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Who Still Uses Message Boards?
2007-07-21 00:00:00 To say I was shocked was an understatement. Last week John Mackey, CEO of organic grocer Whole Foods, admitted that from 1999 to 2006, he had been anonymously posting messages to Yahoo’s message board under the pseudonym “Rahodeb,” praising his company’s performance while knocking his competition and acquisition target Wild Oats. Shocking…. people are still ... More About: Message , Mess
A Private-Equity Peak?
2007-07-21 00:00:00 Private-Equity players such as Cerberus Capital Management and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts have scored some of the biggest buyouts ever in recent months, including TXU, First Data Corp. and Chrysler. But are these cash-heavy private-equity (PE) firms racing against time? They need to win and ink future deals before the leveraged-buyout (LBO) window slams shut–a scenario ... More About: Private Equity , Private , Peak , Riva
Avoiding the Entrepreneurial Trap
2007-07-21 00:00:00 Lynn Buchinsky is the kind of entrepreneur who isn’t supposed to exist. Working just 12 hours a week, six months a year, she expects to earn more than $30,000 in 2007, thanks to the portable tennis program she created for day-care centers and schools in Solon, Ohio, just outside Cleveland. Launched last summer and designed ... More About: Trap , Rial , Avoid , Rene
The Cult of Committee
2007-07-21 00:00:00 The money managers at Dodge & Cox have heard the adage that a camel is a horse designed by committee. They politely disagree. Their horse, you see, keeps winning. Each of the firm’s four mutual funds has from nine to 18 portfolio managers, and every one gets equal say in which stocks and bonds to ... More About: Cult , The Cult , Committee , Mitt , Mitte
Fed Trims Its Forecast for Growth
2007-07-20 00:00:00 WASHINGTON, July 18 ? Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said on Wednesday that the economy was poised for moderate growth for the rest of this year but that continuing problems in the housing market had prompted the Fed to slightly reduce its growth forecast. Separately, Mr. Bernanke acknowledged that ... More About: Growth , Fore , Grow , Trim , Rims
China?s Economy Growing at Breakneck Pace
2007-07-20 00:00:00 SHANGHAI, July 19 ? China said today that its economy grew by at an 11.9 percent annual rate in the second quarter of this year, the fastest pace in more than a decade, reigniting fears that the economy is overheating. The breakneck growth was fueled by a vast trade surplus, by booming retail sales and by ... More About: Economy , Growing , Pace , Econ
Global Adviser
2007-07-20 00:00:00 HOT SPOT: Moku Moku Yu brings contemporary style to an ancient pastime Katsuhisa Kida Japanese bathhouses are lovely?but need they all follow the same design template of pitched roofing and cypress-wood tubs? Not, apparently, at the Risonare resort, tel: (81-551) 365 111, a 2 1/2-hour train ride from Tokyo in Yamanashi prefecture’s Southern Alps. There, guests ... More About: Global
As Dollar Crumples, Tourists Overseas Reel
2007-07-20 00:00:00 HEIDELBERG, Germany, July 17 ? A day after Michael Kingsley arrived in this romantic university town, he was in no mood to savor the cobblestone streets, the half-timbered houses or the flower-bedecked windows ? to say nothing of the camera-ready castle on the hill. Mr. Kingsley had left his camera battery and charger ... More About: Dollar , Tourists , Reel , Tourist , Seas
Effect of Google Cookie Policy Unclear
2007-07-20 00:00:00 (NEW YORK)?Googl e Inc. is shortening the life span of its “cookie” data-tracking file ? but it’s not clear whether the move would do much to enhance privacy. Under the new policy, the cookies would expire automatically after two years, instead of in 2038 as is currently the case. However, the two-year period could ... More About: Policy , Effect , Poli
Quake Halts Japan Auto Production
2007-07-20 00:00:00 (TOKYO)?An earthquake that killed at least 10 people and ravaged a nuclear plant also caused damage at one of Japan ’s major auto parts suppliers, forcing the country’s top car makers to halt production for the next few days. Toyota Motor Corp., Nissan Motor Co., Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Fuji Heavy Industries and Suzuki Motor ... More About: Quake , Auto , Production , Prod
Stocks Open Flat Following Buyout Talk
2007-07-17 00:00:00 Stocks Open Flat Following Strong Gains, Ahead of Big Earnings Week NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks traded essentially flat Monday as investors digested the market’s huge gains of last week and received news of a potential big telecom deal.Wall Street’s move sideways was not surprising after last week’s record-setting rally. But investor sentiment got a modest ... More About: Stocks , Talk
Media Mogul Conrad Black Convicted
2007-07-15 00:00:00 (CHICAGO) ? A federal jury convicted fallen media tycoon Conrad Black and three of his former executives at Hollinger International Inc. Friday of illegally pocketing money that should have gone to stockholders. Black, 62, was convicted of three counts of mail fraud and one count of obstruction of justice. He faces a maximum of 35 years ... More About: Media , Conrad Black , Mogul
The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age
2007-07-15 00:00:00 The tributes to Sanford I. Weill line the walls of the carpeted hallway that leads to his skyscraper office, with its panoramic view of Central Park. A dozen framed magazine covers, their colors as vivid as an Andy Warhol painting, are the most arresting. Each heralds Mr. Weill?s genius in assembling Citigroup into the ... More About: Rich , Riches , Proud
A Patent Is Worth Having, Right? Well, Maybe Not
2007-07-15 00:00:00 PATENTS are supposed to give inventors an incentive to create things that spur economic growth. For some companies, especially in the pharmaceutical business, patents do just that by allowing them to pull in billions in profits from brand-name, blockbuster drugs. But for most public companies, patents don?t pay off, say a couple of researchers ... More About: Worth , Patent , Ving , Tent , Well
A Hot Internet-Technology Media Company That Is Showing Strong Potential fo
2007-07-08 00:00:00 Connected Media Technologies Inc. BUSINESS SUMMARY Connected Media Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital media and content provider in the United States and internationally. Its services include consulting, advertising, media selection and placement, sales promotion, direct marketing, collateral development, television production and placement, radio production and placement, point-of-sale displays, trade shows, barter ... More About: Internet , Technology , Company , Intern
China’s Stock Market Mania
2007-07-07 00:00:00 In China ’s two mainland capitals of capitalism, it’s raining money. The relentless increase in stock prices in both Shanghai and Shenzhen ? the former has tripled in value in just the last 18 months ? has triggered a stampede of companies in China to offer their shares to a public that has ... More About: Stock Market , Market , Stock , Mania
China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption
2007-07-07 00:00:00 SHANGHAI, July 6 ? For the second time in three months, a former high-ranking official at China ?s top food and drug watchdog agency has been sentenced to death for corruption and approving counterfeit drugs, the state-run news media said on Friday. Cao Wenzhuang, who until 2005 was in charge of drug registration approvals at the State ... More About: Corruption , Death , Official , Sentences
How Europe is Drowning in Wine
2007-07-06 00:00:00 An man unloads a basket of grapes in Tautavel, France. There is nothing like a Bordeaux, a Chianti or a Riesling to evoke the taste and scent of Europe in a wine glass. The problem, according to the “wine lake” cliché. is that the continent is swimming in the stuff, thanks to E.U. farm polices that ... More About: Wine , Rope
Google-DoubleClick Deal Draws Criticism
2007-07-06 00:00:00 (BRUSSELS, Belgium)?Europe’s major consumer group BEUC said Wednesday that it feared Internet search engine Google Inc.’s takeover of online ad tracker DoubleClick Inc. would damage European Union privacy rights and limit consumers’ choice of Web content. Their plea to EU regulators comes after U.S. consumer privacy advocacy groups asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to ... More About: Deal , Criticism , Draw , Crit
Blackstone to Buy Hilton Hotels
2007-07-06 00:00:00 (LOS ANGELES) ? Hilton Hotels Corp. has agreed to an all-cash buyout from The Blackstone Group LP in a $20.1 billion deal that would instantly make Blackstone the world’s largest hotel owner. The private equity group said it would combine cash from its real estate and corporate private equity funds to buy all outstanding Hilton shares ... More About: Lack , Tone
South Koreans Connect Through Search Engine
2007-07-06 00:00:00 SEOUL, South Korea, July 4 ? Park Hye Ran, a 15-year-old high school student, wanted to know the shortest route from a bus terminal in the southern port city of Busan to a fish market to the east. That is precisely the kind of question that Cho In Joon, 50, a seller of lottery tickets in ... More About: Search , Search Engine , Engine , Connect
Everybody?s Talking
2007-07-06 00:00:00 Briefly: Who talks more? Man? Woman? Conventional wisdom: women use 20,000 words a day, men 7,000. Come cocktail hour, hubby played out. Wife frustrated: 13,000 words to go, no takers. But wisdom comes from populist 2006 book, ?The Female Brain.? Data shaky. Skeptics abound. Today, study published Science magazine: 396 subjects wear tiny microphones. Result: whoops. Women ... More About: Talking , Everybody
Don’t Waste A Lot of Time For Little Money
2007-07-05 00:00:00 Imagine that you are in your office, the phone rings, and it is a company you have been courting for more than a year. They finally decide to work with you, but can’t pay your fee or buy your products at the current price. What Will you do? Your first option, of course, is to accept ... More About: Money , Time , Waste , Litt
“Joy Breaks” would make you more productive
2007-07-05 00:00:00 Work and fun are rarely spoken in the same breath. Common business practice tells you that to be productive, you must be relentless and keep pushing yourself until you finish. You may feel that the harder you work, the more productive you become. The opposite is true. The more you push yourself, the less effective ... More About: Make , Breaks , Would , Prod , Brea
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX
2007-07-05 00:00:00 Every December 31, millions of Americans ring in the new year in front of their television sets watching the ball drop in Times Square. And beyond the throngs of celebrants, what viewers see are the glimmering lights of the enormous billboards that tower above Broadway. The 11 ad spaces onOne and Two Times Square are ...
Small Stocks Are The Winnder, But Not By Much
2007-07-05 00:00:00 I look at two additional distinct groups of stocks-Small Stock, or stocks that have market capitalizations greater than a deflated$185 million but less than the database average, and Market Leaders. Market leaders are like Large Stocks on steroids. They come from the Large Stocks unvierse but also prosses characteristics beyond mere size. To be a ...
Opportunity Cost: The Real Cost of Something Is What You Must Give Up to Ge
2007-07-05 00:00:00 It is the last term before you graduate, and your class schedule allows you to take only one elective. There are two, however, that you would really like to take: History of Jazz and Beginning Tennis. Suppose you decide to take the History of Jazz course. What’s the cost of that decision? It is the fact ... More About: Opportunity , Cost , Real , Give , Unity
Tools of the Trade
2007-07-05 00:00:00 Anylysts use several tols when researching stocks. The basic tools include: 1. ources of current market information 2. financial calculator 3. favorite research sources Written by David Caruso Source of Current Market Information We’ve mentioned a couple of inofrmation souces already. Analysts typically review all the documents that the Securities and Exchange Commission requires a company to disclose to the public. ... More About: Tools , Trade
iPhone: The First 60 Hours
2007-07-04 00:00:00 Going on three days with the iPhone now. I have actually been stopped on the street and accosted in a bar by curious Apple fanboys, so I feel like I’ve earned my wings as an iPhone user. (Not an iPhone owner, by the way: this is a loaner unit from Apple.) Some further notes: – I’m ... More About: Iphone , Hour , Hours
Tech firms tap into the ‘green’ movement
More articles from this author:2007-07-04 00:00:00 NEW YORK - Being “green” is all the rage with technology companies these days, but what’s not clear is whether or not the environment-friendly approach is bringing in more greenbacks. Tech buyers say they desire devices that are kind to the environment, but they haven’t shown a strong predisposition to buy them ? except when it ... More About: Green , Firms 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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