Maxygen (MAXY): Betting Big on Bio-tech
portfoliotilt.com 9/11/2009 — There aren't many circumstances where I like a bio-tech stock. In general, there are just too many risks in the industry, and there’s too much sitting around waiting for the next big drug to pop. However, when there’s a company that has outstanding fundamentals and solid drugs in the ...

Weekly Wrap-Up, How to Make Money in a Down Market
philstockworld.com 10/3/2009 — Wow. what a fantastic week! Well, not for the markets but for us as we totally nailed it.  It’s hard to believe that it was just two weeks ago, on Monday, the 21st , after I posted the " Wrong Way Weekly Wrap-Up " as the Dow rose from 9,600 to 9,800, that I had to ...

Information technology and the U.S. productivity revival: what do the industry data say?
econpapers.repec.org 10/26/2009 — EconPapers has moved to http://EconPapers.repec.org! Please update your bookmarks. Information technology and the U.S. productivity revival: what do the industry data say? Kevin Stiroh () No 115, Staff Reports from Federal Reserve Bank of New York ...

How to Address the Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
deepmarket.com 10/12/2009 — As a result, the amount of data and IT assets stored outside of corporate data centers has risen significantly, and IT managers are now increasingly looking to consolidate their IT infrastructure. Organizations have embraced the benefits of IT consolidation in an effort to reduce complexity, ...

Microsoft: Ballmer Still Skeptical On IT Spend Rebound — BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily 11/2/2009
Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer has resumed casting doubts on the prospects for a quick recovery in IT spending. “The economy went through a set of changes on a global basis over the course of the last year which are, I think is ...

Cisco, EMC, VMware Launch Cloud Computing Push — BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily 11/3/2009
Cisco Systems (CSCO) , EMC (EMC) and VMware (VMW) are teaming up to sell hardware and software for cloud computing, the companies announced today . The three firms are creating something called the Virtual Computing Environment coalition ...

Small Stocks, Big Moves: RTEC, NSTC — BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily 11/3/2009
A couple of small stocks out of the mainstream making big moves: Rudolph Technologies (RTEC) , which makes equipment and software used in wafer fabs and semiconductor packaging, posted Q3 revenue of $23.3 million, well ahead of the Street at ...

Financial scandals in Thailand: Getting their man — The Economist: Full print edition 30 days ago
Market panics, old and new IT TOOK 13 years for Thai justice to catch up with Rakesh Saxena, an Indian-born banker who fled to Canada in 1996. Once there, Mr Saxena (pictured left) dug in his heels during what became Canada’s longest-ever ...

Schumpeter: Food fight — The Economist: Full print edition 30 days ago
Kraft and Cadbury need to think about the loyalty of future consumers as well as existing ones IT SEEMS that food still trumps everything. The past few months have seen a parade of proposed corporate marriages in all sorts of gee-whiz industries, ...