that swine flue vaccine will not provide 100% protection. That's followed up by Forbes reporting that swine flu could stop any chance of a recovery in the appal...
Regulating PE's & VC's? Treasury Wants To...
in Bizinformer, on July 20, 2009
...easury Department proposed a bill earlier this month that would regulate venture capital, private equity firms and hedge funds that had more than $30 million in assets. Registration with the SEC ...
Navigating The Business Start Up In A Recession
in Business Computer Blog (UK), on July 17, 2009
... - In most markets, retail, commercial and office space is at the lowest level in decades. Even in boom markets like Washington and New York .
Your New Business does not Have Your Competitors'...
MFA on Obama's Private Fund Investment Advisers Registration Act of 2009
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 16, 2009
...tration requiring all advisers to hedge funds and other private pools of capital, including private equity and venture capital funds, to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Ba...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...eports that pay levels there are set to eclipse the multi-million dollar levels raked in during the boom. While the rest of the world is going through its worst economic crisis since the Great Depres...
Suddenly more bullish on housing?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 14, 2009
...y, housing prices have risen. You just have to hold onto your house long enough. During the housing boom, people bought homes and then tried to sell them in a year or two for big profits. That's n...
Booming business for executive island retreats
in Sox First, on July 14, 2009
...services start emerging out of this crisis. Given the way these people were riding high during the boom, it's hard to shed a tear for them now....
Downpayments still keeping homebuyers away
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 13, 2009
... aren't cheap. Who has $10,000 or more just lying around for a downpayment?
During the housing boom — which ran through a portion of 2006 — many lenders required borrowers to put down...
Los Angeles leads nation in mortgage fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 8, 2009
...n't. In these cases, if the homes fall into foreclosure, lenders are unable to recover any home equity.
Another popular scheme involves groups using straw buyers to default purposely on a mortgag...
Facebook for fogeys
in Sox First, on July 8, 2009
Is Facebook in danger of losing its coolness? A new study compiled by compiled by iStrategyLabs, and reported here , has found that the 55 and older crowd is poised to overtake high schoolers and younger as the biggest users of Facebook. As PCWorld's Jared Newman points out, Facebook's...
Bang Boom Bang wird 10!
in Kinoplausch, on 05.07.09
...damit fängt ein großartiger Monolog als Filmeinstieg für einen ebenso großartigen Film an: Bang Boom Bang mit Ralf Richter, Martin Semmelrogge, Dieter Krebs, Oliver Korritke, alexandra Neldel und ...
Housing slump boosts population in New York City, other big cities
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 3, 2009
...s of California and Florida may have helped cities such as New York City grow.
During the housing boom, home values in parts of Florida and California skyrocketed. This attracted a lot of people to ...
It's getting tougher to get a mortgage-broker license
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 2, 2009
... one year ago. Getting clients today isn't nearly as easy for loan officers. During the housing boom years, they could wait for their phones to ring with new business. Today, loan officers have to...
What VCs Are Worrying About
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-02
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• Todo-Frog
• SharesPost - We make private equity liquid. Buy or sell privately held stock.
• Sindice - The semantic web index
• FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fa...
July 8: China Cleantech Business Forum
in China Venture News, on June 30, 2009
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2Point6Billion (a blog that looks at economic issues in China and India) has a write up online on the upcoming China Cleantech Business Forum.
The July 8th forum will be Asia's first cleantech business conference.
Cleantech is a growing industry focus for venture capital and...
Employee Compensation Case Law
in China Venture News, on June 29, 2009
China Law Blog had a case study (of sorts) this past week on employee compensation. The article looked at an employee claim for pregnancy leave that was filed after they'd been laid off.
The situation was complicated by the fact that the employee did not have a written contract and that the...
Home sales rise again. Is this a housing recovery?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 25, 2009
...s vibrancy. And the truth is, it will probably never return to the go-go pace of the recent housing boom. That market was one built on false promises of wealth and on mortgage money that was too easy ...
Has Intel finally broken into the cell phone market?
in Wangtam, on 2009-06-25
• Has Intel finally broken into the cell phone market?
• Lenovo slims down new ThinkPad T400s
• NPD Finds Consumer Confusion about Netbooks Continues
• 米兰一法院推迟谷歌4名高管审判时间
• Bookmarklet to reformat text for reading and Clipping
• Pajamas Media
• Archivd: Simple research tools for teams
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Bankers' pay soars despite crisis
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
...or investment bankers to stop them leaving. Market rates for bankers have been running close to the boom-time highs of two years ago and banks are also offering guaranteed bonuses. For ordinary incom...
Recession drawing to an end. So what?
in Sox First, on June 21, 2009
...open the champagne yet. The next few years will be hard. If you expect it will be anything like the boom years, you're kidding yourself. First, the market will be a completely different beast. U...
Bahn: Sonderzüge für Kreuzfahrten
in Kreuzfahrten, on 19.06.09
...ganz mit. So erfahren wir bei Bahninfo.de, dass das Unternehmen auf den verstärkten Kreuzfahrt-Boom reagiert und fortan so genannte Verstärkerzüge für die Strecke Hamburg -> Kiel einsetzt:
Insb...
