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What recession? Small arms trade is booming
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
...d's small arms, light weapons and ammunition between 2000 and 2006, according to the Small Arms Survey 2009. The study found that the US is the biggest importer of pistols and revolvers, sporting ...
SouthWest NanoTechnologies Announces $3 Million in Funding
in Nanotechbuzz, on July 10, 2009
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Nanotube manufacturer SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. this week announced $3 million in funding from Michigan's Insight Technology Capital Partners, LP.
"Insight will manage the fun...
The Reality Of PR: Smile, Dial, Name Drop, Pray.
in Wangtam, on July 6, 2009
...resting Things He Said)
• HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF)
• "我知道你在做什么"—欢迎来到twitter时代 ...
Pebble Beach Swamped, Calendar Needs to be Split
in Classical Drives, on July 6, 2009
... different times in the calendar. Having said that, I acknowledge that a La Dolce Vita Scholarship Fund has been established to assist young people aiming to follow a career in automotive design, sh...
已经确认 Windows 7 RTM 于本月 13 日完成
in Wangtam, on July 5, 2009
...an
• Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley
• Symantec: it's dangerous to rely on free antivirus
• 7 Spectacular Fireworks Shows on YouTube
• PollDaddy Traffic Soars, Releases Ratings Wi...
China's supply chain challenge: Mitigating supply risk
in Supplychainer, on July 5, 2009
...ain analyst firm recently published a report on countries' risk profile and interestingly, in a survey of 130 global companies China was the top contributing region for nine of 15 risks examined, ...
New blog on social entrepreneurship from College of Wooster
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on July 5, 2009
... inaugural Global Social Entrepreneurship (GSE) program. The trip is supported by the Smucker's Fund for Global Ethics.
For any new followers of our blog, here is a more linear collection of...
NetworkingForPros.com Puts You on the Web
in Bizinformer, on June 30, 2009
© Dmitry Baranovskiy
I've been contributing over the last few months to the content of a vibrant and growing site that points toward the future of the Internet and has profound potential for eCommerce and business. The site is NetworkingForPros.com .
When I look across the web at the mome...
Your Company Website
in Bizinformer, on June 30, 2009
I talked yesterday over at BizPlanHacks about getting customers through your company website. Do you have a company website? You should.
SimplWeb has an online course available to help you start a website. They describe it as "a free 7 part guide to creating a killer content site that ca...
Why CEOs don't blog or Twitter
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
...ocial networking might be booming but bosses don't twitter or blog. For good reason too. A new survey, published here , reveals that only two out of the top 100 chief executive officers in the U...
Durbin-Grassley, Indian Outsourcing, and the H-1B Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on June 29, 2009
...ll erupt if the Durbin-Grassley bill is signed into law.
© Center for American Progress Action Fund
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Supply chain video: The result of a new survey among 900 U.S. supply chain executives on this year's trends
in Supplychainer, on June 28, 2009
... the results of the company's fourth annual Manufacturing and Wholesale Distribution (MWD) National Survey among more than 900 supply chain executives throughout the U.S.
Respondents to the survey sa...
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3
in Wangtam, on June 26, 2009
...ith On Authentication: '70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work'
• Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading
• Habitat sorry for Iran Tweeting
• Did Shaq J...
Can You Get Money from the Government? Maybe...
in TJ's Weblog, on June 23, 2009
Michael Sanibel had a helpful blog post recently on government grants. He looks at all the basics:
What is a grant?
Who can qualify?
How do you apply?
What types of grants are available?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of getting a grant?
Why would a grant application not b...
iPod Touch 2代升级OS 3.0新系统完美破解/越狱（附图文教程）
in Wangtam, on June 21, 2009
• iPod Touch 2代升级OS 3.0新系统完美破解/越狱（附图文教程）
• Embrace Your Femininity
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for Windows
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for Linux
• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 RC2 for MacOS
• Sony should beware - Activision chief is not simply playing games
• That Was Quick: Veodia Acquires Screen C...
Supply chain education ranking: Penn State becomes No. 1
in Supplychainer, on June 21, 2009
...regularly included among the top schools in rankings of supply chain programs. As an example a 2005 survey of supply chain practitioners and academics published in Supply Chain Management Review ident...
Study Anticipates Increasing Use of Linux on Mainframes
in HackITLinux, on June 21, 2009
© scriptingnews
A new study commissioned by CA (and executed by TheInfoPro ) has found that large enterprises are increasingly deploying Linux on mainframes to maximize value and minimize costs.
"Linux on the mainframe is clearly a very attractive platform choice for IT organizat...
Enjoying First Grade
in The Parenting Weblog, on June 19, 2009
My son is truly enjoying first grade. It has been 2 weeks and he is already having a blast.
Though we both have to adjust to waking up early (classes are from 710 to 1130 in the mornings and 1 to 4 in the afternoons), we have slowly gotten there. I don't just rely on one alarm clock, I hav...
CIA recruits bankers
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
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If you've been retrenched as a banker or hedge fund manager, don't worry. There's plenty of work out there, if you want to become a spook. The CIA is now running a recruitment ad for...
The Ultimate Fathers Day Gift for a Classic Car Guy
in Classical Drives, on June 17, 2009
...mology , assisting and educating the blind and visually impaired. The Bridgestone Americas Trust Fund is a co-sponsor. The annual automotive design show, held Sunday, June 21, features more than 200...
A GM name change?
in Sox First, on June 17, 2009
Last month, Harvard Business School set off the debate about a name change for GM . It suggested going for an American theme, although somehow I don't think Stars and Stripes Automobile Manufacturing Co. is going to cut it in a global market. But a name change might be necessary. "If ...
The slow recovery
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
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So the International Monetary Fund has given the US economy, and by implication the Obama administration, a big tick of sorts in its latest report . The IMF projects that the economy will contrac...
Could Childhod Obesity Be Declining?
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 16, 2009
...as much, but that doesn't mean they're eating any better at home.
The findings, based on survey data by the Chicago market research firm NPD Group, follow a report last year that childhood o...
Hedge Funds Up & Social Media Footprint Expansion
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 16, 2009
... " Hedge funds finished up 4.06% in May , capturing the largest monthly gains since February 2000." Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index, said, "Emerging Markets funds wer...
Just Koogle it.
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
Now I've heard everything. We have reports of a new kosher search engine called "koogle" developed in Israel that allows religious Jews to search the Net without compromising their religious standards. Koogle screens out such forbidden material as sexually explicit images or pict...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
... a son for whom all of this was about now unable to attend college because Madoff stole his college fund as surely as he stole our future. "Madoffs investors have been put in a position of years...
Accelerating Relationships with Social Networking
in TJ's Weblog, on June 15, 2009
Business has always been at least partly about networking. More and more, it has come to be about social networking. I wrote recently about the need to focus your efforts in social networking. I came across this piece not long ago by Christopher Rollyson on how business relationships can, in h...
Unemployment: are the numbers lying?
in Sox First, on June 14, 2009
So unemployment in the US has jumped to 9.4% but are the numbers telling us the truth? Is unemployment actually worse than what the statisticians are telling us? As reported here , consultant John Williams says the number of unemployed in the US is actually more like 20%, which takes it up t...
Recession and marriage
in Sox First, on June 12, 2009
It seems the recession is saving marriages. Or it might be prolonging the agony. In Britain, The Independent reports that accountants Grant Thornton have found that fewer couples are divorcing. Plummeting property prices means it's just not worth it, even if it means prolonging a bad marr...
Art Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 10, 2009
...di, head of Merit Alternative Investments GmbH and director of the world-wide first Art Photography Fund. "Investments in material assets such as real estate, commodities, as well as art, continu...
Hedge Fund Competing To Buy British Bank
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 9, 2009
..., including the iShares business.
BlackRock's BGI buyout will break its own record in a hedge fund transaction, when in 2006 BlackRock took over Merrill Lynch's asset management business for...
Entrepreneurial Life
in TJ's Weblog, on June 7, 2009
© tedmurphy
I came across a interesting piece last week from Small Business Trends : Entrepreneurial Lessons From The Experts. It was a list of simple observations about the life of entrepreneurs in general. Author Lisa Bourne was lucky enough to get Copyblogger's Brian Clark, John Jantsc...
Social Networking With Purpose
in BootStrapMe, on June 7, 2009
Entrepreneur.Com had a piece recently that made a simple point: You should be selective with your social networks.
The simple truth is that social networking can be a time consuming endeavor. It's easy to get bogged down trying to read all your Twitter posts. Social networks can become redun...
Social entrepreneurship: A three decade history
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 31, 2009
...g an overview of social entrepreneurship initiatives done in the last 30 years. Leaders from Acumen Funds, Skoll Foundations and some entrepreneurs like Mohammad Yunus offer their point of views about...
Beer company to contribute to social entrepreneurship movement
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 31, 2009
...in Dublin, Guinness has pledged to raise €2.5 million in start up capital for its Arthur Guinness Fund for Social Entrepreneurs. The money is aimed to support approximately twenty-five social entrepre...
Eight Genes That Help Predict Patients Response to Melanoma Treatment
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 31, 2009
... the cases were divided, the researchers used a mathematical tool called Neural Network Analysis to survey over 25,000 genes and the regulators that turn the genes on and off to see if they could iden...
Facebook 公布 fbFund 基金获奖名单
in Wangtam, on May 30, 2009
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Facebook 本周公布了 fbFund 基金的 20 大赢家，其中包括 18 家创业公司和 2 家非营利机构。
为鼓励外部开发者为 Facebook 开发应用程序， Facebook 2007 年 9 月与 Accel Capital、Founders Fund 两家风险投资公司共同组建了 fbFund 基金，始创金额为 1000 万美元，并为符合条件外部开发人员提供 2.5 万到 2...
More housing woes
in Sox First, on May 29, 2009
... 12.07 percent on a non-seasonally adjusted basis, the highest ever recorded in the MBA delinquency survey.". Just think about that number - 12.07%. In other words, one in eight mortgagees are in...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
The implosion at Indian IT specialists Satyam raises many questions about corporate governance. As Madhukar Angur says in the Deccan Herald , the debacle suggests we have learned very little since Enron and WorldCom. And that's despite governments around the world tightening their corporat...
The Genius Visa
in Global Mobility Report, on May 25, 2009
© Keith Allison
You've probably never heard of the genius visa. Les than 10,000 people a year are allowed into the U.S. on it. People who are at the absolute top tier of their field in the arts, athletics, sciences, education, or business. Its formal name is the O-1 visa, and BusinessWeek...
No More Hydrogen Cars?
in IfEnergy, on May 22, 2009
... But TreeHugger pointed out one chunk of news that didn't get much coverage. Federal support funding for hydrogen cars seems to have collapsed for now: The money was stripped because the presid...
MBAs and Entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on May 21, 2009
... with the comings and goings of MBAs as obsolete as our lionization of investment bankers and hedge-fund managers? Is it time to look elsewhere for the "best and the brightest" of what busin...
Franchises: WYNTK
in Biz Plan Hacks, on May 19, 2009
We talked recently about how well franchises do during a recession. To balance that I thought I'd point out this piece by Jeff Elgin on buying a franchise. Elgin looks at some things you should know about a franchise contract.
One of the things he points out is that strong franchises usual...
New survey launched to identify the current state of supply chain education
in Supplychainer, on May 15, 2009
...ed programs. Supply Chain Management Review Magazine has taken the lead in this area and launched a survey recently to idetify what are the best schools to pursue SCM education.
This 15 minutes surv...
Times' reporter's story a reminder: It's easy to fall into foreclosure nightmare
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 15, 2009
...gage loan? Are you one of those very fortunate few who actually do have an 8- to 12-month emergency fund built up?
I know I don't. And if I lost my main job? I'd hate to think about how hard ...
Hedge Fund Administrator of The Year
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on May 13, 2009
... Along with an award for Hedge Fund Administrator of the year for their alternative investment services (AIS), the Bank of New York Mellon received 6 other awards at the International Custody &...
New Search Tool Aims at Answering Tough Queries, but Not at Taking on Google
in Wangtam, on May 12, 2009
...• New Search Tool Aims at Answering Tough Queries, but Not at Taking on Google
• Survey: one in five US households are cellphone only
• NBC Invests In Video Search Startup EveryZing And Signs Up ...
Facebook for Windows Mobile 6
in Wangtam, on May 9, 2009
...ers could see $500M in revenue this year
• Asus Eee PC T91 launching by June!
• Set Up and Use XP Mode in Windows 7
• Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor Beta
• TidyRead
• Is the Growth Of The Web Slo...
Late Motherhood and Lifespans
in Next Nine Months, on May 8, 2009
...ng new in all these. But here's something interesting: do you know that, according to a recent survey or records, women who have babies naturally in their 40s or 50s tend to live longer than other...
Survey: Most Women Work Because They Have To
in Well Woman Blog, on May 8, 2009
...(the largest staffing agency in the world) North America's latest American Workplace Insights Survey in honor of Mother's Day, more than three quarters of women are working because they hav...
A Hippocratic oath for managers
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
The global crisis is as much a failure of ethics as it is of finance. Business at the end of the day has to serve society which gives it its licence to operate. Creating virtual products as they did in financial markets wasn't serving anyone. Neither was flogging subprime packages to people ...
BlackBerry Curve Dethrones iPhone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on May 6, 2009
...er to become the best-selling phone in the United States.
And that's not all, according to the survey of the five best-selling smartphones in first three months of the year, three of the spots we...
All the Lego Star Wars Minifigs in History
in Wangtam, on May 5, 2009
...ays: PR People Love Our No-Embargo Policy
• Showing Its Twitter Envy, Facebook Gets Serious About SMS
• ProtoShare
• Directory of phone numbers for customer service and customer support
• Kidl...
An End to Tax Havens?
in Bizinformer, on May 5, 2009
© marcn
A vast number of news sources have been covering President Obama's proposal to close tax loopholes and shut down corporate tax havens. Some examples of the coverage include:
The NY Times , Agence France Press , The Washington Post , Financial Times , Mother Jones Bloomberg...
Supply chain video: Getting supply chain on the boardroom agenda
in Supplychainer, on April 30, 2009
... getting Supply Chain Management on the Board Room Agenda. He illustrates the themes using a simple survey undertaken at the European Supply Chain Summit 2008, Dusseldorf, Germany and responded to by ...
What's the State of Your Air?
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 30, 2009
...d indoor air pollution as one of the top five urgent environmental risks to public health, though a survey commissioned in December 2008 by 3M Filtrete filters, revealed that:
Three out of four ho...
How Sound is Your Business Plan?
in BootStrapMe, on April 27, 2009
...eported at BizPlanHacks on some research that shows that business plans don't get start-ups funded by VC's. But what do we care?
A business plan takes on a whole new meaning in the conte...
More Wall Street greed
in Sox First, on April 27, 2009
...Citigroup executive to a colleague. "I'm not giving to charity this year!" one hedge-fund analyst shouts into the phone, when I ask about Obama's planned tax increases. "When p...
Nouriel Roubini: we're not even at the bottom yet
in Sox First, on April 27, 2009
...rowth cycle will come 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 burstin...
HedgeCo.Net Spring Manager Showcase on Wed next week
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 26, 2009
...case. This event is open to all accredited HedgeCo.Net members and will profile some of the leading fund managers.
This will also be a good time to meet the HedgeCo staff and to ask them any questio...
Study Finds Pirates Buy More Music
in P2P File Sharing, on April 24, 2009
...ry reason why other people aren't buying music. 73 percent of of respondents to the CRIA's survey said that they bought music after they downloaded it illegally, while the primary reason from ...
More job cuts ahead: Bain
in Sox First, on April 23, 2009
...g again, unemployment will continue to escalate. That's borne out in the latest Bain executive survey, published in the Harvard Business review blog which found that companies are still plannin...
Hedge Funds in the Cayman Islands
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...oday hosting its inaugural Webinar on the highly topical subject of 'Managing Distressed Cayman Funds and lessons learned for new funds'.
"This fits in perfectly with our firm's pro...
Resources for Women Entrepreneurs
in BootStrapMe, on April 19, 2009
Adam over at Blogtrepreneur points out the prominent role women play in the bootstrap community and the larger world of entrepreneurs today. He uses suffrage as a point of reference; 90 years ago women couldn't even vote. "You've come a long way, baby." (Hope that doesn't...
The long recession's impact
in Sox First, on April 17, 2009
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So the International Monetary Fund warns that this recession will be around for some time. So what implications does that have for society? How will that shape the way we live? In its latest rep...
