Thursday, May 20, 2010
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
Venture Capitalists back Etacts Inc. whose Etacts Gmail Plug-In Aims to become a Unified Box for Messages
At the Wall Street Journal blog Venture Capital Dispatch, Tomio Geron in Newly Seeded Etacts Seeking Holy Grail Of The Unified Inbox writes about the e-mail information glut and the proliferation of social networking messages from various network providers that, inter alia:
Crossposted from LawPundit.
"A new start-up, Etacts Inc., is attempting to unify all these messages into one place, focusing on people who have to stay in touch with contacts for their jobs....
Etacts' Gmail plug-in organizes email, providing recent conversations with a contact and basic information about the sender through sites such as LinkedIn. Etacts also brings in messages from social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter."
Crossposted from LawPundit.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Private Equity Returning to Financial Services Industry -- Seeking Alpha
Private Equity Returning to Financial Services Industry -- Seeking Alpha
"The Financial Services industry has been getting increased attention from the private equity industry as the credit crisis eases and the financial sector’s outlook begins to brighten again."
Preserving the Wealth Creation Engine of America - Javier Tordable blog on Software, Mathematics and Technology
Javier Tordable writes in Preserving the Wealth Creation Engine of America - Javier Tordable blog on Software, Mathematics and Technology
Read the full posting here.
"Over the last few decades hundreds of companies, thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of real wealth were created by startups with the support of angel investors. The possibility of a small company to obtain seed funding with little more than an idea is indeed one of the most important wealth creation engines of America. Now this possibility, this engine, is at stake.What are they?
There is a bill currently under review in the Senate that includes two provisions that directly threaten the way that startups are funded. The bill is the "Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010” supported by Senator Dodd. Even though the intention of the bill is noble, to attempt to protect investors against fraudulent investment requests, two of its sections can have severe unintended consequences for the economy and the society of the United States."
Read the full posting here.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
After a 30-Year Run, Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Wall - NYTimes.com
After a 30-Year Run, Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Wall - NYTimes.com
"The rich have been getting richer for so long that the trend has come to seem almost permanent.Read the rest here.
They began to pull away from everyone else in the 1970s. By 2006, income was more concentrated at the top than it had been since the late 1920s. The recent news about resurgent Wall Street pay has seemed to suggest that not even the Great Recession could reverse the rise in income inequality.
But economists say — and data is beginning to show — that a significant change may in fact be under way. The rich, as a group, are no longer getting richer. Over the last two years, they have become poorer. And many may not return to their old levels of wealth and income anytime soon."
The Century of the Emerging Market
Heather Timmons and Vikas Bajaj at the New York Times in Corporate Deal Makers Head to Emerging Markets quote David Viniar, Goldman Sachs chief financial officer:
"“This will be the century” of the emerging market...."
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Carlyle Group and Fosun Group of China to Launch Private Equity Joint Venture in China
Carlyle, Fosun Group To Launch Private-Equity Fund JV - Source - WSJ.com
"SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)--Carlyle Group L.P. and Chinese conglomerate Fosun Group plan to launch a private-equity fund joint venture in China, ..."
World Financial Crisis - The Worst is Over Says Blackstone's Schwarzman
World Financial Crisis - The Worst is Over Says Blackstone's Schwarzman
Jason Kelly writes:
Jason Kelly writes:
"February 26, 2010 from Bloomberg -- Blackstone Group Inc., the world’s biggest private-equity company, paid Chairman Stephen Schwarzman a salary of ....
Schwarzman, 63, told investors yesterday that “the worst is over” as markets stabilize and buyout managers are able to sell some assets and make deals."
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