Monday, June 29, 2009

Google=Microsoft!? Are you able to spot the differences?

"Google Makes a Case That It Isn’t So Big",

by Miguel Helft, The New York Times, June 28, 2009

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Wrong systemic incentives in the origin of the international financial crisis

Reform of regulation has to start by altering incentives, by Martin Wolf

Financial Times, June 24, 2009

The main reasons for the current international financial crisis can also be traced to the inherent systemic bias of the banking business, as Martin Wolf brilliantly tries in the column above. Don't forget to take a look at respective comments, and to leave your feedback in this or in the FT's own blog.
In case you have some more interest and time on your hands, you may read further the paper mentioned by Wolf, "Regulating Bankers' Pay" by Lucian Bebchuk & Holger Spamann, both from Harvard Law School, you may dowload from SSRN.

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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Infineon Profits From New iPhone But Volumes Still Low -Source

Infineon Profits From New iPhone But Volumes Still Low -Source

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Not all seems bad for Infineon as there are rumours that it supplies Apple with chips for its new iPhone 3G S.

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EETimes.com - Analysis: Relocations should not obstruct view on Infineon's true problems

EETimes.com - Analysis: Relocations should not obstruct view on Infineon's true problems

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"Infineon is moving another part of its production activities from Germany to the Far East. And there the company is about to move parts of its back end from Malaysia to China. Is the company tiptoeing out of its back end activities — and perhaps, eventually, out of its Europe-based production activities?" Christopher Hammerschmidt pursues this story on the EE Times Europe of today. You may read on by clicking here. Apparently, and in the absence of state aid from the German government and the no show of a "white knight", both very rare these days, Infineon is going for cutting costs via delocalization.

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