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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Tracking Bank Failures: Bank Seizures Reach 133 This Year	Regulators shuttered three more banks on Friday. That brings the total for the year to 133 and the total since 2008 to 158. The three bank were Miami-based Republic Federal Ban, Valley Capital Bank NA of Mesa, Ariz., and SolutionsBank of Overland Park, Kan. The FDIC estimated that the three failures would cost the agency’s cash-strapped deposit-insurance fund a total of about $252 million. The 133 failures so far this year represent the largest number of bank collapses since 1992, when 181...	December 15, 2009
Dubai World Hasn’t Rocked U.S. Banks So Far	It may be a Thanksgiving pardon, but U.S. banks have so far suffered no major damage in credit markets from the Dubai debt storm. The cost of credit protection on U.S. financial firms has risen moderately since Wednesday, when Dubai announced its largest corporate entity, Dubai World, had asked creditors for a six-month waiver on all payments on $60 billion in debt. But there’s little sign yet that the anxiety over European exposures to the emirate’s long-standing debt problems will...	November 27, 2009
Asian Tech Stock Weekly Review (November 2-8, 2009)	Japan Mobile/ Wireless • Aurora Feint has agreed to sell a 20 percent stake to Japanese online and mobile commerce and entertainment provider DeNa. DeNA gaming industry partner Hudson, has agreed to use OpenFeint in their game lineup starting with Bomberman for the Christmas season....	November 11, 2009
To What Degree Were AIG’s Operating Insurance Subsidiaries Sound? (7)	Deferred Tax Assets Here is a table of deferred tax assets by OIS, for those having more than 10% of surplus in DTAs. Deferred tax assets are only valuable to the degree that you can earn income adequate to use them. The column “DTA payback” indicates the number of years of 2007 earnings (a relatively good year) that it would take to fully use the DTAs. Now, it may no longer matter whether AIG ever pays taxes or not. It is largely “in one pocket, out of the other” with the governmen...	April 29, 2009
Mobage-town: Japan’s Biggest Mobile-Only Social Network	There is a lot of hype and hope in the U.S. around taking social networks mobile, but mobile social networking is still in the fledgling stages in the West. In Japan, it is already a reality. One company in particular, DeNA, has taken Japan by storm with its mobile SNS/virtual world/gaming platform Mobage-town. DeNA opened a US office in San Mateo earlier this year, with plans to offer an English version of Mobage-town this fall. Subscribers can exchange messages, chat in communities, share mu...	August 16, 2008
A Reader's Thoughts on Barnes & Noble and Borders Article	JB sent me a great message this morning about the Barnes & Noble (BKS) and Borders (BGP) article in the WSJ today. It is well worth a read."I'm not sure how much I believe about difficultly in getting bank financing. It seems like CVS (CVS) didn't have a difficult time and Waste Management (WMI) has received positive feedback from banks regarding the RSG offer. Not to mention the fact that BKS is under levered going into a potential transaction. BKS has 96.83mm in debt and netting out cas...	August 14, 2008
CNET CEO: “This Is An Exciting Day For Us”	CNET CEO Neil Ashe, who has been accused of “presiding over massive value destruction” will go down in history as the guy that was forced to sell CNET out to an old media dinosaur. But at least he’s given CNET’s stockholders back all of the losses they’ve sustained under his watch with the $1.8 billion sale to CBS. Ashe’s email to CNET staff this morning is below. Hello Everyone, This is an exciting day for us. Today, CBS and CNET Networks announced a definitive agr...	May 15, 2008
GM Runs Smoothly, But What’s Under the Hood?	General Motors Inc. rolled out the same first-quarter earnings model as rival Ford Motor Co. did a week ago. This model has a fresh coat of paint and new tires, but there’s a bit of a knocking sound in the engine, and in the opinion of some, doesn’t run as well as the Ford model. “The results were a carbon copy of Ford, however, in that a seemingly strong headline beat was driven in large part by unsustainable commodity hedging gains ($600mm in NA vs. $250mm at Ford) and to a ...	April 30, 2008
CNET Cuts 10% Of Workforce, Effective Immediately (Updated With Internal Memo)	CNET has announced that it will cut 10% of its workforce, or 120 people, effective immediately, in a move said to help it “focus on long-term growth amid complaints from some investors.” CNET has had no shortage of headlines recently, from changes at the top through to an ongoing battle for control against largest shareholder Jana Partners. According to an internal memo from CEO Neil Ashe, the restructure will include stronger emphasis on centralized services in areas like IT archit...	March 26, 2008
Tech firms’ hidden exposure to subprime	At Israel Opportunity Investor, we’re spending a lot of time with CEOs recently asking about their views on the future. What’s interesting is that some tech companies are beginning to see a connection between the subprime fiasco and their own businesses. So, we decided to do a rundown on firms that we think may have some exposure, hidden or not, to the subprime mess. Companies dependent on ad revenue from housing/mortgage lenders and further downstream secondary effects Bankrate (Na...	February 29, 2008