vendredi 2 septembre 2011

Google a proposé mercredi une offre promotionnelle sur sa page d'accueil aux Etats-Unis, chose rare pour le géant de la pub en ligne.
Le numéro un mondial des moteurs de recherche a lancé cette année des offres de coupons-promo dans certaines villes, appelées Google Offers, pour contrer l'appétit du spécialiste américain du genre, Groupon, dont l'intérêt pour les internautes va croissant.
C'était la première fois, mercredi, que des offres Google Offers étaient affichées sur la très minimale page d'accueil du site. Ce pourrait être un signe de la concurrence croissante avec Groupon, que certaines sources soupçonnent de préparer une entrée en Bourse dès la mi-septembre.

Les revenus que Google tire de la publicité représentaient 96% des quelque 29 milliards de dollars de chiffre d'affaires affiché de l'an dernier. La grande majorité de ces revenus provient des publicités liées aux résultats de son moteur de recherche...

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jeudi 1 septembre 2011

...lalala boom boom....ohéohé ...PARTY !



Le taux de chômage en France au sens du Bureau international du Travail (BIT) a légèrement reculé, de 0,1 point, au deuxième trimestre à 9,1% en moyenne en métropole (9,6% en incluant les départements d'outre-mer), selon les données corrigées des variations saisonnières provisoires publiées aujourd'hui par l'Insee.










tablet




HP a jeté l'éponge dernièrement avec les " tablets" en vidangeant le stock à 99$ pièce.Le iPad est roi et maître....partout....les Chinois n'en finissent plus d'acheter...mais là il semble qu'un joueur veut donner des coups d'épaules....AMZN !..

LE KINDLE NOUVEAU ? ...NON...BEAUCOUP MIEUX !

The Digitimes reported that Amazon's much rumored tablet is expected to start shipping in October. The 7-inch tablet, supplied by Quanta Computer, is expected to begin shipping some time in October. The news was reported from sources along Amazon's component suppliers. Additionally, Amazon is also expected to begin shipping a 10.1 inch version of the tablet beginning in 2012. Foxconn Electronics (no stranger to Apple) will handle the orders.

If the tablet is powered on Google's Android operating systeme, it could finally be a way for Google to get Android firmly in the tablet market and make it count.

...SONY aussi semble vouloir mettre son grain de sel avec sa nouvelle bébelle...

mercredi 31 août 2011



La dette grecque est hors de contrôle et les mesures prises par le gouvernement ne peuvent pas restaurer l'état des finances, affirme une commission d'experts indépendants dans un rapport publié aujourd'hui...
Il est clair que le problème de ce pays n'est pas seulement le volume de sa dette publique, mais aussi l'incapacité de consolider la gestion budgétaire actuelle... de faire des coupures en fin de compte..






There’s really something odd about the latest deal from Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) to team up with Zipcar, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZIP). Ford will provide up to 1,000 of its Escorts and Escapes to Zipcar over the next two years as the Zipcar expands its program on university campuses around the US. The deal may be good for Zipcar, but Ford’s rewards are tougher to spot.
Zipcar, which came public in April, makes money by selling memberships and by renting its cars by the hour. Having more cars available on university campuses should attract more memberships, which the company hopes will eventually contribute about 17% to its top line.
That will help Zipcar certainly, but most of the company’s costs are related to purchasing or leasing its fleet. It’s not clear how this deal will help there. Ford has agreed to subsidize new memberships for the first 100,000 new members at a total cost of $1 million and to offer a $1 discount to Zipcar’s hourly rate for the first 1 million hours of usage. That’s another million bucks.
So Ford is paying $2 million to Zipcar in exchange for Zipcar’s agreement to add 1,000 Fords to its stable. That wouldn’t be such a bad deal if the whole idea behind Zipcar was to sell more cars for Ford.
But that’s not what Zipcar is about. In the announcement of the deal Zipcar’s CEO says, “We’re targeting a generation that only knows how to buy music by the song so paying for a car by the hour is a natural for them.” How does that help Ford’s sales?
For Zipcar to succeed the company needs to produce some large number of drivers for every car. For Ford to prosper, it would prefer to sell one or more cars to every driver.

Les riches s'enrichissent...les pauvres s'...



French luxury-goods group Hermes International on Wednesday reported first-half 2011 consolidated net income rose 50% to €290.9 million ($420.2 million) from €194.6 million in the year-ago period.

sur ma watch list...




RIM



ComScore has just released its smartphone market share and the data continues to support an exodus away from the Blackberry from Research in Motion Ltd. RIM phones as a percentage of OEM mobile phone subscribers fell to 7.6% in July 2011 from 8.2% in April 2011. If you look at the Smartphone Platform Market Share, that fell to 21.7% from 25.7% in the same period.

mardi 30 août 2011

Ils achètent...



Huang Nubo, a Chinese real estate tycoon, is buying a huge 300 square kilometers (115 square miles) of land in north-east Iceland, reports the FT.
The purchase of the land, a rural area known as Grímsstadir á Fjöllum, has worried a number of people who wonder why such a huge amount of land -- 0.3 percent of Iceland's total -- is needed for Nubo's plans for a hotel and golf course.
Iceland has a unique strategic position between the United States and Europe that some worry may be an ulterior motive for the purchase.
“China has been very active in buying up land around the world so we need to be aware of the international ramifications,” Ögmundur Jónasson, the Icelandic interior minister, told the Financial Times.
Nubo currently ranks #161 on Forbes's 2010 list of China's richest, and plans on buying the land for $8.8 million. He apparently has deep ties to the country, last year spending $1 million on an Icelandic cultural fund...

loadés



Money Magazine, September 2011 issue, Page 42.



This 31- and 32-year-old couple are $783,000 in debt! The debt is made up of a mortgage on a townhouse, a mortgage on a condo, plus car and student loans. First off, that is a terrible position to be in. They are in way, way over their heads. But it gets worse.
The wife is expecting their first child so they only have the husband's $93,000 / year income. They say they are "barely breaking even on [his] salary"...uhm, no, you are not breaking even at all. You are losing ground (to debt and financial slavery), and fast. If they could apply all $93k of his income toward all their debt, it would still take them 8.41 years to pay it all off! OMG. That's atrocious.
"They decided to keep their old condo as an investment, but so far it's been a cash drain." Silly people, you ought to stick to consulting or whatever it is that you do. "Real estate" as an investment is often highly overrated, as the returns on residential real estate have, on average over long periods of time, only barely beaten inflation.
What are you doing buying a $410,000 townhouse in Leesburg, Virginia? Anywhere in Virginia, for that matter? That's bubble pricing if I've ever heard it. Making matters worse is that they still own a mortgage on a condo. Why does a young, white collar dual income (previously) no kids couple have to buy a townhouse or condo in Virginia? Because we are still in a significant housing bubble in multiple areas of the country...and Leesburg, Virginia is definitely one of them.
These articles never fail to count "home equity" under the "Assets" section of peoples' financial situation. It says this couple has $66,000 in home equity. Bwah, ha, ha. Sure, right. Did you get those figures from Zillow? Or better yet a local realtor? Are you factoring in selling costs to liquidate all of that "equity"? Of course not. A quick off-the-cuff guess is that they are sitting on about half that much "equity."
If the tenant skips out on paying them rent, the article tells how the young, naive couple will be on the hook for mortgage payments totaling 42% of their income (!!!), not factoring in maintenance and repairs. Gulp!! Gasp. That's a mighty scary position you are putting your family in, sonny. And btw, I'd definitely factor in maintenance and repairs.
These young kids are financially screwed because they are trying to live "the American Dream" that someone else told them they should. Why do you have to have a kid if you cannot afford it? Parenting magazine just quoted a new study saying that the typical cost to raise a child to age 18 is approximately $190,000. This couple is already in a financial hurt locker, and now they are adding a newborn child to the picture. Wanna bet that they'll "have to" have a second child? I've seen it too often.
And why did they have to buy a house? (a condo) And then another house? (a townhouse) This is a great example of the real estate pathology that many people still have today.
Since the "financial advisor" gave them terrible advice (let me guess, the financial advisor also thinks real estate is a good investment? And has hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt to her name, too? That would explain the horrendous advice to this young couple), allow me to intervene further by offering some sound financial advice for them:
1. Sell your new townhouse immediately 2. Sell your condo concurrently 3. Sell your car / cars and pay off the loans immediately 4. Use any remaining "equity" funds from above sales to pay off any and all debt 5. Rent a nice apartment or home for a couple of years 6. Buy a conservative used car with cash
That's really only a beginning but still much better than the article offered for them.

lundi 29 août 2011

GUR et TUR



Istanbul sent le diésel, le kébab... et l'argent. Le pays offre les occasions d'affaires les plus alléchantes d'Europe. Comment un État en faillite il y a 10 ans peut-il aujourd'hui dépasser la Chine ? Une histoire de jeunesse, d'audace et de bon gouvernement.



pour la suite....




Les poulets ...CNN et LCN





" L'organisation de l'ONU pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) a recommandé aujourd'hui "une surveillance et une vigilance accrues" face au virus de la grippe aviaire "au moment où une souche mutante de ce virus mortel se propage en Asie et au-delà".
"Le dernier décès est survenu en début de mois au Cambodge où ont été enregistrés huit cas d'infection humaine cette année, tous mortels".

Selon Juan Lubroth, vétérinaire en chef , il semblerait que cette expansion soit liée aux mouvements migratoires des oiseaux : au cours des 24 derniers mois, le H5N1 est apparu chez des volailles et oiseaux sauvages dans des pays où il avait disparu depuis plusieurs années. "

Si les journalistes des réseaux de nouvelles en continu embarquent dans une 3em paniques de la grippe du poulet...certains stocks vont être très payants !


Mon préféré est Sinovac SVA ...et il y a aussi NVAX SNY GSK






Chinoiseries

Walmart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT) said it plans to invest ¥500 million opening new stores in Guizhou province over the next five years. The world's largest retailer has opened 346 stores across 128 mainland cities, including six in Guizhou

One in every 1,400 Chinese persons had at least ¥10 million of investable current assets by the end of 2011, according to the latest Hurun report.

China probably overtook the US as the largest personal computer market in Q2 2011, Bloomberg reported. Personal computer shipments in China rose 14% to 18.5 million units during the period, while the number in the US fell 4.8% to 17.7 million, according to Bryan Ma, an analyst at research firm IDC. Ma predicted China would likely pass the US on a full-year basis in 2012.