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Macao Bank Allowed to Transfer $25 Million to North Korea
2007-07-03 00:00:00 WASHINGTON ? When the United States blacklisted a tiny bank in Macao for its dealings with North Korea nearly two years ago, the goal was to isolate the bank from the world?s financial system and squeeze the government in Pyongyang. Little did the Bush administration appreciate the fatefulness of that step. It has taken ... More About: North Korea , Transfer
When to Sell a Stock (Updated Version)
2007-07-03 00:00:00 Deciding when to sell is just as important as deciding which stocks to buy in the first place. The refusal to sell, whether it’s due to unrealistic expectations, stubbornness, lack of interest or mere inattention, is the undoing of many an investor. As a long-term investor, you don’t want to cash in ... More About: Stock , Sell , Version
More Clues to Value in a Stock
2007-07-03 00:00:00 There you have the numbers-crunching, balance-sheet approach to finding value in the stock market. Those numbers are extremely important, but they aren’t the only facts you need. If the stock meets most of the tests in the Key Statistics, look for these additional signs of value. The company’s industry is on the rise. Even though you ... More About: Stock , Clues , Value
Buying Into the Green Movement
2007-07-03 00:00:00 HERE?S one popular vision for saving the planet: Roll out from under the sumptuous hemp-fiber sheets on your bed in the morning and pull on a pair of $245 organic cotton Levi?s and an Armani biodegradable knit shirt. Stroll from the bedroom in your eco-McMansion, with its photovoltaic solar panels, into the kitchen remodeled with reclaimed ... More About: Buying , Green , The G , Green Movement
Carlyle Group in Talks to Acquire Virgin Media
2007-07-03 00:00:00 The Carlyle Group is in discussions with Virgin Media , the British cable company whose largest investor is Richard Branson, over a potential bid worth around $20 billion, a person familiar with the negotiations said yesterday. The talks are still early and may not lead to a bid, this person noted. As the coffers of American ... More About: Virgin Media , Acquire
The iPhone: What the Critics Say
2007-07-01 00:00:00 Boston Globe Hiawatha Bray writes that he couldn’t trash the iPhone if he wanted to. The Globe sees the iPhone as unprecedented and says it leads the way for the newest cell phone technology: “For it’s not just cool; this phone is important, in the same way that Apple’s first Macintosh computer was important. The ... More About: Iphone , Crit , Critics , Critic
The Last Stand of Internet Radio?
2007-07-01 00:00:00 This past Tuesday, thousands of Intern et radio stations found the perfect way to make their point about a recent decision to raise the royalty rates they pay ? they simply shut down as part of what they called the “Day of Silence” protest. If the new rules go into effect as planned on July 15, ... More About: Radio , Internet radio , Stand
Wall Street drops on credit concerns
2007-07-01 00:00:00 NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Friday as banks and brokers retreated on concerns about the impact of tightening credit on takeovers and the subprime mortgage industry. Early gains evaporated as oil rose to $71 a barrel and investors booked profits before the quarter’s end and the July 4th holiday week. That ... More About: Credit , Wall Street , Street , Wall , Once
Restaurants: The New Sweatshops?
2007-06-25 00:00:00 Eating out has become as American as apple pie, but for those manning the kitchen, restaurant work is anything but an American dream. Dishwashers, waiters and delivery people are increasingly served up unfair pay, discrimination and dangerous working conditions. A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University ... More About: Restaurants , Shops
Many in U.S. Don’t Have Bank Accounts
2007-06-24 00:00:00 AP IMPACT: Millions Opt to Do Without Bank Accounts, Citing Cost, Confusion, Mistrust WASHINGTON (AP) — Grandma stuffing money under the mattress isn’t the only one living outside the banking system. As many as 28 million people in the United States are forgoing traditional financial institutions because of mistrust, cultural and language barriers or a belief that ...
Wal-Mart’s Unbanking Business
2007-06-22 00:00:00 Wal-Mart is reaching out to people who do not have traditional bank accounts with its new prepaid Visa debit card and improved check-cashing services. Wal-Mart Wal-Mart doesn’t just want you to buy gas and groceries at its superstores these days. Now it wants your entire paycheck. On Wednesday, the nation’s largest retailer unveiled plans to ... More About: Business , Wal Mart , Sine
Understand the structure of the three types of takeover offers: each requir
2007-06-21 00:00:00 Takeover offers are generally made in one of three ways. In the simplest type of offer, the would-be acquirer proposes to pay a specific amount of cash for each target share. WIth such a cash offer, you can easily calculate the profit potential. If $25 a share is offered and the target company’s stock ... More About: Offers , Types , Three , Understand
A Protential Hot Chinese Company on the NASDAQ OTCBB: GZGT
2007-06-21 00:00:00 www.GuangzhouGlbalTelecom.com Compa ny : Guangzhou Global Telecom, Inc. Exchange: ... More About: Chinese , Nasdaq , Prot
Microsoft Will Alter Vista Operating System
2007-06-21 00:00:00 WASHINGTON, June 19 ? Microsoft has agreed to make changes to its Windows Vista operating system in response to a complaint by Google that a feature of Vista is anticompetitive, lawyers involved in the case said on Tuesday. The settlement, reached in recent days by state prosecutors, the Justice Department and ... More About: System , Operating System , Operating
After Shake-Up, What Now for Yahoo?
2007-06-21 00:00:00 Should Yahoo stop trying to beat Google at its own game? Should it step up the pace and grow even larger through mergers and acquisitions? As Jerry Yang takes over as Yahoo?s chief executive, all eyes are on the next steps that Mr. Yang, the company?s co-founder, untested as a top executive, ... More About: Yahoo!
Yahoo Goes Back to Square One
2007-06-21 00:00:00 It was certainly fun while it lasted. Terry Semel’s six-year ride atop Yahoo ! juiced up the company’s annual revenue nine-fold and added $30 billion to its net worth. As Yahoo rose under his watch, AOL sank. But when you compete against the godzilla that is Google, even modest slip-ups can cost you ... More About: Back , Yahoo! , Goes , Square
Touch Screens Take Over
2007-06-21 00:00:00 When you write about technology, you see a lot of demos, demo being the industry term for when an executive demonstrates a new product for an audience, usually with the aid of a nervous tech-support guy. Under the emotional stress of the moment, the product quite often vomits data and dies. But ... More About: Touch , Ouch , Touch Screen , Cree
AT&T Quietly Offers $10 DSL Plan
2007-06-21 00:00:00 (NEW YORK)?Without any sort of fanfare, AT&T Inc. has started offering a broadband Internet service for $10 a month, half the price of its cheapest advertised plan. The DSL, or digital subscriber line, plan introduced Saturday is part of the concessions made by AT&T to the Federal Communications Commission to get ... More About: Offers , Plan , Quiet , Offer
Cadbury to Cut Jobs as Drinks Sale Nears
2007-06-21 00:00:00 LONDON, June 19 ? Cadbury Schweppes, the biggest candy maker in the world, said today that it planned to cut 7,500 jobs and sell the United States beverage unit that made Dr Pepper, Snapple and 7-Up to become more profitable. Cadbury, which makes Trident gum and Dairy Milk chocolate, said it had ... More About: Jobs , Drinks , Sale , Ears
Takeovers and Risk Arbitrage
2007-06-19 00:00:00 Bankruptcy investors seek to take advantage of the opportunities created by what they believe to be too much pessimism in the corner of the marketplace where they operate. Other types of investors rely on the market’s optimism. One such specialized area of investing called risk arbitrage involves trading in the secruities of firms that ... More About: Risk , Takeovers , Arbitrage
Google vs. eBay: Round One
2007-06-17 00:00:00 EBay is going gaga over Googl e . Less than a year after the two Web giants signed a billion-dollar advertising pact proclaiming a passionate partnership, a lovers’ quarrel has broken out. Ebay , Google’s top advertiser, pulled its ads from the search giant’s site after Google announced that it would hold a party Thursday night ... More About: Round
Dads, Kids Bond Over Video Games
2007-06-17 00:00:00 When Will Nickelson and his daughter want to spend some quality time together, they fire up Nintendo Co.’s Wii and play a few rounds of “Wii Sports” or “Mario Party 8.” “It’s kind of difficult picking a game for a 7-year-old girl, but she really likes to beat her dad at bowling,” says ... More About: Video , Video Games , Kids , Games , Bond
The Most Popular Wedding Day Ever
2007-06-16 00:00:00 July 7, 2007. It’s not just the day when Eva Longoria of Desperate Housewives fame will get hitched to San Antonio Spurs’ star Tony Parker in a castle north of Paris, or when celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck walks down the aisle in Capri, Italy. It may well be the most popular wedding ... More About: Wedding , Popular , Pula
Is Wis.dm Your Next Web Obsession?
2007-06-16 00:00:00 The new social networking site, wis.dm, uses simple yes or no questions to break the ice among strangers. Do bald people need shampoo? Good question. When Yuchen Long, 14, posted this question on the beta version of a new site called wis.dm on Monday, she got 63 answers in less than three hours, ... More About: Obsession
IPhones Only at AT&T, Apple Stores
2007-06-16 00:00:00 (SAN ANTONIO)?Customers clamoring to get their hands on Apple Inc.’s highly anticipated iPhone better make sure they’re at the right store. The combination cell phone, media player and wireless Web device will only be sold at stores owned by Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc., which has an exclusive deal to offer service for ... More About: Stores
Cost of Gas and Food Rose Sharply Last Month
2007-06-16 00:00:00 Americans felt the pinch of higher gas prices and eroding wages last month, even as an important gauge of inflation drifted lower, government figures showed yesterday. Over all, the Consumer Price Index rose 0.7 percent in May, the Labor Department reported. The core rate, which excludes food and energy, was up just ... More About: Food , Cost , Rose , Month , Mont
Can Google Get Any Bigger?
2007-06-10 00:00:00 Google’s share price reached an all-time high Tuesday at $518.84 with the announcement of a new partnership with marketing software maker Salesforce.com. Google, the #1 search engine, seems to defy every Internet law of gravity. But one question arises with each subsequent record-high share price: is it possible for Google to get any bigger? According to ... More About: Google , Googl
Stocks Try for Rebound After Selloff
2007-06-10 00:00:00 Stocks Move Moderately Higher Following Global Selloff, Weak Bonds NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street, trying to reverse three days of sharp losses, rose moderately in shaky trading Friday as Treasury yields retreated from overnight highs.Chicago Federal Reserve President Michael Moskow said in an interview with CNBC that while inflation is the predominant concern for the ... More About: Stocks
Chinese Stocks Tumble 8.3 Percent
2007-06-06 00:00:00 Chinese Stocks Tumble 8.3 Percent, Biggest 1-Day Drop Since February Plunge BEIJING (AP) — Chinese stocks plunged Monday following government efforts to cool a market boom, recording their biggest one-day drop since a late February drop that triggered a global market sell-off. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index tumbled 8.3 percent to 3,670.40, falling for the third time ... More About: Chinese
Chinese Stocks Fall for 3rd Day
More articles from this author:2007-06-06 00:00:00 Chinese Stocks Fall for 3rd Day Amid Effort to Cool Boom SHANGHAI, China (AP) — Chinese stocks fell for a third straight day Tuesday following their sharpest one-day drop in three months, extending declines triggered by government efforts to cool the booming market and avert a price bubble. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index plunged 7.2 percent ... More About: Chinese 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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