Merryn Somerset Webb: Inflation - it's not a question of 'if' but 'when'
2010-02-08 05:52:27
Keywords: Economic_Indicators,Economic_News,Inflation,eBay_Inc
Quote: Afriend has just sent me a picture of his latest eBay purchase: a 100 trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe. It cost him £2.48.Clearly, these notes have been printed in a bit of a hurry, so there isn’t much in the way of watermarking or metal strips. But they still look pretty good – this one comes with a nice drawing of a rock on a bluish background. My friend is so pleased with his that he is framing it and settling down to bid on a few trillion dollar notes to arrange around it....
Read articleWhitman Boasts Biggest Cash Pile in California Race
2010-02-08 05:52:26
Keywords: Billionaires, Billionaire, Wealth, Forbes 400, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, world's richest people, richest man, richest woman, net worth, wealthy, billionaire list, world billionaires, Adolf Merckle, Joachim Herz, Jerry Zucker, Roland Arnall, Georgio Arma
Quote: Steve Poizner, another business executive turned Republican candidate has $18 million.
Whitman, who grew online auction site eBay from a start-up to a multi-billion dollar company, has plowed $39 million of her own cash into her campaign coffers. At last count, she was worth $1.2 billion. Poizner has invested $15 million of his Silicon Alley fortune in his campaign.
The two Republican tycoons, with their deep pockets and strong business track records, could pose a tough challenge to Brown. Ca...
Read articleOnSale: SIRIUS XM on BlackBerry, Furniture for Less
2010-02-08 05:52:26
Quote: With 500,000 stores in its search index, TheFind.com has access to more than 350 million products, so you'll likely find what you're looking for at the best price out there.eBayTheFind.com.OnSale@FOXBusiness.comTwitter at OnSale_FOXBiz, and share the wealth.More From OnSale:OnSale: Get Cash for Your Used GadgetsOn Sale: Hero Music and the Caribbean for $39OnSale: Google Voice Gets Smart, Gaultier for TargetOnSale: Help for Small Biz, Plus Mexico for $215......
Read articleReport: Paypal stops India money transfers
2010-02-08 05:52:25
Quote: PayPal, the online payment system owned by eBay Inc., has reportedly stopped allowing personal money transfers to and from India.TechCrunch and Moneylife report that the move has suddenly cut off the preferred payment method of thousands of Indian users, including man IT software coders working for companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere around the world.Online forums and message boards are being filled with unhappy PayPal users who say that funds requested through PayPal India are being rever...
Read articleeBay® and RecycleBank® Align to Reward Consumers for Being Green
2010-02-05 04:24:55
Quote: EBAYNews), the world’s largest online marketplace, to rewardconsumers for recycling and reusing what already exists in the worldtoday. Today’s more environmentally-conscious consumers now have aninnovative loyalty program that rewards them for being green, connectinghow they recycle and reuse with how they shop.RecycleBank rewards people for positive green actions (currently therecycling of trash and electronics) and seeks to create a greenereconomy with key partners across the U.S...
Read articleYammer raises $10 million
2010-02-05 04:24:54
Quote: Previous investors, including Charles River Ventures and Goldcrest Investments also gave money this time.Yammer was started in September 2008 by former executives and early employees of PayPal, EGroups, eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) and Tribe.Anyone in a company can start a Yammer network and begin inviting colleagues free of charge. Yammer makes money when companies claim and administer those networks.Yammer claims to be used in 60,000 businesses and organizations, although the company has not said how m...
Read articleWork Visas in U.S. Elude Entrepreneurs
2010-02-05 04:24:53
Keywords: Financial, News, Stock, Market, Headlines, Investments, Quotes, Trading, TheStreet.com, Carmen Nobel ,Small Business Solutions
Quote: BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Entrepreneurs and venture-capital investors are lobbying Congress to create a visa category for immigrants who start new businesses, arguing that reform could help launch the next Google(GOOG Quote), eBay(EBAY Quote), Intel(INTC Quote) or DuPont(DD Quote), whose founders were born outside the U.S."If you're a foreigner and you want to start a company in the U.S., it's hard to get a visa to do that," says Brad Feld, a managing director of venture-capital firm The Foundry Gro...
Read article[$$] Rakuten Looks to Empower Merchants
2010-02-03 01:22:21
Quote: is considered to be somewhere between 4% and 8% of all retail.] But we are still growing at 14% to 20% year after year, because penetration is lower.
WSJ: What makes your approach to the Japanese market different from the approach Amazon and eBay have taken here in the U.S.?
Mr. Mikitani: The merchant—meaning the "shop operator" or "shop master"—is very important for us. We allow our merchants to own a store in a mall.
For example, the Amazon marketplace doesn't allow the merchants...
Read articleInvestors Help Whitman Line Coffers for Campaign
2010-02-03 01:22:18
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, I PO, I.P.O.s, IPOs, Offerings, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Legal, The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Sorkin, DealBook, deal maker, Wall street, wall st., Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sa
Quote: Whitman isn’t at loss for how to spend it: the former eBay chief burned through $19.5 million a full year ahead of the general election, citing campaign finance reports filed Monday.
Republican nomination, while the famously frugal Jerry Brown, the state attorney general and presumed Democratic nominee, spent just $137,000 in his unofficial quest to return to the office he held for two terms in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Documents filed with the California secretary of state’s offic...
Read articleHow To Hack The Sky
2010-02-03 01:22:17
Keywords: Hackers, Cybercrime, Cryptography, Security, Satellite
Quote: "Anyone can do it: phishers or Chinese hackers
it's like a very big Wi-Fi network that's easy to access."In a penetration test on a client's network, Nve used a Skystar 2 PCI satellite receiver card, a piece of hardware that can be bought on eBay(EBAY -news-people) for $30 or less, along with open source Linux DVB software applications and the network data analysis or "sniffing" tool Wireshark. Exploiting that signal, Nve says he was able to impersonate any user connecting to the Internet...
Read articleTesla Motors Plans $100 Million I.P.O.
2010-02-02 02:51:52
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, I PO, I.P.O.s, IPOs, Offerings, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Venture Capital, Legal, The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Sorkin, DealBook, deal maker, Wall street, wall st., Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sa
Quote: Musk, who made his fortune when PayPal, a company he co-founded, was sold to eBay, also invested in the company.
Tesla also received a $465 million long-term loan from the Energy Department, which was given warrants to buy up to 9,255,035 common shares upon the closing of the offering at an exercise price of $2.51.
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank Securities are listed as underwriters.
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Read articleSuper Feb. offers tickets galore for sports fans
2010-02-02 02:51:51
Keywords: Internet software and services (industry),Retailing,Advertising,Media (industry),Sports,United States of America,Canada,Business and Economic Aspects of Sport,(US) National Football League (NFL) (North American),Motor Racing,Olympics events,National Baske
Quote: At industry leader StubHub, a unit of eBay Inc (EBAY.O),
average ticket prices are up slightly at just under $2,600. The small increase is a big improvement for StubHub from
last year's 40 percent decline and still better than the
company's overall average ticket price decline this year of 4
percent. "There will always be a dedicated fan base that will want to
go see the events, but the size of that fan base and how much
they're willing to spend will vary depending on the economy,"
StubHub Presi...
Read articleEBAY INC Files SEC form 8-K, Change in Directors or Principal Officers
2010-02-02 02:51:51
Quote: Item 5.02.Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
On January 26, 2010, Philippe Bourguignon, a director of eBay Inc. (the
"Company"), notified the Company that he will not stand for re-election at the
Company's next annual meeting of stockholders to be held in April 2010. Mr.
Bourguignon will continue to serve as a director until such meeting. His
decision to not stand for re-el...
Read articleK-Cups Help Earnings Brew For Geneva Investment Management All Cap Growth Portfolio
2010-02-01 03:56:59
Quote: Robinson (CHRW); CPI Corp (CPY); Citrix (CTXS); Cognizant Technology (CTSH); Darden Restaurants (DRI); Donaldson (DCI); EOG Resources (EOG); Express Scripts (ESRX); Franklin Resources (BEN); Freeport-McMoran (FCX); Google (GOOG); Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR); HDFC Bank (HDB); Kennedy-Wilson (KWIC); MasterCard (MA); McDonald's (MCD); McGrath RentCorp (MGRC); Medco Health (MHS); Medtronic (MDT); Merck (MRK); Meredith (MDP); Microsoft (MSFT); Mosaic (MOS); Neenah Paper (NP); Nord...
Read articleGeneva Investment Management Committee Picks Top Stock Winners: What Are Their Criteria?
2010-02-01 03:56:57
Quote: Robinson (CHRW); CPI Corp (CPY); Citrix (CTXS); Cognizant Technology (CTSH); Darden Restaurants (DRI); Donaldson (DCI); EOG Resources (EOG); Express Scripts (ESRX); Franklin Resources (BEN); Freeport-McMoran (FCX); Google (GOOG); Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR); HDFC Bank (HDB); Kennedy-Wilson (KWIC); MasterCard (MA); McDonald's (MCD); McGrath RentCorp (MGRC); Medco Health (MHS); Medtronic (MDT); Merck (MRK); Meredith (MDP); Microsoft (MSFT); Mosaic (MOS); Neenah Paper (NP); Nord...
Read articleAmazon shares rise on strong results
2010-02-01 03:56:56
Keywords: Industries|Tech, AMZN, Amazon.com Inc, EBAY, eBay Inc, AMZN, Amazon.com Inc, AAPL, Apple Inc, COMP, Nasdaq Composite Index
Quote: That's far above the multiple of 14X currently held by eBay/quotes/comstock/15*!ebay/quotes/nls/ebay(EBAY23.02,-0.31,-1.33%), Amazon's closest peer in online retailing. Other mass-market retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target tend to trade with price-to-earnings ratios in the high teens.Amazon even trades at a sharp premium to Apple Inc./quotes/comstock/15*!aapl/quotes/nls/aapl(AAPL192.06,-7.23,-3.63%), the iconic tech giant that just launched the iPad tablet device that is expected to challenge ...
Read article300% Returns Through End Of Current Economic Cycle For Value Investors: Chief Investment Officer For Smead Capital Management Sees Analogy With 1979 To 1987 Period
2010-01-29 04:55:52
Quote: Robinson (CHRW); CPI Corp (CPY); Citrix (CTXS); Cognizant Technology (CTSH); Darden Restaurants (DRI); Donaldson (DCI); EOG Resources (EOG); Express Scripts (ESRX); Franklin Resources (BEN); Freeport-McMoran (FCX); Google (GOOG); Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR); HDFC Bank (HDB); Kennedy-Wilson (KWIC); MasterCard (MA); McDonald's (MCD); McGrath RentCorp (MGRC); Medco Health (MHS); Medtronic (MDT); Merck (MRK); Meredith (MDP); Microsoft (MSFT); Mosaic (MOS); Neenah Paper (NP); Nordstrom (JWN...
Read articleForget Apple's iPad; Amazon Much Bigger Thank Kindle
2010-01-29 04:55:51
Keywords: Earnings * US * News * Story,Amazon.com Inc;AMZN,eBay Inc;EBAY,Apple Inc;AAPL,Earnings,Information Technology,Internet,Internet,Technology,Technology,CNBC Beat Blogs
Quote: And with a tip of the hand from Amazon rival eBay [EBAY Loading...   () ] just last week, all indications are that this company is poised for some very good earnings news. This company hit its stride during the middle of last year, and that momentum only accelerated during the fourth quarter. Citi's Mark Mahaney is out again with his very useful "cheat sheet." He's looking for GAAP EPS of 72 cents and says if the company can meet his expectations, that would be positive for th...
Read articleTime To Bid On EBay
2010-01-29 04:55:51
Keywords: Online Commerce, Auction Sites, Ebay, Electronic Commerce, Online Advertising
Quote: del.icio.usDigg It!yahooFacebookTwitterRedditrssSince the March low, eBay has vaulted higher by 140%, trading Thursday morning just shy of $24 per share. Despite the huge run over the past 10 months, Ockham Research, a value-based research boutique in Roswell, Ga., says that eBay shares are "greatly undervalued" based on several fundamental metrics, including the price to sales ratio. "Our weighted average historical high and low price to sales-per-share ratios over the last 10 years are 12.92x ...
Read articleLess is More for U.S. Couples When Buying Valentine's Day Gifts
2010-01-29 04:55:49
Quote: The total sample size was 1,000 adults in the United States.About PayPalEBAYNewshttps://www.paypal.com.About Hillary MendelsohnHillary Mendelsohn is founder and president of thepurplebook: TheDefinitive Guide to Exceptional Online Shopping, which publishes annualresource guides for online shopping. The fourth edition is currentlyavailable in bookstores nationwide and is published by Hachette/TimeWarner Book Group. In April of 2006, thepurplebook Baby, the first ofthe specialty books coveri...
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