IBM Lotusphere 2012: The Old Lotus Has Wilted Customer Think (blog) Simply put, that they are betting their entire portfolio of collaboration solutions, both old and new on Social Business. One fat caveat before I put my thoughts here. Connections Next, IBM's enterprise social software offering that was the star of its ... |
WALTERS: The risks of betting against pension reform Santa Rosa Press Democrat By DAN WALTERS Whenever someone suggests that California's public employee pension systems need reform, civil service unions react dismissively, often with attacks on the credentials or even the morals of critics. When, for example, a Public Policy ... |
Where Should You Place Your Stop Loss? Sacramento Bee Here, spread betting provider City Index explains the stop loss strategies that could help you to manage your trading account more efficiently. A well known strategy for traders is to cut losses early and run profits. Meanwhile many new traders will ... |
![]() BBC News | Roche Seen Offering Illumina More for Gene Mapping: Real M&A BusinessWeek Sachin Shah, a Jersey City, New Jersey-based merger arbitrage strategist at Tullett Prebon Plc, said traders betting on such a large increase from Roche may be too optimistic. Roche bought Tuscon, Arizona-based Ventana Medical Systems Inc. for $89.50 a ... Roche in $5.7 billion bid for gene decoder Illumina Roche likely to raise Illumina bid |
Definition 6 Brings Live Horseracing to Facebook Via HBO's 'Luck $50k ... Sacramento Bee The Luck $50K Challenge app launched on January 11, 2012 in a phased approach: Education, Betting and Race Day. During the education phase, users were instructed to "Like" the page, and then had the opportunity to pick the winners in three previously ... |
Shuffle Master, Inc. "Delivers More" at International Casino Exhibition (ICE ... MarketWatch (press release) Combining a live dealer and a touch-screen electronic betting interface, the Rapid line of electronic table systems significantly increases game security and productivity. Rapid Multigame is the latest enhancement to the Rapid platform and includes a ... |
![]() Daily Racing Form | New drama 'Luck' reveals racing as Milch sees it Daily Racing Form Asked why he revisited “The Main Chance” five years ago and began furiously rewriting it, Milch said: “I figured that as long as I was getting my brains beat in [at the betting windows], I might as well try to make a few bucks in the process. David Milch: Trying His 'Luck' With Horse Racing |
![]() Bloomberg | Farmers Bet on Rates as MetLife Battles Rural Lenders Bloomberg “If I can get the rate right and buy the property right, I'd borrow millions every day,” said Harder, who is expanding his corn and soybean plots with a 3.35 percent, variable-rate loan from a US Farm Credit System bank. “I'm kind of a gambler anyway ... |
The Fetish for Liquidity (and Reform of the Financial System) EconoMonitor “Term out”: force financial institutions that take risky bets to finance their positions in assets by issuing longer-term liabilities. In that case, there is no easy way to “run out”. The creditors are locked in to the crazy bets made by the debtors. |
![]() Bloomberg | Gross Counters Gundlach Pushing U.S. Bank Bonds DoubleLine Shuns as Risky Bloomberg Both bonds are among the banks' most traded, according to Trace, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's price reporting system. Bet 'Hurt' Bank bonds returned 1.7 percent in 2011 and dropped 1.5 percent in the last six months of the year as ... Gundlach and Gross part company over banks — and so far, Gundlach's winning |