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The Mother of all Dashboards
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2009
...t allocations are sure to turn up abuse and discrepancies. While some very dedicated and proficient watchdog groups have been doing this for years, expanding their ranks to include anyone with a web b...
Disney and toxic waste allegations
in Sox First, on June 15, 2009
...ng chromium 6. The allegations are contained in lawsuits filed against the company by residents and watchdog group Environmental World Watch. As detailed in this report , the lawsuit alleges Disney &...
Italy in the Spotlight Over Hardline Immigration Policies
in Global Mobility Report, on April 24, 2009
...eem designed to target Europe's Roma and Sinti Gypsy populations. Europe's top human rights watchdog on Thursday expressed "deep concern" over the conservative Italian government'...
Squeezing accounting independence
in Sox First, on March 19, 2009
The rule maker for accounting standards is coming under pressure again. Once more the Europeans are putting the heat on the International Accounting Standards Board to change the rules and let the banks hide their losses. The trouble is the IASB has already compromised its independence and cou...
The seven deadly sins of executive pay
in Sox First, on March 18, 2009
..., it's worth looking at two interesting proposals. The first comes from corporate governance watchdog Regnan which has recommended capping "golden parachutes" and issuing share option...
Network Neutrality: The FCC Faces Off with Comcast
in Web 2.0, on January 24, 2009
...rk.
Comcast has had a number of net neutrality issues over the last year and at least two industry watchdog groups are after it. Legislation on net neutrality has died in Congress twice; the Democrat...
Oil watchdog's "corruption"
in Sox First, on October 15, 2008
Stunning CNN revelations about the US Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service and its so-called "cult of corruption". A report shows that the energy industry was lavishing the agency's employees with improper gifts and gratuities. There are also allegations ...
NFL Pregame Shows
in End Zone Buzz, on September 16, 2008
© farlane With the NFL season in full swing, football becomes all-consuming on Sunday's. Which for many fans means watching the pregame show. But with Fox, CBS and ESPN each producing one, which one should be watched?
Least Watchable - ESPN : This really isn't particularly close, eith...
Limited liability for US auditors coming in?
in Sox First, on June 19, 2008
Last week, I looked at how European auditors were on the way to getting limited liability . Now it looks like their US counterparts are going to get the same thing with reports that the Securities and Exchange Commission is coming under pressure to accept limited liability deals for auditors...
Cell Phone Use While Pregnant Tied to Behavioral Issues in Children
in The Wireless Weblog, on May 19, 2008
... warnings against both pregnant women and children using mobiles by the official Russian radiation watchdog body, which believes that the peril they pose 'is not much lower than the risk to childr...
Finding Cheap Fares Just Got Easier
in The Flyaway Weblog, on March 29, 2008
...d in the form of a little dog called "Browser." He is the featured search dog on Airfare Watchdog.
Unlike other airfare sites, which tend to have preferential agreements with specific ai...
Second-generation Smart ForFour
in Wangtam, on 2008-03-14
- Second-generation Smart ForFour
- BusySync 2.0 Public Beta
- 微软将在 Windows 中增加对蓝光格式的支持
- 美 FTC 批准微软收购 Danger
- Yahoo To Join OpenSocial in April, Microsoft Groans.
- 视频演示：微软的 MySong
- Searchme lets you see what you're searching for. As you start typing, categories appear that r...
China Delaying IPOs Over Green Regs
in China Venture News, on February 26, 2008
China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) held up at least ten IPOs last year because the companies involved didn't meet new anti-pollution guidelines, according to The Wall Street Journal and other news sources.
According to the WSJ: Ten domestic IPOs - including one b...
China Loses its First WTO Case
in China Venture News, on February 17, 2008
..."Woof, woof!" Those were the words of the World Trade Organization's global trade watchdog to China, according to the PanAsianBiz blog.
According the Agence France Press (AFT), the...
Suharto's legacy
in Sox First, on January 27, 2008
...roject awarded to Suharto's youngest and most beloved son, Tommy. According to anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International , Suharto and his family may have amassed as much as $35 billi...
GAO slates SEC, again
in Sox First, on November 21, 2007
Five years on, and cost is still the big issue surrounding Sarbanes-Oxley. Non-compliance with Section 404 spells disaster for companies with massive falls in the value of the stock. But the corporate cop, the great Enforcer of Sarbanes-Oxley has its own problems with material weakness with ...
GAO slates IRS
in Sox First, on November 13, 2007
The Government Accountability Office has once more canned the Internal Revenue Service for its sloppy internal controls, legacy systems and dodgy Information Security . In its report , the GAO said the IRS had made significant progress but there was still a long way to go. In other words,...
Watchdogs warn about funds
in Sox First, on November 4, 2007
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Two watchdog organizations are trying to get the Appropriations Committee to wipe $59 million worth of earmark requests in the 2008 defense spending bill for BAE and ProLogic . Both companies ar...
PCAOB slates audits of small firms
in Sox First, on October 26, 2007
With a looming Sarbanes-Oxley deadline for smaller companies, can smaller entities cope when there is an expected shortage of auditors? After December 15, between 13,000 and 14,000 companies will for the first time have to comply with complex auditing requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. And a...
More problems with the PCAOB
in Sox First, on October 15, 2007
...f information and clout allows the audit firms to take issue with the PCAOB reports, and ignore the watchdog's findings. The report notes there has been an improvement in audit quality. It's ...
West colludes with corruption
in Sox First, on October 3, 2007
...nals seem to be driving a lot of the corruption in poor Third World countries, says anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International . According to its 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index , which ...
Government Watchdog Says Airlines Coming Up Short
in The Aviation Weblog, on September 27, 2007
... According to an article on Yahoo! news , a government watchdog says U.S. airlines are not actively living up to expectations for passenger comfort set forth in 2000. But, if you've flown anywhe...
GAO slates SEC for being too slow
in Sox First, on September 21, 2007
Last year, I wrote about the Securities and Exchange Commission getting slated by the Government Accountability Office. You can read some of the reports here and here . Now the Government Accountability Office has come out with a new report saying the SEC bureaucracy is too slow, too tied...
Barbarian Hedge Fund Alliance
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on August 2, 2007
... independently produced film platforms. The hedge fund includes a unique investment methodology and slates of projects from best-in-breed producers and production companies which collectively have gen...
FREE PLAY FOR FUN ONLINE POKER SITE
in Play Las Vegas, on July 28, 2007
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The watchdog, nanny culture, Federal Government that pervades American society has put what I hope is only a temporary cramp in real online gambling. But for t...
GSeeker Reading List（2007.07.12）
in GSeeker, on 2007-07-13
* Google leases former Agilent HQ in Palo Alto
Google租下了Agilent位于加州帕洛阿尔托的前总部，准备下一轮扩张。
* Desktop APIs Blog
Google Desktop API也开设了官方blog。
wunderLOOP
in Wangtam, on 2007-07-13
...ble precise targeting of Internet users.
- Spy Shots: 2010 Porsche Panamera up close
- Microsoft slates Windows Server 2008 for February 2008 launch
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The media and corporate governance: how much of a watchdog?
in Sox First, on June 29, 2007
How big a role does the media play in keeping companies honest? According to some academics, it plays an important function. Professor Alexander Dyck from the University of Toronto presented a paper at a Wharton conference examining the role the media played in Russia when they exposed execut...
Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?
in Wangtam, on 2007-06-13
- Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?
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- Apple plots a DVD player for the broadband era
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- WatZatSong.com - Let anyone name your tune!
WatZatSong is a music d...
Google's Privacy Practices Are The Worst On The Internet Says A Watchdog Group
in The Search Engine Weblog, on June 11, 2007
It's no surprise to an expert user but to invade the main stream press is another story. Here's the report:
In a report released Saturday, London-based Privacy International assigned Google its lowest possible grade. The category is reserved for companies with "comprehensive consum...
Watchdog targets "fair value" accounting
in Sox First, on June 10, 2007
The board that polices auditors has put the corporate world on notice that it's monitoring how companies and beancounters make the transition to Enron-style "fair value" accounting. The new standard, introduced last year, puts the reporting of financial assets and liabilities unde...
GlaxoSmithKline Defends Diabetes Drug Avandia
in Daily Diabetic, on June 2, 2007
...o Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group at the Washington, D.C.-based consumer watchdog organization Public Citizen:
...diabetics using Avandia should focus on scientific data. Gla...
Beware of M4?
in Philoneist, on May 13, 2007
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For those of you that want the security of a watchdog, but don't have the time or energy to invest in the upkeep of another living creature, MIT has found a solution for you.
While not very c...
Watchdog slams Ernst & Young audits
in Sox First, on May 3, 2007
Big four accounting firm Ernst & young has been accused of signing off on audits without putting together the evidence to support its opinion. A Public Company Accounting Oversight Board report found faults in eight E&Y audits. In its defence, E&Y stood by its work althoug...
Wolfowitz woes continue
in Sox First, on April 19, 2007
...aha Ali Riza. Wolfowitz was deputy defence secretary in the Pentagon at the time. World corruption watchdog Transparency International has put out a statement warning that the controversy could und...
Minor hits the jackpot on Slots
in The Gambling Weblog, on February 26, 2007
... and therefore not supposed to be in the casino in the first place.
"But Macau's gaming watchdog forced the casino to pay up after ruling that gaming regulations only specified a minimum age...
Stop tweaking SOX, says PCAOB
in Sox First, on February 21, 2007
...nging its constitutionality , a court action that could potentially take SOX down. The beancounter watchdog has also been slated by the Securities and Exchange Commission for imposing excessive r...
Faults in fraud auditing
in Sox First, on January 27, 2007
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Worrying news or a step forward? The audit watchdog has identified serious deficiencies in the way auditors check the books of their clients for fraud.
A Public Company Accounting Oversight Boa...
Christopher Pyle on phone companies, phone taps and the war on terror
in Sox First, on January 19, 2007
...luding with the US government in the surveillance of its citizens in this interview with Corporate Watchdog Radio: "They do a lot of business with the government. It's very much like banks...
Top 10 business shenanigans for 2006
in Sox First, on December 25, 2006
What a year it's been! The stories have just kept coming, and certainly kept me busy here. Scandals and litigation have all been part of the mix covered by Sox First this year. And Governments and business are copping plenty of heat to lift their game. And it's now coming from all Quar...
KPMG sued for bad numbers on Fannie Mae
in Sox First, on December 16, 2006
...e in this blog entry here . Now, Fannie Mae says KPMG failed to serve its role as an independent watchdog and prevent $6.3 billion in accounting errors. Suing KPMG for $2 billion is ambitious. T...
Siemens slush fund woes
in Sox First, on December 11, 2006
...of Caribbean shell companies. Now it looks like Siemens might lose its spot on the anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International. "Our industrial partners should be beacons in the fight a...
Iraq watchdog lives again
in Sox First, on November 15, 2006
Now that they have roared back into power, one of the first things the Democrats have done is introduce legislation in the House and Senate extending the life of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction , reports the New York Times. The audit office, which had issu...
UK Not Impressed by US Online Gambling Bill
in The Gambling Weblog, on October 27, 2006
...sibility" duty written into licenses and policed by the independent gambling commission watchdog.
It requires them to work to prevent underage gambling, give prominent warnings about addi...
Stitching up SOX in London
in Sox First, on September 17, 2006
... secretary to the Treasury, to give Britain's Financial Services Authority, the City's main watchdog. more powers. Balls wants to prevent the supposed creeping influence of Sarbanes-Oxley reg...
Dietary villain targeted
in Creative Weblogging, on July 5, 2006
...unications director for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington D.C., nutrition watchdog group.
On June 8, Wendy's announced it was switching to non-hydrogenated cooking oil...
Pitt slates SOX
in Sox First, on June 22, 2006
Hastily and clumsily drafted, Sarbanes-Oxley looks like being hit with the law of intended consequences, says former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt. Writing in the Financial Times , Pitt warns that it could force companies all over the world to fall in line with the st...
Options scams: the regulators move in
in Sox First, on June 5, 2006
The fallout from the options backdating scandal continues and the dogs are barking. The number of public companies under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission or federal prosecutors has grown to more than 30, according to a report .
Sarbanes-Oxley and Small Firms: GAO report
in Sox First, on May 10, 2006
...cial advisory committee for exemptions from the law for smaller public companies. First, it slates them for not being specific enough in what needs to be done. How do you fix it so that compan...
Pulling Auditors Into Line
in Sox First, on May 2, 2006
... organisation under seige. Meanwhile in Australia, the Federal Government's audit independence watchdog has announced an unprecedented review into auditors' ethics and whether their profess...
SEC's bad report card
in Sox First, on April 27, 2006
...ntified in an audit of the SEC's 2004 financial statement, were still there when the government-watchdog audited the SEC's 2005 results. The damning report pulls no punches.
"Key caus...
Sarbanes-Oxley: time's running out?
in Sox First, on March 25, 2006
... has come out defending the legislation, saying the critics have it all wrong. In particular, he slates the claim that it was rushed through as a quick political fix. You can read about it here a...
The Five-Year Itch
in The Dating Weblog, on March 2, 2006
... NEWSWEEK -- Feb 27 -- Feb. 27, 2006 issue - Mark Brooks, editor of consumer watchdog Online Personals Watch, says the industry stands at a Crossroads . "I keep hearing that the industry ...
Legal challenge to Sarbanes-Oxley
in Sox First, on February 9, 2006
...unting Oversight Board (PCAOB), on behalf of the Free Enterprise Fund. According to the claim, the watchdog is unaccountable because Congress created it as private and not a Governnment agency with i...
Nanoethics without nano-opinions?
in Nanotechbuzz, on January 11, 2006
...; a non-partisan and independent research and education organization - not an advocacy, activist or watchdog group. "
" What makes us different, " they say, " is that, where othe...
Gambling Online Magazines 2004 Awards
in The Gambling Weblog, on December 2, 2004
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Watchdog slates Deloitte
in Sox First, on June 20, 2007
Accounting giant Deloitte & Touche has been savaged by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board for shortcomings in its handling of clients' books. The PCAOB report makes interesting reading and the problems it reveals are pretty mind-boggling. It found, for example, that De...