2008年11月15日 星期六

BusinessWeek(Dangerous Fakes) 20081103

.Tiger Woods: “Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn’t influence your intelligence” 穿得體面並不會影響你的智慧
2.Besides $82 million from is 65PGA tour titles, Woods has racked up more than 4750 million in endorsements in his career(可以得到這麼高的贊助是否與高爾夫球本是就是屬於有錢人的運動)
3.Ranking the winners: 25/100
1) Association/league/industry
.NASCAR: 全國運動汽車競賽協會(National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing(stock car是原廠汽車之意,後來指以原廠車改裝的賽車)
Kennedy, vice chairman and president of Daytina Beach(Fla) her son is also a racer in NASCAR, “the sport governing body”
“I am nervous watching him racing because I’m his mom, but I’m also a competitive mom.”
.Tour de France Cyclist 環法自由車賽
.NHL: National (Ice) Hockey League 美國冰上曲棍球
.NFL: National Football League:美式足球
.PGA of American, Professional Golfer’s Association 美國職業高爾協會
.IRL: Indy racing league. Open-wheel racing series(身體離地很近那種)
.UFC, Ultimate fighting championship
.United States Tennis Assn
→ the biggest sports league: FIFA, World Cup, Blatter boasts 208 member countries, 16 more than the UN
2) Owners/anthetics: consider their management, how many revenue/profit he or she earn
.Philip Anschutz
.Gatorade: sports drink
.心得:很多的大老闆不只擁有一家球隊或一種球隊。但是這樣他要支持哪隊?
銀行如Goldman Sachs, BOA也有贊助球隊
3) Media/Entertainment group
.IMG forstmann/Direct TV/Tuner Sport(TV rating)
.Robert Woods Johnson-build stadium
.Yahoo-Morgan turn web portal into internet’s top sports site. With its audience up 35% attracted famous brands put ads on it.



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Nokia handsets-boss: Vanjoki
. “the latest models come with high-resolution cameras, music players, GPS and as much power as laptops has a few years ago. Inside Nokia, I have been the face of convergence”
 Convergence: 匯流,電視(影像)/電腦(資料)/電話(聲音) 等資訊匯集在一產品上,以電信來說,便是以上多種服務整合。
• Technological convergence refers to a trend where some technologies having distinct functionalities evolve to technologies that overlap, i.e. multiple products come together to form one product, with the advantages of each initial component.
• Convergence (telecommunications) refers to the combination of multiple services through lines of telecommunication from a single provider.
Rivals:
1) Apple iPhone entertainment i-pod music
2) Google G-phone(hit in Sep. 2008) Android search engine service
3) Microsoft Window Mobil software
4) RIM blackberry Email

P074.
Sun-Microsystems, 20% of its sales(network&software) from financial company
P076
Energy Star, US DOE select energy-efficiency, scores TOP 35% in their category.
Now 92% appliance hit the mark and the standard need to be updated.
P078
Dealerships (Bill Heard, the largest Chevtolet’s retailor) vs Detroit
State’s franchise laws/ Oldsmobil brands
 Cull the herd汰弱選強
P082
A fat times and fear at top-tier law firms
P.084
Collection station
 Lax standard on diary

BusinessWeek(Where to Stash your money) 20081115

*stash 貯藏

* 1999 deregulating banking(commercial and investment banks):stable source of investment
* Lead to stable investment and reduce pressure on quarterly prfits which were bigger than the previous quarter(?); so BOA can buy Merrill.
* Take over too much risks? No choice, the longer you wait, the more you have to spend.
* So “The people who are most against market intervention wind up having to preside over the biggest market intervention.”

*Preside:主持,管轄
*Wind up:結束

* Clinton為什麼支持MaChain?第一個重視暖化問題?你老婆Hillary會不會回鍋?


Lehman brother may be in the morgue
*Morgue 停屍間
*carcass(動物的)屍體

* Two kinds of Americans: Bill Gated(creating and innovative) and spectators

*Spectators 投機者

* Why US still dominant? No competitive rivals so far.

*Jaw-dropping勞a還 (astonish)

* US now is banning on short-selling


Europe’s deep pockets

1. HSBC-British
2. BANCO SANTANDER-Spanish
3. BARCLAYS-France
4. DEUTSCHE BANK-Germany


Gov. should also bailout industries business/health care…
If the CEOs end up sleeping in cardboard boxes, that’s OK. They don’t deserve to be multimillionaire (可指不值得被以千萬抒困,也指不陪當千萬富翁)
*sleep cardboard box睡紙箱
*multimillionaire 千萬富翁

Why bailout? Incentive and reforming Who deserve it? well capitalized entities
survive but not thrive, anger taxpayer
*disgorge bonus 吐出來

* Both gov& company, money spending inefficency

*Jump-start啟動汽車 the securities trading: best scenario
*Market mechanism市場機制
Buy share instead of scarfing u bad asset

Ranking influences on social networks
Google classified marketing 所以我懷疑像window space上可以看瀏覽量與來源其實是便於其統計與分類行銷