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Suddenly more bullish on housing?

Maybe there is something to that old "American Dream," after all. How else to explain that even as the residential real estate industry suffers through a catastrophic slump, U.S. residents still profess faith in the value of housing? You'd think that most homeowners today — and ...

Derivatives tripped up regulators: Geithner

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is pushing the Obama administration's plans to regulate the exotic and opaque derivatives market, something that's long overdue. Let's face it, the US Government wasn't even aware of how serious a problem it's been. Associated Press rep...

Apple's lack of enterprise ambition

eWeek's Don Reisinger has an editorial up titled "Should Apple Even Care About the Enterprise?" in which he answers unequivocally "no." Reisinger lays out all the usual points; Apple is a hardware, rather than software business, with a decidedly consumer focus, limited...

Don't believe the homeownership hype

You should buy a home because it's the best lifestyle choice for you and your family. You shouldn't buy a house becasue it's a good investment. There's a simple reason for this: Homes aren't as good of an investment as real estate agents and mortgage loan officers make them out ...

Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?

President Obama has announced the most sweeping reforms of the financial services in 70 years. The reforms are to be applauded and are long overdue. But are they enough? Can they be undone or jettisoned? Will they stick? I have two problems with the changes. First, they do nothing to stop the...

NIKA Water: Helping Body and Soul

With another hot summer on the way, proper hydration is on the top of everyone's mind. However, here is a unique twist on the classic summer water story: An estimated 75% of Americans suffer from mild, chronic dehydration. But that number is nothing compared to the 20% of the world's p...

Problem Solving is Key

Success in starting a business is mostly about figuring out what to do when challenges arise. So I couldn't help but get a little excited when I say this point on problem solving . In the piece Sid Kemp looks a six basic steps to assessing and solving problems. And in his view, most of it is c...

Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud

I'm always amazed that so many people pin the blame for our nation's current housing crisis on homeowners facing foreclosures. Yes, some of these homeowners — but not nearly all of them — were greedy, and tried to buy too much home for their income levels. But if you want to pinp...

60+ Amazing Poster and Advertisment Tutorials

• 60+ Amazing Poster and Advertisment Tutorials • 加强数据中心虚拟化安全的10个步骤 • Cloud Computing Expo: Sun To Build Clouds • Who Cares What People Write ? • Eee PC spotted running Android + Qualcomm 1GHz CPU • Swapping SIMs to save big bucks on calls abroad • Topsy • Skinnyboard.com - Project Ma...

How much is Facebook worth?

Hard to comprehend the extraordinary $200 million investment in Facebook by Digital Sky Technologies, a private 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...

More on the Satyam-PWC scandal

The implosion at Indian IT specialists Satyam raises many questions about corporate governance. As Madhukar Angur says in the Deccan Herald , the debacle suggests we have learned very little since Enron and WorldCom. And that's despite governments around the world tightening their corporat...

Economists predict recession ends this year. As if!

So economists are predicting the recession will end this year. They reckon the housing market will bottom out and they don't see the recession lasting longer than the first quarter of 2010. Still, they're hedging their bets, saying the recovery will be slow and painful. It's hard ...

Higher rents and sale prices for green buildings

Despite the recession, the push for green buildings continues. But is green a justifiable expense when companies are struggling to stay alive in the financial bloodbath? A fascinating study Doing Well by Doing Good? Green Office Buildings , from academics at the University of California and Ma...

Sony to reduce the number of suppliers to half

In a short piece from Kenji Hall written in BusinessWeek , he talks about the recent plans of Sony, giant Japanese electronics company, to cut supply chain costs. According to Kenji, the tech giant has about 2,500 suppliers, but will reduce that number to 1,200 by March 2011. This effort in t...

Buffett says newspapers have no future

Back in 2007, Warren Buffett warned shareholders 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 oblivious to the changes that were transforming the sec...

The next accounting battle

If you thought fair value was an almighty bun fight, you ain't seen nothing yet. The International Accounting Standards Board is tackling off balance sheet vehicles that have destroyed so much wealth and the Financial Accounting Standards Board plans to put out new rules for the United S...

The Invisible Hook by Peter Leeson

What do pirates have to do with economics? Plenty, according to economist Peter Leeson in his book The Invisible Hook . Leeson starts out looking at the most fundamental of economic texts from the 17th century Scottish moral philosopher Adam Smith who argued that self-interest was the "in...

The Future of Golf is Online

Courtesy: Augusta National On the day of the Par 3 tournament at The Masters, I wrote that it was unfortunate that live streaming of the event at masters.com was limited only to computer users with ISP addresses in the United States. I argued that Augusta National could make a lot of money ...

New partnership to offer supply chain network design services

It seems like, beside IBM and i2, new niche players are jumping into network optimization services: ChemLogix, a provider of logistics services, announced recently that it has formed a strategic alliance with Automated Decisions, to provide a Supply Chain Network Optimization Service to the chem...

Airlines in tailspin

The airline 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 fixed costs. As Morningstar analyst Basili Alukos told reporters , it's a high fixed...

Executive pay goes down - to just $7.6 million

Don't for a second think that the fat cats on Wall Street are doing it tough. The Wall Street Journal tells us that the pay of the people who have brought America to its knees has gone done 3.4% to a paltry median figure of $7.56 million. While unemployment continues to rise, small busine...

Getting the recession right

I've spent my share of time haranguing all the companies out there who are busily and arbitrarily slashing costs and headcounts in response to the financial crisis; now it's time to acknowledge one that has by and large gotten it right: Hewlett-Packard. I've already mentioned my ap...

Jewelry Sale at GenerousGems.com

Gold and Gemstone Jewelry Beth Gillman, and James and Lynette Herschel have more than a decade of experience in the retail and jewelry business. They design and sell fine jewelry . They also have a specialty line of awareness jewelry, with a portion of the profits from these lines going to n...

A good crisis for George Soros

George Soros is having a very good crisis. When the wheels started coming off in 2007, Soros came out of semi-retirement and took back control 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 n...

Non-profit newspapers? No way!

...t. Newspapers are an important vehicle that help shape the public's views and turning them into non-profits, in effect supported by taxpayers, undermines their independence. It also opens the door...

The Ultimate Guide To Twitter

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China's Tencent - the World's Most Profitable Social Network

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?

During the first couple of years following the stock market crash of 1929 the makers of luxury cars continued producing costly, elegant models, often with custom bodies. But it wasn't long before the wealthy were caught up in the depression. Famous names fell like trees in a hurricane. By the...

MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference

...rs from 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. Ph...

The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R Morris

The book from Morris provides some interesting insights into the market's implosion. It's not that we didn't have any warning. Morris makes the point that the collateralised mortgage obligations crisis, the 1987 stock market crash and the collapse of Long Term Capital Management w...

互联网商业模式更应关注成本

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

Rupert Murdoch is blaming the spending binge for the crisis, and warns that it will probably take some time until we emerge from it. But the reality is that his News Corporation has been hit hard by the downturn. Already, News Corporation's digital arm Fox Interactive Media is axing jobs...

Steve Jobs and board failure

Earlier this month, I did a blog entry looking at why Steve Jobs' health was an issue for investors. It boils down to one simple equation: Jobs is Apple's most important asset and his health affects the stock price. Notwithstanding Jobs taking several months off to sort out his he...

NBA Says 12-Year-Olds Being Sized Up As Players

Life just keeps moving ahead faster and faster, and today's youth are being asked to grow up in less time than ever, but is the NBA serious about playing 12-year olds? Well, not really, but they are serious about taking a close look at them to determine who's going to get serious considerat...

Outsourcing safely

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

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5763717 I mentioned last week that it is probably about time to shake off the shock of the downturn and start looking seriously at how to restructure your IT department to deal with tighter, more competetive markets. I'll put up a series of posts this...

Oil Opens At Under $39.00 A Barrel As 2008 Goes From Boom To Bust

Despite the highest gasoline prices of all time and the highest oil futures 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 is projected to be as b...

Microsoft to cut 10% of its workforce

Traditionally, software and PC sell like hot cakes over Christmas. But with the United States in recession and growing job losses, holiday sales are projected to plummet big time and retailers are discounting heavily. There's only so much you can blame on the appalling winter weather in th...

Madoff and SEC neglect

The extraordinary $50 billion fraud and Ponzi scheme that Wall Street legend Bernard Madoff is accused of is bad enough. But what is more remarkable are the questions about federal regulators. Why was the Securities and Exchange Commission so slack to pick up what he was doing? More to the poi...

Rubin's self-serving "innocence"

Of all the disgraceful moments following the implosion of Citigroup, this Wall Street Journal interview with Citigroup director and Bill Clinton's former Treasury honcho Robert Rubin probably takes the cake. Rubin claims innocence about Citi, insisting that no-one saw it coming. This is c...

Citi slickers

The Bush administration's bailout of Citigroup might be a sign of more to come, and that's a worry for everyone. Not just American taxpayers but right around the world. The most incompetent president in US history has announced that there might be more rescues. "We have made th...

Elevate Destinations Works for Environmental Preservation

An interesting service came to my attention recently, called Elevate Destinations . 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, Elevate Destinations has a pack...

The Siemens saga rolls on

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...

iGlassware: Will not leave customers at the table disappointed

Most of the bars tend to lose a part of their revenue as waiters fail to ask the customers for a repeat drink. Now here is something 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 o...

Classic Car Commercials Break New Ground but Fail Creatively

I've yet to see a TV commercial on behalf of classic car auction companies, unless you count the endless promos for Barrett-Jackson on Speed. But now it appears that RM Auctions is developing commercials for exclusive showing on You Tube. Question: Is it really a commercial if the air time is...

Fair value battle escalates

The fight over fair value continues with a Securities and Exchange Commission roundtable set to look at the fair value, or mark-to-market issue. As CNN suggests, we can expect to see some fireworks. Similarly, the chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, Sir David Tweedie, has...

Despite Tough Times Verizon Profits on the Rise

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 their cell phone as Verizon announced today that earnings rose 31 percent in the third quarter. ...

Apple Sales And Profits Up/ Stock Falling

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

As the search for culprits behind the meltdown continues, ratings agencies have found themselves in the gun. Executives from Moody's and Standard & Poor's have told Congress that the problem was caused by conflicts of interest. More from the New York Times . "Profits were runn...

Major Cybercrime Site Shut Down

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Image# 5697450 The site, called DarkMarket, was kept secret and access was granted by invitation only. Its forum allowed cyberthieves to buy and sell stolen banking details and credit card numbers obtained via phishing scams and website hacks. It also served as a ...

Nokia Reports Abysmal Profits

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...

Kevin Trudeau's Secret "They" (Actually "He") Don't Want You to Know

Via the Spending Smart Blog , "author" Kevin Trudeau, whose "Debt Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know About" is sitting at #275 on Amazon's sales list, has been fined by the Federal Trade Commission for a bunch of false statements in his previous book T...

Bailout no silver bullet

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 Strategy says Paulson's package is just stupid. In its report here , it warns: "Things h...

RFID Crystagram label: Hologram and RFID comes together to fight counterfeiting

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 alike but every time counterfeiters are able to find out a novel method to bypass anti counterfeiting...

Think Pink for October

Today kicks off Breast Cancer Awareness Month , so throughout October, I'm going to fit in pink as much as I can in relation to weddings. If you're getting married this month and one of your colors is pink in honor of the month, kudos for being aware of how many people this disease affects....

I'm Very Tempted to Buy Small Banks

I know we're headed into the 2nd Great Depression and all, but darn it if I'm not tempted to buy in to some of the public regional banks that haven't yet been swallowed up. Here's my theory... Sovereign Bank - SOV - Trading at $4.14 as I write this. Was $10.23 on September 19t...

Eat at Chili's Today!

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 Campaign Memphis, Tenn. - September 24, 2008 - Chili's Grill & Bar announced today it wi...

The Fall of Finance

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto , Felix Möckel For about the last ten years, many corporate decisions were guided by (or held up by) concerns raised by the finance department. Many of those "on the ground" were perplexed by these decisions - some of which included outsourcing otherw...

China Stock Investors Get New Rules

Market Watch is among a number of news sources reporting that China will begin allowing margin trading and short selling on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. The China Securities Regulatory Commission proposed the new rules and China's State Council has approved the proposal, acc...

APCW Celebrates Number 100, Big Move for Online Gambling Bill

100 episodes of APCW weekly . J. Todd comes out firing big with the straight talk about Bodog and more importantly The Passage of a very important Bill that will clarify what the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act completely mucked up. Drawing straighter lines as to want kind of ...

Swerving off the bootstrapping trail...or am I?

A thought has been occurring to me recently, to the point where I have taken the next logical step in exploring a very...er...unbootstrapper-like???...possibility. But is it really? Here's the thing. It has occurred to me as I work on my new interactive blog network startup PostRanger.com...

Green technology boom

Remember the Internet? Renewable energy and green technology will be a lot bigger than that, say Silicon Valley's venture capitalists. For a fascinating rundown about how the venture capitalists are falling over themselves to save the planet and make huge profits, check out this piece in O...

Mats Sundin Scores with PokerStars.net

image from PokerStars.net As a Northern kid my pull towards the game of hockey started before eating paste in Kindergarten was popular. 14 years on the ponds and ice meccas of Minnesota, lacing up at unholy hours to play a game or get a practice in before sleeping thru first period Social S...

Microsoft is thriving

I admit I'm not a big follower of main financial news. I recently stumbled upon the 10-K Annual Report filing of Microsoft. My gut feeling was that Microsoft is going through a rough patch and sees most of it's 'traditional' revenue sources declining. But how can I be so foolish - a ...

Will Sun end up in some other hands?

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Alex Slobodkin 'In 12 months, Sun will not be the same company it is now.' This is the prediction of Brian Babineau who is the analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Profits have been declining for the company and the same can be said about the stock...

AFACT - Downloading Movies is like taking heroin

AFACT has published a new report claiming that australian heroin sellers are making millions of dollars by moving into internet piracy , and then funneling all their profits from it into drug production. So in effect, by downloading films, you are supporting the heroin trade, in the same way...

Rajasthan International Folk Festival 10 - 14 October 2008

The Ragasthan International Folk Festival will take place from 10 - 14 October 2008 at Mehrangarh in Jodphur. © whiskeyandtears The event has been named as one of the best five music festivals in the world by the editor of Songlines, Simon Broughton, which is quite a feat as last year w...

The economics of SaaS

Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu posted an entry yesterday entitled "Why we compete with Google," going into some detail on the economics of the business software market in the process. It's worth a look, if only to understand the rationale that is driving this market today, shaping the e...

Windows 2008 R2 bites the dust

EDIT 08/18/08 13:39 PDT- Mary Jo has retracted her initial information regarding the demise of Windows 2008 Revision 2; it appears that it is still on track as originally planned, and Windows Server 7 will be following it at the prescribed 2-year interval, exactly as Microsoft had original...

Mrs Fields goes bust - another sign of recession

Last Friday's announcement that the Mrs Fields Famous Brands chain of cookie shops has gone broke is another sign of the deep problems now confronting the US economy. It has has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after blaming "aggressive competition" in its franchising b...