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Dubai: a sign of worse to come
in Sox First, on November 30, 2009
... with that line. Don't listen to the chorus coming out of Dubai. The real worry is whether Dubai's woes are a harbinger of even worse disasters in 2010. Dubai's debt of about $80 billion is just a dr...
Seen that? - Self-Employed have CPP Woes Bigger Problem is Income Taxes
in Small Business Unplugged, on November 19, 2009
... Self-Employed have CPP Woes Bigger Problem is Income Taxes at Small Business Unplugged An editorial in the Edmonton Sun commented on the fact that ...
KFC's secrets in China
in Sox First, on October 22, 2009
China, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary, has an infatuation with some American brands. Take for example KFC. According to this report , if you ask a local Chinese what their favorite restaurant is and you're more than likely to hear KFC. So what are the secrets to KFC's success...
Seen that? - NetApp supply chain woes frustrate users
in On Storage, on October 3, 2009
... NetApp supply chain woes frustrate users at On Storage NetApp supply chain woes frustrate users: [A] wall street analyst, who preferred not to be n...
SOA: Just try it, you'll like it
in The CIO Weblog, on September 14, 2009
...backlash against SOA as a silver bullet and a one-size-fits-all solution to enterprise architecture woes. As with most new buzzwords, SOA was clearly oversold by consultants and fans, and wasn't a...
Warnings about Japan
in Sox First, on September 8, 2009
...s economy, the performance of the previous government suggests there is no quick fix to Japan's woes....
The Citroen SM (Sports Maserati). Maserati Asks “Why Me, Lord?”
in Classical Drives, on August 26, 2009
...two cylinders from its 90-degree V-8 to create a V-6. Hardly a recipe for smoothness.
Add to these woes the DS complexity and numerous servicing problems and the SM quickly became a faded beauty quee...
Madoff's jail survival guide
in Sox First, on June 27, 2009
...olent inmates. Chances are he will be targeted by prisoners with family members suffering financial woes. Many will blame him for their problems. On the other hand, others might turn to him for stock ...
Recession and marriage
in Sox First, on June 13, 2009
...at 4% of Americans will postpone (for that matter, 11% are postponing marriage) because of economic woes. Writing in the New York Times , John Hopkins University sociology professor Andrew J. Cherli...
GM's bad ad
in Sox First, on June 2, 2009
...only chapter we are focused on is chapter one," the company says. Given that some of GM's woes came from its refusal to make cleaner cars and car parts , the environmental imagery is hard t...
Blame the recession on Reagan: Paul Krugman
in Sox First, on June 1, 2009
...scinating comments from Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman blaming America's economic woes on Ronald Reagan. Basically, Krugman says deregulation, the piling up of debt and the scrapping...
More housing woes
in Sox First, on May 30, 2009
There's been plenty of talk lately about the US housing market bottoming out and that it can only go up from there. But people are clutching at straws. A good example is the paltry 0.3% increase in home purchases in the US. "We'll take the improvement in the new-home market as a sig...
New Search Tool Aims at Answering Tough Queries, but Not at Taking on Google
in Wangtam, on 2009-05-13
...te. Still Sucks.
• Google News Gets An Update. Still Sucks.
• More ways to see the story
• Facebook to test payments system with developers "in a few weeks"
• 微软首次发债融资 总额37.5亿美元
• ...
The key themes in the supply chain of tomorrow
in Supplychainer, on March 9, 2009
... (they are U.S. centric):
Tightened credit supply. "In another sign that Wall Street's woes are trickling toward Main Street, 'factors' - the companies that offer financing to ret...
SaaS expected to grow through the downturn
in The CIO Weblog, on February 17, 2009
...t study from IDC forecasting a continued expansion in the SaaS market despite our overall economic woes.
This isn't just good news for SaaS investors and vendors, but also for customers and pote...
Murdoch's woes a warning for the media
in Sox First, on February 6, 2009
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has reported a massive loss of $6.4 billion. Why the red ink? Because the company took $8.4 billion in write-downs on its intangible assets, mostly related to US television licences and newspapers. If you want, you can listen to them talking about it here...
Economic Hardships Cause Eastern Europeans To Stage Massive Protests
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 25, 2009
...n the capital city of Riga demanding early elections and a resolution to the country's economic woes.
Here are the details .
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Wage Freezes Are Latest Tactic To Curb Worldwide Economic Woes
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 21, 2009
Businesses and governments across the globe are struggling to stay afloat and have been trying everything from layoffs to mergers with former competitors.
It was only a matter of time before the ordinary worker was asked to do his or her share to try to save the company and that time has come.
Som...
Happy New Year Everyone!
in Daily Diabetic, on January 5, 2009
...ear readers, Happy New Year to each and everyone of you. I hope no one bumped into diabetes-realted woes during the holiday season.
Now that the new year is upon, let us strive to be more healthy and...
New York And Other States May Sell Off Assets To Pay Debts
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 28, 2008
...The Federal Government isn't the only government entity in the United States with budget woes.
Several weeks ago California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he would request econ...
Christmas Being All But Ignored By European Shoppers
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 22, 2008
...giving for the overall drop in the European economy.
Read Reuter's report on how stock market woes have caused Europeans to put Christmas on the back burner his year .
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Tis the Season - for Proposals
in White Lace Wedding, on December 19, 2008
...you're waiting on a proposal, you get it this holiday season. However, with the recent economic woes affecting so many people, industries and businesses, if you don't get that giant rock you&#...
Fixing broken boards
in Sox First, on December 8, 2008
...st week, I did a blog entry condemning Robert Rubin's self serving claim that Citigroup's woes had absolutely nothing to do with its board directors. Not their fault at all, he said, especia...
More woes for India-based outsourcing
in The CIO Weblog, on November 26, 2008
Not to minimize the very real human tragedy and other geo-political implications of the terror attacks currently paralyzing the Indian city of Mumbai, but the first technology related thought to cross my mind was, wow, this is a another unfortunate blow for India's off-shore outsourcing in a...
Cheap oil and global risk
in Sox First, on November 22, 2008
...oncerns that it might have a crude nuclear warhead in three to four years time. Iran's economic woes might push that regime over the edge. For a fuller analysis of the situation, read here . Th...
The Siemens saga rolls on
in Sox First, on November 19, 2008
...nsible people. I didn't decide who got something and who didn't." Still, Siemens' woes is not affecting the company's performance on the market with Bloomberg reporting its sha...
Economic Crisis May Lead to Increase in Scams
in I got Spam?!, on October 6, 2008
...ia has already been used as the subject of a phishing spam. In fact, as the country's financial woes began to deepen last month, the number of zombie computers sending spam rose a startling 101%! ...
America's China Addiction: Time to Kick It?
in China Venture News, on October 4, 2008
...the Financial Times article, David Piling, says that in a conversation about America's economic woes he asked a Chinese official recently if America hung itself "with Asian rope?" The Ch...
Smith adds to woes at Newcastle
in The Soccer Weblog, on September 19, 2008
Newcastle midfielder Alan Smith needs surgery on his foot after suffering a stress fracture. He could be out for up to three months and is unlikely to be back in contention before Christmas.
Twenty-seven year old Smith struggled to keep his place in the side last season and hadn't feat...
Hua An Fund Will Suffer From Lehman
in China Venture News, on September 17, 2008
Hua An Fund Management Co. warned today that it could suffer "potentially heavy losses" from bankruptcy of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, according to the Industry Standard .
No numbers were given.
The Hua An Fund is a "qualified domestic institutional investor," or QDI...
Is AIG next?
in Sox First, on September 16, 2008
...ld's financial markets. Even more than they have been already. "Indeed, the company's woes could pose problems in many corners, a concern that has the federal government on watch," ...
England's woes are not the fans fault
in The Soccer Weblog, on September 10, 2008
Why has Wembley suddenly become a nightmare venue for England?
For years Wembley was a fortress. The team played in front of flag waving fans in a serious show of patriotism. With the possible exception of Euro 1996, England often let down the fans but still they supported them.
Now, with th...
Defekte XBox360-Konsolen waren vorhersehbar
in Daily Gamer, on 09.09.08
Der Autor des Buches " The Xbox 360 Uncloaked " Dean Takahashi behauptet in einem Artikel , dass die hohe Ausfallrate der Xbox 360 vorhersehbar war. microsoft hätte bei der Entwicklung viele Fehler gemacht. Dabei kommen erschreckende Fakten ans Licht: 68 von 100 Konsolen, die in China...
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT): Brings Better Quality of Life in Older Women?
in Straightfromthedoc, on August 25, 2008
... not have hot flushes and were well past menopause.
Could it (HRT) be the solution to women's woes in menopause and beyond? Read more about this latest findings on HRT .
In lieu of women's...
Apple to Recall the iPhone 3G?
in The Wireless Weblog, on August 14, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Jon Schulte
The snazzy new iPhone 3G is driving early adopters crazy with severe network connection problems - and according to BusinessWeek's Peter Burrows , while the problem comes down to the iPhone's Infineon chip, the company is hoping to r...
Sun moving to save its cloud?
in The CIO Weblog, on August 4, 2008
...degree of complexity that less rigorous minds shy away from.
Nonetheless, with Amazon's recent woes, it may be exactly the right time for Sun to make a move to up the exposure of their own cloud ...
Is this the end of GM?
in Sox First, on August 2, 2008
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The woes of what was once America's once-greatest icon, General Motors, go from bad to worse with the company announcing a $15.5 billion second quarter loss. It creates a vicious circle for...
Merrill Lynch's day of reckoning
in Sox First, on July 29, 2008
...icantly, Merrill Lynch's total writedowns are now put at close to $40 billion . Merrill's woes coincide with the warning from the International Monetary Fund that things are going to get w...
AOL Woes Hit Bloggers
in BlogWealth, on July 28, 2008
Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Tomislav Forgo An article in the Washington Post claims that AOL's latest cost cutting measures are hitting the bloggers that write for their popular Weblogs Inc network. Some blogs have been asked to reduce posting, a few have gone on hiatus and some blogge...
Offshore outsourcing in trouble?
in The CIO Weblog, on July 21, 2008
...my hasn't exactly been healthy in the US of late, it doesn't seem to me that the prophesied woes in IT budgets have materialized. I think that once upon a time, the combination of the expense ...
Fuel-Cell Car Woes - Buy DIESEL???
in carzz.org, on June 19, 2008
© Farther Along
Prices have to fall for Fuel-Cell to be accepted in a mass market. This was the statement by Honda Motor Co. Takeo Fukui in the WSJ yesterday. Unfortunately low-emission cars such as gas-electric hybrids and diesel vehicles just happen to be more popular.
WOE! Did I hear...
Saving Some Money, We Can All Use That
in Web 2.0, on May 9, 2008
... am going to help you save some money today. Here are four Web sites you can use to make your money woes a little more manageable.
Grocery Coupons - Coupons you can print right from home. Just...
UBS woes
in Sox First, on May 7, 2008
It's been a bad bad week for Swiss bank UBS. First it announces it's on the way to cutting 5500 jobs after losing $11 billion in the first quarter as a result of the US subprime crisis. Most of the jobs will go in the US and Britain, all part of a giant shakeup of the bank's a...
Siemens: from bad to worse
in Sox First, on May 2, 2008
...cause of project delays, cancellations and costs flowing the bribery investigation. Siemens latest woes coincide with a report from international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton that there has ...
Coping With U.S. Air Summer Travel
in Hidden Travel Gems, on April 18, 2008
...Summer in the U.S. is just around the corner. What with the recent woes on U.S. airline bankruptcies and flight cancellations, it could get worse this summer when people travel and flock to the busy a...
Xohm on Hold
in The Wireless Weblog, on April 3, 2008
Sprint yesterday announced that it's delaying the commercial launch of its Xohm WiMax service from April, as was previously announced, to "later this year."
"While sprint offered no explanation for why the launch would be delayed, unconfirmed reports suggest that t...
Pregnancy and Dental Woes
in Next Nine Months, on March 25, 2008
Just because you are pregnant does not mean that you should forego your dental check-ups. In fact, taking care of your teeth and gums during pregnancy is more important than ever.
About 50-75% of pregnant women suffer from what is called pregnancy gingivitis - red, tender, and swollen gums ca...
More Siemens woes
in Sox First, on March 20, 2008
End of the honeymoon period for Siemens' new boss Peter Löscher. He is trying to clean up the company following the bribery scandal but has been forced to issue a surprise profit warning because of delays to projects and contract cancellations, which will drag down its quarterly earnings b...
Is There Any Money In Wii Bowling
in Internet Poker, on March 17, 2008
... My bankroll woes have been an extension of too much pride to move down and/or hitting the tin foil hat cashout curse after needing money for the annual WPBT Holiday Classic last December. Thankfu...
Dell's ho-hum strategy
in Sox First, on March 5, 2008
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Dell's woes continue. Last week, it announced a fall in net income, wiping out completely any increase in sales. The share price, which was up around $30 in November, hit lows at the end of t...
$1.45 Billion Blue Ridge Fund to Focus on China
in China Venture News, on March 2, 2008
...n't have to worry about answering endless questions on things like CDO's, mortgages, credit woes, and the like.
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Devil Dog
in carzz.org, on February 25, 2008
... like its namesake, a demonic dog.
Cerberus Capital Management has been humbled in recent weeks by woes at two of its larger investments, automaker Chrysler and auto and mortgage lender gmac . ...
Pay packages rewarding failure
in Sox First, on February 25, 2008
...hat is why the Corporate Library is now predicting that the "perfect storm" of subprime woes and excessive executive compensation is going to result in a continuing wave of shareholder cla...
Chrysler Wants Their Toys Back
in carzz.org, on February 19, 2008
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It seems the woes of Chrysler continue. Bob " The Hammer" Nardelli wants his toys back from Plastech one of their key suppliers, other automakers are saying take your toys back and you&#...
Are accountants recession-proof?
in Sox First, on February 20, 2008
...e than 50 per cent and New York state governor eliot spitzer warning that bond and credit woes afflicting Wall Street could turn into a "financial tsunami". So how will this affect...
Trump sued (again)
in Sox First, on February 13, 2008
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Late last month, I did a blog entry looking at Donald Trump's legal woes with Las Vegas property management company suing him for $4 billion, accusing The Donald of monopolistic practices, vi...
Will the Fed avert a recession and other questions
in Sox First, on January 24, 2008
After the Monday Massacre of global stock markets , Asian markets have rallied and the Australian market ended its losing streak with the biggest one day gain since last August after the Fed's surprising rate cut. So the Fed has stopped, at least for now, a global rout but fears ...
Ten dumbest CEO moves of 2007
in Sox First, on December 25, 2007
...Financial message boards under a pseudonym "Rahodeb", former World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz doing some career planning for his girlfriend, Bear Stearns chief James Cayne taking to th...
Manila looking to ease traffic congestion with RFID
in The RFID Weblog, on December 10, 2007
...s as RFID would be implemented in more than two thousand buses out there to put an end to traffic woes. Commuting short distances in developing countries can at times take hours but all this may cha...
"Jackson 5" To Reunite
in The Celebrities Weblog, on December 9, 2007
...kson's.
I wonder if this vision of a Jackson 5 reunion has anything to do with his financial woes including the deadbeat dad allegation made against Jermaine Jackson .
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Shareholder rights wronged
in Sox First, on December 1, 2007
...e to resist, they will sue, reports Reuters . With the market in turmoil over subprime and credit woes, you can bet that shareholders are not about to roll over on the risk exposures of the companie...
Car Rentals Upto 40% Off
in The Flyaway Weblog, on November 27, 2007
...m one connection to the other is just bothersome.
Carrentals.com might be the key to your travel woes. You might be lucky enough to rent a car for as cheap as $8.99/day. Through Carrentals, ...
Flexo-line Your Laundry
in The Flyaway Weblog, on November 26, 2007
...use you might get late for your meeting, because the Flexo-line will save you from your clothesline woes.
For the strength to hold all your wet laundry, forget those cute little suction-cup clothesl...
Bad Marriage Can Lead to a Troubled Heart. Literally
in Well Woman Blog, on October 9, 2007
...ked at quality of relationships but had different results. There was no association between marital woes in general and risks for heart disease or early death. But it did find, over a 10-year follow-u...
Windows XP Sales window extended
in The CIO Weblog, on October 1, 2007
...ng term, or have the resources to continue deploying it internally without licensing and activation woes, but last week's announcement by Microsoft that they are extending the availability of Wi...
The dangers of one-to-one emails
in Sox First, on September 13, 2007
...f an industrial espionage case involving McLaren and Ferrari and with Morgan Stanley's email woes last year, it's time to ask whether companies need to reassess how they treat emails. Acc...
Airlines Keeping Flights Full
in The Aviation Weblog, on September 7, 2007
...py with the airlines' decision - the strategy drove down ticket prices - it exacerbated airline woes. Starting with the September 11, 2001, air attacks, the industry hemorrhaged money due to highe...
Retail Causes Its Own CD Woes
in Digital Music - The Future, on September 3, 2007
The NPD Group, in conjunction with NARM, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, said that consumer rejection of the CD format and use of digital files, iPods, and P2P are not the reason for the decline in CD sales.
In fact CDs continue to be the medium of choice, even among youth...
Subprime woes worse than terrorism
in Sox First, on August 28, 2007
The fallout from the subprime debacle continues to spread. Now it's hitting realtors and internet companies are also bracing themselves for problems with a projected drop-off in advertising. No surprises then that subprime trouble is now ranked as a bigger threat than terrorism, acco...
Weekend Weight Woes
in Well Woman Blog, on August 24, 2007
...are busy working, so we can keep ourselves occupied with work. But, then comes TGIF, and the weight woes start. A little wine, a little cheese, a few crackers, and next thing you know all the work you...
