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Happy 5th Birthday, Firefox!
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-10
...tore, Scamville, SnapNames and more…
• Investing in a mobile future with AdMob
• Google making Waves across all its Apps?
• Simply Failed
• Find a travel buddy, explore destinations on Tra...
Google 7.5 亿美元收购 AdMob
in Wangtam, on 2009-11-10
官方 Blog 消息 ，Google 将以7.5亿美元的价格收购手机广告网络公司 AdMob，支付方式为全股票。
Google 原本已经拥有 DoubleClick Mobile 手机广告交付系统，这一系统是 Google 在 2008 年以 32 亿美元的价格收购 DoubleClick 时获得的。 Google 称，收购 AdMob 将使其在手机广告市场上拥有更加专业的技术，而这一市场预计将在未来几十年中迅速增长。
Google 产品管理副总裁苏 Susan Wojcicki 发表声明称：“作为一种营销媒介，手机广告拥有巨大的潜力。虽然这一行业目前仍处于早期的发展阶...
Seen that? - Hubbert Peak v. Actual Peak
in IfEnergy, on November 7, 2009
...The Peak Oil Value Fund. Launched September 8, the new hedge fund is the first of its kind aimed at institutional and accredited investors. "We believe that the effects of Peak Oil on the markets...
Controlling investing emotions
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
Can investors be controlled from making dumb mistakes? How do you ensure investors keep a cool head? The Economist reports that electronics company Philips and Dialogues Incubator, a venture sponsored by ABN AMRO, have developed a bracelet called "The Rationalizer" which measures the elec...
A system to let institutions fail
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...n, then doing it quickly with contractual obligations sold to healthy firms, assets sold off, intra-institutional lending, cancelling debt or equity and special protection to certain creditors. Levit...
Seen that? - NBA's Marc Cuban Blogs his Plans to Launch Betting Hedge Fund
in The Gambling Weblog, on October 2, 2009
...In a HedgeCo story; "The current influx of funds from hedge funds, private equity funds and institutional investors into studio and independent distributor funds has created a considerable opport...
Twitter 完成新一轮融资，涉资 1 亿美元
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-27
...tures 和 Benchmark Capital。
Twitter 公司目前的投资估价已经达到 10 亿美金，但是 Twitter 公司创始人坚持在不被收购的前提下独自向前发展。 Twitter 创始人 Evan Williams 和 Biz Stone 正想方设法在互联网以外的领域得到融资。但 Twitter 公司并没有提供此次融资的具体数字，只是含糊的说数目比较大。一位熟悉该公司的消息人士...
The phoney bull market
in Sox First, on September 24, 2009
Is this a bull market or a bear market rally? Commentators like Clem Chambers at Forbes say the market rally seems to have all the hallmarks of a bull market. "Another good augur for a bull market is that no one is calling this,'' Chambers writes. "You really know the end i...
New Scans Featuring Serah, from V-Jump
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-19
...ing goods, and much more!
• LIVE: Palm Beats The Street, Will Offer 16 Million Shares
• Google Shows Strength in Indian and Brazilian Internet Landscapes
• 淘宝半年快递包裹超过3亿件
• Skype 2.8 for OS X
...
World Habitat Day - Oct. 5
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on September 15, 2009
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* Housing formation generates non-housing related expenditures that help drive the economy.
* Investing in housing expands the local tax base.
Celebrations of World Habitat Day in Washington...
Google and Mongolia: leading the way in solar power
in Sox First, on September 11, 2009
...ill reduce the cost of building solar plants. Cheaper plants means more solar power. Google is also investing in companies in this area although you would have to say at this stage, there's not th...
Can the SEC be sued for Madoff?
in Sox First, on September 7, 2009
...s Molchatsky sued the Securities and Exchange Commission for negligence after she lost $2 million investing with Bernard Madoff. Now in the wake of the an SEC internal investigation report slating t...
Electric cars - no one will buy without Government backing
in Sox First, on September 6, 2009
...sn't enough venture capital out there in this economic climate to fund electric cars. No one is investing, and no one is buying. It certainly doesn't help when Audi of America president Joh...
Artificial Trees?
in IfEnergy, on September 1, 2009
I saw a fascinating article at TreeHugger the other day on the possibility of an artificial forest in the UK. Carbon-capturing artificial trees have been getting some due attention lately, and for good reason: each fake tree can suck down CO2 thousands of times faster than their leafy, organic bre...
Investor Group to Buy Skype?
in The VoIP Weblog, on August 31, 2009
© re-ality
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that a group of venture capital and private equity firms are working together to acquire Skype from current owner eBay .
"Investors in the proposed purchase may include newly-formed Andreessen Horowitz , Index Ventures (who ...
Samsung SSD is Serious Business for Gamers
in The Gadgets Weblog, on August 14, 2009
...and while prices are dropping quickly, this drive is too hot to be cheap. None the less, if you are investing in a high-end gaming rig, the Samsung FlashSSD might be the only choice for you.
via Ele...
Eric Schmidt 辞去 Apple 董事职务
in Wangtam, on 2009-08-04
... meetings due to potential conflicts of interest. Therefore, we have mutually decided that now is the right time for Eric to resign his position on Apple's Board."...
Government spending in tracking technologies provides good opportunities for SCM technology providers
in Supplychainer, on July 30, 2009
... As the U.S. government is increasingly investing in technology infrastructure necessary for achieving efficiency in its administrative and organizational processes, supply chain companies are also...
For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Get Tricky
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-28
...ire Its Approach to the Web
• Apple joins forces with record labels
• The Game Crafter - Your game REALIZED
• lnk.ly - Free URL shortener service. Turns a long URL into a much shorter one.
• i...
Can Technology Clean Up Coal?
in IfEnergy, on July 22, 2009
... they rise to production levels that will allow coal to be sidelined.
The Obama Administration is investing a billion new dollars in a carbon capture and storage (CCS) research projct called Fut...
VC Investment Bounces Back
in Biz Plan Hacks, on July 20, 2009
I talked elsewhere recently about the grim state of the venture capital industry at the moment. VentureBeat recently pointed out one bright spot...
While the number of investment funds being formed and the amount of money being collected up by those funds is at a dismal low point right now, ac...
Goldman Sachs: behind the numbers
in Sox First, on July 15, 2009
...s." But the unsettling part about these numbers is that Goldman is back to its old tactics of investing in high-risk trading and investing in everything from mortgages to commodities and underwr...
ETF und Indexfonds - vergleichen lohnt sich!
in Das Börsen Weblog, on 08.07.09
...sind Investmentfonds. Sie folgen einer Anlegerstrategie die im englischen als "Index Investing" bezeichnet wird. Das bedeutet, dass solche Anlage durch ihre Zusammenstellung einen bestimmten...
Is there room for Cisco in the online office suite space?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...ant advantages in this game that the others are each lacking one of; unlike Microsoft, they have no institutional or financial interest in maintaining the status quo of desktop based office suites, or...
Survival strategies for a deepening recession
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
...ght be opportunities for growth. Don't cut the marketing budget, hold on to the talent and keep investing in R&D....
Mafia cashes in on crisis
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
... month, Bloomberg reported about the mafia's money laundering and using its hoard of cash for investing and lending money to those who can't get it from the banks. As reported here , Italy...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...ard these people have been hurt by the crime. Consider this: "We are in our mid 60s and began investing directly with Madoff in 1993 after he had been investigated by the SEC. Madoff's crime...
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...
Art Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 10, 2009
... 15% since inception in March 2008.
"We are convinced that there are better opportunities for investing in sectors or artists that are currently not being 'hyped'; but rather recognised ...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
How much are business schools to blame for the recession? Writing in The Times , Phillip Delves Broughton says MBA should actually stand for Master of the Business Apocalypse. Broughton writes: "Harvard Business School alumni include Stan O'Neal and John Thain, the last two heads of ...
Corporate social responsibility and recession
in Sox First, on May 16, 2009
...d here , sheds light on this question. It used an interactive tool called the Socially Responsible Investing Stock Screener, which ranks 500 of the country's largest companies according to five c...
Sun, Oracle, WordPress, and MySQL
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-24
...ne
• e-PaperTrail
• FairSpin
• Mobile Analytics | Mobile Advertising | iPhone Analytics | Android Analytics | App Store Ranking | Medialets
• MilestonePlanner.com - Project Management Made Sim...
Another sucker's rally
in Sox First, on April 22, 2009
Should we read anything into the gyrations of the Dow Jones industrial average? Should we take heart when the market starts trading higher? If the experts are right, it's just a sucker's rally. As Dr Doom, Nouriel Roubini told Steve Forbes in this interview , the extent of the contract...
chinaSMACK | Hot Internet Stories, Pictures, & Videos in China
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-21
...arter?
• Energy jobs, environmental jobs, skilled trades jobs, green jobs : Great Green Careers
• Longr.us - A URL Enlarging Service
• Can Smartphones Offset Churn?
• 开普勒飞船首批照片拍到数百万颗恒星
• New...
Small Wind: GE Is Investing
in IfEnergy, on April 16, 2009
CNET reported earlier this month that GE is sinking money into wind power. But it's not the big super-turbines, it's small personal wind turbines that GE is focusing on. Southwest Windpower, which makes residential wind turbines, said on Monday it has raised $10 million from existing i...
IPOs: don't blame Sarbox
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...n 30% of publicly traded shares with the remainder held through mutual funds, hedge funds and other institutional investors. Which, as Davidoff implies, makes the arguments about Sarbanes-Oxley moot. ...
The Panic of 2008-09
in Sox First, on April 7, 2009
...ember of the 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 ...
A Time to Invest
in Celebrate Wine, on March 18, 2009
...world of wine. And the more expensive the wine, the tougher things are. Whether you're actually investing (and I'm not giving investment advice here) or just looking for good buys, this is the...
GM - too big to fail?
in Sox First, on March 8, 2009
...9;s Harris would agree. But maybe that's wishful thinking. How much more money can the US keep investing in a company that's going nowhere?...
Oliver Wight launches fast track offerings for supply chain improvement
in Supplychainer, on February 28, 2009
...u look at the consulting market for supply chain today, you clearly see that many companies are not investing in big transformational projects but tend to spend money on quick cost reduction work. So ...
Twitter bekommt 35 Millionen US-Dollar
in Das CIO Weblog, on 16.02.09
... Twitter bekommt eine kräftige Finanzspritze in Höhe von 35 Millionen US-Dollar. Die Investoren Institutional Venture Partner (IVP) und Benchmark Capital hatten dabei Twitter eigeninitiativ das Kapi...
Twitter Raises $35 Million
in The Social Networking Weblog, on February 15, 2009
...l sources ( VentureBeat , PE Hub , TechCrunch , Mashable , Gawker ) have covered the funding news. Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) leads this funding round.
Twitter wants to compete with the bi...
WOWIO: Free Ebooks, Comics and Graphic Novels
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-14
...Courses, Online Investing Classes
• richrelevance - next generation personalized recommendations
• Google plans data centre at old Finnish paper mill
• 5 Facebook Features We'd Like to See o...
Trust crashes
in Sox First, on February 14, 2009
...s. Alarmingly, the study also found that US Government intervention had left 80% less confident of investing in the market. Three out of four admitted they had lost confidence as a result of recent f...
How the Recession is Shaping Up
in Biz Plan Hacks, on February 12, 2009
A few days ago I looked at job losses in this recession and talked about the difficult task of predicting sales. I used a chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed real job losses in the 1990, 2001 and current recessions. I thought I'd create a little more context with this new cha...
AOL 宣布裁员 700 人
in Wangtam, on 2009-02-04
TC 消息 ， AOL CEO Randy Falco 上周在致全体员工的备忘录中表示，受经济衰退的影响，公司将裁员 700 人。
Falco 在备忘录中称公司将裁员 700 人，占员工总数的 10%。同时还将冻结 2009 年全年的加薪计划。"全球经济衰退已经影响到每一个角落，包括我们自己。" Falco 表示。
本月初， AOL 的母公司时代华纳其 2008 年的营收预期下调了 3.7 亿美元，这意味着其旗下 AOL 的广告营收同比下降了 18%，大约为 6400 万美元。
上周，Google 承认其于 2005 年收购 AOL 5% 股份已成为一笔亏本生...
Will Bank Of America Go Belly Up?
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 25, 2009
No one would have thought that such industry giants as Citi Bank would virtually fall off the map; but it, and many others nearly did, and Bank Of America could join that list.
Just a short while after the Federal Government infused the banking industry with hundreds of billions of dollars in bail ...
Microsoft To Lay Off 5,000 Employees
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 22, 2009
Microsoft has always done things in a big way and their first ever layoff will carry on that tradition when 5,000 employees are laid off due to lagging sales.
The lay offs, which will eliminate 5% of the company's personnel, will impact virtually every department and will be instituted simultan...
The Dystopians - Review
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 21, 2009
The article starts off with US resident Dmitry Orlov, from Leningrad , who has been living on a semi-self-sustainable boat in a form 'bourgeois survivalism' for 2 ½ years, riding a bicycle and skipping the TV.
After the downfall of the Soviet Union he learned a lesson for future refe...
How to make a killing in the crisis
in Sox First, on January 20, 2009
...s are putting their money into new debt and it shows no sign of slowing down. What we are seeing is institutional money moving away from common stocks and pouring into corporate bonds. Corporate bond ...
4 Crisis Related Suicides (Report)
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 7, 2009
...nth, swallowed sleeping pills and slashed his wrists with a craft knife. He was facing losses from investing with the alleged fraudster Bernard Madoff. His family said that his suicide was a "mat...
Rise of the new consumer
in Sox First, on January 7, 2009
...heir money from shares to high interest savings accounts. Instead of overseas trips, they have been investing in their own homes. And they are making sure their personal trainers and yoga teachers are...
Investment in Smaller Companies Can Still Pay Big
in Biz Plan Hacks, on January 5, 2009
Paul Elliott over at Motley Fool had an entertaining story this weekend about the value of smaller, lesser known stocks. A Midwest billionaire once claimed he could earn 50% per year on a portfolio of ordinary common stocks. Of course, there was one condition. As the story goes on you find out...
The Madoff lawsuits roll in
in Sox First, on December 25, 2008
...an, Phyllis Molchatsky, is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission after losing $2 million investing with Madoff. She alleges, with good reason, that the SEC was negligent in failing to detec...
I’m Sorry Robert, But It’s Time For A Friendfeed Intervention
in Wangtam, on 2008-12-24
...nies, Investment Concepts, and more...
• Mozilla CEO: Ties with Google 'complicated' since Chrome
• Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley
• 周慧敏凌晨为倪震煮宵夜
• Three plugins for better online...
Economic forecasts - dark days ahead
in Sox First, on December 22, 2008
...cious cycles: consumers are not consuming, businessmen are not taking on workers, investors are not investing and the banks are not lending. There is an almost total paralysis from which no-one is esc...
Venture Capitalists Karen Gordon Mills Nominated to Head the Small Business Administration
in Bizinformer, on December 20, 2008
...; He Tapped a Private Equity/Buyout Specialist. The distinction is important. VCs take big risks by investing in new business. Private equity players take over or invest in mature companies and try to...
The Madoff debacle: how did people get sucked in?
in Sox First, on December 14, 2008
The tales of woe and the list of Bernard Madoff's victims continue to grow. Associated Press reports that the list includes former Philadelphia Eagles owner Norman Braman, New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon and J. Ezra Merkin, the chairman of GMAC Financial Services, the Robert I. Lappin Ch...
Tudor Halts Redemptions
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on December 2, 2008
...15.4 billion. The firm's investment strategies include global macro trading, fundamental equity investing in the U.S. and Europe, emerging markets, venture capital, commodities , event driven s...
Venture Funds Still Spending Big in China
in China Venture News, on November 26, 2008
... companies that invest VC Funds in China don't seem to have figured it out yet; they're investing faster than ever, according to sources like Red Herring .
From Ken Schachter's repor...
China's growth slows down
in Sox First, on November 26, 2008
...gy and resource pricing; health, education, and the social safety net; financial sector reform; and institutional reforms". Now, 7.5% is not bad in itself but growth in China falling and the que...
Faster Than a Speeding Ferrari
in Classical Drives, on November 20, 2008
...ompany, N.T.V. But here's the interesting part. Luca di Montezemolo, president of Ferrari , is investing in the company, as is Diego della Valle, president of Tod's , which developed the fam...
The Siemens saga rolls on
in Sox First, on November 19, 2008
The Siemens bribery saga rolls on with two former managers confessing their crimes and likely to receive suspended sentences. The pair took the illegal payments and established a secret accounting system, using sham contracts for payments into slush funds. But it won't stop there. The Inte...
AIG's bigger bailout
in Sox First, on November 10, 2008
...ities-lending business. The business involves lending out securities to short sellers or others and investing the collateral for gains. AIG has labored to unload illiquid assets in order to give back ...
Wall Street Survivor Training
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 28, 2008
... prior to taking risks," states Rory Olson , CEO of Stock-Trak Group.
More at; Gaming and Investing
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Halloween Charity Bash
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 24, 2008
The 13 Ugly Men Foundation is hosting the 11th ANNUAL HALLOWEEN FREAKSHOW on Friday, October 31st, 2008 at the Sheraton Riverwalk Hotel, in Tampa, Florida this year.
Benefits will go to;
Pediatric Cancer Foundation
Achieve Tampa Bay
Local Military Veterans
Gift of Adoption
Childrens Dre...
Corporate governance takes a back seat
in Sox First, on October 20, 2008
...etWatch that Treasury isn't replacing any of the directors on the boards of the banks it's investing in, or adding new directors to represent taxpayer interests. Which means of course that Tr...
Single Family Offices Investing in Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 16, 2008
According to "On the Rise," the latest research report sponsored by CPA firm Rothstein Kass, the alternative investment sector will continue to benefit from increasing asset allocations from Single Family Offices (SFOs).
The findings include that almost three-quarters of SFOs curr...
