Comments on Badger The Lion's articles RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com http://seekingalpha.com/author/badger-the-lion/articles http://seekingalpha.com/article/91932-cypress-bioscience-about-to-reverse-course?source=feed#comment-323713 323713 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:01:08 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/89716-optimal-group-divesting-optimal-payments-subsidiary-growing-wowwee?source=feed#comment-265177 265177 Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:21:46 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/92356-irobot-ipo-vs-wowwee-s-pseudo-ipo?source=feed#comment-239870 239870 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:18:19 -0400
These are useful, cost effective utility-bots. They do dull, dirt, dangerous things, chores that people would rather avoid, for a pretty low price. WowWee has a small line up of expensive toys. Besides, have you seen the Rovio? It's freaking scary.

With immigrant labor harder to find and upper middle class households no longer able to afford housekeepers, and the growing strain on the military and increased need for surveillance, there will be a lot of demand for these products that iRobot develops.

The author disclosed he is long OPMR. Is he also one of the many people short IRBT? The article seems extremely biased. Kick-back biased.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92356-irobot-ipo-vs-wowwee-s-pseudo-ipo?source=feed#comment-238254 238254 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:54:56 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/92356-irobot-ipo-vs-wowwee-s-pseudo-ipo?source=feed#comment-237760 237760 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:09:32 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/92356-irobot-ipo-vs-wowwee-s-pseudo-ipo?source=feed#comment-237735 237735 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:47:38 -0400 superstreng.no/media/s...

FemiSapien is now in stock at Amazon.com www.amazon.com/Wow-Wee...
]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/91932-cypress-bioscience-about-to-reverse-course?source=feed#comment-235971 235971 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:03:07 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/89716-optimal-group-divesting-optimal-payments-subsidiary-growing-wowwee?source=feed#comment-227895 227895 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:52:26 -0400
OPMR is selling its Optimal Payments subsidiary assets to focus on growing its WowWee subsidiary in the Personal Robotics market, projected to be $15 billion by 2015. Divestitures plus this year's EBITDA will likely result in OPMR having about $120 million in cash and equivalents available to expand its WowWee business. WowWee's business is seasonal with more than 80% of its revenue realized in the second half of the year. OPMR guidance for WowWee 2008 revenue is $130 to $140 million. In the 2008 Q2 conference call, the CEO confirmed that it was reasonable to expect WowWee to generate $8 to $10 million of EBITDA in the second half of 2008.

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]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/89716-optimal-group-divesting-optimal-payments-subsidiary-growing-wowwee?source=feed#comment-226619 226619 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:08:47 -0400 badgerthelion.blogspot...]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/84842-optimal-group-extends-option-expiration-date?source=feed#comment-224682 224682 How is iRobot a competitor of OPMR? WowWee makes things like talking > Elvis heads and flying toys; iRobot makes vacuuming robots and IED > disposal robots. > > Also, the "issues" you cite, "Executive management salaries, DOJ > fines" cry out for some elaboration.]]> Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:23:02 -0400

On Jul 15 01:37 AM DaveinHacken sack wrote:

> How is iRobot a competitor of OPMR? WowWee makes things like talking
> Elvis heads and flying toys; iRobot makes vacuuming robots and IED
> disposal robots.
>
> Also, the "issues" you cite, "Executive management salaries, DOJ
> fines" cry out for some elaboration.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/85879-icahn-should-replace-microsoft-s-board-not-yahoo-s?source=feed#comment-210311 210311 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:47:27 -0400 IMHO MSFT was been a disaster for personal computing.
What they could not buy, they crushed, all for the worst.
Now, current management is too big and too fat, believing their own B.S., but then again, if you are a billionaire you can get away with it!?
Thank goodness for Apple.
End of my rant.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/85879-icahn-should-replace-microsoft-s-board-not-yahoo-s?source=feed#comment-210177 210177 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:49:58 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/85879-icahn-should-replace-microsoft-s-board-not-yahoo-s?source=feed#comment-210165 210165 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:31:58 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/85879-icahn-should-replace-microsoft-s-board-not-yahoo-s?source=feed#comment-210122 210122 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:12:33 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/84842-optimal-group-extends-option-expiration-date?source=feed#comment-205676 205676 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:37:38 -0400
Also, the "issues" you cite, "Executive management salaries, DOJ fines" cry out for some elaboration. ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/84560-financial-stocks-in-a-divergent-phugoid?source=feed#comment-203808 203808 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:48:49 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/84560-financial-stocks-in-a-divergent-phugoid?source=feed#comment-203177 203177 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:07:33 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/84560-financial-stocks-in-a-divergent-phugoid?source=feed#comment-203176 203176 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:06:51 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/84560-financial-stocks-in-a-divergent-phugoid?source=feed#comment-203112 203112 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:49:12 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/84560-financial-stocks-in-a-divergent-phugoid?source=feed#comment-202795 202795 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:26:28 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/84560-financial-stocks-in-a-divergent-phugoid?source=feed#comment-202766 202766 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:34:54 -0400 At least aerospace engineers do extensive stress testing before a new aircraft goes into service whereas bankers/quants are quite happy to experiment with trillions of dollars of "securities" based on completely bogus notions of how to quantify risk ]]>