Satyam Co - Corporate Frauds in India

e - Voice Of Human Rights Watch - e-news weeklySpreading the light of humanity & freedom Editor: Nagaraj.M.R....vol.5 . issue.03......17/01/2009EDITORIAL : SATYAM CO FRAUD - ARE YOU SINCERELY READY TO CATCH TAX THEIVES , CORPORATE CRIMINALS ?- AN APPEL TO UNIONFINANCEMINISTER & KARNATAKASTATE FINANCE MINISTERCorporate fraud is nothing new to [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 11:45:00

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And Then There’s This…Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Gold and silver didn't do much from the opening in the Far East until the London p.m. fix at 10 a.m. NY time. Then both began to rise from that point onward. Gold finished up $16.80 and silver was up 28 cents. I was underwhelmed, as the dollar finished down almost a full cent. However platinum and palladium had a stellar day.. [more...]

Date: 2008-09-14 01:57:39

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (Dec 22 – 28, 2008)

Investors spent the holiday-shortened Christmas week in an un-merry mood, digesting more gloomy economic data and taking stock of a tumultuous 2008. With the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Index down by 35.8% and 40.6% respectively for the year to date, many investors would be anxious to wave the old year goodbye [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 14:24:18

The Future of Clinical Computing: A Vision from Panasonic

This week, Panasonic quietly gathered some of the bigger brains in medical technology and introduced them to the company's upcoming Mobile Clinical ... . Not surprisingly, we spent time discussing Panasonic's family of mobile healthcare products, including [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 14:56:22

Sophisticated gold investment strategies for 2009

Buying a few gold coins or the odd mini-ingot and hiding them away has been a successful investment strategy over the past five years. Even in the annus horribilus of 2008 investors who chose gold over other asset classes ... asset classes in 2008. For 2009 the resumption of a strong bull market in gold is one of the few [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 06:41:37

South Africa emerging as a credible alternative offshore destination, says Everest

/India PRwire/ - Everest Group has released the findings of its latest and most comprehensive study on South Africa’s BPO industry, ... presents a significant opportunity for global Financial Services firms looking to expand their offshore [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 10:06:16

UTI woos overseas Indians with new gold, equity-based fund

Even as the world grapples with a financial crisis, ... asset classes that they can add to their portfolios," Harsha Upadhyay, fund manager and vice-president of UTI Asset Management Co, said in the statement. "If one of your primary objectives is to earn [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 11:38:09

Silly Canadian....Gold Isn't For Stupid Americans..............

Eric Sprott: Gold: The Go-To Asset in any Environment-- Posted Friday, 9 January 2009 Source: GoldSeek ... in the country. Managing $4.8 billion worth of hedge and mutual funds for Sprott Asset Management ... .comA 40-year, spectacularly successful veteran of the investment industry, Eric Sprott [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:32:00

A biological perspective on financial bubbles

Freakonomics has this brilliant and illuminating post by Prof Andrew Lo on the genesis of financial asset bubble driven crises and the prescriptions ... by periods of rising real-estate and stock prices, large capital inflows, and financial liberalization [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 12:51:00

EverBank Yield Pledge Money Market / FreeNet Checking Review, Part 1: Application Process

My wife recently applied for an EverBank Yield Pledge Money Market account for their introductory rate ... . So if you opened both the FreeNet Checking and Yield Pledge Savings account on November 1st ... a month later, you’ll only get the promo rate on that account for 2 months. Step 1: Personal Information [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 09:04:11

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks

Caprock Analytics highlights selected stocks from the over 4,000 stocks tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. These stock selections include a recent Caprock Analytics Strength metric and a brief description of the company. Note that stocks with negative strength ratings indicate a degree of weakness that has been detected [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 19:06:02

DrumBeat: January 13, 2009

Analysis: Global power demand to languish in 2009 The outlook for energy commodities this year remains grim, says a new report from Merril Lynch ... management, contractor mistakes and Iraqi neglect, U.S. auditors say in a new report similar to many [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:34

Special situation: Unwinding of Sprott Molybdenum Participation Corp

#fullpost{display:inline;}A Canadian listed fund, Sprott Molybdenum Participation Corporation (TSX: MLY) ... term securities, net of liabilities....Mr. Sprott, who also heads Sprott Asset Management Inc ... potential return.The Globe & Mail has a summary of the situation:Sprott Molybdenum Participation Corp. said [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 01:15:00

Mayor of London Launches Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

Surface temperature of London at 21:30 on 7 August, 2003 showing the signature of the urban heat island during the killer heatwave. Click to enlarge. Source: NASA Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, launched the London Climate Change Adaptation Strategy—one of the first comprehensive climate change adaptation strategies produced [more...]

Date: 2008-08-31 12:48:29

Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/3/2008

USAIslamic Jihadists Post 50k Bounty on McCain’s Spiritual Advisor Pastor Rod ParsleyTunnel Found in Mexicali Two Blocks South of the Border Europe and the EU“Fitna” Filmmaker Wilders to Speak in JerusalemCrime Rates for Every Neighbourhood in London Displayed on Police WebsiteDenmark: [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 00:59:00

Security, Productivity, and Cost Controls

Go ahead; mention computer security to the average small business owner. See how fast his hand covers his wallet ... what it really means. Physical security is the actual measures you take to protect your premises [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:08:43

Meme: Five Things Policymakers Ought to Know

Here’s a meme I can sink my teeth into. “Five things policymakers ought to know!” I have not been formally tagged, as far as I know, but I ran across Cathy Nelson’s and Doug Johnson’s reports this morning and a Google Blog search revealed five others [more...]

Date: 2008-08-10 13:45:55

Gordon Brown’s Gold Sales, 10 Years On

"This coming May will mark 10 years since Gordon Brown's infamous gold sales..." THIS COMING MAY will mark 10 years since Gordon Brown chose to sell well over half the UK's national gold reserves - some 415 tonnes all told - at what would prove rock-bottom prices. Never mind his politics [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:38:08

Super Tobin Tax

Wikipedia:A Tobin tax is the suggested tax on all trade of currency across borders ... , or any asset at 2 o’clock and then selling it at 3. The more you trade, the more you pay.“ ... on very small margins. Someone who buys an asset and then sells it an hour later at a one percent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 17:00:00

DrumBeat: December 10, 2008

U.S. gasoline use to decline most since 1979-80 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. gasoline demand is expected to decline more sharply this year and next than in any other two-year period since 1979-1980, the federal Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 13:52:25

News and Views

Israel Rains Fire on Gaza With Phosphorus Shellsby Sheera Frenkel and Michael Evans - The Times Online (UK)JERUSALEM - Israel is believed to be using controversial white phosphorus shells to screen its assault on the heavily populated Gaza Strip yesterday [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 11:53:00

Hyderabad-Based Application Provider for Retail Stores Raises $1M

Hyderabad-Based Application Provider for Retail Stores Raises $1M By VCCircle - Thu 08 Jan 2009 11: ... investors in the first round included Atim Kabra of Frontline Ventures, Raman Kumar of Cbay Systems, Ashish ... products, brands, or sales locally, and to scan the inventory at any given shopping center. The company [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:34:08

Somewhat Frank: WiMAX Reality

Somewhat Frank: WiMAX Reality 04:29 | Jason Lopez | Oct 8th, 2008 5:41pm | It’s been awhile since we first began hearing about WiMAX, and it may have sounded impossible at first. Not to Frank Gruber. He says it was inevitable, that it works, and it’s cool [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 00:41:22

Breaking All the Rules - Exclusive World Class Investments to Help Double Your Net Worth and to Establish Your Legacy!!

BREAKING ALL THE RULES! Exclusive World Class Investments to Help Double Your Net Worth and to Establish Your Legacy!! Cabal Capital Management, LLC announces the launch of the Legacy Fund which provides special alternative investment opportunities into extremely low risk, and very high financial return Advanced [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 15:31:16

Baseball Like It Mighta Been

The following is excerpted from The 2024 Field Guide to Major League Ballparks with full permission of Alternate Reality Publishing, ... flourishes to which baseball fans from coast to coast have become accustomed. The designation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 13:51:00

ToutVirtual Rolls Out Virtualization Management Upgrade

Carlsbad-based ToutVirtual, which develops software for managing virtual computing products, announced today that the firm has upgraded its VirtualIQ Pro product. The firm's software is used ... . ToutVirtual said the upgraded VirtualIQ Pro 3 product adds new auditing features to track physical asset [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 16:48:00

Security: The Essential Element

Security: The Essential Element By Harry Hiles, HBH Technology LLC Whether recognized or not, security is perhaps the most critical component of any IT service. Security is integral to the architecture of all applications and services, and must be built-in from the ground up. The security [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:30:39

Rental Equipment Loss Control: 21 Ways to Prevent Rental Company Theft

Rental equipment companies continue to face millions of dollars a year in loss due to equipment theft. In fact, insurers report that, “the volume of claims they see for equipment being rented by policyholders far exceeds the volume of rental equipment that they are insuring [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 21:14:42

St. Louis Police: The string of horribles must stop

The FBI raided Metropolitan Towing in August as part of its investigation into city police practices. (Post-Dispatch/Robert Cohen) It has been a rough year for the St. Louis Police Department [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 03:00:46

And Then There’s This… Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

The top for the gold price, in early morning Far East trading on Tuesday, ... all its own. It took off right from the Globex open in the Far East on Tuesday. Its top was in at the Hong Kong open…which is 8:30 a.m. over there. Then, it too, was taken down…particularly [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 15:21:04

Clearinghouse for Paperwork: Cede and Co and Depository Trust Clearing Corporation: But are the Mortgage Backed Certificates There?

A CEDE & CO partnered company. Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation DTC From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, ... with their distribution networks. DTCC’s DTC depository provides custody and asset servicing for 3.5 million securities [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 15:53:28

DrumBeat: January 7, 2009

Shell seeks Colo. water for oil shale production Shell Oil has filed for the first major water right on the Yampa River in northwest Colorado for its oil shale development plans. Shell applied Dec. 30 in state Water Court to use about 8 percent of the Yampa's peak spring flow [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 13:57:26

Gold, Not so Golden in 2008

Gold It’s been a terrible year for most major asset classes — stocks, real estate, hedge funds, and commodities ... market turmoil because for much of the year, gold was as much a part of the craze as any other asset [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 16:07:07

how to be invisible

I’ve always been of the opinion that people over concerned with surveillance and data security are displaying the first stages of clinical paranoia. It’s well known, for those that care to look [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 15:47:17

Women in the City Winner: Trish Barrigan, Senior Partner, Benson Elliot Capital Management LLP

Women in the City Winner: Trish Barrigan, Senior Partner, Benson Elliot Capital Management LLP by Elizabeth Harrin (London) ... Partner of Benson Elliot Capital Management LLP, a leading pan-European private equity real estate firm ... . Private equity real estate is a sub-sector of the better known private equity industry.  However, it’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 18:00:09

Transcript: Libraries in the Age of Wikipedia

The following is an unverified rush transcript of the conversation with Bill Mayer, recorded on January 13, 2008 ... . He has been involved in university libraries up and down the East Coast, including MIT, Harvard Business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:47:12

Branding Trends: Engagement And Creation With Your Audience - The CoCreative Consumer

How can you, as a customer, get more engaged and involved in the process that defines the very product you are holding in your hands? How can you actually participate in the very definition of the traits that will characterize a product you like? [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 08:58:00

Branding Trends: Engagement And Creation With Your Audience - The CoCreative Consumer

How can you, as a customer, get more engaged and involved in the process that defines the very product you are holding in your hands? How can you actually participate in the very definition of the traits that will characterize a product you like? [more...]

Date: 2008-10-15 07:07:15

Hitachi Data Systems Unveils Next-Generation Midrange Storage Platform

/India PRwire/ - Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, today unveiled its next-generation line-up of midrange storage systems, the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) 2000 Series [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 12:10:41

THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 19 December 2008

FINTAG COMMENT Oil. Oh dear. With crude oil falling under USD40, the oil producing countries must be worried ... has no bearing on the demand for the physical, just what future speculators think it should [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 09:29:19

Plum Helps Websites Get ‘Social’

Plum Helps Websites Get 'Social' 10:01 | Jennifer Jones | Oct 13th, 2008 12:01am | ... save, share and organize a person’s digital life. Brondmo also gives Jones insights into Plum’ ... a person’s digital life. Brondmo also gives Jones insights into Plum’s newest product offering being [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 07:01:45

Is the "Commodities as Anti-Dollar" Trade Back?

Commodities had a nice day Wednesday, with oil in particular spiking up ... be shortlived amid worries about a global economic slowdown. “Demand for physical commodities is tanking [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 03:04:09

Financial Risks And Personal Finance Risk Management, Part 2

This is the second part of Financial Risks And Personal Finance Risk Management series ... Asset Risk Management Methods: To ensure that you save enough for your financial goals ... . In the first part, we looked at financial risks and risk management as they relate to your income [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 13:00:26

Sheldon Inwentash: All Signs Point to Explosive Rise in Price of Gold

Source: The Gold Report With more than 20 years of experience in the investment industry, Sheldon Inwentash, ... asset value that reflected upon how much money they could earn on the money they held [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 15:29:20

Financial Resolutions for the New Year

The following is a guest post from Marotta Asset Management. Every year many of us make New Year's resolutions and then can't follow through because we claim we're too busy. The most common [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 03:56:57

Gold, Faith and Credit

by The Mogambo Guru Like many people, I have been looking at the price disparity between the market prices of gold and silver bullion (averaging about $1,000 an ounce for gold and $16.50 an ounce for silver) versus the prices of gold and silver futures (about $730 and $8.90 respectively) [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 20:52:53

Gold, Faith and Credit

Like many people, I have been looking at the price disparity between the market prices of gold and silver bullion (averaging about $1,000 an ounce for gold and $16.50 an ounce for silver) versus the prices of gold and silver futures (about $730 and $8.90 respectively) [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 14:48:47

Fierce Financial Tips: The Carnival of Personal Finance #178, Struwwelpeter Edition

I’ve been waiting for this chance to host The Carnival of Personal Finance for some time ... to my computer all weekend. I hope you enjoy these entries as tremendously [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 05:46:25

Re: [khabor.com] Bangladeshi companies need to learn from Indian companies

Need to learn not to do fraud.--M M Chowdhury Sent from my iPhoneOn Jan 10, 2009, at 1:08 AM, "Md. Shamim Iqbal" <shmm777@yahoo.com> wrote: dear mr chowdhury, what is there to learn for bd companies from a fraud company like satyam? regards--- On Fri, 1/9/09, M. M. Chowdhury (Mithu) <cgmpservices@yahoo.com> wrote:From: M. M. Chowdhury (Mithu) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 22:24:00

The Carnival of Personal Finance #178: Struwwelpeter Edition

I’ve been waiting for this chance to host The Carnival of Personal Finance for some time ... to my computer all weekend. I hope you enjoy these entries as tremendously [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 05:46:25

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