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More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
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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 sin...
Palm Pre Knows How to Successfully Launch a Product
in The Gadgets Weblog, on May 22, 2009
...good enough for the Nintendo Wii, it is good enough for Palm.
I suppose the good news is that the implosion of Sprints network won't happen. That was the sad part of the iPhone launch; immediatel...
The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R Morris
in Sox First, on February 19, 2009
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The book from Morris provides some interesting insights into the market's implosion. It's not that we didn't have any warning. Morris makes the point that the collateralised mortgag...
The Return of Depression Economics and Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman
in Sox First, on February 14, 2009
...ltdowns over the ages. And after a while, they start bearing a striking similarity. He looks at the implosion of the Japanese economy, Asia's crash, Russia's Potemkin economy, the crises in La...
Internal threats alive and well
in The CIO Weblog, on February 3, 2009
...ren't already having enough troubles, it seems that at the height (depth?) of the credit market implosion late last year it was also suffering an insidious threat from within its own ranks: a logi...
Rubin's self-serving "innocence"
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
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Of all the disgraceful moments following the implosion of Citigroup, this Wall Street Journal interview with Citigroup director and Bill Clinton's former Treasury honcho Robert Rubin probabl...
$100 (ish) Blu-Ray Player From Best Buy
in The Gadgets Weblog, on October 22, 2008
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How does America's #1 retailer celebrate the craptastic implosion of its competitor ? The sell a Blu-Ray Player for $200 and give away $100 dollars in coupons with it. This $199...
Soros saw it coming
in Sox First, on October 17, 2008
...Cassidy suggests in the New York Review of Books , the forecasts are quite eerie. Years before the implosion, Soros wrote: "Eventually, the US government will have to use taxpayers' money to...
Hedge fund implosion
in Sox First, on October 16, 2008
JP Morgan chief Jamie Dimon summed it up well: "If you are not fearful, you're crazy." And that sound you hear, with the Dow Jones suffering its biggest drop since 1987 , is hedge funds going down the drain. Way too much leverage and the whole thing has the whiff of forced ...
Financial ethics and the meltdown
in Sox First, on October 15, 2008
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What does the implosion of markets teach us about ethics? Britain's Business In The Community business development director Mallen Baker has some interesting insights in his piece Financial...
The fall of the investment banks
in Sox First, on September 22, 2008
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And then there were none! Last week's implosion of Lehman Brothers has brought about the end of Wall Street as we know it with Goldman Sachs and Morgan stanley now moving to become bank h...
Strategic blinders
in Sox First, on July 18, 2008
... claim benefits from everyone else, while shifting costs and risks to everyone else, all you get is implosion. His main points: strategy is not the same as arbitrage which is simply about capturing v...
More CIO unrest
in The CIO Weblog, on April 30, 2008
...o be left out in the industry game of musical chairs, just as many were at the end of the dot-com implosion .
I think there is reason for some optimism, however. While there will be an old-guar...
What happens to enterprise vendors in a cloud scenario?
in The CIO Weblog, on March 29, 2008
I read Larry Dignan's summary of Nash/KPMG IT leadership survey yesterday which shows a leadership core in the IT industry that has, as Dignan puts it, "...one eye on the exit." Between voluntary departures and nerves over high numbers of failed projects, CIOs seem to be unsettl...
Glass Rave
in The Jewelry Weblog, on March 11, 2008
...ll to expand.
Want to learn more?
Watch the Twisted Cane Glass Video Tutorial or read the Dot Implosion Tutorial for a visual explanation of how Andrew does his work.
This is beautiful stuff! ...
Société Générale fallout: who's next?
in Sox First, on February 18, 2008
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The fallout from the Société Générale implosion continues. Bloomberg reports that Standard & Poor's has downgraded the bank's long-term counterparty credit rating cut one level...
Atlantic City Sands Casino Implosion
in The Gambling Weblog, on October 25, 2007
...The first ever casino implosion in Atlantic City took place on October 18, and what an event it was.
I left my home state of New Jersey 20 years ago, and one of the things I miss is the Atlant...
Natural gas and the Enron loophole
in Sox First, on July 9, 2007
...tiered market, where one half is regulated and the other half not, a situation that resulted in the implosion of the hedge fund Amaranth last year. As Salon's Andrew Leonard points out, ...
China pollution risks
in Sox First, on June 12, 2007
...orate efforts would help. Let's be blunt: can businesses really save China from environmental implosion ? Market approaches to solving global warming can be short-term and profit-based. As a...
Die Leitzinsen der EZB steigen noch weiter
in Das Börsen Weblog, on June 7, 2007
Die EZB hat gestern ihren Leitzins von 3,75 auf 4 Prozent angehoben. Die Projektionen für Inflation und Wachstum wurden gegenüber dem März leicht erhöht. Für 2007 erwartet die Europäische Zentralbank jetzt ein Wachstums von 2,3 bis 2,9 Prozent, zuvor waren es 2,1 bis 2,9 Prozent. Die Inflation...
China News on NPR This Week
in China Venture News, on May 25, 2007
...inistration is having difficulty monitoring the incoming products.
Fears Rise of Chinese Stock Implosion - A three minute piece on the possibility that the bulls will eventually stop their run o...
Digg 惹上麻烦了
in Wangtam, on May 2, 2007
说句心里话，Digg 直到今天才惹上这样的麻烦，真算是幸运了。不过这样失控的局面应该会被管理人员很快控制、清理的，更多信息可以看看 这里 和 这里 的报导，还有最新的 Kevin 面临诉讼的消息 。
BYE BYE ALADDIN
in Play Las Vegas, on April 25, 2007
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The aladdin is officially gone from the Las Vegas Strip.
No, you didn't miss another implosion; this building is new, even by Las Vegas standards, having opened in 2000.
What has happe...
LAST LOOK AT THE STARDUST CASINO
in Play Las Vegas, on January 25, 2007
... this video it's being gutted and will soon go down as the result of another famous Las Vegas implosion .
Here's the link to what's left of its website .
There's a lot of Las ...
Biloxi Casino Implosion
in The Gambling Weblog, on May 23, 2006
You've got to love a video of a casino demolition. But this one was bittersweet.
Neither architecturally pretty nor tall, at only 12 stories high, the Grand Casino Island View Hotel in Biloxi was damaged during Hurricane Katrina. The casino went down in seconds when the mayor pressed ...
Bourbon Street Casino Implosion
in The Gambling Weblog, on February 22, 2006
... More implosions in Vegas as they continue to get rid of the old hotels.
This time its Bourbon Street Hotel-Casino - and it took 160lbs of explosives to take down the casino at 2:30am. Woul...
Really Bad Madrid
in The Soccer Weblog, on December 22, 2005
Source: Realmadrid.com Raul looks as lost as his teammates at the moment. Why? Like Arsenal to the north across the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel, Real Madrid are enduring a change of fortune these days. But unlike Arsenal (so far) the Galacticos of the Bernabeu are being booed off t...
Regulator worried about Big Four Dominance
in Sox First, on November 23, 2005
...opers, KPMG, Ernst & Young and Deloitte - has taken a battering and has not recovered since the implosion of Andersen and the accounting scandals that started with Enron. Public Company Acc...
Paypal founders formalize seed fund
in TJ's Weblog, on July 13, 2005
...p a fund to formalize what we'd been doing for seven years," Howery said. "The bubble implosion is also starting to sort itself out, so we have Clarity in what works and what is f...