http://www.investingchronicle.com Online investing, stocks, shares, real estate news Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:48:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The CCPIT sponsored “Made in China 2007” seminar on Saturday featured two very impressive speakers – Dr. Shi Zhengrong, founder of Suntech Power (and one of China’s richest entrepreneurs), and Professor Lin Yifu, leading economist (and advisor to the Chinese State Council). Professor Lin started off by putting China’s economy into ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/4-3-2-1-china-in-the-world-economy/ Speaking of Transporation: Prop 1 I think I'm going to end up voting for Prop 1. The sales tax increase kills me. I hate it. Loathe it. ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/speaking-of-transporation-prop-1/ Burn them all Hot on the heels of my recent digest of Climate Skeptic's post pointing that there probably isn't any significant warming happening, let alone any ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/burn-them-all/ Training is typically a large investment b/c it's time intensive and trainers usually don't work cheap. This weekend, out company hired Dunn Training and Sahil Malik to get us up to speed on Sharepoint.  I can say that dealing with Dunn and Sahil was like buying a Lexus except not ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/sharepoint-training-w-dunn-training-and-sahil-malik/ BA sees possibility of achieving 10 percent operating margin by March 2008 A social networking site for the over-50s Sticking to `KISS principle' US carriers raise fares to offset fuel costs Abacus makes steady inroads with service related to travel agent last mile availability KLM partners Mondial Assistance for online travel insurance distribution Managing the discord ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/ba-sees-possibility-of-achieving-10-percent-operating-margin-by-march-2008/ Pity, please, the poor folks who run the New Alternatives mutual fund. We learn this from Kiplinger: Ethanol, biofuels, and solar, wind and ocean power. With oil prices in the stratosphere, everyone, it seems, is suddenly interested in alternative energy. But Maurice Schoenwald and his son, David, have been exploring the best ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/its-not-easy-being-green/ Silicon Valley has been working for nearly two years to roll out an ambitious Wi-Fi plan covering the entire area under one system. They recently faced additional delays due to the complexity of the rollout but predicted that they would have a model for the system in place before the ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/silicon-valley-cant-afford-wireless-network-investors-find-the-plan-too-shaky-to-support/ The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on a new study showing that Missouri ranks near the bottom for many measures high tech startups and entrepreneurship.  Lots of good research is going in Missouri universities, but little of that is translating into new businesses and new jobs. 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Musharraf would impose martial law after running out of options to remain both president and army chief. The higher judiciary would be required to re-take their oaths of allegiance, and those refusing to do so would dropped ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/musharraf-declares-martial-law-what-next/ California, USA is one of those states where you will find all kinds of properties and real estates. California is where the climatic surroundings vary hugely from place to place. There are places with moderate temperatures and also there are places which experience all four seasons in their full glory. ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/san-jose-homes/ I need to roll-over my 401k in an IRA(Individual Retirement Account) from my last company soon and I need to learn about investing in the stock market. It’s a good thing that I found Wikinvest.com. It’s a new investing research portal, they also call it Wikipedia for ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/wikinvest-your-investing-portal/ the site is LiveLoaded.com - The Easiest Way to Make Money on the Internet and it basically works like a simple random draw from a database. Each time " /> Home Based Business Secrets Home ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/found-glitch-at-online-random-reward-site-easy-1250day/ Exclusive Analysis Finds Lawyers Still Bggest Givers But Retired Contributors Have Edged Out Wall Street Democrat Have The Edge In Nearly Every Major Industry A Nov 3 Report From the Center For Responsive Politics (www.opensecrets.org) WASHINGTON—As the first Baby Boomers start collecting Social Security checks, retirees’ campaign contributions are making an impact ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/retirees-got-active-in-presidential-campaigns-3rd-quarter/ Foreclosure Explosion: 1379 Revere Avenue, Bayview Friday, November 2, 2007, by Jay Nisen One man's pleasure is another man's pain: Hudson & Marshall, a Texas-based firm that auctions off foreclosed real estate, is bringing the fun here to NoCal shortly. The firm gleefully announced that, as "foreclosures are exploding in California," ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/foreclosure-explosion-1379-revere-avenue-bayview/ The quote ” “Every really new idea looks crazy at first” is attributed to both Alfred North Whitehead and Abraham Maslow, but regardless of who said it this truism applies to financial services, payments and security managers right now because limits and controls on account usage is shifting from bank ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/every-new-idea-looks-crazy-at-first-attention-e-bankingpayments-product-or-security-managers-ready-or-not-customer-controlled-accounts-are-coming/ When I started working for myself I made a conscious decision to trust my gut. If it was the opposite of what other people were doing but my gut gave approval, then I’d do it. For the most part that’s worked out great. I love owning a profitable business. All my ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/against-the-grain/ It’s been around 5 months since I’ve last checked our investment portfolio. We’re some of those people who really don’t spend that much time checking the details of our investments; we like how things are more or less in auto-pilot. I get some vague idea how we’re doing ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/latest-net-worth-portfolio-numbers-unexpected-increase-of-15-for-2007/ On October 30th we announced Oslo. This is a very positive statement of commitment and direction for companies that have identified SOA and BPM as a critical element of their future. Oslo is not one product, it is a set of products across a number of releases.  You can think of ... http://www.investingchronicle.com/microsoft-oslo-simplification-of-soa-and-bpm/