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Do you still have faith in Obama's stimulus plans?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 10, 2009
...ens no longer do.
According to the story, critics are lining up to point out that Obama's $787 billion stimulus plans were either too timid or too wrong-headed. Some critics aren't content wi...
1954 Buick Skylark. More Beautiful Than a 48 Roadmaster?
in Classical Drives, on July 10, 2009
...'s Vintage Motor Cars of Meadow Brook auction, August 1, 2009. Restored 15 years ago, it has a mere 60,000 miles on the clock and is said to be in excellent condition. Estimated price of $60-80,0...
T-Mobile To Begin Pre-Selling New Android Phone
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on July 8, 2009
...he T-Mobile myTouch 3G will hit stores on Aug. 5 and will sell for $199 with a two-year contract, a mere $20 more than the original G1.
For full specs, click here .
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Can dope save California?
in Sox First, on July 8, 2009
...nted out earlier this year, marijuana is California's largest cash crop. It's valued at $14 billion annually, or nearly twice the value of the state's grape and vegetable crops combined. &...
Can YouTube survive?
in Sox First, on July 7, 2009
... game continues. In April, according to this report , Credit Suisse said YouTube would take half a billion off Google's bottom line. But then we have other reports saying that analysts at Ramp...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
...encing was a nightmare about being forced to fly coach.") And when Paulson announced the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, Taibbi reminds us how Goldman Sachs converted from an investm...
Will California drag down the United States?
in Sox First, on July 2, 2009
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California has entered the new financial year in crisis with a budget deficit of $26.3 billion, up from $24.3 billion, because of the ineptitude of the legislature in missing a deadline and politi...
Jackson downloads soar
in Sox First, on July 1, 2009
...ll help clear up the estate or fix the financial problems. Jackson reportedly died more than half a billion dollars in debt and Associated Press reports he only had assets of just over $230 million....
The Mother of all Dashboards
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...hboard , which is a pretty impressive piece of work detailing spending and performance on almost 40 billion dollars worth of US government IT projects and I think "Hey, this is a really big deal....
DHL makes exansion in China
in Supplychainer, on June 30, 2009
...reign companies from entering its domestic express mail market.
DHL group has invested around $2.2 billion in Asia-Pacific and will continue to make significant investments in the region in the futur...
Install OS X On SD Card
in Wangtam, on June 30, 2009
..... for a price
• LIVESTRONG: 1.9 Billion Calories Burned in One Year
• SharesPost Report: Facebook Worth $4-6 Billion. So Much For That $10B Valuation
• Sub DiggerPlus - Keep Track of Your Digg ...
July 8: China Cleantech Business Forum
in China Venture News, on June 30, 2009
... © star5112
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 ...
Classic Bentley Tour Arrives on My Doorstep
in Classical Drives, on June 29, 2009
... drivers came from England, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United States.
Victoria being a mere twenty miles from my home in Sidney, I was delighted to view more classic Bentleys than I'd...
Beware the China bubble
in Sox First, on June 29, 2009
...the creation of an asset price bubble in that market. There was 4.57 trillion yuan (or about $US670 billion) of new lending pouring into the market but most of that was on speculative assets, not the ...
Logistics cost in the U.S. is dropping
in Supplychainer, on June 28, 2009
...als (CSCMP), total spending on U.S. logistics dropped to $1.3 trillion last year, a decrease of $49 billion from 2007.
Logistics Management Magazine also reported that the annual respected benchma...
Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 3
in Wangtam, on June 26, 2009
...wer of Word in Outlook
• CBS Interactive's Smith On Authentication: '70 Billion Reasons To Make This Work'
• Hedge fund managers betting Twitter will give them an edge in rapid trading...
Windows 7 Pre Orders Begin Today Deep Discounts Available
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 26, 2009
...from "major retailers" you can snag Home Premium for a cool $49.99 and Professional for a mere $99.99. Unfortunately, Windows 7 Ultimate will not be discounted... yet. $50 dollars for what i...
Stimulus packages create corruption opportunities
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
... a report from risk consultancy Kroll . According to the report, corruption could swipe about $500 billion out of the $5 trillion, equivalent to Japan's national output in just 18 months, being p...
Survival strategies for a deepening recession
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
...plunging trade and business lending. And world trade will contract by a gob-smacking 48%, from $707 billion in 2008 to an anticipated $363 billion in 2009. In other words, things are going to get wors...
Airline crisis strategy: screw customers and staff
in Sox First, on June 21, 2009
...o the dogs. The combination of the global financial crunch and swine flu will cost them at least $9 billion this year. So what's their answer? Screw passengers and staff. First, we have the rep...
Mafia cashes in on crisis
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
... been cashing in on the financial crisis with two apparently "Japanese" men bringing $134 billion worth of fake Treasury bills into Switzerland. The men were questioned by Italian police who...
D'oh, I Should Have Paid Attention to My TomTom
in The Gadgets Weblog, on June 18, 2009
...ith a crappy TomTom application any day. The voice pack is available directly from TomTom now for a mere $13.00.
TomTom Simpson Voice Product Page via SlashGear
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Advice to F1. Look at the American Open-Wheel Disaster
in carzz.org, on June 17, 2009
... I'm aware that Max Mosely, Bernie Ecclestone, et al, are not likely to consider the views of a mere blogger but gentlemen, I've been covering your sport in print, on radio and TV, and now on ...
The slow recovery
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...ng that Bank of America Corp is experiencing "horrific" loan losses and may set aside $46 billion in loan loss provisions this year. There might be a recovery next year. But it will so slow...
NIKA Water: Helping Body and Soul
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 12, 2009
...ared to the 20% of the world's population that lack access to safe drinking water. Of these 1.1 billion people, about 80% of those lacking such access live in sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Asia and ...
Who would buy a newspaper?
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...;ll find a buyer for it is another question. The New York Times bought the company for more than $1 billion in 1993 and it's worth nowhere near that now. So who in their right mind would buy a new...
Outsourcing Your Dating Life
in The Dating Weblog, on June 10, 2009
... reported on a new service that lets you outsource all the stuff involved in online dating - for a mere $480 a month.
VirtualDatingAssistants.com will do the work of creating your profile and scree...
Apple 公布 iPhone 3G S 和 iPhone OS 3.0
in Wangtam, on June 9, 2009
在刚刚结束的 WWDC 2009 开幕演讲上，Apple 全球营销高级副总裁 Phil Schiller 发布了第三代 iPhone 手机，名字就叫做iPhone 3G S。其中，字母"S"代表了 Speed 速度。顾名思义，Apple 这一次将注意力放在了提升系统性能方面。
iPhone 3G S的外观设计和上一代产品iPhone 3G完全相同，整机、屏幕尺寸没有进行任何修改，重量从133g略微增加到135g。而在内部，iPhone 3G S对硬件配置进行了全面升级。根据苹果在发布会上的说法，iPhone 3G S启动短信应用程序的速度是iPhone 3G的2.1...
Hedge Fund Competing To Buy British Bank
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 9, 2009
...ransaction, when in 2006 BlackRock took over Merrill Lynch's asset management business for $8.5 billion.
More at HedgeCo.net ...
Crunch for airlines
in Sox First, on June 8, 2009
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Airlines are set to lose $9 billion this year with demand for air travel falling away as a result of the global recession and swine flu. A statement released by the International Air Transport A...
Banks fight to keep accounting tricks
in Sox First, on June 6, 2009
... credit-card receivables off their balance sheets and regulators say the change will result in $900 billion in liabilities being put on the balance sheets of the nation's 19 largest banks that hav...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...is Reuters story .
Mozilo is a cautionary tale. At its height in 2006, Countrywide originated $461 billion worth of mortgage loans. Too many of those loans, though, were bad ones. When the subprime l...
Renewable energy and the recession
in Sox First, on June 5, 2009
... power by 29%. At the same time, the United Nations Environment Programme has revealed that $155 billion was invested last year in various clean energy technologies, including solar, wind and bioma...
What next for GM?
in Sox First, on June 4, 2009
...'s biggest car manufacturer? As Dennis Berman at The Wall Street Journal points out, the $65 billion in taxpayers' money is all part of the subterfuge. Instead of being handed over as a loa...
Climate change and business costs
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
...ns of companies listed on the S&P500. The report found that carbon costs would total nearly $93 billion, if there was a market price of $28.24. Not surprisingly, the sector with the biggest exposu...
RM Offers Rarely Seen Chrysler Airflow Coupe at Meadow Brook
in Classical Drives, on June 3, 2009
...forward so that rear seat passengers were placed ahead of the rear axle instead of riding on top. A mere 732 coupes were produced in 1934, making the estimated price of $65-80,000 seem reasonable enou...
Supply chain video: Innovations in air transport
in Supplychainer, on May 31, 2009
...f technology which is getting real momentum is not PC but mobile phone. Today there are more than 3 billion mobile user in the world. Mobile technology has the potential to put all parties in an airpo...
How much is Facebook worth?
in Sox First, on May 30, 2009
... Russian internet investment group. As reported in the Financial Times , it values Facebook at $10 billion. It's extraordinary because it suggests Facebook is still relying on bail outs while it ...
Antalya: Turkey's Mediterranean Playground
in Wandalust, on May 29, 2009
...shes the beaches of Antalya, snow covers the peaks of the Taurus Mountains for much of the year a mere 30 or so miles away. Several of the peaks in the mountains west of Antalya rise to over 8,000 fee...
Is sacking people unethical?
in Sox First, on May 28, 2009
...nagers should think of downsizing as a deep and painful trauma for those being let go, and not as a mere setback or reversal of fortune." That means managers have to do it in a way that protects...
Windows 7: More of the New '7'
in Wangtam, on May 27, 2009
...cessible On the Web
• Smashwords Launches Flexible Ebook Affiliate Program
• Tweeji - Follow dead people on Twitter
• recent snippets - code snippets wiki / refactory.org
• Pope2you
• Church...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...nd integrity is addressed. As Angur points out, the company was able to inflate its profits by $1.6 billion and its auditors at PwC didn't pick up the problem. Francine McKenna at The Auditors b...
Batteries Get Stimulus Grants
in IfEnergy, on May 27, 2009
... VentureBeat pointed out last week that $2 billion worth of federal grants were being awarded to battery makers in the near future. Grants will run between $100 million and $150 million. The deadli...
New in Labs: Inbox preview
in Wangtam, on May 23, 2009
... North Again. Up To $10 Billion Now.
• Make Your Google Analytics Data Public
• Do You know how #FollowFriday started?
• 马化腾兵挫广告：腾讯收入多极构想遇阻
• AWS Import/Export
• 朱翊：Gmail的野心是大一统互联网通行证
• 我国...
Tweeting Too Hard
in Wangtam, on May 21, 2009
...ys Data Domain for $1.5 billion
• Gawker Chief: 'Original Reporting Will Be Rewarded'
• OIOpublisher Ad Manager - Control Your Ad Space
• neighbo connects residents, owners and property ...
NetApp Buys Data Domain for $1.5 Billion
in On Storage, on May 20, 2009
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NetApp today announced plans to purchase Data Domain for approximately $1.5 billion.
"This combination is a great opportunity for both NetApp and Data Domain," says NetApp CEO Da...
Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 19, 2009
... can be addressed without the entire team in the room (and yes, I have done this successfully in a billion-dollar, multi-vendor procurement). Without the need for "legal theatre," the legal ...
Bioscience Education in America: A State by State Analysis
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 12, 2009
..., and Health and Life Sciences. It advances scientific discovery and application by conducting $5.2 billion in global R&D annually through contract research, laboratory management and technology c...
Credit card losses to hit banks
in Sox First, on May 11, 2009
...imes . According to the bank stress test results, the 19 biggest US banks could expect nearly $82.4 billion in credit card losses by the end of 2010. Federal regulators called that a "worst case&...
No recovery yet
in Sox First, on May 8, 2009
...t with 10 of the 19 largest banks needed to boost their capital by a combined total just shy of $75 billion. Not as much as many expected, prompting officials and industry experts to say it's a si...
Bankroll blues
in Sox First, on May 7, 2009
... the past decade on lobbying and campaign donations. Top of the list was Countrywide which made $97 billionin subprime loans between 2005 and 2007. Countrywide was acquired by Bank of America which re...
Coming: The Best British Car Show This Side of Britain
in Classical Drives, on May 6, 2009
... The UK's auto industry may be a mere shadow of its past but all over the world you'll find enthusiasts keen to own, restore, or just admire a British car. Nowhere is this more evident than ...
Squarespace as a Situational App programming model
in The CIO Weblog, on May 4, 2009
...; but as has historically been the case, platforms built by developers tend to lag in usability for mere mortals. Paradigms familiar to the builders are foreign and inaccessible to the intended users,...
Chevrolet Bel Air Honours LA Residential Enclave
in Classical Drives, on May 4, 2009
...evrolet, then seeking to upgrade its image. In 1954 Chevrolet's lead over rival Ford had been a mere 20,000 units. The following year Chevrolet offered a small-block 265 cubic inch V-8 that was to...
H.P. Labs Pulls Out the Measuring Stick
in Wangtam, on May 1, 2009
... The Venture Capital Math Problem (continued)
• 寻找猪流感"零号患者"
• Functionality based URLs
• Sand/Stone
• A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel
• Social Gaming Scores in the Recession...
Lost American Marques: Hupmobile
in Classical Drives, on May 1, 2009
...s dropped in favour of a more traditional shape.
All this did the firm's image no good, with a mere 1890 cars coming off the lines that year. Radical steps were needed, resulting in a remarkable ...
Palm Eos Coming to AT&T Wireless
in The Wireless Weblog, on April 30, 2009
...ek's Eric Zeman . "It has a full QWERTY keyboard, trackball for navigation, and measures a mere 10.6mm thick. Unlike the Pre , this will be a GSM phone, and information points to a release v...
Director at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center becomes supply chain "Pro to know" of the year
in Supplychainer, on April 27, 2009
...ompany which is now part of UPMC's International and Commercial Services Division. UPMC is a $7 billion global health enterprise, which operates a 20-hospital system with nearly $2 billion in spen...
The Pirate Google Bay Gives the Finger to Record Companies, Studios
in Wangtam, on April 26, 2009
...pple hits 1 billion App Store downloads
• Why Apple's MobileMe Doesn't Work As a $100 Service
• Apple apologizes for Baby Shaker
• Salma Hayek's Apple MobileMe account hacked, couldn...
App Store hits 1billion
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 26, 2009
... which is where one can download various applications for the devices, has just celebrated it's billionth download... in around a year, less than, even, over 1billion apps have been downloaded.
C...
Big bonuses at imploding banks
in Sox First, on April 26, 2009
... anyone's guess. The New York Times reports that six of the biggest banks set aside over $36 billion in the first quarter to pay their employees. This is significant because their workforces ha...
Oracle and Sun: What's Next?
in Java Entrepreneur, on April 24, 2009
... © storem
Following Oracle's $7.4 billion purchase this week of Sun Microsystems , what does the future look like for both companies?
"Sun made its name as a supplier of server hardw...
Acer and AT&T Offer Cheapest Expensive Netbook Ever
in The Gadgets Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...e new partnership with AT&T is a great deal. AT&T is offering a subsidized Aspire One for a mere $79.00. All you have to do is maintain a two year data contract.
So, is this a good deal? Wel...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...nto possible securities fraud, tax violations, insider trading and other crimes related to the $750 billion bailout. And that's just the first wave of investigations. Doubtlessly, there will be mo...
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...
Oracle acquires Sun
in The CIO Weblog, on April 20, 2009
...after the Sun/IBM deal fell through last week. The companies report that the deal will come to $7.4 billion with Oracle paying $9.50 per share, cash, trumping IBM's reported final offer of $9.40 p...
新款 Final Fantasy XIII 高清壁纸两张
in Wangtam, on April 19, 2009
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• Facebook rejects funding at $4 billion valuation, may not raise more
• Apple Researching Movement-Aware Interfaces for iPhones, Depicts Front-Facing Video Camera
• Sun Said to Be Willing to R...
A way to link to a specific part of a youtube video
in Wangtam, on April 18, 2009
...s Gmarket stake for $350 million
• Kutcher/CNN Twitter Fight Day 3: EA Ups The Ante
• TwitPub invents paid Twitter accounts
• Next Wave of Microsoft Office Products Will Redefine How People Work...
Sony Ericsson Delays Android Phones
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on April 17, 2009
...Japan's Sony, the company said sales in the January-March quarter tumbled by 36 percent to $2.2 billion, from $3.5 billion a year earlier.
It blamed the sales drop to weaker demand for mobile ph...
Microsoft Stops Mainstream Support For Windows XP
in Wangtam, on April 16, 2009
...able
• Yahoo Could Save $1+ Billion Per Year Outsourcing Search To Microsoft
• Time Warner delays meter program
• Evernote + Twitter = Instant Memories
• Tweet this: Rapid-fire media may confu...
