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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...
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...
What VCs Are Worrying About
in Wangtam, on July 1, 2009
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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...
Has Intel finally broken into the cell phone market?
in Wangtam, on June 24, 2009
• Has Intel finally broken into the cell phone market?
• Lenovo slims down new ThinkPad T400s
• NPD Finds Consumer Confusion about Netbooks Continues
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• Bookmarklet to reformat text for reading and Clipping
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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
... solutions. These include nuking the Securities and Exchange Commission which has failed to protect investors, stop letting companies hire their own auditors, and finally make each listed company pay ...
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
...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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
...aynard Keynes in 1936 in his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Keynes said investors based their decisions on "animal spirits" and a "spontaneous urge to action...
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...
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...
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....
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
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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....
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...
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,...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Skype's Founders Want Their Company Back
in The VoIP Weblog, on April 10, 2009
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"Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype, have approached several private equity firms and are pooling their own substantial resources to make a bid for the Internet calling ...
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,...
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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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...
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...
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'...
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 ...
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 ...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...sury Secretary Timothy Geithner is moving to tighten up the rules for monster hedge funds, private- equity firms and derivatives markets, it's worth looking at what's ahead and whether we shou...
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 ...
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...
