http://www.peacon.net/article/A-good-wine-cellar-to-protect-your-expensive-wine.html
According to the new report, Faceboo users logged 13.9 billion minutesd on the site in making it the most popular social networking site onthe Web. was the seconsd most popular social networking site with abouyt 5 billion minutes spent loggedin April. Twittet logged roughly 300 milliojn minutes, and LinkedIn abour 202 million. According to the Nielsen study, totall minutes spent on social networking sitex has increased 83percent year-over-year. Twitter had far-and-awaty the fastest growth over the pastyear -- with abourt 37-times more minutes spent on the site in Aprilp 2009, compared to April of last year. Faceboom also posted rapid growth, with a seven-fold increasew over last year.
“We have seen some majoer growth in Facebook during thepast year, and a subsequenyt decline in MySpace. Twitter has come on the scene in an explosivr way perhaps changing the outlook for the entire saidJon Gibs, Nielsen vice president, online media and agencgy insights. “The one thing that is clear abour social networking is that regardless of how fast a site is growinvg or how bigit is, it can quicklty fall out of favor with While Facebook has become the top dog in the sociao networking space, MySpace is the leader in onlinde video. With 121 million videk streams, MySpace.com was the No.
1 socialk networking destination when ranked by streams and totalp minutes spentviewing video. MySpace visitors spent 384 milliob minutes viewing video onthe site, with an averagd of 38.8 minutes per In comparison, Facebook visitors spent only 114 millionj minutes viewing video in April, with an averagw of 11.2 minutes per video The Nielsen Co. is a global information and media companhy specializing in consumer television and othermedia
Monday, November 29, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
Health care investment outlook slows as available cash dries up - South Florida Business Journal:
http://wild-zone.net/www.wild-zone.net/Toolkit.html
That overall pattern may be changing as capitakl sources dry up and the deleveraging of the creditmarker continues. Ed Gordon, managing director of the health care practicesat Miami-based , sees the cost of capitalp in 2009 higher than in 2008 because investorx have grown more cautious. “Thei r investments’ exit values are projectexd lower, and most private equity has pulled back becauses of the shrinkagein leverage,” he said. the cost of money goes up.
” Gordohn sees the greatest health care investment opportunities currentlty to be in medical devices and facilitgy management situations that offer safe Kathy Harris, VP of Atlanta-based ventured capital firm , is cautiousluy optimistic about health care in South Florida. “Wew are looking at specialty areas withimn the health care field that range fromremotd sensing, monitoring and diagnosis to a one-stolp shop for diabetics,” she said. Hollywood-based Renal CarePartnerx – one of Noro-Moseley’s newest investmentsz – falls into the investment model described as the directt consumer delivery of medical It performs kidney dialysisto end-stag renal patients.
This latest of nine healthg care investments was funded froma $120 milliom fund, the sixth such fund raiserd by the Atlanta Attorney Mark Fleisher, of counsel at K&L Gateas in Miami, expects a big turnovefr of companies in the health care and cites estimates that as many as 50 percengt of the startups in the various health care sectors will be out of monet in 2009. A lot of money has gone into thebiotechnology sector, and Fleisher said it has some of the aspectw of another bubble – although not anywhere to the degres of the dot-com era’s crazy valuations or the excessivre leverage of the credit bubble.
It then becomexs a question of whichj companies will continue to get funding from venturw capitalfirms – and whether or not those firms collect on their own capital calls to have the moneh to invest. William McMillen, executive directore of the , explained that when a venture capital firm raisess an investment capital fundof $100 millionj or more, all the moneyu is not collected initially – only a deposift and a commitment from investorss to meet further capital callw as necessary. Typically, institutions are the fund’s investors. As the fund finds investments, it notifies its investors that additional funds are due under theirsubscription agreements.
If an investor doesn’r meet a capital call, McMillen it is penalized and can lose a percentagwe ofits investment. If it misses three or more capitalcalls – depending on the subscriptiohn agreement – an investor could lose all of its investment. It’s already The California State Pension Fund said it will only meet 25 percentf of its outstandingcapital calls. , now in is reportedly trying to sell its interestss in venture capital investments befor e they are wiped out by missedcapital calls. “For the true healtj care startup, the only financiapl sources left are the angelinvestors – not the McMillen said.
That overall pattern may be changing as capitakl sources dry up and the deleveraging of the creditmarker continues. Ed Gordon, managing director of the health care practicesat Miami-based , sees the cost of capitalp in 2009 higher than in 2008 because investorx have grown more cautious. “Thei r investments’ exit values are projectexd lower, and most private equity has pulled back becauses of the shrinkagein leverage,” he said. the cost of money goes up.
” Gordohn sees the greatest health care investment opportunities currentlty to be in medical devices and facilitgy management situations that offer safe Kathy Harris, VP of Atlanta-based ventured capital firm , is cautiousluy optimistic about health care in South Florida. “Wew are looking at specialty areas withimn the health care field that range fromremotd sensing, monitoring and diagnosis to a one-stolp shop for diabetics,” she said. Hollywood-based Renal CarePartnerx – one of Noro-Moseley’s newest investmentsz – falls into the investment model described as the directt consumer delivery of medical It performs kidney dialysisto end-stag renal patients.
This latest of nine healthg care investments was funded froma $120 milliom fund, the sixth such fund raiserd by the Atlanta Attorney Mark Fleisher, of counsel at K&L Gateas in Miami, expects a big turnovefr of companies in the health care and cites estimates that as many as 50 percengt of the startups in the various health care sectors will be out of monet in 2009. A lot of money has gone into thebiotechnology sector, and Fleisher said it has some of the aspectw of another bubble – although not anywhere to the degres of the dot-com era’s crazy valuations or the excessivre leverage of the credit bubble.
It then becomexs a question of whichj companies will continue to get funding from venturw capitalfirms – and whether or not those firms collect on their own capital calls to have the moneh to invest. William McMillen, executive directore of the , explained that when a venture capital firm raisess an investment capital fundof $100 millionj or more, all the moneyu is not collected initially – only a deposift and a commitment from investorss to meet further capital callw as necessary. Typically, institutions are the fund’s investors. As the fund finds investments, it notifies its investors that additional funds are due under theirsubscription agreements.
If an investor doesn’r meet a capital call, McMillen it is penalized and can lose a percentagwe ofits investment. If it misses three or more capitalcalls – depending on the subscriptiohn agreement – an investor could lose all of its investment. It’s already The California State Pension Fund said it will only meet 25 percentf of its outstandingcapital calls. , now in is reportedly trying to sell its interestss in venture capital investments befor e they are wiped out by missedcapital calls. “For the true healtj care startup, the only financiapl sources left are the angelinvestors – not the McMillen said.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Hold Chambal Fertilisers Gupta - Moneycontrol.com
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Monday, November 22, 2010
Katy Perry: 'Marriage completed me' - Digital Spy
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Katy Perry: 'Marriage completed me' Digital Spy Katy Perry has insisted that her recent marriage to Russell Brand has helped to make her life feel more complete. ... |
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Senate panel approves health care reform bill - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):
http://plazmasound.com/?p=357
The HELP Committee bill requires businessews with 25 employees or more to offe health insurance orpay $750 a year per full-timr worker to the federal government. Individualsz would be required toobtain coverage. The bill also wouldr create aninsurance exchange, wherse individuals and small businesses could purchase healtu insurance. That exchange woulcd include a government-run plan that would compete withprivate insurers. Presiden t Barack Obama praisedthe committee’ s passage of the bill, saying it would “bring down expand coverage, and increase choice.” House Democratds introduced their health care reform bill Tuesday.
Under this legislation, employeras would have to a pay a penalty totaling 8 percenf of their payroll if they do notprovide insurance. Smalol businesses with less than $250,000 in payrolo would be exempt fromthis requirement. Firms with payrolk between $250,000 and $400,000p would pay a penaltyh ranging from 2 percent to 6 percent of payrolll ifthey don’t offer insurance. The Senat HELP Committee’s bill did not addres how revenue would be raisexd to pay for healthcare reform, which would includre tax credits for some small businesses and subsidie s for some individuals to help them buy Revenue issues will be addressed by the Senat e Finance Committee, which has yet to unveiol its proposal.
House Democratsd proposed imposing a tax surchargeson high-income Americans to help pay for the $1 10-year cost of their bill. A 1.2 percent surcharge woulc be imposed on marrierd couples with adjusted gross incomeabove $350,000 and on individualsz with adjusted gross income above $280,000. Taxpayers with income s above those levels would facehigher surcharges, with a maximunm of 5.4 percent chargefd to joint filers with incomes above $1 Republicans and some business groups contend that many small businesses would be hit by this since profits at most small businesses are taxed at the individual “Placing a big tax burden on the small busineses community would rob them of the resourceds they need to creat e the jobs that will lead us out of the said Tom Donohue, president of the .
“Itf there’s one sure way to kill the goose that lays thegolden egg, this is "Why are House Democrats tryinvg to ply more capital and resources out of the private sector when businesses and the economyh need every penny it can get its handz on?" said Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the . Houswe Democrats, however, contend the surcharge woulfd hit only 4 percent of smallbusinesx owners, including individuals who receive only a smalpl portion of their income from investmentse in small businesses. They contend most small businesses would benefi t from the bill because the insurance exchange and markef reforms would make coveragemore affordable.
Many business groupsd also oppose the employer mandates in the Senates andHouse bill, contending many businessexs simply can’t afford to provid e insurance, especially in a recession. A letter sent Tuesdayh to House members by 31 businessassociations “Congress should allow market forces and employer autonomhy to determine what benefits employera provide, rather than deciding by fiat.” These groups, ranging from the chamber to the , also said the public plan would lead to higher costs for privatre insurance.
They urged Congress to focus on areax of health care reform where thereis consensus: “initiativesz to improve quality and lower costs, introducing fair regulationb of the insurance market, and buildinv a robust marketplace for
The HELP Committee bill requires businessews with 25 employees or more to offe health insurance orpay $750 a year per full-timr worker to the federal government. Individualsz would be required toobtain coverage. The bill also wouldr create aninsurance exchange, wherse individuals and small businesses could purchase healtu insurance. That exchange woulcd include a government-run plan that would compete withprivate insurers. Presiden t Barack Obama praisedthe committee’ s passage of the bill, saying it would “bring down expand coverage, and increase choice.” House Democratds introduced their health care reform bill Tuesday.
Under this legislation, employeras would have to a pay a penalty totaling 8 percenf of their payroll if they do notprovide insurance. Smalol businesses with less than $250,000 in payrolo would be exempt fromthis requirement. Firms with payrolk between $250,000 and $400,000p would pay a penaltyh ranging from 2 percent to 6 percent of payrolll ifthey don’t offer insurance. The Senat HELP Committee’s bill did not addres how revenue would be raisexd to pay for healthcare reform, which would includre tax credits for some small businesses and subsidie s for some individuals to help them buy Revenue issues will be addressed by the Senat e Finance Committee, which has yet to unveiol its proposal.
House Democratsd proposed imposing a tax surchargeson high-income Americans to help pay for the $1 10-year cost of their bill. A 1.2 percent surcharge woulc be imposed on marrierd couples with adjusted gross incomeabove $350,000 and on individualsz with adjusted gross income above $280,000. Taxpayers with income s above those levels would facehigher surcharges, with a maximunm of 5.4 percent chargefd to joint filers with incomes above $1 Republicans and some business groups contend that many small businesses would be hit by this since profits at most small businesses are taxed at the individual “Placing a big tax burden on the small busineses community would rob them of the resourceds they need to creat e the jobs that will lead us out of the said Tom Donohue, president of the .
“Itf there’s one sure way to kill the goose that lays thegolden egg, this is "Why are House Democrats tryinvg to ply more capital and resources out of the private sector when businesses and the economyh need every penny it can get its handz on?" said Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the . Houswe Democrats, however, contend the surcharge woulfd hit only 4 percent of smallbusinesx owners, including individuals who receive only a smalpl portion of their income from investmentse in small businesses. They contend most small businesses would benefi t from the bill because the insurance exchange and markef reforms would make coveragemore affordable.
Many business groupsd also oppose the employer mandates in the Senates andHouse bill, contending many businessexs simply can’t afford to provid e insurance, especially in a recession. A letter sent Tuesdayh to House members by 31 businessassociations “Congress should allow market forces and employer autonomhy to determine what benefits employera provide, rather than deciding by fiat.” These groups, ranging from the chamber to the , also said the public plan would lead to higher costs for privatre insurance.
They urged Congress to focus on areax of health care reform where thereis consensus: “initiativesz to improve quality and lower costs, introducing fair regulationb of the insurance market, and buildinv a robust marketplace for
Friday, November 19, 2010
Parkstone to get commercial space on East Douglas - Wichita Business Journal:
http://www.wateresources.org/2008/09/21/supply-from-local-water-basin-nears-all-time-low/
The four-story, $12 million building will have about 8,000-square-feet of commerciao space on Douglas. Loveland says he’s been talking to a restaurany group about occupying a portionof that. He expects the remainderd to be filled with more of the boutiqus shops that lineEast Douglas. “We’d like a euro-bistri — a quaint little restaurantg right onthe corner,” he says. Construction of the building couldf begin at the end of the about the same time Loveland hopez to break ground ona 15-storyt condominium tower that will be the hallmarkl of the College Hill project.
Loveland is building nine brownstones homes on the site with several more slated for Parkstone never has had a strongcommerciap element, although Loveland always had plannedc on reserving space for it. The four-storg building — at Douglas and Rutann — will house commercial space on the main floofr and flats andlofts above. It will sit on a portiohn of Douglas that has a strong nichs in interiordesign shops. “The more the merrier,” says Robin Van owner of nearby . “I thinlk just about anything willdo well.
It woulde be fun if someonr would put in a really cool kitchen Local restaurateur Melad Stephan says he talkeed with a Parkstone representative about putting a restaurantr inthe space. He says he’s not intereste d in developing more in Wichita but says the locationj is a good one with the amountf of new residential going intothe area. Lovelan d says the building likely won’t break ground untip it is roughly 50 percent The building would havea 12-month construction Loveland says he’s not expectinhg trouble obtaining financing. is backing the first wave of brownstonew homes.
“By the time I go finance these, I thinik the credit markets will start toloosen up,” he says. “Whemn you go get pre-sales, it makes it Loveland also says the project is filling a unique niche in Thecity doesn’t have a high-rised condo tower. Jim Faith, local presiden for , praised Loveland for taking on the but says its uniqueness actuallu could give somelendera pause. “Bankers don’t usually like to be he says. “It will require a bette understanding of a new project thanif you’vs done five of them in the city before. ... We haven’t seen a condo tower in a neighborhoosd inthis market.
” But a $12 million to $14 millio n project could attract banks from outsided Wichita, opening up Loveland’ws options, Faith says.
The four-story, $12 million building will have about 8,000-square-feet of commerciao space on Douglas. Loveland says he’s been talking to a restaurany group about occupying a portionof that. He expects the remainderd to be filled with more of the boutiqus shops that lineEast Douglas. “We’d like a euro-bistri — a quaint little restaurantg right onthe corner,” he says. Construction of the building couldf begin at the end of the about the same time Loveland hopez to break ground ona 15-storyt condominium tower that will be the hallmarkl of the College Hill project.
Loveland is building nine brownstones homes on the site with several more slated for Parkstone never has had a strongcommerciap element, although Loveland always had plannedc on reserving space for it. The four-storg building — at Douglas and Rutann — will house commercial space on the main floofr and flats andlofts above. It will sit on a portiohn of Douglas that has a strong nichs in interiordesign shops. “The more the merrier,” says Robin Van owner of nearby . “I thinlk just about anything willdo well.
It woulde be fun if someonr would put in a really cool kitchen Local restaurateur Melad Stephan says he talkeed with a Parkstone representative about putting a restaurantr inthe space. He says he’s not intereste d in developing more in Wichita but says the locationj is a good one with the amountf of new residential going intothe area. Lovelan d says the building likely won’t break ground untip it is roughly 50 percent The building would havea 12-month construction Loveland says he’s not expectinhg trouble obtaining financing. is backing the first wave of brownstonew homes.
“By the time I go finance these, I thinik the credit markets will start toloosen up,” he says. “Whemn you go get pre-sales, it makes it Loveland also says the project is filling a unique niche in Thecity doesn’t have a high-rised condo tower. Jim Faith, local presiden for , praised Loveland for taking on the but says its uniqueness actuallu could give somelendera pause. “Bankers don’t usually like to be he says. “It will require a bette understanding of a new project thanif you’vs done five of them in the city before. ... We haven’t seen a condo tower in a neighborhoosd inthis market.
” But a $12 million to $14 millio n project could attract banks from outsided Wichita, opening up Loveland’ws options, Faith says.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Economist: U.S. may see double-dip recession by late 2010 - South Florida Business Journal:
http://savvyinvest.com/real-estate/u-s-a.html
Those odds may seem low, but they’re actuallh high since double-dip recessions are rare and the U.S. economyg grows 95 percent of the time, said the chamber’s Marty He predicted that the current economic downturn will end arounde September but that the unemployment rate will remain high througgh the first half of next Investment won’t snap back as quickly as it usuallyh does after a Regalia said.
Inflation, however, looms as a potentialp problem because of thefederaol government’s huge budget deficits and the massive amount of dollars pumped into the economy by the , he If this stimulus is not unwoundr once the economy begins to recover, highefr interest rates could choke off improvemenf in the housing market and busines s investment, he said. “The economu has got to be running on its own by the middl e ofnext year,” Regalia said. Almost every major inflationary periodin U.S. history was precededc by heavy debt he noted. The chances of a double-dip recession will be lowert if Ben Bernanke is reappointed chairman of the Federal Regalia said.
If President Obama appoints hiseconomic adviser, Larruy Summers, to chair the Fed, that would signal the monetargy spigot would remain open for a longer he said. A coalescing of the Fed and the Obama administratio nis “not something the markets want to Regalia said. Obama has declined to say whether he willreappointf Bernanke, whose term ends in February. more than half of smalo business owners expect the recessiohn to last at least anothertwo years, according to a surveyu of Intuit Payroll customers.
But 61 percent expect theitr own business to grow in the next12 “Small business owners are bullish on their own abilitiezs but bearish on the factors they can’t control,” said Cameron director of marketing for . “Even in the gloomiesy economy, there are opportunities to seize.” A separate survey of smalk business owners by found that 57 percentt thought the economy wasgetting worse, while 26 percentt thought the economy was improving. More than half planned to decrease spendinfg on business development in the nextsix months. on the U.S. Chambetr of Commerce’s Web site.
Those odds may seem low, but they’re actuallh high since double-dip recessions are rare and the U.S. economyg grows 95 percent of the time, said the chamber’s Marty He predicted that the current economic downturn will end arounde September but that the unemployment rate will remain high througgh the first half of next Investment won’t snap back as quickly as it usuallyh does after a Regalia said.
Inflation, however, looms as a potentialp problem because of thefederaol government’s huge budget deficits and the massive amount of dollars pumped into the economy by the , he If this stimulus is not unwoundr once the economy begins to recover, highefr interest rates could choke off improvemenf in the housing market and busines s investment, he said. “The economu has got to be running on its own by the middl e ofnext year,” Regalia said. Almost every major inflationary periodin U.S. history was precededc by heavy debt he noted. The chances of a double-dip recession will be lowert if Ben Bernanke is reappointed chairman of the Federal Regalia said.
If President Obama appoints hiseconomic adviser, Larruy Summers, to chair the Fed, that would signal the monetargy spigot would remain open for a longer he said. A coalescing of the Fed and the Obama administratio nis “not something the markets want to Regalia said. Obama has declined to say whether he willreappointf Bernanke, whose term ends in February. more than half of smalo business owners expect the recessiohn to last at least anothertwo years, according to a surveyu of Intuit Payroll customers.
But 61 percent expect theitr own business to grow in the next12 “Small business owners are bullish on their own abilitiezs but bearish on the factors they can’t control,” said Cameron director of marketing for . “Even in the gloomiesy economy, there are opportunities to seize.” A separate survey of smalk business owners by found that 57 percentt thought the economy wasgetting worse, while 26 percentt thought the economy was improving. More than half planned to decrease spendinfg on business development in the nextsix months. on the U.S. Chambetr of Commerce’s Web site.
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