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Tech jobs go overseas... - Tech jobs leave area, go overseas By CHRISTINA DYRNESS, Staff Writer Software companies started by Richard Holcomb over the past two decades have employed scores of Triangle programmers. But with money tight and customer expectations high, Holcomb's latest venture, a Web services software company called StrikeIron, will design its product in Durham but send the rest of the work to eager programmers in Vietnam. "No offense, guys," Holcomb told his co-founders, "but programmers are the textile workers of the future." In the past decade, big companies from Nortel Networks to Bank of America have shifted information technology jobs to places such as India and Eastern Europe to save money. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies do some offshore outsourcing, and a report by Forrester Research, a Massachusetts firm that tracks technology trends, predicts that 500,000 tech jobs will go overseas over the next decade. The shift overseas is a slap in the face for software developers, who rode the tech boom in the la - by: pleaseslaymebuffy

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Networks > CSCO

Tech jobs to Ho Chi Minh City - I sure hope we have a "plan". Tech jobs leave area, go overseas By CHRISTINA DYRNESS, Staff Writer Software companies started by Richard Holcomb over the past two decades have employed scores of Triangle programmers. But with money tight and customer expectations high, Holcomb's latest venture, a Web services software company called StrikeIron, will design its product in Durham but send the rest of the work to eager programmers in Vietnam. "No offense, guys," Holcomb told his co-founders, "but programmers are the textile workers of the future." In the past decade, big companies from Nortel Networks to Bank of America have shifted information technology jobs to places such as India and Eastern Europe to save money. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies do some offshore outsourcing, and a report by Forrester Research, a Massachusetts firm that tracks technology trends, predicts that 500,000 tech jobs will go overseas over the next decade. The shift overseas is a slap in the face for software developers, w - by: pleaseslaymebuffy

hud refunds Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Networks > NTAP

Tech jobs leaving. - Maybe we can send some to Iraq too. Tech jobs leave area, go overseas By CHRISTINA DYRNESS, Staff Writer Software companies started by Richard Holcomb over the past two decades have employed scores of Triangle programmers. But with money tight and customer expectations high, Holcomb's latest venture, a Web services software company called StrikeIron, will design its product in Durham but send the rest of the work to eager programmers in Vietnam. "No offense, guys," Holcomb told his co-founders, "but programmers are the textile workers of the future." In the past decade, big companies from Nortel Networks to Bank of America have shifted information technology jobs to places such as India and Eastern Europe to save money. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies do some offshore outsourcing, and a report by Forrester Research, a Massachusetts firm that tracks technology trends, predicts that 500,000 tech jobs will go overseas over the next decade. The shift overseas is a slap in the face for software develope - by: pleaseslaymebuffy hud refunds

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology hud refunds > Computer Storage Devices > EMC

Tech jobs to Ho Chi Minh City - Soon, we'll all be working at Mickey D's. Tech jobs leave area, go overseas By CHRISTINA DYRNESS, Staff Writer Software companies started by Richard Holcomb over the past two decades have employed scores of Triangle programmers. But with money tight and customer expectations high, Holcomb's latest venture, a Web services software company called StrikeIron, will design its product in Durham but send the rest of the work to eager programmers in Vietnam. "No offense, guys," Holcomb told his co-founders, "but programmers are the textile workers of the future." In the past decade, big companies from Nortel Networks to Bank of America have shifted information technology jobs to places such as India and Eastern Europe to save money. Nearly all Fortune 500 companies do some offshore outsourcing, and a report by Forrester Research, a Massachusetts firm that tracks technology trends, predicts that 500,000 tech jobs will go overseas over the next decade. The shift overseas is a slap in the face for software de - by: pleaseslaymebuffy

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Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Software and Programming > DKEY

Sayfu you disgusting, smug pig - - Yeah a lot of things sound like that to you. You have a fervid imagination. My father left me a lot of debts. He was an entrepreneur who failed. He meant well. I paid for my own clothing as early as 7th grade and I didn't even get educational support from himm except that he taught me to read when I was 3. Smart guy you are. Say what? FU! - by: feloniousmunck

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Financial > Insurance (hud refunds) > BRKA

Re: Future Of Management - I think yours is a great observation. Berkshire is almost as big as the world's largest insurer, AIG. AIG is one of the most tenacious companies in the world. At least it was when I was there in late 70s. Gen Re at the time was one of the most prestigous reinsurers in the world. AIG, well, we were renegades at that time. How two decades and some white shirts have changed the street's view! AIG has indicated that it will shrink its insurance operation by the purchases it has made of late. It too has a continuity issue as does Berkshire. What happens when Greenberg goes? What happens when Buffet goes? There is not yet a satisfactory answer to either question. I think that WEB lives in a world of gentlemen upon who most anyone can rely upon someone's word. Character, a special form of character as described by WEB's actions and partners that he chooses is one of the criteria he appears to use. I see it as greed (in the good sense) driving financial morality. That is do not do anything that could derail fi - by: anotherview

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Capital Goods > Conglomerates > TYC

Iraq Denies Torture Chamber - Iraq Denies Torture Chamber This is bunkerbob reporting to you from Abu al Khasib. Today, an individual with the BBC mistakenly reported the existence of a torture chamber with meat hooks and electrocution room inside an Iraqi police station. We contacted Iraqi officials, who clarified the reporting errors. "First of all, it wasn't a police station," explained Said al-Mahdi, a prominent Iraqi businessman. "It was a commercial office park similar to your Silicon Valley Internet incubators. This building housed a cube-farm where it was believed that synergistic affects of having a web-site would attract more investment capital." That certainly explained why the facility appeared to be empty. As many of you listeners know, Internet incubators such as CMGI and ICGE with multi-media web-sites and little if anything else lost billions of dollars for shareholders who invested in their prattle. I asked about the bare electric cable that you see behind me on the floor. "That was hooked up to our rack o - by: bunkerbobreporting

Re: There are no GOOD jobs for ANYONE - Teds12, my heart goes out to you my friend, for you are quite right. About the only way to get a job is to be entrepreneurial. You may want to take a look on amazondotcom's web site and look for the book entitled "The Complete Entrepreneur: the only book you'll ever need to manage risk and build your business wealth." Take a look at some of the sample chapters and pages you can read. Look at the reviews as well. Although this book isn't a NYTIMES best seller, I found it insightful to say the least. But make no bones about it. Everything starts with you - your attitude, your effort, etc. This job market for the last 4 years is so bad that there are more incredibly smart people than ever who are out of work, underemployed, looking for work, or just messed in the head because of all the doors that have been closed to otherwise wholly qualified individuals. Get your head straightened out. Look in the mirror and tell yourself you're OK. Do it 5,000 times a day until you really belei - by: yobyddubhud refunds

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Services > Business Services > RTRSY

Re: detailed info on 'Knowledge' request - Joking apart the number of desktop products available from Roooters at a moment in time is difficult to quantify. Ask existing staff, the majority of which are as confused as you are and you think it looks messy from the outside? The reason for this is that everyone thinks they know how to design their product better. With the exception of the customer of course, which is simply a case of "mind over matter", "Rooters doesn't mind and the customer doesn't matter" An attitude, which I have to admit, has been discouraged lately. But unfortunately exists due to you ungrateful bounders buying from the cads at Bloomberg. Buying, I might add, despite serious moves to illustrate our own virtues of customer care and excellent quality and value for money! For many years multiple developments came about due to regional, management and development rivalry, encouraged by the lack of skilled senior management direction and compounded by the acquisition of companies with individual characters and products. Rememb - by: rotter3000

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Healthcare > Biotechnology and Drugs > DSCO

Offering at less than two? - I'm a little confused. Isn't the purpose of an offering to raise capital? Isn't it in the best interest of a corporation and its investors to hold off on additional offerings until they are absolutely necessary, i.e., attempt to stave off dilution? Maybe, and probably, the offering at less than two was a necessary evil. The timing of need for cash and market value was not a good one, but also not under management's control. They are clearly doing what is necessary to survive and get their product to market before they run out of cash. Conventional wisdom would indicate that they will likely issue an additional offering in 4Q. We would all hope that the stock value is significantly higher then than it is now, so that dilution is reduced. But none of us can control that. I would not use the argument of issuing at less than two as one to indicate bad management. I agree that there are probably a number of other execs out there that could say that DSCo management is "over their heads" and that they - by: hud refunds

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Peripherals > CICI

Re: Letter To Governor Bush/ROY - over 1964-2003, the U.S.A. has been transformed from the world's leading producer nation, to an economically parasitical "consumer society" like the ancient Roman Empire, one which lives on the loot garnered by a brew of nuclear weapons and other predatory power over the world at large. In this process, for about two decades now, the leading U.S. political parties concentrate upon a constituency of the upper 20% of family-income brackets (e.g., the so-called "suburban" dogma of the neo-conservative Democratic Leadership Council¡XDLC), controlling elections, top-down, through vast masses of raw financial power and control of the principal mass media of the nation by those same oligarchically-minded financier interests. Conrad Black, a leading "fallen angel" of the Chicken-hawk flock, like the so-called "Mega Group," is typical of those corrupt connections. Prior to that 1964-1981 cultural-paradigm shift, during 1933-1963, the U.S. political system was based in relatively large degree on the social and ec - by: purefrankness

Business & Finance > Investments > Hud Refunds > Sectors > Technology > Computer Networks > MADGF

3 MONTHS ... just seems longer - Red-M appoints Karl W. Feilder as CEO Events VarVision (London, UK, 9 December, 2002) – Red-M, the leader in enterprise level wireless management solutions, today announces that Karl W. Feilder has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, with immediate effect. Feilder is a proven serial entrepreneur and brings extensive experience of delivering visionary leadership and rapid growth, to communications and software companies. Michael Wilson, founder, will be leaving the Company by mutual agreement and the Board would like to extend its thanks to Mike for his contribution to Red-M. Prior to joining Red-M, Feilder had founded two successful software ventures in the networking field. The first, Network Managers Ltd, was sold to Microsoft in 1995. The second, Greenwich Mean Time Holdings, he grew into a global business with sales in excess of $20 million. GMT was subsequently sold to Sempres, a specialist telecommunications group. Since leaving Sempres he has run his own independent con - by: one_thousand_years_of_peace

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Healthcare > Healthcare Facilities > HRC

EXTRA,EXTRA, Scrushy betrayed by pals.. - I can read it now. Birmingham News: Entrepreneur Richard Scrushy, favorite son of Alabama and philanthropist to hundreds of causes (all with his name on them) was vacationing in Palm Beach when it was discovered that those very employees he trained, befriended and trusted had cooked the company books. Mr. Scrushy stated that he will leave no stone unturned to find and punish the perpitrators and restore HealthSouth, the world's largest provider of out-patient health care services, to a position of trust. Mr. Scrushy said that HRC should soon trade "north of 20 cents" and that he was personally going to buy a million shares on the open market. He advises all employees to put their life savings in the company. Jason Hervey was present and nodded knowingly as he picked his seat. - by: charon_xxx

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Software and Programming > IRIC

Huge problem - IRIC needs an entrepreneur as CEO for a period of 1-3 years, then it can go back to a career professional to handle things until another crisis comes up. Joe Durrett is simply too small potatoes for this. He has botched up as CEO many times in other companies, and has always ended up with a golden parachute, so he will not really begin to act until IRIC is faced with bankruptcy. Furthermore, its obvious that he has no idea what to do. You really need someone who can think out of the box. A new leader would make everyone feel better - customers, investors, employees. - hud refundsby: jackmanager1

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Capital Goods > Aerospace and Defense > BA

Re: A New Cold War - Yes, I know it is - but I have never seen paperwork and regulations like I have seen over here. My example of paperwork and paying payroll taxes are just a small example of what it takes to set up shop in France. And by the way, those payroll taxes (about 50% of your gross pay) are for health insurance, unemployment insurance and retirement - not individual income taxes. But look at it this way - anybody who makes money or who is an entrepreneur here in France is seen as a social outcast or misfit as "What's wrong with him - couldn't he be a civil servant?" Oh, it's OK if your family has money or is part of the ruling caste here, but anybody else is just supposed to be a minimum-wage worker in a huge factory owned by the state. But this is getting a little off topic... - by: j_2h

EasyJet, Virgin win ex-Air Lib slots - EasyJet, Virgin win ex-Air Lib slots at Orly (Adds details on slots, Air France no comment) PARIS, March 31 (Reuters) - Britain's easyJet and Belgium-based Virgin Express had been assigned takeoff and landing slots at Orly airport that were freed up by failed French carrier Air Lib, French authorities said on Monday. EasyJet EZJ.L won 7,300 of 35,568 annual slots that were reassigned by Cohor, the agency that handles the slots, while Virgin Express VIRG.BR was given 5,840. Other major airlines to benefit were Air France AIRF.PA , with 2,190 slots, and Spain's Iberia IBLA.MC , with 1,460 slots. Air France unit Brit Air also won 1,250 slots. Air France has its hub at Paris's other airport, Roissy Charles de Gaulle, but had been keen to win slots freed up by Air Lib, in part to fend off a challenge from low-cost carriers like easyJet and Virgin Express. A spokeswoman for Air France declined immediate comment on Cohor's decision. French regional airline Aeris received 7,612 slots. In addition to - by: j_2h

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Software and Programming > SSFT

you know its time to hang it up ...... - when you are pumping your own CEO biography on your corporate web site Thomas Weisel -CAPITAL INSTINCTS: Life as an Entrepreneur,Financier, and Athlete http://www.tweisel.com/twpds?__fwdtourl__=/home.jsp# Only Real weasels solicit their CEO BIOs on their corporate website. What a flaming ego!! His book should be called "Bubble Boy" this is obvious after reviewing their IPO and secondary offering list and seeing the long list of companies TW took public in the 1999-2000 internet bubble years that are now bankrupt or trading under $3.00 per share.Many were shorted all the way down from their bubble highs in the $100+ area to near zero by Hedge Funds that made billions. TW took public and ran secondaries on: http://www.tweisel.com/twpds?__fwdtourl__=/banking/transactions.jsp Still find it hard to believe Scansoft dealt with TW in the offering. But they were the best of the pumpers! Amazon customer review tells it all: "A Must Miss", March 24, 2003 Reviewer: Mike from Boston, MA United - by: shorts_terminator

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Services > Casinos and Gaming > PPE

NY TIMES on DION---3 - Caesars has in effect made Ms. Dion its new Caesar, redesigning the casino's space near the theater to more effectively corral showgoers into its shops and around its gaming tables; creating a Celine Dion boutique that offers everything from T-shirts to Celine Dion perfume to special-edition Mont Blanc pens that sell for $1,300; and even putting Ms. Dion's image on the betting chips. You can't spend any time in Caesars and not be struck by the lavish coronation of a slightly built, French Canadian pop diva who is about to turn 35 and, in person, is disconcertingly chatty and displays the meandering focus and restless body language of a teenager. She looks around as she talks, grimaces, scratches her head, runs her hands through her blond and newly tomboyish coif. You don't have to ask her questions; she talks. About her 2-year-old son, who has made everything else in life secondary; about her fans and how they can see she is a real person and not just a distant star; about how fortunate she is. hud refunds tracer. by: wcpjr98

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Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Services > Casinos and Gaming > PPE

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Healthcare > Biotechnology and Drugs > hud refunds tracer MEDX

Re: CEO $2.8M CFO 800K for this? - >>Does anyone know what DD did before coming to medx?>> Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Scholar As an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, Donald Drakeman wanted to be a professor. The harsh reality of the academic market, flush with newly minted-and unemployed-Ph.D.s pushed him to pursue a more employment-friendly career. Drakeman opted to go to Columbia Law School, but the attraction of the professorial life never left him, and after law school he earned his doctorate from the religion department of Princeton. In 1987 he left behind the life of a professional student to found the biotech firm Medarex. As its president and CEO, Drakeman has guided its search for novel treatments for cancer, autoimmune disease, and other life-threatening and seriously debilitating conditions. Medarex currently has around 400 employees, with revenues of over $42 million. Drakeman eventually took up academics as an avocation and now teaches at Princeton while remaining a full-time business executive. He c - by: erikf_97

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Services > LOOK

Anyone in any doubt about what they - post on message boards is not subject to defamation should closely watch this case! Gutnick defamation case pencilled in for November Mar 28 Miranda McLachlan Joe Gutnick claims he was defamed in a Barron's article published on the internet. Photo: PETER RAE Flamboyant former mining entrepreneur Joseph Gutnick's internet defamation case against Dow Jones has generated a frisson of global interest because of the jurisdictional precedent the case sets for internet publishing. The case will now proceed to trial in Victoria, where Mr Gutnick will allege an article on Dow Jones's Barron's website in October 2000 was defamatory. Dow Jones is expected to put up various defences but the details remain secret. In December, the High Court rejected an appeal by Dow Jones, which had argued jurisdiction should be in the US, where the article was published. The decision that it should lie where the article was accessed sparked international debate, as it was the highest court in any country to rule on - by: smuggler53

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Services > OVER

The Truth About Findaway - I try to avoid your posts.... I am trying to get this right... 1. You are a former navy seal (like Jesse Ventura) 2. You are confined to a wheelchair 3. You are a successful internet entrepreneur, yet hate overture... 4. You have a high six figure income yet spend all day on a message board writing stupid comments about yourself. The truth is you're a greasy faced bull@hit artist search optimization scammer. I know your "my client is Jenna Jameson types". It is blitheringly obvious. So you hate overture because it is crimp on your business like those losers on the looksmart boards. - by: hud refunds tracer

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Scientific and Technical Instr. > IGEN

Re: Sam - Sam is a hell of a lot better poker player than some chump CEO out to make a couple of self serving bucks for himself. Sam as an experienced and previously wealthy owner entrepreneur is a highly motivated player with success (Igen's), power and greed on his side. Sam's and the shareholder's stakes are united. Roche with a $500 MM judgment and ECL exclusive casino loss bet staked against them must play every bluff and every card that they have regardless of how bad. Naturally, with pokerfaced demeanor until the imminent opinion is entered. If the cards play true, Roche takes their loss and starts again, it ain't Humer's money anyhow its Roche's. If Roche is lucky, they save a couple of bucks but you still lose the casino. Either way, Igen is the winner. Igen and Roche are in the game. If Roche wants to play, they are now in Igen's casino, with Igen rules. Don't bet against the house. - by: jaquexx

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Services > Communications Services > TIWI

Re: their managment? part 2 - In 1979, fresh from completing a master's in finance from Laval University in Quebec City, the then-unilingual Sirois returned to his isolated hometown of Chicoutimi, and took over his father's tiny paging business. Sirois was cocky and intrepid, and, at 25, already had a young family. But he was no techie. Sirois's forte was finance. In paging, he saw a fragmented industry of tiny operators at the mercy of equipment makers, their only source of long-term credit. "Their suppliers had them by the balls," Sirois recalled in a 1999 interview. (These days, he's not talking to the press.) "I didn't have any particular interest in running that kind of business, but I was fascinated by the structure of the industry. As I often say, I always study the lake, not the canoe, because if the level of the water goes up, you can have the ugliest canoe in the world and it will go up like all the others." By persuading banks to lend him up to four times a paging company's cash flow, Sirois began snapping up competitors - by: amazingkarma

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Re: their managment? part 6 - TIW has fared no better. Last July, its British division, Dolphin Telecom PLC, sought bankruptcy protection. Last fall, TIW itself was forced to seek concessions on $700 million (U.S.) in debt under a restructuring that saw Sirois's voting stake fall to 28% from 40%. With the Brazilian, Mexican and Chinese markets abandoned, the once globally ambitious company is now active in only the Czech Republic, Romania and India. The jewel in Sirois's tarnished crown remains Telesystem's 25% equity stake in Microcell and its Fido cellular brand. But even the jewel is chipped, since the structure of the industry and its own hampered finances dictate that Microcell can neither easily grow nor sell itself. So it, too, may be forced to restructure its debt. In May, RBC Capital Markets analyst Richard Talbot issued an unprecedented 52-week outlook for Microcell's stock: nil. Sirois has lost the Forbes billionaire status he enjoyed during the tech boom. The bondholders, shareholders, banks, BCE and the caisse, who back - by: amazingkarma

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Healthcare > Biotechnology and Drugs > IMCL

OT IMCL Part 2 - A company with a past ImClone would presumably like the May trial results to answers questions the FDA had when it refused to review ImClone's Erbitux application. Soon after that refusal, investigators began looking into whether Samuel Waksal, who resigned as ImClone's CEO last May, tried to illegally profit by selling ImClone shares ahead of the FDA news. Waksal three weeks ago settled charges stemming from attempted insider trading and agreed to pay more than $800,000 in fines. Under the deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Waksal agreed to never again run a public company. Related Stories ImClone sues Waksal Waksal pleads guilty to tax counts Waksal settles charges That deal came a week after the former ImClone CEO pleaded guilty to charges that he failed to pay sales taxes on $15 million in art. And that was after Waksal last year already pleaded guilty to six counts of securities fraud and obstruction of justice. Then there's Martha Stewart, the home decorat - by: tunes0801

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Networks > CSCO

WILL PORN BE LEGAL IN BAGHDAD? - as a budding American entrepreneur who was inspired by the likes of Ken Lay, Bernie Ebbers, and Sandy Weill to give up med school and a career healing the sick to instead pursue a career in criminal enterprise, i need to know if porn will be legal in Baghdad after the war. the success of my "Shi'ites Gone Wild" video empire depends upon this - by: the_a_teen

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Networks > MADGF

was sold to Microsoft in 1995. The seco - Prior to joining Red-M, Feilder had founded two successful software ventures in the networking field. The first, Network Managers Ltd, was sold to Microsoft in 1995. The second, Greenwich Mean Time Holdings, he grew into a global business with sales in excess of $20 million. GMT was subsequently sold to Sempres, a specialist telecommunications group. Since leaving Sempres he has run his own independent consultancy, advising businesses in the UK, Europe, Africa, and the US on their strategic direction. He has also been working with several Venture Capital firms to assess businesses for funding viability. "Karl is a 'serial entrepreneur' whose leadership, vision and management experience is demonstrated by his track record in successfully growing businesses from start up, through to both IPO and trade sales," explains Mike McTighe, Red-M's Chairman. "Red-M has established itself as a world class innovator in the emerging wireless networking market and I believe that Karl's experience will be inval - by: nogore2001

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Electronic Instruments and Controls > VLNC

Frogs capitulate to krauts for 3rd time - Da stoopid f--in old world idiots: http://www.chronwatch.com/featured/contentDisplay.asp?aid=2045 "...The whole idea of capitalism is to find a niche, or hole, in the market and fill it. You don't have to create environmental laws, just let some entrepreneur find out there are needs, and a creative small businessperson who sees the holes and fills them will solve the environmental problems, and make a ton of money doing it!" Hey, there may just be a big 'niche' for better, longer-lasting polymer batteries out there! - by: nitwits_r_us

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Hardware > HPQ

R.I.P ADAM OSBORNE - All: Adam Osborne, portable computer pioneer, dead at 64, reports CNN.com.... >>His death ended a decade-long battle with an organic brain disorder that caused him to suffer an endless series of mini-strokes. The popularity of the 23-pound luggable computer he introduced in 1981 made his start-up, Osborne Computer Corp., the fastest-growing company up to that time, thanks in part to his willingness to cut the cost of computers nearly in half compared with rivals such as first-to-market Apple Computer. But the rigors of "hypergrowth" -- a term coined to describe his company's rise -- ended in an even quicker plunge into bankruptcy two years later, making Osborne's legacy a textbook study of the perils of undisciplined growth. A later generation of dot-com entrepreneurs would come to repeat his mistakes on an even more spectacular scale. Friends and former colleagues said they remembered Osborne as a man brimming with ideas, an engineer turned early computer publisher, then pioneering - by: fedupwithu2

Cultures & Community > Issues and Causes > Current Events > World_News

Swig Mecca-Cola w/those Arafat Chips - then belch in a Zionists face Mecca-Cola takes on 'Zionist entity' Businessman who calls for Israel's demise fights 'U.S. imperialism' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 12, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A Muslim entrepreneur who calls for destruction of the "Zionist entity" is fighting U.S. "imperialism" with an alternative to an American cultural icon. Frenchman Tawfiq Mathlouthi, a native Tunisian, launched Mecca-Cola shortly after Israel's massive anti-terrorism action at the Jenin refugee camp last year to enable Muslims to boycott Coca-Cola and have their fizzy drinks too. Mecca-Cola's labels urge consumers: "Don't drink stupid, drink committed." - by: blutopie

Cultures & Community > Issues and Causes > Current Events > US_News

Re: entrepreneurs/LL - 'morning dc! <> It's kinda of a top down thing. The Beltway starts the ball rolling, and right down to city level everyone gets in on the act on how much more they can embelish. There was quite a stir not long ago in Los Angeles after the city started dunning authors, screenwriters, etc for "running a business from home without proper licensing" after doing a search of tax returns auditing home office writeoffs. Like you, I can see regulation on health and safety concerns. I'm reminded of a case in my courthouse, oh it's gotta be about 4 years ago, of a "doctor" charged with murder after he performed liposuction on a woman in her kitchen. (He had been a doctor in Mexico, but had his license suspended...came to CA and set up a storefront operation) - by: leftcoast_libertarian

Re: entrepreneurs/LL - >>>IMHO the success and/or growth of "underground" business is a glaring sympton of over-regulation of the market. People WILL trade, inspite of marxist-anarchists, communists, "peoples republics", or bloated bureaucracies issuing contradictory regulations by the ton out of the Beltway.<<< Definitely. Although, from a small business point of view, many of the regs originate from the state or municipal level rather than from Washington. You might try to find the article on the Taipei Times web site. It was from last week, but I am not sure if they archive much material. - by: dcinroc

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Services > Restaurants > CHKR

SONC vs CHKR - (Forbes Oct 2002) In the 200 list of best small companies in America. (Bussinessweek June 2002) Rated "10" in list of 200 hot growth companies. Entrepreneur Mag (Jan 2002) Top 20, out of 500, for top franchise opportunities Compare for yourself!

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Scorpion management blurbs - Good evening, Here's what Senetek had to say about it's dirrector, Kevin McCarthy, from Scorpion Holdings in the 2002 10K: "Mr. Kevin McCarthy is President of Scorpion Holdings Inc., a company involved in private equity investing, including sourcing, structuring, executing and monitoring portfolio investments. He has held the position since 1995. From 1993 until 1995, Mr. McCarthy served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Rosecliff Inc., an investment company based in New York. Previously, Mr. McCarthy served 10 years with Ernst & Young, in Boston, San Jose and New York, becoming a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions group in 1995. Mr. McCarthy sits on the board of the following companies: San Francisco Toymakers, Inc., Walk About Computers Inc., Pac Pizza LLC and American Staffing LLC." __________________ Mr. McCarthy's bussiness associate, Mr. Nuno Brandolini, formed Scorpion Holdings in 1995. Nuno Brandolini, Director [of Cheniere Energy, Inc.]. Mr. Brandolini has served as - by: best2listen

Cultures & Community > Issues and Causes > Current Events > World_News

Re: 115 world leaders speak - You are talking about member states from the UN who joined the IPU and struck out w/their arrogance again. Either they are quite schtooopid at making demands on Iraq, or else they are not privvy to the workings of the law, since the US-led Coalition for the Invasion of Iraq operated within all legalities. BTW, I said US was too smart to get caught in the snare of buffoons; therefore, US did not join the IPU. Just as the US did not join in the Versailles Treaty. US knew better than to allow itself to get bogged down into the mire of pussyfooting entrepreneurs, most of whom have had a lifetime of decades to get themselves on the right track, and can't. And, really, after the snow job they tried to pull before the US Coalition set out to disarm Saddam and his regime, they show sheer gutlessness thinking they're ganging up on the US after_the_fact. US has no intentions of allowing rabble rousers into the governing of the new Iraq. They can cart water and food supplies. Their voting on what US s - by: ultra_fair1999

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Hardware > AAPL

"the catalyst for talks about Apple bid - FT.com Apple eyes Universal Music Friday April 11, 4:45 pm ET By Peter Thal Larsen in New York, Scott Morrison in San Francisco and Jo Johnson in Paris Apple Computer, the pioneering technology group, is considering making an offer for the music division of Vivendi Universal, the debt-laden French media and communications group. Steve Jobs, Apple's entrepreneurial chairman and chief executive, has held preliminary talks with Universal Music - the world's largest music company - since the beginning of the year, people familiar with the negotiations said. Apple is expected to decide in the next week or two whether to submit a preliminary offer to Vivendi's board, which meets on April 29. An offer would be a bold move into a troubled business by Apple, which music industry executives view as one of the groups that has actively encouraged illegal copying of music. With more than $4bn of cash on its balance sheet, Apple could finance a mostly cash offer for Universal Music, which analysts value a - by: RKupczak

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Hardware > IBM

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Semiconductors > INTC

Dogs are prostitutes - Cats are entrepreneurs. - by: waitress_at_mikes

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Software and Programming > SNPS

Re: I HATE SYNOPSYS! They're traitors! - A lesson in global economics may lower your blood pressure. Just as blue collar jobs flowed overseas to lower wage areas of the developing world so will white collar jobs. Rising capital investment, education, communications infrastructure and above all demand will rule the day. Some jobs are more easily transplanted than others. None are sacrosanct. Our optimism for the future is grounded in our innate creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Trade barriers, tarriffs and subsidies create artificial markets and in the long term crumble under the weight of market pressures. Are the CEO's of SNPS, MSFT, PSFT, etc traitors? I think not. They are doing what is necessary to provide for the interests of all their stakeholders. Being not patriotic would be hiring Saddams Republician Guard to do code work. Not moving code work overseas to India would be nationalistic and ill advised. An existing competitor will, or, if he doesn't, a new comer will enter and do so. As consumers, we demand the hig - by: poet_of_profit

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Basic Materials > Iron and Steel > AKS

Re: Re; HEADLESS589 - The law that provides that businesses can hire workers to keep their businesses profitable during labor strife was born during a democratic administration. It is angry people like you that only follow the laws they want that tests the metal of our society. Tell your congressman about your criticism of the laws. You are a mental midget as you continue to attack a man who by his posts lives a moral life and does keep his eye on the ball. You, on the other hand, continue to spew your venom. You are the one who is shameful as it is obvious you cannot get over the past. Life is not easy but the strong can adapt to the changes. Why don't you get on board, get a life and move on? Does it give you a feeling of power to belittle another human or is this just something you do to hide your frustration and stupidity. THE GOOD WORKERS WILL RETURN IN TIME. THE BAD WORKERS WILL SEEK OTHER EMPLOYMENT. THE REPLACEMENT WORKERS WILL CONTINUE TO DO A SERVICE FOR OUR SOCIETY TO PROTECT THE ENTREPRENEURS WHO ARE WI - by: akfencesitter

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Services > Business Services > EBAY

DON'T BANK ON A WARNING - EBAY's quarter is in the bag, guidance will be raised. Auction counts did not go down during the war, too many wanna be entrepreneurs out there. EBAY has sold them the get rich quick ponzi scheme, and they brought it. Laundering mega millions on paypal helps also. I'm short and hate the stock. However, the reality is that EBAY won't be warning. I was waiting to see the street's response to YHOO numbers since the good news was already baked in. The reaction was not encouraging. I'm not comfortable with every dip being brought back the following day, or it continuing to sit at/near 90. I think they are waiting for a reason to breakout rather than breakdown. We shorts must be realistic and weigh the odds in or not in our favor. I hope this helps. Good Luck. Kathy - by: daylatedollarshort30

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Services > EDS

Job opening in beautiful Lexington KY - Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation> kstc@kstc.com 859.233.3502 ****************************************************** Resource Development Manager Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation (KSTC), an independent, progressive, non-profit company, seeks highly motivated professional as Resource Development Manager for statewide network of Innovation & Commercialization Centers headquartered at KSTC. Must have entrepreneurial mindset, BS degree (advanced preferred), experience w/start-up & growing innovation-driven companies, & good understanding of venture funding. Requires excellent analytical, communication & technology skills & offers statewide travel opportunities. Send cover letter, resume & salary expectations to HR Dept., KSTC, 200 West Vine St., Ste. 420, Lexington, KY 40507 or jwehrle@kstc.com. Preference given to applications received by April 30, 2003. EOE Please share this with anyone you feel may be interested. Questions regarding this position should be direc - by: dawhiff

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Hardware > SGI

Re: Squeeeeze .... - With your current "Strong Sell" I understand that you a "player" from these prices and state of knowledge on the fundamentals of the Co. Nevertheless I will stay with my "Strong Buy" and point out that this is not an expression of a gambler a la Las Vegas "put it all on red" but a carefully measured and controlled speculation.... which is the business of all of us entrepreneurs who are involved with SGI.... long or short. - by: catmanzeke

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Communications Equipment > MOT

Chris Galvin should be HORSE WHIPPED - for systematically wrecking the company his daddy/grand-daddy built. i bet he curls up in cynthia's (his wife) lap every night and asks:"mommy, am i doing a good job?" chris is a pathetic, broken daddy's boy existing only on a family name....that has lost all credibility with investors and entrepreneurs. - by: thegiantsteps

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Hardware > TECD

Re: 30 year GDP charts - IMO, a primary factor in the recentlackluster performance of our economy is the increased negative balance of trade with China. The same happened as we shifted in the 60's to Japan and in the late 70's and early 80's to Korea/Taiwan/Singapore, etc. I do not expect the China trend to subside anytime soon. In fact, it will continue to put a damper on real wage growth, even in technology as China will become even cheaper than India in services and also have "competitively priced" hardware, while unemployment will undoubtedly decline after peaking slightly north of 6%. Software competition, IMO, will take more time. Even Jack Welch states that China represents the biggest real threat to our economy, not over the next 25 years, but even over the next 5!! It is not just about cheap labor, but even more so about the Chinese spirit and "entrepreneurship". This is what I meant by changing global trends that affect our economy...... - by: lt_tecd

Business & Finance > Investments > Investment Challenge [msgboard] > IPOs

Re: Flat Tax????? - Well, a couple of thoughts about a flat tax. 1. A flat tax could be accomplished under our current system by just doing away with the graduated rates and having one tax rate. The corporate world almost has that, 35% once you are over $100,000 in income. 2. What is income under your flat tax? That is the big question. Do you let companies have a deduction against their income for the expenses it took to generate that income? If not, you just put every grocery store in America out of business, or more likely raised the cost of groceries by 15 to 20%. Why? Microsoft turns 51% of every dollar they get as revenue into cash, a grocery store turns about 1% into cash. Different lines of business have different profit margins. But you can't ignore the fact that it costs money to make money. What about companies that aren't profitable because they are in the start up faze? If you tax them, you are taking away the limited resources they have to get a business up and running. Without a deduction fo - by: gozgo2001

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Services > Broadcasting and Cable TV > WGAT

The Post-War Future of Iraq - The Post-War Future of Iraq and Its Abundant Oil Reserves Wharton School Now that the U.S. and its allies have fought their way to Baghdad, what are the prospects for Iraq's economy? About the surest prediction one can make is that the journey from economic basket case to something resembling a vibrant free-market-style system will be long, tough and uncertain, according to interviews with Wharton faculty and others who follow developments in the Middle East. Oil revenues in recent years have fallen far short of their potential because of the deterioration of production facilities and the absence of exploration. Iraq has no capital markets and is a police state with no functioning impartial judicial system. The country has a huge debt burden, much of it stemming from the 1980-88 war with Iran and the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Even basic economic data to measure the country's status are almost impossible to come by. Iraq's economic future will depend on many factors, including the kind of government - by: Tel212

The Post-War Future of Iraq-5 - Another suggestion from Kaminski: "Don't introduce personal or corporate income tax rates. Anything that may distort markets should not be introduced because there's always a political danger that you will have a shady group distorting the level of excise taxes. In Bosnia and Herzegovina criminals engaged in smuggling because there were high excise taxes. If you have excise tax rates on cigarettes or alcohol, then you create enormous opportunities [for illegal behavior]." Navin Valrani, a Wharton alumnus who serves as a director and shareholder in the Al Shirawi Group of Companies, a Dubai-based conglomerate, is optimistic about Iraq's future. He says the country has long valued education and that it has an entrepreneurial mentality. Before Saddam Hussein became president, he says, "Iraq always operated on free-market forces; the people of Iraq are quite used to the capitalist mentality of the West and, for that matter, in the rest of the Gulf." Valrani adds: "As long as the oil income is put bac - by: Tel212

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Services > Retail (Specialty) > RINO

Gas and Ball - Flip buys North Carolina baseball team Warthogs sold to Twin City businessmen [From Charlotte Business Journal] The Winston-Salem Warthogs have been bought by entrepreneurs Billy Prim and Andrew "Flip" Filipowski. Prim, chief executive of Winston-Salem's Blue Rhino Corp., says the deal closed Monday. Terms were not immediately disclosed. Prim and Filipowski -- chairman of Chicago-based tech firm Divine Inc. and part-time Winston-Salem resident--have been in talks since summer to buy the minor-league club from nursing-home magnate Don Beaver, owner of the Charlotte Knights and other minor-league baseball franchises. The Carolina League and Minor League Baseball recently approved the ownership change. The closing comes as the Warthogs prepare for their home opener Tuesday. ____________________ - by: bbq_the_shorts

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Consumer Non-Cyclical > Tobacco > MO

Re: How Many Killed Worldwide by Obesity - I don't know if he is outraged at obesity. At least, he doesn't seem to be blaming any particular corporations for it. But since you're the one blaming tobacco companies for smoking deaths, maybe you should blame certain food companies for obesity deaths. On the other hand, Big Tobacco's history of hiding the dangers of smoking are unique. Then again, government warning labels on tobacco products are also unique. Think of it this way. If tobacco companies didn't exist, would people still smoke? Perhaps not as much, but yes. People still use illegal drugs. If companies didn't produce cigarettes, individual entrepreneurs (or drug dealers, if tobacco were illegal) would. And they would, because people smoke them, the same reason that tobacco companies are in business. Repeat: cigarettes sell because people choose to smoke them. - by: mo_good_smoking_bad

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Technology > Computer Networks > CSCO

Re: Rummy getting grilled - A Muslim evolution, not revolution Posted on Wednesday, April 09 @ 12:01:18 EDT By She Taliban By Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - While it cannot be disputed that Muslims around the world - including youths, scholars, politicians and militant groups - are opposed to the United States-led war on Iraq and would like to do something to assist that country, no one group has managed to come up with even a semblance of a road map to achieve this. And although Muslim scholars have issued religious edicts, youths have demonstrated and politicians have came out with statements of condemnation, as they did during the US invasion of Afghanistan, there has been no broad-based uprising as many had predicted, and in the end the protestors must have been aware that their actions were merely a futile expression of emotion. Indeed, the only tangible manifestation of concrete action has been the widespread boycott of Western and US products in the Muslim world and a return to products manufactured by Muslim count - by: arab_anger

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Services > Casinos and Gaming > HET

Joe Bob old review on Harrahs Tunica - by Joe Bob Briggs 10/08/03 Only American entrepreneurs would be able to take something as darkly subversive as a casino and turn it into the equivalent of a franchise restaurant chain, like T.G.I. Friday's. That's what you feel when you walk into a Harrah's--and I've been in more than half of the company's 25 casinos. You can dress it up like a southern mansion, with Ionic columns and French Quarter grillwork inside, but ultimately a Harrah's is a Harrah's is a Harrah's. They tell me there are people who travel from city to city, using their "Total Rewards" frequent-gambler card, trying to hit all the Harrah's in the country, and I believe it. It's the Starbucks Syndrome. It may not be the absolute best coffee around, but you know what you're getting. The Harrah's in Tunica is about the remotest gambling joint in the ten-casino market. It's at the end of a gleaming four-lane country highway called Casino Strip Boulevard that cuts through the flat all-but-treeless Mississippi River delta, and bef - by: wcpjr98

Business & Finance > Investments > Sectors > Financial > Insurance (Prop. and Casualty) > TCHC

Yaba's Distortions - CEO Background - XRP-Insider refers to the CEO's backround as car salesman, saying he is unfit to run an insurance business. Well, Mr Lawson HAS founded just such a business in a competitive, capitalist system, has taken it public, and is paying claims to clients, salries to employees, and taxes to the govt. A major part of his expense is paying auto repair shops for insured vehicles. Everyone knows how these expenses differ depending upon the type of the shop. And then their are suspected cases of frauds to be sorted out. This expense is especially high in sub-prime segment of the clentale who have poor driving records (and are charged high premiums). Mr. Lawson and the board can easily higher a high caliber insurance specialist or two. And given that he holds the largest stake, he already would have. But no university teaches the field experience needed to gauge unscrupulus repair shops, fraudulent claims, etc. But if you were to look for such people you are likely to find ones that have also been car salesmen.