Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s about $44 now. Today IBD published an article about Home Inns. The author’s view is a little too optimistic: as I understand serious domestic competitor includes motel168, besides the Jinjiang Inn. I noticed Jinjiang Inn also offers free broad band Internet now, as this was a key differentiator for Home Inn/Ru Jia in the past. Super 8,
Reading Time: < 1 minute Did a little adjustment on my portifolio today. Sold 30 shares of Heelys (HLYS) and bought 22 shares of Crocs (CROX). I saw the new product release from Crocs today. “…the Off Road and All Terrain models in the spring and fall of 2007. The Off Road (MSRP: $39.99) is a rugged outdoor shoe with
Reading Time: 2 minutes It seems not very intuitive that Focus Media (FMCN), a LCD media advertising company, has done better than Baidu (BIDU), the No. 1 search engine in China. After all , putting up the LCD screen, soliciting the advertising customers, and creating those short films are not high tech as “search engine”, which involves creating a
Reading Time: < 1 minute I published an article about Home Inns HMIN on Seekingalpha (Yahoo Finance) today. This was loosely based on my previous post in this blog on Jan 3. Seekingalpha is a financial (stocks in particular) blog platform, and it’s a Yahoo Finance partner.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Yes. It’s up and running now. Here is the link. I don’t know exactly how new IPOs got the message board started. It usually takse many requests, and lots of patience. Oh, don’t take the discussions (especially the price target) too seriously. Because if you believe it and trade accordingly, you may regret later. That being said, I
Reading Time: < 1 minute SNDA (Shanda): Feb 12 BIDU (Baidu): Feb 14 NCTY(the9): Feb 14 Note Feb 18 is the Chinese New Year.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Fruit of the Loom, a whole owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway (Buffett’s company), bought the intimate apparel business from VF corp. Here is the deal.
Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 12-14-2023) Came across this issue again when doing some research on the Hashicorp stock ($HCP). CEO David McJannet Confounder Armon Dadgar I assume cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto has a shell company and didn’t use his own name for the shares he traded. I didn’t dig into it: it’s not something that I feel it’s productive
Reading Time: < 1 minute Yahoo launched its personal finance web site. Here is the link. Yahoo Finance already has lots of information about personal finance. But this time I think they are trying to separate it out from the “investing”. I think it’s good in the sense that ordinary people really don’t want to mess with stocks, they would
Reading Time: < 1 minute There are lots of praises for Home Inns (Rujia, most in Chinese). I saw this one in English. Actually from my own experience at four Home Inns in Shanghai I have both praises and complaints. So every coin has two sides. On serious side, I noticed after Home Inns developed the new hotels in Nanjing and Qingdao this year, they are developing very
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