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core77.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Does anyone remember skim.com, the Swiss fashion label who raised a load of venture capital back in the dot com boom with their high-concept clothing that discreetly displayed a unique number fellow tech savvy insiders could email. Fast forward almost a decade and you have the Commando Nerd patch , a mobile phone-readable physical hyperlink similar to the Semipedia project. Install the QRcode reader...
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Luxist (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
In March I mentioned that Corning was planning to put its Steuben Glass division up for sale. Now it looks like the deal is done. USA Today reports that the luxury crystal company has been bought by a private equity company. Corning will continue to maintain a 19.9% equity stake and the company intends to continue operations in upstate New York. Steuben will be part of the Schottenstein Luxury Group...
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core77.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Does anyone remember skim.com, the Swiss fashion label who raised a load of venture capital back in the dot com boom with their high-concept clothing that discreetly displayed a unique number fellow tech savvy insiders could email. Fast forward almost a decade and you have the Commando Nerd patch , a mobile phone-readable physical hyperlink similar to the Semipedia project. Install the QRcode reader...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A former manager of a Citigroup Inc hedge fund has filed a complaint with a British tribunal accusing the bank of causing his fund's demise, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A former manager of a Citigroup Inc hedge fund has filed a complaint with a British tribunal accusing the bank of causing his fund's demise, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Listening Post (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Hedge fund Terra Firma Capital Partners feels like a misnomer these days, standing as it is on shaky musical ground. Before taking over major-label behemoth EMI last year, the private equity player got the gas face from top-shelf British acts...
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LA Biz Observed (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Before regulators moved in, the Pasadena mortgage lender tried to attract the interest of private-equity firms.
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24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Back in March, The New York Times Co. agreed to give two activist hedge funds with a combined 19% stake in the company a pair of seats on its 15 member board... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Tonetek Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
It’s a rumour that has been around for months but TechCrunch is now reporting that search engine Google could be on the verge of buying Digg, one of the web’s most popular social bookmarking sites, for $200 million.According to the influential tech blog, the deal is almost done and could close in a couple [...]
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A VC (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
This quote from Joe Nocera's piece on Steve Job's health in today's NYT shocked me: This is Steve Jobs,” he began. “You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Infineon is in talks with private equity firms and companies about the sale of its loss-making memory chip unit Qimonda , its chief executive told a German daily.
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TraderFeed (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
* Why dividends matter; what hedge funds really provide; and other important market themes from Abnormal Returns ; * My open letter to Edenbridge; * Which banks are in trouble; questioning the market bottom; and more good link updates from Trader Mike ; * Kirk tracks stocks in play each morning; * Chris Perruna reviews Brian Shannon's text on technical analysis across multiple timeframes; * Thanks...
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Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Lysanda, developers of the Eco-Log mobile source emissions monitoring technology, is expanding following the recent completion of a £1.25M (US$2.5M) venture capital funding led by Logispring, a Geneva-based Venture Capital fund and as it moves into production.
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Bronte Capital (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
I might start a hedge fund one day. So maybe I shouldn’t spend my time tearing into funds-of-funds. But I got a problem. I get a kick out of pulling wings off butterflies. One of my earliest posts (and still in the top five accessed on this site) was a post about New World Capital Management – a fraudulent hedge fund in Santa Fe . The fund was a blatant and obvious fraud. My first email from New World...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Chrysler, the automaker owned by hedge fund giant Cerberus Capital Management, said it will no longer offer leases to customers through its finance unit. Dealerships can still make leases obtained through independent finance companies...
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bharatbookgroup | 05/29/2008
Understand how the various hedge fund strategies make money and are able to use this understanding to improve your investment process into hedge funds.The book focuses on the issue of return sources and the relationship of returns to systemic risk. It looks through the smoke screen of the search for alpha to fully evaluate the nature, risks and return profiles of individual hedge fund strategies.
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bharatbookgroup | 05/26/2008
Banks cater to a wide range of services in addition to their traditional roles of providing loans, investments and other services. The reports on banking and finance provide an insight to investment banking, venture capital, commercial banking, retail and electronic banking as well as industry forecasts, projections, trends, market shares, research and development, sales and marketing strategies and...
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hrishikesh | 05/26/2008
Bharatbook.com is proud to announce the new report “Managing Hedge Fund Risk :Strategies and Insights from Investors, Counterparties, Hedge Funds and Regulators ” provides the….. Now in its second edition, Managing Hedge Fund Risk is the established market-leading guide on risk for the hedge fund industry..Summary :A highly accessible primer on hedge fund risk illustrated with practical examples Analyses...
