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Anti-employee Control Fraud

William Black — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:00:27 +0000

Apple has released a report on working conditions in its suppliers’ factories. It highlights a form of control fraud that criminology has identified but rarely discussed. I write overwhelmingly about accounting control fraud because it drives our recurrent, intensifying financial crises. The primary intended victims of accounting control frauds are the shareholders and the creditors. Other private sector control frauds target customers (e.g., George Akerlof’s 1970 article on “lemons”), and the public (e.g., the unlawful disposal of toxic waste, illegal logging, and tax fraud)

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Nonlinear Thinking: Smartphone Ultrasound Imaging

Global Macro Monitor — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:00:28 +0000

Stunning! Guess it’s time for our annual physical with Dr. iPhone

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Nonlinear Thinking: The Robot Farmer

Global Macro Monitor — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:40:22 +0000

In the ongoing series of posts on technology's threat to existing labor roles, Global Macro Monitor highlights this video on robot farmers

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Video: Walt Mossberg Reviews iTunes Match

Edward Harrison — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:40:48 +0000

Apple has introduced a ‘music locker’ service which does away with the need to upload most of your music. I have tried it out in addition to Amazon and Google’s competing services and I like it, especially the part about not having to upload my collection. Google’s uploader is particularly annoying and CPU intensive, so

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We’re American Airlines, doing what we do best

Edward Harrison — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:17:48 +0000

Here's the message from AA: "American Airlines filed for reorganization under Chapter 11. We took this action as part of our efforts to secure our long-term success in delivering the highest standards in air travel. We are committed to meeting your travel needs with outstanding customer service and safety, and it will be business as usual at American throughout our reorganization process. More than 80,000 people at American appreciate your loyalty and look forward to continuing to serve you."

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Steve Jobs circa 1985 at NeXT startup

Edward Harrison — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:39:26 +0000

Here's Steve Jobs from the start-up phase at NeXT after he had been forced out of Apple in 1985. In this video, he is very much the passionate visionary we knew him to be in his second stint at apple, and with less bluster and more of a collaborative flair

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Walt Mossberg reviews the Kindle Fire

Edward Harrison — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:15:47 +0000

Walt Mossberg takes a look at Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet. How does it stack up against the iPad and the new Nook Color

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A Battle for Oil Production Is Brewing

Casey Research — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:45:18 +0000

With big oil's bank accounts full to the brim with cash, the stage is set for some significant acquisition activity... or, to put it another way, for a battle to buy producing assets. There are quite a number of contestants in the battle - big oil companies are not only competing against each other to sweep up good assets but also against the national oil companies of developing, energy-hungry nations like China, South Korea, and India. Oil demands are rising in these nations so quickly that just to cover expected annual demand increases those three countries would have to jointly spend $30 billion on acquisitions each year

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Facebook Ads

Edward Harrison — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:23:21 +0000

Here’s a spoof video of how Facebook is monetising its site. Genius

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Video: My Blackberry is not working

Edward Harrison — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:37:34 +0000

Stuff like this is a very bad sign for Research in Motion as their share of the mobile handset market has plummeted to 9%. Shares are at a seven-year low

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Will Nokia’s Windows Mobile Phone Deliver?

Edward Harrison — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:30:14 +0000

Mashable says the Nokia Lumia 800 could be the best Windows Phone yet. The Wall Street Journal is a little more sceptical of Nokia’s Windows Mobile phone launch though. Take a look

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Fedex predicts record holiday shipping volume

Edward Harrison — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:41:30 +0000

Fedex is a bellwether stock in the US because it handles so much cargo that it can be seen as a proxy for business activity. The company announced today that it expects record holiday shipping, albeit in its least-profitable residential service area. Nevertheless, this is a good sign for an economy in which recession looms and in which container imports declined in the third quarter due to high inventory levels

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Alcoa earnings call points to weakness in China and Europe

Global Macro Monitor — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:48:25 +0000

Our macro takeaway from the call is that Europe is rolling over. No normal September bounce from the seasonally slow August. The company also notes what they see as a temporary slowdown in China. Alcoa missed and the stock got hammered in AH trading

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Edward Harrison — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:20:40 +0000

If you are a shareholder, should you be heartened by this about-face or alarmed? At Hewlett Packard for instance, when the board of directors fired Leo Apotheker, markets were not excited by seeing Meg Whitman in his seat even though the board was acknowledging mistakes and taking corrective action

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Wish You Were Here

Edward Harrison — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:31:45 +0000

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Global Macro Monitor — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:14:25 +0000

Today’s Yum! Brands’ earnings conference call was dominated by China. Management talked a lot about commodity inflation running around 8 percent and 20% labor inflation, which they do not yet see abating. This doesn’t square with the August official inflation rate of 6.2 percent. A China hard landing scenario is now on traders’ radar and needs to be closely monitored. The stock closed down 2.7 percent

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Apple: Can it stop the Amazon menace?

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For Amazon, they are always willing to introduce loss leaders to build volume. I anticipate they will be successful here yet again. That is a wonderful story for their Kindle book sales, music sales, video sales and for their App store sales as well

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Workers of the world, good night!

Rick Bookstaber — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:00:04 +0000

Rick Bookstaber argues that the rise of the super-elite is not a product of educational differences, but rather a result of the new capitalism which creates bigger winners, and does so much more quickly than in the capital-intensive capitalist era. Less capital is needed, it is applied for a shorter period before the results are realized, and because less capital is required, the entrepreneur captures more of the value of the enterprise. The result is an accentuation in the very wealthy

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Scoble: Problems at Twitter and Facebook give Google+ opening

Edward Harrison — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:30:53 +0000

Influential tech blogger Robert Scoble talked to Bloomberg earlier in the week about the social media scene. The main message I took away is that he believes Google+ is a successful product for Google which could spell trouble for Facebook and Twitter

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Steve Jobs

Edward Harrison — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:20:45 +0000

The man is special

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Google Plus Growth

Edward Harrison — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:30:39 +0000

Remember when I said that Google would get to scale "much,much faster than Facebook? Well this chart shows you this quite vividly. Wow!

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Video: Larry Summers has the Winklevoss Twins’ number

Edward Harrison — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:17:50 +0000

I like how Summers’ prefaces it, noting his own notoriety for having a lot of swagger and then saying “Rarely, have I encountered such swagger, and I tried to respond in kind.”

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Does LinkedIn take advantage of weak links?

Rick Bookstaber — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:30:44 +0000

Rick Bookstaber asks whether LinkedIn anything more than a resume warehouse? Is it simply a web-based Rolodex to make it easier to stay up with your business contacts? He doesn't know the business model for the company, and doesn't have any basis to comment on its long-term prospects, but in a somewhat stream-of-consciousness mode, he hears the “linked” in LinkedIn, and it starts him thinking about network theory, and the place LinkedIn most naturally fills in that space, which is to establish weak links

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Wadhwa, Kedrosky On Technology ‘Bubble’

Edward Harrison — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:15:50 +0000

Technology guru Vivek Wadhwa of Duke University and Paul Kedrosky, a noted investor and analyst in the tech and finance space debated whether there is a bubble in technology shares on Friday. The interview is very good, so I am posting it here

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How to start an online social network from scratch

Edward Harrison — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:00:10 +0000

If you had to start an online social network from scratch, how would you do it

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Mobile users with cheapie phones will switch to Android

Edward Harrison — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:15:26 +0000

Android’s adoption is all about upgrades and not about switching. I see this as a land grab right now. The operating systems that can grab as much share as possible while people are upgrading from cheapie phones to inexpensive Smartphones will win. Right now Android is leading the charge

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The World’s Supply and Demand for Coal

Casey Research — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:23:04 +0000

Coal prices are surging ahead even as most other commodities pull back, spurred on by expectations that metallurgical and thermal coal production will again fail to meet rising global demand this year. The result? Record profits for major coal producers like Xstrata, a surge in acquisitions from coal-hungry India, Chinese electricity shortages, and a raging carbon tax debate in Australia amid record investments in that country's coal-heavy mining sector

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iCloud will be a hit for Apple

Edward Harrison — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:19:08 +0000

I see the Apple’s iCloud as a very compelling product. When iTunes Match goes live, I will pay the $25 to use it – and so will many others

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Andreessen: The market hates tech but is starved for growth

Edward Harrison — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:30:38 +0000

Marc Andreessen believes companies like Google and Apple are undervalued because "the market doesn't like tech.” In his view, the recent popularity of tech companies does not constitute a bubble. Instead, he sees a market that is starved for growth

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Edward Harrison — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:00:15 +0000

Here’s an interesting conversation about social media and Internet and technology companies' adjustment to it

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Thoughts on LinkedIn

Edward Harrison — Tue, 24 May 2011 20:00:47 +0000

I was on Headline, BNN’s midday show on financial news, talking to presenter Paul Waldie and fellow guest Jacquie McNish this past Wednesday. The big news then was LinkedIn (LNKD). The first guest, Bill Buhr of Morningstar, spoke to the issues there and we followed shortly after

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Steve Austin Revisited – Part I

Casey Research — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:30:16 +0000

It was a novel idea back in the mid-1970s, when The Six Million Dollar Man hit the airwaves. Austin, a man badly damaged in an accident, was reconstructed by substituting more efficient bionic implants for some of his human parts. Thirty-five years on, we don't have a guy who can run at 60 mph or see in the dark, like Steve could. But bionic replacements are routine medical reality, not science fiction. And that $6 million price tag has dropped considerably

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Microsoft: $8.4 Billion Down the Drain

Casey Research — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:00:17 +0000

Though, in the eyes of Microsoft executives, virtually any outcome might seem better than letting the company fall into the hands of Google, which still has no strong foothold in social or communication software - one of the few online areas where Microsoft still maintains a market share advantage. Unfortunately for shareholders, anything less than a stellar success might just look like billions more flushed down the drain in Microsoft's thus far failed bids at online dominance. Even if the company can quadruple the size of Skype's business, they will still be losing money online if nothing else changes and they will have only added a few percentage points to top line growth - neither of which is likely to move to stock price in any major way

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Fukushima Daiichi Disaster Prompts Closure of Another Plant

Casey Research — Thu, 12 May 2011 01:00:48 +0000

As workers continue to battle with the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant, more impacts from the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl are starting to arise. The latest impact will hit car manufacturers, with plants in central Japan hit the hardest: power firm Chubu Electric has agreed to shut its Hamaoka Nuclear Plant until it can build better defenses against the kind of massive earthquake and tsunami that hit on March 11, and Hamaoka provides power to at least 15 auto plants

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Earnings, Employment and Inflation

Edward Harrison — Thu, 05 May 2011 14:30:11 +0000

Recent data suggest we are at the point where energy prices are creating demand destruction. Economic growth has slowed to below 2.% in the US. Further, ISM data suggest that companies are at the breaking point in their ability to absorb costs. The lack of a large move upward in employment suggests that companies have relied on wage and labour cost suppression to maintain EPS targets. Unless, we see a reduction in energy prices, we will either see pressure on EPS growth or increased retail price inflation

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