What China Should Do About The Gold Crash [View article]
"the poor public behavior of the Mainlanders"
Where, at least not in Beijing or Shanghai, heard it was in Hong Kong or are they just complaining over insecurities.
13 years ago and before, I always knew how the HKers were feeling by the way I was treated at the airport. Since the last decade or so no more.
I'm not sure there can be mutual understanding with militant governments as the best leave both countries for the opposite shores.
Furthermore, I absolutely disagree with the Brits and Opium. If the State wasn't so inadequate and incompetant then why would the population crave an illegal commodity. Have you ever taken any illegal drugs?
Maybe I should have but my contention over the past 25 years has been with the citizens ...
Alibaba could be worth $95B post-IPO, thinks Reuters' John Foley after doing some quick math - that would give Yahoo (YHOO - $27.4B market cap) a $22.8B stake. Foley's assumptions: the Chinese e-commerce market grows 35%/year for the next 2 years (less than 2012's growth); Alibaba keeps an 80% transaction share and 30% op. margin, while roughly doubling its take rate to 5% (still well below eBay's); and (like Tencent) it's valued at 25x forward EPS. One big caveat: Foley assumes Alibaba, which depends on ad sales, will either start charging merchants or raise ad prices via targeted ads. Oppenheimer has valued Alibaba at $77B. (The Economist)[View news story]
Alibaba actually does services for the community (sales and marketing for small businesses).
As a user of both, I would have to favor a far greater valuation for Alibaba.
Sort of like comparing Yahoo to Ebay (and to that a further extent)!
The PC Industry's Powerful New Weapon Against Tablets Is About To Be Unleashed [View article]
"Mac Books will not buy into Microsoft"
I'm not the younger generation, but the shoddy products (2x Vista, last Cn Vista basic, finally Win 7 is not that solid) and the lack of competent after-sales service is gonna make me switch over to total Mac.
Tim Cook (AAPL) on the five-inch smartphone: "Our competitors have made some significant trade-offs in many of these areas in order to ship a larger display. We would not ship a larger display iPhone while these trade-offs exist." He adds that if IDC's right, the smartphone market declined 30% since December, so Apple's decline of 15% beat the market. [View news story]
Today at the Shanghai Library, two computer lab technicians were looking at the price and features of the S4.
Cn does not have LTE and 3g is slow. They were looking over the 2.5g feature.
They own a 2 year old IPhone and Lenovo smartphone and Xiao Mi.
Moves, mistakes prove Steve Jobs era at Apple over, say analysts With debt and lower margins, gaffes and strategy details, Cook's remade Apple with decisions former co-founder would not have countenanced By Gregg Keizer
Apple: How To Admit You're Out Of Ideas [View article]
Today at church in Shanghai were 4 smartphones.
The manager had the IPhone 4 series, the two underlings had Samsungs and the custodial staff person had a free Cn brand with $10 (60 RMB) usage per month.
5 Reasons Why We're Not Going Over The Demographic Cliff [View article]
"The US is still near replacement rate in births. The others have birth rates way, way, lower,"
The issue is quality and not quantity. As Cn already has the quantity.
I live in 2 worlds.
One where I am bullied in a welfare, an inept government, as well as fairly useless tax code.
The other where there are industrious people, slightly better government (rule by a few gets things done quicker), fairly useless legal system and largely police state.
What China Should Do About The Gold Crash [View article]
Where, at least not in Beijing or Shanghai, heard it was in Hong Kong or are they just complaining over insecurities.
13 years ago and before, I always knew how the HKers were feeling by the way I was treated at the airport. Since the last decade or so no more.
I'm not sure there can be mutual understanding with militant governments as the best leave both countries for the opposite shores.
Furthermore, I absolutely disagree with the Brits and Opium. If the State wasn't so inadequate and incompetant then why would the population crave an illegal commodity. Have you ever taken any illegal drugs?
Maybe I should have but my contention over the past 25 years has been with the citizens ...
Alibaba could be worth $95B post-IPO, thinks Reuters' John Foley after doing some quick math - that would give Yahoo (YHOO - $27.4B market cap) a $22.8B stake. Foley's assumptions: the Chinese e-commerce market grows 35%/year for the next 2 years (less than 2012's growth); Alibaba keeps an 80% transaction share and 30% op. margin, while roughly doubling its take rate to 5% (still well below eBay's); and (like Tencent) it's valued at 25x forward EPS. One big caveat: Foley assumes Alibaba, which depends on ad sales, will either start charging merchants or raise ad prices via targeted ads. Oppenheimer has valued Alibaba at $77B. (The Economist) [View news story]
As a user of both, I would have to favor a far greater valuation for Alibaba.
Sort of like comparing Yahoo to Ebay (and to that a further extent)!
The PC Industry's Powerful New Weapon Against Tablets Is About To Be Unleashed [View article]
lack of Flash is a real turnoff!
The PC Industry's Powerful New Weapon Against Tablets Is About To Be Unleashed [View article]
I'm not the younger generation, but the shoddy products
(2x Vista, last Cn Vista basic, finally Win 7 is not that solid) and the lack of competent after-sales service is gonna make me switch over to total Mac.
The PC Industry's Powerful New Weapon Against Tablets Is About To Be Unleashed [View article]
Get your head outside of the USA.
The PC Industry's Powerful New Weapon Against Tablets Is About To Be Unleashed [View article]
Long: Intc, Msft
Tim Cook (AAPL) on the five-inch smartphone: "Our competitors have made some significant trade-offs in many of these areas in order to ship a larger display. We would not ship a larger display iPhone while these trade-offs exist." He adds that if IDC's right, the smartphone market declined 30% since December, so Apple's decline of 15% beat the market. [View news story]
Cn does not have LTE and 3g is slow. They were looking over the 2.5g feature.
They own a 2 year old IPhone and Lenovo smartphone and Xiao Mi.
The PC Industry's Powerful New Weapon Against Tablets Is About To Be Unleashed [View article]
Since 3 Vista and one midrange Win 7 PCs, I am disillusioned. Time for a 2nd Mac!
Apple: How To Admit You're Out Of Ideas [View article]
Moves, mistakes prove Steve Jobs era at Apple over, say analysts
With debt and lower margins, gaffes and strategy details, Cook's remade Apple with decisions former co-founder would not have countenanced
By Gregg Keizer
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How have they taken it head on, I don't see any discounts. What steps have they taken (KFC Shanghai is 1/3-0.25% of usual business).
Apple: How To Admit You're Out Of Ideas [View article]
The manager had the IPhone 4 series, the two underlings had Samsungs and the custodial staff person had a free Cn brand with $10 (60 RMB) usage per month.
5 Reasons Why We're Not Going Over The Demographic Cliff [View article]
China's 15 Minutes Of Fame Are Up [View article]
And to see the comparison in the development of those people's characters over the past 20 years is negligent!
Though I do appreciate the author's response to my query.
5 Reasons Why We're Not Going Over The Demographic Cliff [View article]
The others have birth rates way, way, lower,"
The issue is quality and not quantity. As Cn already has the quantity.
I live in 2 worlds.
One where I am bullied in a welfare, an inept government, as well as fairly useless tax code.
The other where there are industrious people, slightly better government (rule by a few gets things done quicker), fairly useless legal system and largely police state.
5 Reasons Why We're Not Going Over The Demographic Cliff [View article]
This theory is based on what premises.