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Suddenly more bullish on housing?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 14, 2009
.... During the housing boom, people bought homes and then tried to sell them in a year or two for big profits. That's no longer a possibility.
This is actually good. Housing was never meant to be ...
Derivatives tripped up regulators: Geithner
in Sox First, on July 11, 2009
...erivatives under control. Bloomberg reports that derivatives have provided as much as 40% of the profits of the banks. ...
Apple's lack of enterprise ambition
in The CIO Weblog, on July 8, 2009
... more every time you turn around. But a funny thing happened on the way to the bank with the iPhone profits... they started coming from corporate America. The iPhone, it develops, is just the thing fo...
Don't believe the homeownership hype
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 24, 2009
...ok at the world of housing, you see that these price appreciations don't necessarily equal high profits for homeowners.
For instance, when you sell a home, you do have to find another place to li...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...o lobbyists to stymie any changes that would affect their business and stop them raking in enormous profits. So don't expect the banks to lie down and cop this one. As Bloomberg reports, lobbyis...
NIKA Water: Helping Body and Soul
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 12, 2009
...NIKA Water, a San Diego-based brand, is changing the way we stay hydrated. NIKA donates 100% of its profits to bringing water and clean sanitation into underdeveloped countries. What could be healthie...
Problem Solving is Key
in BootStrapMe, on June 12, 2009
...dmit. The bottom line, like Sid says, is that when you fix all the small problems in your business, profits shoot through the roof.
© Steve Rhodes
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Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...vil lawsuit against Mozilo yesterday. The lawsuit claims that Mozilo made more than $139 million in profits in 2006 and 2007 from exercising 5.1 million stock options and then selling the underlying s...
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in Wangtam, on June 2, 2009
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How much is Facebook worth?
in Sox First, on May 30, 2009
...make money but the Facebook business model doesn't allow the social networking site to make any profits. The report from ContentNextMedia found that "excitement over virtual currency has been...
More on the Satyam-PWC scandal
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...r independence and 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...
Economists predict recession ends this year. As if!
in Sox First, on May 27, 2009
...looking. But the truth remains that the hard data - house prices, unemployment, trade and corporate profits and inflation - all remain dreadful. Consumers can dream all they want." Economist Nou...
Early retirement soars, but who is going to pay?
in Sox First, on May 26, 2009
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An alarming Los Angeles Times report that the US Social Security system is reporting a major surge in early retirement claims from laid off workers. It's up 25% ahead of last year. Clearly, ...
Higher rents and sale prices for green buildings
in Sox First, on May 25, 2009
...it has enormous implications in this economic climate. It means that businesses seeking to maximize profits will have to start looking at increasing the energy efficiency of the buildings. Otherwise, ...
Sony to reduce the number of suppliers to half
in Supplychainer, on May 23, 2009
...financial crisis has eviscerated global demand for consumer electronics and a strong yen has eroded profits earned overseas. Sony didn't say how the new measures would affect earnings. But if the ...
JJ Singh Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 12, 2009
... Metalsmith and Jewelry Designer
In recent years, the surge of independent designers has seen an all-time high. From hand-knit scarves to commissioned furniture, artisans who know their craft and ca...
Buffett says newspapers have no future
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
...that newspapers were on the skids. In his letter at the time, Buffett said "the days of lush profits from our newspaper are over". The problem, he said, was that the industry was obliviou...
The next accounting battle
in Sox First, on May 3, 2009
...its. In effect what that did was allow trillions in assets to escape close scrutiny and delver mega profits for banks and hedge funds. Doubtless, the banks and hedge funds will be screaming in protes...
No recovery in sight
in Sox First, on April 30, 2009
...ry is nowhere in sight. Schiff says: "With the collapse of the housing and stock markets, the surge in unemployment, and the fall in wages, the only way that consumers can spend more is if they ...
The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson
in Sox First, on April 29, 2009
...se who got injured plundering ships. This ensured pirates would continue to take risks and maximize profits. Pirates also had strict constitutions on how to behave in a ship and ensuring the business...
Director at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center becomes supply chain "Pro to know" of the year
in Supplychainer, on April 27, 2009
...rocesses that enable companies to weather risky economic conditions and place them in a position to surge ahead in better times have earned them a place on this year's Provider Pros listing."...
The Future of Golf is Online
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 17, 2009
... nominal fee.
Well, it turns out, I'm not alone in my thinking.
CBS claims it earned handsome profits during The Masters by selling advertisers on its online coverage as well as its live-to-air ...
New partnership to offer supply chain network design services
in Supplychainer, on April 11, 2009
...ptimization, this Network analysis service is focused on providing insights that lead to higher profits and cash flows in chemical supply chains.
Optimizing cash, which includes higher working ca...
Airlines in tailspin
in Sox First, on April 9, 2009
...e industry goes from bad to worse. A crumbling global economy means fewer seats on planes declining profits for the world's biggest airlines. More details here .The big problem lies in their fix...
The Latest on PowerPlay Golf
in Eagle Par Birdie, on April 7, 2009
...rand among grassroots golfers like you and me.
The next step is to leverage that initial marketing surge in the various countries - rapidly closing in on 20 nations - and encourage golf clubs to beco...
Executive pay goes down - to just $7.6 million
in Sox First, on April 3, 2009
...re of $7.56 million. While unemployment continues to rise, small businesses continue to go bust and profits keep falling, their salaries grew salaries grew 4.5%....
Getting the recession right
in The CIO Weblog, on March 31, 2009
...idn't you cut it five years ago and position yourself for this situation (and enjoy increased profits in the meantime) then? HP made the hard choices years ago and they will benefit from them all ...
Jewelry Sale at GenerousGems.com
in The Jewelry Weblog, on March 29, 2009
...and sell fine jewelry . They also have a specialty line of awareness jewelry, with a portion of the profits from these lines going to non-profit organizations. They have an unmatched selection of char...
A good crisis for George Soros
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...trol of his Quantum investment fund. By year's end, Quantum was up almost 32%, delivering Soros profits of $US2.9 billion. His fortune of $11 billion is now estimated to be up another 9% and as he...
Non-profit newspapers? No way!
in Sox First, on March 25, 2009
...tor Benjamin Cardin has introduced a bill that would allow newspaper companies to restructure as nonprofits with a variety of tax lurks. In a nutshell, the Newspaper Revitalization Act allows newspape...
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in Wangtam, on March 21, 2009
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China's Tencent - the World's Most Profitable Social Network
in The Social Networking Weblog, on March 19, 2009
A couple of sources ( paidContent.org , VentureBeat ) had stories today on the wicked-huge earnings report from China's Tencent web portal and social network.
Tencent took in about a billion dollars in revenue last year. MySpace, by comparison, hoped for a billion dollars in revenue but se...
BMW and Mercedes to Merge?
in carzz.org, on March 11, 2009
...se to produce the Italian-designed Isetta. New sports cars and sedans failed to produce much-needed profits until, in 1959, BMW was on the brink of being sold to Mercedes. The Quandts family, who owne...
MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 5, 2009
...rom a broad range of industries from bio-pharma and medical devices to healthcare providers and non-profits at this year's conference.
Keynote Speakers are the following:
Naseem Amin, M.D. PhD; S...
Economy Down, LinkedIn Up
in The Social Networking Weblog, on February 26, 2009
... TechCrunch ran a piece earlier this month on the surge in LinkedIn traffic.
In the last nine months, LinkedIn has gone from having about five million users to more like eight million users. They...
Job websites receive much more SCM CVs now...
in Supplychainer, on February 22, 2009
... that many candidates are currently playing safe and remaining in their existing jobs. However, the surge in registrations and CVs being uploaded to the site shows that candidates are still on the loo...
互联网商业模式更应关注成本
in Wangtam, on February 6, 2009
美国风险投资合广投资 (Union Square Ventures) 合伙人 Fred Wilson 近日 发表 Blog 文章称 ，最近不乏关于互联网商业模式的讨论，大多关注的是营收问题，但营收仅仅是价值等式中的一半，另外一半是成本。以下为其文章全文：
关注成本
商业的价值在于未来现金流的净现值，现金流是利润的根本，所以一项业务的价值就在于未来利润的总和贴现成为净现值。如果对财务不甚了解，也可以用现金流的倍数作为净现值数据，本文将采用10倍的现金流作为净现值。
如此简化后，一项业务的价值就相当于营收扣除成本后数值的10倍。管理者可以通过推动营收或提高利润创造价值，但两者的做法却不尽...
Rupert Murdoch's downturn blues
in Sox First, on January 30, 2009
...re are expected to go. Analysts have cut their earnings forecasts, warning that the company's profits this year could be halved. And Pali Research warns that News Corporation might be in dire...
Steve Jobs and board failure
in Sox First, on January 22, 2009
...gested it had a recession proof formula with its iPod and iPhone helping generate record sales and profits . Obviously, investors don't seem to care that Bloomberg reports that the Securities ...
Don Witt Predicts VoIP Surge in 2009
in The VoIP Weblog, on January 17, 2009
...cyLogistics president Don Witt this week predicts that a struggling economy in 2009 will lead to a surge in VoIP deployments.
"The stock market meltdown will increase VoIP growth," Witt w...
NBA Says 12-Year-Olds Being Sized Up As Players
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 15, 2009
... are a business after all, and whoever gets their product to market first usually shows greater profits, and the NBA market's people performance which is generally at its best in the young.
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Outsourcing safely
in The CIO Weblog, on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for your business to provide. When you put those three words together, the next thing you come to is i...
Taking advantage of recessionary pressures to restructure IT
in The CIO Weblog, on January 5, 2009
... that peak of efficiency even when times are good. What do all these companies have against greater profits? I suspect that the answer is that financial difficulties present political options which wo...
United States Military Prepares For Another Mid-East "Surge"
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 2, 2009
...administration may have less than 3 weeks left but preparations are underway for an Iraq-like "surge" in Afghanistan.
Details are slim as to when this plan of action was adopted but it'...
Oil Opens At Under $39.00 A Barrel As 2008 Goes From Boom To Bust
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 30, 2008
...s prices the oil markets end 2008 on a dismal note.
What seemed like a sure fire thing, record oil profits, has turned into a 60% loss for the petroleum industry world-wide and the outlook for 2009 i...
Microsoft to cut 10% of its workforce
in Sox First, on December 24, 2008
...rosoft's headcount , that would amount to 9400 jobs. Analysts predict that the company's profits for the year will rise just 3%, compared with its 7-10% guidance. This is a significant dev...
Business opportunities opening for Apple
in The CIO Weblog, on December 17, 2008
...in the enterprise market. Throw in a few bucks for marketing, and you could be looking at a serious surge of Apple conversion in the enterprise space... if the company has been able to make this much ...
Madoff and SEC neglect
in Sox First, on December 13, 2008
...rket are buying and selling. And by hopping on the bandwagon, the market maker effectively locks in profits. As such, throwing a little cash back to the hedge funds would be no big deal. And the funds...
Rubin's self-serving "innocence"
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
...as instrumental to Citigroup's decisions three years ago to take on more risk to boost flagging profits. For his part, Rubin claims it's the bank's risk managers who are to blame, not the...
Forget Black Friday: Is Your Business Ready for Cyber Monday?
in Biz Plan Hacks, on November 25, 2008
...ber Monday - things like making sure your customer data is secure and being sure your ready for the surge in traffic that comes after Turkey Day. She even talks about making it easy for your customers...
Citi slickers
in Sox First, on November 25, 2008
...9;s be clear, risk is being transferred from shareholders to taxpayers. It's called privatizing profits, and socializing losses.
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Elevate Destinations Works for Environmental Preservation
in Wandalust, on November 24, 2008
...stinations . The service bills itself as 'travel that matters" because a percentage of the profits goes to local communities and to environmental Preservation .
Among their offerings, Ele...
The Siemens saga rolls on
in Sox First, on November 19, 2008
... Bloomberg reporting its share price is rising. The folks at Motley Fool say despite its falling profits, the company is one to watch because the market doesn't seem to care."...
You Don't Have to be Oprah to receive the Benefits of Acai
in Straightfromthedoc, on November 17, 2008
...one superfood in the world. Indigenous to the Amazon rainforest, the Açaí, despite the recent surge in demand, is still somewhat allusive to the every-man.
Now, Agrolabs is combining product inno...
iGlassware: Will not leave customers at the table disappointed
in The RFID Weblog, on November 10, 2008
...which will ensure that customers are served in a prompt manner and they don't lose out on their profits. A team at MERL realized this problem and has worked on glassware which detects fluid levels...
Online Casino Traffic Jumps in Quarter four
in The Gambling Weblog, on November 2, 2008
...st casinos to the smallest poker rooms out there.
No matter what the reason may be, the surge is lead by the two biggest players in the industry, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker. Traffic at...
Classic Car Commercials Break New Ground but Fail Creatively
in Classical Drives, on October 29, 2008
...buyers and sellers through the Internet video medium RM should consider spending some of its lavish profits on what we ad writers call "production values."
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Fair value battle escalates
in Sox First, on October 29, 2008
...se, there was none of this talk when markets were booming. The world's banks generated enormous profits, and massive bonuses along the way, as bankers cashed in on fair value upswings in asset pri...
Despite Tough Times Verizon Profits on the Rise
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 27, 2008
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It seems like all we hear about of late is economic turmoil and falling business profits. Apparently there is some truth behind the ideal that Americans will go without food before going without...
Apple Sales And Profits Up/ Stock Falling
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 24, 2008
When can sales be booming but financial outlook sliding? The answer is when you're Apple and the iPhone G3 is your brainchild.
This week the company reported stellar iPhone sales and a better-than-expected profit margin through its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings. So what's the pro...
Credit ratings agencies: we sold our souls to the devil
in Sox First, on October 23, 2008
...ngress that the problem was caused by conflicts of interest. More from the New York Times . "Profits were running the show," said Frank L Raiter who headed mortgage ratings at Standard&...
Major Cybercrime Site Shut Down
in I got Spam?!, on October 18, 2008
... in the UK) as a result. Authorities said the site had over 2,000 members. Cybercriminals made huge profits from the stolen credit and banking info. One man spent 250,000 pounds (roughly $434,000 US) ...
Nokia Reports Abysmal Profits
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 17, 2008
Market leader Nokia attests to the fact that the US economy is in trouble and with it, the global economy. The Finnish cell phone maker nokia reported today a 30 percent drop in third-quarter net profit amid falling sales and lower prices for its handsets.
Nokia said its market share wa...
Forecasts of the economic disaster
in Sox First, on October 13, 2008
...nces. On one side, domestic spending is swollen by the housing bubble, which has led both to a huge surge in construction and to high consumer spending, as people extract equity from their homes. On t...
Kevin Trudeau's Secret "They" (Actually "He") Don't Want You to Know
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 8, 2008
...mercials in which he has an interest for three years and ordered him to pay more than $5 million in profits from his book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You to Know About.&q...
Bailout no silver bullet
in Sox First, on October 5, 2008
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Anyone who thinks Paulson's $700 billion bailout, which privatizes profits and socializes debt, will save the US economy, should think again. London-based investment consultancy Independent ...
RFID Crystagram label: Hologram and RFID comes together to fight counterfeiting
in The RFID Weblog, on October 3, 2008
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The RFID Crystagram label aims to put a stopper on something which has been hitting profits of companies in millions - counterfeiting. It has not only been affecting companies and consumers a...
Think Pink for October
in White Lace Wedding, on October 1, 2008
...fts that promote awareness of breast cancer. Healing Ribbons donates 100% of their post-tax profits from purchases in the Healing Ribbons Collection to breast cancer education.
You have you...
I'm Very Tempted to Buy Small Banks
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on September 30, 2008
...s.
Yes it's risky. But by spreading it 3 ways, I see it as a real opportunity to make some big profits in a short time. (If you had bought these three stocks near the close yesterday, you could&#...
Eat at Chili's Today!
in The Parenting Weblog, on September 29, 2008
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Chili's Grill & Bar® to Donate 100 Percent of All Profits on Monday, Sept. 29 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as Part of Annual Create-A-Pepper to Fight Childhood Cancer C...
