Month: June 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute I was in Detroit last Wed and Thur. When I was leaving the client site, I heard famous actress Fawcett died from cancer. Shortly after I came back, I heard from NPR that Michael Jackson passed away. That was a shocker. I remember watching a lot Michael Jackson’s MTV back in early 1990s, when I

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June 27, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute This Is It, the offiical Ad/Promo video of the scheduled London concert (YouTube link) Beat it (YouTube). More videos (powered by YouTube, complied by Trader1688). Pictures: Michael Jackson Life and Times by Life Magazine.

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June 25, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute Some signs of the stock market is cracking: 1) The leaders such as Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) are retreating. 2) CIC is thinking about buying equities again, Renaissance Technologies is one option (last time CIC pulled trigger, it bought Blackstone pre-IPO at top). 3) Goldman Sach is selling.

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June 23, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute Ivan is the Chairman and CEO of Verizon. Verizon (with VodaFone) owns Verizon Wireless (VZ), the No. 2 wireless carrier in the US. VZ operates the nation’s most reliable network. Ian shared his thoughts on communication, wireless industry evolution, and healthcare (a topic in heated debate in the US capital these days). The link to

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June 23, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute Eaton Corporation (Wiki entry; NYSE: ETN) Secondary offering April 2008 (24x7wallst). They offered 17.5 millions of shares at $84, and the proceedings is about $1.43 billion. Business Overview (diversified manufacturing) Electricity power equipment; truck powertrain & fuel systems; aerospace fuel and hydraulics systems

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June 22, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute I got to play more with my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (XM) phone in the weekend. The following are the things I tried. 1) Video playback: I found there are some Nokia sample videos and a .wmv video (transferred from my PC Windows media player). Both played without problem. However, when I copied some Apple Dev

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June 21, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute I read two news this week, which makes me think this is coming. Keep in mind many local governments are upside down in terms of budget and debts, any tax revenue helps. Collecting tax revenue from online merchants in remote places like Seattle (HQ of Amazon) is a convenient choice. Expedia (Nasdaq: EXPE) tax lawsuit

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June 21, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute Yahoo tech-ticker Criteria * 20% quarterly year-over-year revenue growth * 25% quarterly year-over-year earnings growth * Trades at a P/E ratio below 12 Apply it in Google finance stock screener (here is the link), it finds 134 companies (this number could change as the stock price, PE ratio changes daily).

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June 20, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes Not exactly, but close enough (here is a post I wrote on June 29, 2007 when iPhone started). Today the new iPhone 3G S is on sale at AT&T store, as I understood. This time iPhone did not generate as much buzz, but I heard my favorite tech writer Walt Mossberg was also standing in

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June 19, 2009

Reading Time: < 1 minute 谷歌, Google China, is reprimanded by CCTV (China official TV) on its prime time news broadcast, for “provide easy access to porn material in search, and harm Chinese youth”. A while ago Baidu was blamed for “placing faked medicine ads in search results”. Video source: Tudou.

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June 19, 2009
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