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News Flash: Democrats Create Jobs Twice as Fast as Republicans

As news of the somewhat improved jobs picture creates some small dregree of hope that the economy may really be improving, I came across this enlighting piece of historical perspective on jobs creation from Blue Virginia . This factoid should be repeated a million times until everyone ha...

Dubai: a sign of worse to come

Dubai media and business leaders are moving to reassure the world about the Dubai World mess, claiming the fears are overblown and exaggerated with papers like the English-daily Khaleej Times saying the decision to restructure Dubai World shows "maturity". Having worked in Dubai, I can t...

News Corp. - If You de-Index Will They Still Come?

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和 Kimi 的对话

... Apple And Android Now Make Up 75 Percent Of U.S. Smartphone Web Traffic • Zoho Recruit, • LinkedIn Aims to Show Up in More Places Online • Knew this? • Spree.ly - Social Shopping! • S...

Will Dimon replace Geithner?

The whispers are getting louder with the New York Post reporting that JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is emerging as the replacement for beleaguered Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. According to the Post, sources say policy makers are canvassing Dimon as a successor to Geithner whose reputa...

Twitter Marketing

Twitter is a phenomenon that is sweeping the globe. In the last year Twitter has seen membership growth well in excess of 1,500% as people swarm to use it and set up accounts. The basic premise of Twitter is that you post Tweets about what you are doing. The twist is that you only have 140 charact...

Seen that? - Chinese Venture Capital Ushers in Thunder & Rainmakers

Chinese Venture Capital Ushers in Thunder & Rainmakers at China Venture News A dramatic transformation is sweeping across the Pacific. For two decades, Asia watchers have proclaimed the dawning of a Pacific Century that is waking up the West l...

New Wound Dressing with Drug Releasing Fibers

Researchers from the Tel Aviv University have developed a new wound dressing based on innovative fibers that can be loaded with antibiotics, then dissolve when the healing process is completed. A study published in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research – Applied Biomaterials demonstrate...

Seen that? - Porsche in the kitchen

Porsche in the kitchen at Cool Picking When Porsche is mentioned, it is associated with cars. It does have a place in the kitchen though. Designed by the same people behind the famous sports car, this is the F.A. Porsche kitchen collection of comm...

Chainalytics becomes supply chain company of the year

According to a press release from Newsblaze , Chainalytics LLC, a supply chain consulting firm focused on enabling fact-based supply chain decisions, announced that the Metro Atlanta Chamber has awarded them the Supply Chain Company of the Year for 2009. The award was announced during a lunche...

Economy to get worse with debt hitting $12 trillion

While the global economy continues to improve, the situation in the United States is more grim where the going is slower than expected . The US economy is facing a long hard haul back with debt levels now topping $12 trillion . That only adds to pressure on the economy from weak bank lend...

Poised for Growth? What the Suppliers are Expecting.

... soon," leading to an economic recovery within the Indian BPO segment. In addition to in-country growth, Indian firms are beginning to expand overseas to near-shore markets. Infosys, for example, ...

Cost cuts hit auditors

The economic crisis is having an impact on financial statements and auditors with Britain's Financial Reporting Council (FRC), as reported here , warning that accounting firms could sacrifice audit quality when they're cutting costs and scrambling to get more cash in through the door. In fa...

Voxeo Raises $9 Million

Voxeo Corporation has raised $9 million in funding from North Atlantic Capital and the Florida Growth Fund . "The Orlando, Fla.-based company is focused on making open platforms based on what it calls 'unlocked communications,' such as voice-over-Internet-protocol on mobile platfo...

Christianity and the crash

Did Christianity cause the market meltdown? Probably not completely but according to Hanna Rosin at The Atlantic , it fueled the housing bubble that created the crash. In her piece, Rosin talks about a different strain of Christian faith which has has grown in popularity, one that promises ...

Famitsu 最新 Final Fantasy XIII 游戏截图 (17P)

Famitsu have uploaded the direct feed screenshots featured in the Final Fantasy XIII feature from the 26/11 issue of Weekly Famitsu - 17 of them. They include Hope and his summon Alexander, the Crystarium character growth system and some stunning new environments - featuring dancing monsters, Vanill...

Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 Review

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Is China about to collapse?

Hedge fund manager James Chanos will go down in history as the first to predict that Enron was a disaster in the making. Chanos is in the business of scrutinizing companies for their flaws and then making a fortune by betting against them. Now, he is predicting that China is about to co...

HP continues growth with 3COM acquisition

Hewlett-Packard has been making hard choices over the past year but the aggression seems to be paying off. The EDS acquisition has become the most profitable part of the company, market share has held steady or increased and now the company has announced plans to acquire network company 3Com to ext...

Seen that? - The Hybrid Golf Club

...erein we had to prepare water solutions of the various macro and micronutrients necessary for plant growth, mix them in appropriate ratios (depending if we would like the plants to grow healthfully or...

Seen that? - Online Dating Sites

Online Dating Sites at TJ's Weblog The online dating business model finally takes off. While there has not been anything fundamentally new, it's interesting to see how online dating becomes mainstream in US (article requires free registration)...

Seen that? - Germany in trouble?

Germany in trouble? at The Outsourcing Weblog Do you remember the often cited McKinsey study? the study outlined how outsourcing creates value for American GDP? As the study says the balance for outsourcing done by American firms is $1.13 positive...

Goldman Sachs and God

Hard to go past this interview with Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein in The Times where he claims bankers are doing "God's work". "We’re very important," Blankfein says. "We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital. Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows ...

Seen that? - Scientific Atlanta Grows From DVR Sales

Scientific Atlanta Grows From DVR Sales at The Digital TV Weblog Much of the news in advertising and digital television revolves around the impact of the digital video recorder (DVR). Here is the financial report of just one (albeit a large one) m...

Why Facebook is for old farts: the demographics of social networking

Earlier this year, we had the shocking news that the fastest growing group of Facebook users were the 55-plus age group. In a space of just six months, they had increased a whopping 513%. Time Magazine's Lev Grossman came up with reasons why Facebook was for old farts: Facebook is for fi...

Infonetics: VoIP Providers Earning Billions

According to a recent report from Infonetics Research , revenue from VoIP worldwide reached $20.7 billion in the last six months alone. That's billion, with a b... "Residential VoIP services remain healthy, comprising the majority of worldwide VoIP services revenue, and subscribers...

Seen that? - Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse

Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse at P2P File Sharing The following may appear to have nothing to do with P2P. But it does. There is a growing sense of entitlement, self-protection, and amnesia in this country ... and in the entertain...

Novel Antifungal Protein from Pumpkin Rinds

© Tambako the Jaguar Scientists have identified antimicrobial proteins from pumpkin rinds that can inhibit the growth of microbes, including Candida albicans which causes vaginal yeast infections, diaper rash in infants, and other health problems. From the abstract of the study published...

China Business Myths

© Chi King 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...

Over-valued S&P to tumble and the double dip recession.

Is the stock market over-valued? Can we expect it to fall again? In an interview with the Financial Times, which I blogged about here , billionaire financier George Soros warns that we can expect a contraction. "I think certainly there could be another dip in the stock market because, right...

9 月 Twitter 用户访问量 5840 万

comScore 发布的 最新数据显示 ， Twitter 今年 9 月的全球用户访问量较 8 月份增加 6.7%，达到 5840 万。 倘若按照同比数据计算，则增幅高达 949%。其中，2090 万来自美国，但该数据自从今年 6 月以来便没有太大变化。 上述数据不包括通过手机和电脑客户端应用使用 Twitter 的访问量。但业内人士认为，如果 Twitter 希望成为首个获得 10 亿用户的服务，就必须要加快增长速度。即使以百分比计算，Facebook 在美国本土的增长速度也快于 Twitter ，其今年 9 月的全球用户访问量达到 4.11 亿，较 8 月增长 5...

eBay 公布 2009 年第三季度财报

eBay发布了2009财年第三季度财报。 报告显示 ，eBay第三季度的净营收为22.38亿美元，比去年同期的21.18亿美元增长6%；净利润为3.497亿美元，比去年同期的4.922亿美元下滑29%。 在截至9月30日的这一财季，eBay的净营收为22.38亿美元，比去年同期的21.18亿美元增长6%；按照美国通用会计准则，eBay第三季度运营利润率为19.8%，低于去年同期的24.7%；按照美国通用会 计准则，eBay第三季度净利润为3.497亿美元，比去年同期的4.922亿美元下滑29%；按照美国通用会计准则，eBay第三季度每股摊薄收益为0.27美元，比去年同期的...

Hundreds lining up for low pay

US unemployment will continue to grow with Drew Matus, a senior US economist at BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research in New York telling Bloomberg it will peak at 10.2% in the first quarter of next year. Which means we are a long way off from seeing any sort of recovery. analysts have told ...

Will an Innovation Shortage End China's Economic Growth?

© jiazi BusinessWeek ran a couple of articles this week ( here and here ) on China's economic growth and the expansion of the China economy into "sophisticated industries." Can the growth rate of 8% continue? There are skeptics. China has moved into auto and airplane manufacturing,...

Skype 发布 2009 年第三季度财报

尽管深陷与其创立者的法律纠纷中，Skype 仍然保持强劲的增长势头。其母公司 eBay 发布的三季度财报显示，公司非常满意 Skype 的表现。 Skype 在本财季用户增长了 41% 达到 5.21 亿人。仅在过去三个月中，公司的用户就增加了 4000 万人。 Skype 在本财季营收增加 29% 达 1.85 亿美元。Skype 拨打 Skype 电话（免费电话）通话时长增加 74%，达 277 亿分钟，而 SkypeOut（电脑对电话）的付费通话时间增长 44%，达到 31 亿分钟。 如果继续保持此势头，到 2011 年公司将轻松超越其每年营收 10 亿美元的...

Managed and unmanaged social networks in the enterprise

One of the most consistent patterns I have seen with the deployment, and subsequent failure, of social networking tools within the enterprise is that, whether of its own volition or having been hectored into doing so, the IT department puts on a big push to deploy the tools, creates a lot of buzz an...

Cisco Agrees: P2P Use Declining

© Per Ola Wiberg (Powi) A new study by Cisco comes to the same conclusion as Arbor Networks' study, discussed below -- P2P traffic is declining. "The Cisco research shows that P2P use has dropped, comprising only 38 percent of the total traffic in the third quarter, compared...

Seen that? - AOL, Yahoo Plan Paid E-Mail Service

AOL, Yahoo Plan Paid E-Mail Service at I got Spam?! Antone Gonsalves: America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc. on Monday said they planned to launch certified email services that would bypass spam filters and deliver messages directly to subscribers. ht...

BioAccelerate NYC Prize To Fund Translational Research

© kaibara87 The Partnership for New York City and the New York City Economic Development (NYCEDC) Corporation have announced that the New York City Investment Fund (NYCIF) will provide up to $1.25 million for the BioAccelerate NYC Prize . The BioAccelerate NYC Prize is the first city...

P2P Traffic Declining Dramatically Worldwide

A study by Arbor Networks has found that P2P traffic is decreasing dramatically worldwide, from 40 percent of all traffic two years ago to 18 percent today. "Why the change? For the most part, the file-sharing that took place on networks like Limewire and Napster back in the late 90...

BroadSoft to Acquire Packet Island

© josh.liba I recently published an article at VoIP Planet looking at BroadSoft 's planned acquisition of Packet Island , a provider of SaaS-based QoS monitoring tools for VoIP and video networks and services. "BroadSoft is committed to helping our global customer base rapi...

Avoiding Layoffs by Pruning and Upgrading

© aflcio2008 Venture Beat's Entrepreneur's Corner had a great piece at the beginning of the month on how to avoid large scale layoffs. Let's face it. We all know that healthy business grow and change. Make your personnel changes as you go. And make them in a timely manner, in ways ...

Seen that? - Nanotech market to top $1 trillion by 2010

Nanotech market to top $1 trillion by 2010 at Nanotechbuzz A new report from RNCOS, "World Nanotechnology Market - An Industry Update (2005)", predicts that nanotechnology will exceed $1 trillion in the world market by the end of 2010. G...

Seen that? - Another non-starter: Micropayments

Another non-starter: Micropayments at P2P File Sharing Here's another non-starter: Micropayments. Extensive obits have been written. I won't go into that here. See clay Shirky's piece Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content for...

Greentech Sees Venture Capital Growth

© Jimmy_Joe Renewable Energy World is reporting that venture capital investment is on the upswing - at least in the green technology sector of the economy. Third quarter numbers are out, and they're encouraging for both VC's and the greentech sector. Q1 this year saw 59 deals wo...

Rich getting richer

Yes, the global financial crisis has reduced the amount of global wealth by 11.8%. In the United States, wealth has shrunk by 21.8% to US$29.3 trillion compared to 2007. But the picture is a lot more complicated than that. Some have lost a fortune but at the very top, there are people rak...

Turbo: The Movie Is Better Than Most Street Fighter Films

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Looking for Business Growth? Try Strands eCommerce Recommender for Your Website

© Bartholomule It's a simple idea. People visit your website because they want something you have. How do you get them to buy more than just that one thing ? A recommendation engine may be the answer. It can point your website visitors to other products on your site that they could b...

Seen that? - Saif Partners Picks China TV Home-Shopping Network as the Next Big IPO

Saif Partners Picks China TV Home-Shopping Network as the Next Big IPO at China Venture News Daniel Yang, a partner of SAIF Partners, the most active venture capital firm in China in 2004, displays only confidence about the investment climate in t...

Four ways to create jobs in the recession

Unemployment in the United States will keep rising and will push beyond 10%. So how to fix it? And where can people find work? The Wall Street Journal reports that while it will be years before lost jobs return, health care and education will remain the key areas for jobs growth. These areas...

Only days left to get a climate change deal

We are running out of time to get a deal up that tackles global warming. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says we only have 10 days left to get a deal up before the critical Copenhagen summit in December. He says much of it depends on the United States. But the prospects of gett...

Seen that? - Poker Billionaires

Poker Billionaires at Internet Poker Forbes Magazine recently posted its latest list of the world's richest people. Among the 746 billionaires are three of Party Poker's founders. Anurag Dikshit is #207 on the list with a net worth of $3.3...

IBM Opens Linux Innovation Center in Kazakhstan

© irina slutsky IBM has opened a Linux Innovation Center in Kazakhstan. "Like many emerging markets, Kazakhstan faces the ambitious task of growing and enhancing its IT infrastructure very fast to match the demands of a new economy," says Inna Kuznetsova, IBM's vice presid...

Is Twitter really worth $1 billion?

Bloomberg reports that Twitter has received $100 million in venture capital funding that actually values the social networking site at $1 billion, providing the investors with a 10% stake. Now how is that possible for a site that isn't even making any money? Indeed, you do wonder whether...

Outsourcing as an Economic Indicator

© Michiel2005 In yesterday's Business Week , Mehul Srivastava described a decline in salaries and turnover in Indian firms, no doubt caused by the declining economy. That certainly parallels the global recession - particularly in areas such as technology investment and long term deals. U...

Airlines pledge cut in emissions

All eyes will be on the aviation industry which has now pledged to reduce its emissions to half its 2005 levels by 2050. The BBC reports that British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh has put up a series of proposals: These involve to halving net carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, compared...

Recession to last until 2012 - Stiglitz

...ast another three years. Even if the official data says the recession is over, with two quarters of growth, in practical terms it will still be in place. Stiglitz says: "There is likely to be we...

Facebook makes profit

The big news is that Facebook is finally making money, and showing profits. That's one year before it was scheduled to start happening in 2010. Still, it's not convincing because the ads on the site are low cost although that might change. But then, there's no denying its growth....

The next bubbles

All bubbles lead to a meltdown. This is what's so alarming in this Business Insider piece that talks about 10 bubbles in the making: China; gold; renewable energy; the Fed snapping up $1.25 trillion of mortgage backed securities; the prices of junk financial stocks like Fannie, Freddie, A...

Google and Mongolia: leading the way in solar power

Fascinating developments in the world of solar power. Exciting innovative things are happening in that space. First, The Times reports that Mongola is set to become a world leader in solar energy with Chinese officials signing a deal with American business to convert a remote desert area of ...

Unemployment boosts marijuana trade

Back in July, I did a blog entry looking at how there was a push to legalize marijuana in California to get that state out of the pits. California is the trend-setting state of the US, so it's not surprising to read reports that struggling entrepreneurs are now growing bumper crops of ...

Valuing public goods using happiness surveys

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The US consumer economy is dead

It had to happen. It's no great shock that Switzerland has overtaken the United States as the world's most competitive economy. The World Economic Forum also ranked Britain at number 13, well behind Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands. Also, the record plunge in b...

The new normal

...ncouraged home ownership are no more. So what can we expect? Obviously, we are in for years of low growth, more government intervention and the Asian and Asian connected economies driving whatever gr...

Malware threat grows: is the Internet burning?

The growth of web-delivered malware is alarming and the trend suggests we are struggling to deal with it. ZDNet UK reports that an average of 37,000 new malware samples are discovered and processed each day and that over half - 52% - of that malware will be reconfigured within 24 hours of it...

China's Investment-to-GDP Ratio

INn light of what I said yesterday about consumptionin China , I thought I would revisit another Seeling Alpha post from earlier this month - this one by David Hunkar. So, if China's not a comsumer-oriented economy, what is it? The answer lies in its ratio of investment-to-GDP. China ha...

China's Consumption Gap

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 ...

Linux Market to Exceed $1 Billion by 2012

© _Max-B A recent report from research firm IDC finds that revenue from Linux OS software grew by 23.4% from 2007 to 2008, and that growth will continue from 2008-2013 at a compound annual growth rate of 16.9%, with worldwide Linux operating systems revenue exceeding $1 billion for the fi...

USA - Boom der Öko -Aktien

© Helico Wirtschaftskrise? Nicht überall. Zumindest nicht, wenn die " Welt " mit ihrem Artikel in der Onlineausgabe Recht behält. Dort heißt es nämlich unter der Überschrift Amerikanische Öko-Aktien stehen vor einem Boom , dass die Umweltbranche in der nächsten Zeit einen ähnlichen...

2009 Mid-Atlantic Bio Conference Calls for Emerging Companies to Present to Investors

Emerging companies in the field of biotechnology are called to present to potential investors at the Mid-Atlantic Bio's 2009 Conference (Nov. 4-6, 2009). Building on the success of last year's format, company presentations will again be offered on two tracks. In addition to our main &...