Another Way To Bet In The Chinese Online Travel Market [View article]
The Chinese tourists I see around me in US are usually in a bus owned by a Chinese company and stay in hotels owned by Chinese and eat in Chinese restaurants. Probably kickbacks all around. I guess American tourists seem the same in other countries.
Microsoft Finds A New Enemy In The Browser Wars [View article]
Being a long time Microsoft user, I expect things to crash. Flash and Shockwave both like to go into CPU loops or lockup no matter which browser I use. Word and Excel do the same. I'm using it for work, a lot of complicated files open simultaneously.
Google Might Have Decided To Put Amazon.com Out Of Business [View article]
Google stores would likely be an amalgamation of thousands of websites some of dubious reliability. This will not attract many people away from the convenience of Amazon as a one stop shopping site. Yahoo has had a similar service for more than a decade.
Have they ever made a profit on movies? I read a book several years ago about how they basically got taken for a ride at least in the early years. That seems like a business where almost all the profits end up with the Hollywood insiders like directors and studio executives. The accounting techniques used make it a paradise for such scamming.
You have to pay .2% tax to buy French stocks. If Euro goes down to a dollar, these rates will be about 20% lower and it will take couple years to offset the resulting capital loss. (long ecify, gdfzy, eongy)
CA Technologies: A Business In Transition [View article]
As a former mainframe capacity planner, my impression of CA was they would buy companies that had some useful software, lay off most of the employees and jack up the price as much as possible knowing customers were trapped. The stuff they wrote themselves was mostly useless. Don't look for them to come up with something new that generates significant revenue.
The End Game At Hewlett-Packard: Analyzing The Company's Takeover Prospects [View article]
Maybe a Chinese PC maker would buy them at a low price just to get the brand name. Like Northwest, I can't see Oracle, Dell or IBM buying anything but a few small pieces. The major business units of HP are all having declining profits and revenues. A lot of the software business is dependent on HP hardware sales. Both in trouble.
Another Way To Bet In The Chinese Online Travel Market [View article]
Microsoft Finds A New Enemy In The Browser Wars [View article]
Physical Gold Vs. Paper Gold: The Ultimate Disconnect [View article]
Google Might Have Decided To Put Amazon.com Out Of Business [View article]
Is The U.S. Building An Unsustainable Welfare Support System? [View article]
Headstart is not "income". Neither is MassHealth.
It's not easy to qualify as 'disabled' for SSI.
You have to have less than $2,500 in assets for TAFDC and much of the rest. That means no car, no savings.
You can't have small kids forever and without them, you get practically nothing in the way of welfare in US.
The Worldwide Transaction Tax Can Be A Huge Killer [View article]
The Best Way To Invest In Technology [View article]
Best Buy's Performance Is Relevant, And Negative, For Amazon.com [View article]
Buy Sony Hand Over Fist [View article]
Buy Exelon Now For Yield And A Potential Rebound In January [View article]
5%+ Dividend Payers From Europe [View article]
If Euro goes down to a dollar, these rates will be about 20% lower and it will take couple years to offset the resulting capital loss.
(long ecify, gdfzy, eongy)
CA Technologies: A Business In Transition [View article]
The End Game At Hewlett-Packard: Analyzing The Company's Takeover Prospects [View article]
Hewlett-Packard: After The Autonomy Debacle, Is There Value Left In The Stock? [View article]
Microsoft And Nokia See A Couple Of Important Developments [View article]