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What VCs Are Worrying About
in Wangtam, on July 1, 2009
...sa.yona.la
• 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...
Install OS X On SD Card
in Wangtam, on June 30, 2009
... HTC Hero Pre-Order At Amazon UK!
• Microsoft puts Razorfish up for sale
• Telecom firms back standard phone charger in Europe
• Fennec Alpha 2 now available for Windows Mobile
• Vodafone eye...
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...
Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on June 29, 2009
...itizenship for those workers.
The Indian outsourcing model takes a different approach. Outsourcing firms typically post visa workers in the U.S. on a short-term basis, in many cases about 18 months. ...
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...
Has Intel finally broken into the cell phone market?
in Wangtam, on June 24, 2009
...m - Letting Artists & Fans Interact
• Ubiquity 0.5 Preview Release
• Max Mosley forced to quit to avert rebel series
• Rapidshare Fined $34 Million for Copyright Infringement
• WhoCallsMe?...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...rge institutions that could destroy the financial system. The changes also force financial services firms to carry more capital to guard against losses. They will also have to retain a portion of the ...
Hard times for logistics and transportation companies...
in Supplychainer, on June 11, 2009
...cts their large 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...
The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?
in Wangtam, on June 10, 2009
...smaller firms
• Asustek Vows to Out-Apple Apple
• Breaking: Facebook Username Landrush to Start June 13 at Midnight
• Bing Off to a Good Start in First Week of Search Activity, According to comS...
Art Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 10, 2009
...nd gaining +3.11% in 2009 as of the end of May. With this, the fund was not only able to outperform equity and fixed income markets, but also various art market indices.
Art Funds as an Alternative ...
50 Beautiful Flash Websites
in Wangtam, on June 9, 2009
...he European Parliament
• WWDC 2009 Predictions
• Super Chirp
• PC firms face China decree
• Seesmic To Launch New Desktop Version, iPhone App And Browser Based Client
• Scan Your Books And S...
Are reverse mortgages the next trouble spot?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
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Reverse mortgages are popular these days. They let homeowners 62 or older convert a portion of the equity in their homes into cash. Unlike a traditional home equity loan or second mortgage, though, r...
Supply chain video: Short interview on SC Finance
in Supplychainer, on June 8, 2009
...panies in car business have put working capital reduction in their agenda and gives examples of the firms like KPN (Telecom operator in Netherlands) and Syngenta and their initiatives.
...
Recession Forces More Golf Deals
in Eagle Par Birdie, on June 8, 2009
...f course just to have a steak sandwich and a beer.
The first decent marketing measure was probably equity membership. This was a solid answer to private memberships where you plunked down thousands o...
Subprime and racism
in Sox First, on June 7, 2009
...Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro wrote in The American Prospect toward the end of last year, home equity accounts for 63% of total average net worth of black households versus only 38.5% of average ...
Supply chain video: Supply chain scorecard
in Supplychainer, on May 31, 2009
... there are less examples of the concepts and models such as SCOR reference model adopted by several firms at once. However, I came across another new one which is becoming mainstream among Electric co...
National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots
in TJ's Weblog, on May 25, 2009
...nstead of buying them to speculate on and flip quickly. And a final suggestion was that taxes on VC firms not be raised past the current capital gains framework.
Bulger at PE Hub made some interesti...
Britain to lose AAA rating, US is next
in Sox First, on May 23, 2009
...d of course, the perverse irony is that the US is running up a budget deficit to save the financial firms that had been given AAA ratings by those same ratings agencies....
The refi money is still flowing
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 21, 2009
...ir employees at a record pace. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, mortgage brokerage firms slashed 3,900 employees in January alone. This leaves a smaller number of loan officers to han...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...t? Until recently, the majority of Harvard's MBAs went into jobs in investment banking, private equity or hedge funds. These were the careers of choice. You can make long lists of high-profile MBA...
Employee disengagement in a recession
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
... engagement levels should set alarm bells ringing in boardrooms because there is some evidence that firms with highly engaged workforces tend to outperform stragglers." So with more companies cu...
Cashing in on the disgust with banks
in Sox First, on May 19, 2009
...l be losing market share to such forces as peer-to-peer lending, Islamic finance, boutique advisory firms and retailers setting up their own banks. All of them will be cashing in on the public disgust...
Financial crisis winners to hurt banks
in Sox First, on May 15, 2009
Who are the big winners coming out of this financial crisis? And how will they threaten to destroy banks? The Economist identifies four big winners that will decimate the banking sector. These include the advisory boutiques which are cashing in on the banks destroying their reputations and da...
Dayton RFID Convergence Center: World’s First Business Incubator for Start Ups
in The RFID Weblog, on May 13, 2009
...Convergence Center is located at the thirty acre Tech Town Business Park and is scouting for RFID firms who would like to bring over their technology experience. It will be offering flexible facilit...
Downturn easing without recovery
in Sox First, on May 12, 2009
...re likely than not, more bank losses." Stiglitz says harsh medicine in the form of a debt for equity swap, where bond holders basically cancel their debt in exchange for equity in the banks, is ...
SpringSource Buys Hyperic
in Java Entrepreneur, on May 11, 2009
...n popularity in the five years since it was created, and it has won numerous accolades from analyst firms, such as Gartner, which named it a 'company to watch in 2009,'" writes SD Times&...
H1B: Frying pan to fire
in The CIO Weblog, on May 11, 2009
...e losing the war by inadvertently driving 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 lar...
Kapalua Saved. PGA Sighs With Relief
in Eagle Par Birdie, on May 8, 2009
...r broader industry sectors" rather than sticking with the traditional financial and automotive firms.
Ya think? The Tour should have been doing this last year but apparently they're not too ...
Disney 将收购 Hulu 部分股份
in Wangtam, on May 2, 2009
...e Equity Partners 私募股权基金的投资。
视频网站 Hulu 由 NBC 环球，新闻集团及 Providence 私募于 2007 年合资建立。此次 Disney 入股的财务细节尚未正式披露。
据《华尔街日报》报道称，Disney 或将持有 Hulu 近 30% 的股份。根据交易协议，Disney 的注资金额将与NBC环球、新闻集团相同。在 Hulu 新的股权结构中，Disne...
USC Gets $12.5 Million from DOE for Nanotech Energy Research
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 2, 2009
...rs will be established at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation... the new Materials for Energy Systems research center at USC will seek to ...
Nouriel Roubini: we're not even at the bottom yet
in Sox First, on April 27, 2009
... from. "We had the real-estate bubble, tech bubble, housing bubble, hedge-fund bubble, private-equity bubble, commodities bubble, even the art bubble-and they are all bursting,'' he says....
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...involved. Even more alarming is that this follows reports that the bailout money might convert to equity stakes in the banks, resulting in the nationalization of banks via the back-door....
Assessing the Future of Venture Capitalism
in TJ's Weblog, on April 20, 2009
...ecovering from the dot-com bust at the turn of the century, a long-time venture capital and private equity player said Thursday.
"Nine years later, there's still no venture capital industry,...
The Future of Golf is Online
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 17, 2009
...dumb about that is how global advertisers like Coke, MacDonald's, Ford, GM, worldwide financial firms like UBS, Citi and many others are denied access to a literally global audience.
When you com...
New Hedge Fund Manager at SilkInvest
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 15, 2009
...ow the universe inside out but he is also of the few able to capitalise on that knowledge to obtain equity like returns in the frontier fixed income space."
Offshore Emerging Market Firm Hires ...
Seattle TechExecs CIO Panel Forum
in The CIO Weblog, on April 8, 2009
...d selection of IT executives, whether or not the conversations matched up with what the big analyst firms were talking about; IT/business alignment or the post-IT/business alignment world (depending o...
Two Equity Fund Launches
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...g advantage of liquidity opportunities.
Full story; Hedge Fund Manager Silk Invest Launches Two Equity Funds
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G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 3, 2009
...he table when the firm starts performing badly so there will be no reward for failure. Furthermore, firms have to "clear, comprehensive and timely information" about their compensation pract...
Collecting Bad Debts Through MySpace? Not...
in The Social Networking Weblog, on April 2, 2009
...ind on her car payments - and everyone kind of knows that now because Assets Recovered and Advanced Equity evidently allegedly posted something on her MySpace page about it. That violates credit la...
Car chiefs in the gun
in Sox First, on March 30, 2009
Who would want to be a car chief today? It's become one of the world's worst jobs. Two have been sacked and there's more to come. First we have the Obama administration forcing General Motors chief executive Rick Wagoner to rack off. In his statement , Wagoner made it clear that ...
Novell Intros SLE 11
in HackITLinux, on March 27, 2009
...dows tools."
"On the server side, SLE 11 offers a high-availability extension that lets firms build Linux clusters to maintain business continuity," writes VNUnet's Daniel Robins...
NASA to provide 100 TB of space images to Microsoft
in Wangtam, on March 26, 2009
...sable the Close button (X) of selected windows.
• Firms Seek Profit in Twitter's Chatter
• IBM to Cut U.S. Jobs, Expand in India
• For Whom the .Tel Tolls
• iStopOver Short Term Rentals: R...
Market soars as trade collapses
in Sox First, on March 24, 2009
... 2009. The financial crisis has disrupted the normal functioning of the banking system and deprived firms and individuals of much-needed credit. Falling stock markets and housing prices have also admi...
Executive pay and shareholder greed
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
... Barack Obama is about to give itself increased oversight of executive pay at banks and Wall Street firms. The new rules, it's said, are likely to tie pay more closely to performance and one would...
A.I.G. Lists Firms It Paid With Taxpayer Money
in Wangtam, on March 16, 2009
...• A.I.G. Lists Firms It Paid With Taxpayer Money
• Email Marketing with Sendn
• FastSoft, Inc.
• BlueStripe Software
• Web Access Management | On Demand | Symplified
• Axxana.com - Taking D...
The Future of Electric Car Maker Th!nk
in IfEnergy, on March 14, 2009
... a site for the facility that would initially employ about 300 workers.
Th!nk is owned by private equity group Novus Energy Partners.
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The bear is bouncing
in Sox First, on March 14, 2009
Forget the irresponsible headline in Forbes, Tide Turns For Wall Street following this week's solid trading figures. Maybe they should have a cold shower, or at least check the fundamentals. This is a bounce, not a rally. We still have the problem of the credit crisis and zombie banks, no...
Warning to CFOs: don't trust HR
in Sox First, on March 11, 2009
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All over the world, financial services firms are sacking workers. An International Labor Organisation (ILO) report says there were 325,000 layoffs around the world between August 2007 and 12 Feb...
The key themes in the supply chain of tomorrow
in Supplychainer, on March 8, 2009
...ods domestically. "...in the face of lower volumes and fuel cost issues, about 2,000 trucking firms failed in 2007, and almost a thousand more in Q1 2008. That is taking an incredible amount of ...
Oliver Wight launches fast track offerings for supply chain improvement
in Supplychainer, on February 28, 2009
...al projects but tend to spend money on quick cost reduction work. So I see more and more consulting firms launching such programs:
Oliver Wight is one of them which has launched a series of "Fa...
Outsourcing Takes a Hit
in Biz Plan Hacks, on February 24, 2009
...e so pronounced that even outsourcing is getting scaled back. Executives who once relied on outside firms to handle certain IT tasks to cut costs are now reining in some outsourcing plans on concern t...
Tour Gets Burned Again
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 24, 2009
... the sorts of sponsors the PGA Tour - or any other Tour that has done business with major financial firms - wants to dance the Tango with.
The problem is in finding other well-heeled sponsors outside...
Another step to nationalization?
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
...will be in the form of mandatory convertible preferred shares, which would be converted into common equity shares only as needed over time to keep banks in a well-capitalized position and can be retir...
Citigroup - first National Bank?
in Sox First, on February 23, 2009
...deral officials about the US government taking over as much as 40%. That's the biggest slice of equity since the US Government took on 80% of insurance giant American International Group last year...
AZ Collection Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on February 19, 2009
...ing partnerships with the most renowned local artisans , as well as the internationally recognized firms, to bring you a unique and extensive selection at the best possible value. ...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...g much to rein in the finance buccaneers given how they heavily it was funded by financial services firms including hedge funds. "In Republican and Democratic national politics, the notion of a ...
Madoff and the conspiracy of silence
in Sox First, on February 16, 2009
...was a shyster but kept shtum. "Leon Gross, the former managing director in charge of worldwide equity derivatives research for Citigroup, told friends and colleagues on Wall Street in 2005 that h...
Data management and forecasting remain top challenges in life science sector
in Supplychainer, on February 16, 2009
...resources with specific expertise in data integration or outsourcing such task to business services firms.
The authors also propose companies to focus on value in demand management do projects such ...
Banks are insolvent
in Sox First, on February 13, 2009
...omics Nouriel Roubini, Dr Doom himself, has warned that total losses on loans by American financial firms and their falling value will reach $3.6 trillion. That's up substantially from his previou...
Panetta's conflicts of interest
in Sox First, on February 5, 2009
.... He was getting paid by the likes of loss-makers Merrill Lynch and Wachovia as well as the private equity firm Carlyle Group. So where is the potential conflict of interest. Consider this: he receiv...
Del Gatto Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on February 4, 2009
...rilliant diamonds for a total of 0.06 carats.
$1298
The thing that sets Del Gatto apart from other firms is their specialization in shell cameo jewelry, but they also use gemstones and diamond accent...
Perry Wins Packed FBR
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 2, 2009
...ey show no signs of bottoming out.
New home sales are non-existent, forcing plenty of construction firms to lay off employees or simply close the doors.
Unless you're from another planet, I don&...
The Truth About Classic Car Auctions
in Classical Drives, on February 2, 2009
... After reading the optimistic press releases from the various auction firms that participated in the 2009 Scottsdale extravaganza, I'm pleased to deliver the truth, thanks to our contributor Nig...
Does Sarbanes-Oxley mean audit offshoring?
in Sox First, on February 2, 2009
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Offshoring has become more prevalent in recent years. Most firms send part of their operations to cheaper places overseas. But offshoring of audit functions is becoming more popular and, accordin...
The axe man cometh: get ready for a shorter working week
in Sox First, on January 27, 2009
...re likely to put their workers on shorter weeks. The British Government is considering plans to pay firms to cut the working hours of thousands of staff instead of retrenching them, according to this ...
Obama's options
in Sox First, on January 26, 2009
... Gray . The first is to nationalise the banks. The problem with that is that wipes out shareholder equity and increase the US Government's massive debt. The only positive is that it might create ...
Microsoft joins the layoff club
in The CIO Weblog, on January 22, 2009
This morning reveals that the rumored and expected layoffs at Microsoft have in fact materialized. In the wake of disappointing 2Q revenue results which missed company estimates by $900 million, the company announced this morning that it will begin with immediate layoffs of 1400 staff, a numbe...
Interesting finalists for Obama CTO
in The CIO Weblog, on January 20, 2009
... took the Cisco job after a hard ending at Motorola , but her background has been at large, staid firms of that sort and while she enjoys a fine reputation in the industry, it's unclear what sort...
The big accounting issues for 2009
in Sox First, on January 16, 2009
... illiquidity in certain markets. What's even more worrying is the warning that we will see more firms taking more "other than temporary impairment" charges in the coming quarters. The s...
