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The Deal - Opportunities in a Sluggish Market
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When times get tough, investors need to answer a few key questions: which industries are most attractive for investment? What deal structures are investors choosing? Where are sellers’ expectations?
In this podcast, although there was some consensus around the prediction that deal flow in the U.S. will drop below the impressive levels it has achieved in recent years, the expert voices of a panel discussion tackling “Opportunities and priorities in a sluggish economy” hold true to their panel title, expressing optimism at the opportunities that present in a down market.
From manufacturing to distribution and even food processing, all kinds of industries are facing tough decisions about how to continue in the current economic climate. That means opportunities for investors, and that’s just in the U.S. Abroad, particularly in Asia, there’s still a healthier climate for deals. About deals in Asia, Peter Berger, managing director at SAC Private Capital, says, “That’s where the dealflow is”
So, what’s going to happen? If we’re in the “eye of the storm,” as CCMP Capital Managing Director Jonathan Lynch says, then “it’s going to get worse.” But with an “inexhaustible supply of bad management,” even the so-called good times keep turnaround investors like Raquel Palmer at KPS ...
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Voices of Shanghai: IDF 2008
This year’s Spring IDF, in Shanghai, brought the global community of Intel developers to one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, to discuss one of the most rapidly-changing technologies, and the incredible impact that all of that change is bound to have. Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager ...
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IDF Shanghai 2008: Atom-Enabled Devices To Debut
A new processor for the ultra-mobile market is Intel’s latest move to revolutionize mobility computing, from UMPCs to mobile Internet devices and even notebooks and desktops (er, “netbooks” and “net-tops”). While Atom (née Silverthorne) received its brand-new brand name recently, the family of tiny processors, which relies ...
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Application Security: Fast and Easy with F5's Alan Murphy
Application security as a concept has many different connotations, ranging from dealing with application security only in code, implementing solutions in existing technologies such as firewalls, and “porting” application business logic to a traditional on-the-wire Application Firewall solution. The primary barriers to entry for true application security on the ...
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Drop Ship Product Sourcing with Doba
Doba offers a Web-based product sourcing platform connecting eCommerce retailers with wholesale suppliers who drop ship products. Retailers can see inventory and integrate a complete photo and product description database into their own web sites or even eBay.
Jeremy Hanks, cofounder and CEO of Doba, sits down with ...
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Sam Sethi, CEO of BlogNation
Sam Sethi is a London-based technology entrepreneur and consultant. Sam recently launched BlogNation, a worldwide network of blogs focusing on Web 2.0, mobile and enterprise startup space in 22 countries around the world (except the United States).
Sam was known in the blogosphere for the good coverage he did at ...
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Demo: Budgeting with Mvelopes
Mvelopes is a Web-based budgeting application that integrates banking and credit card services it an easy-to-use service. Based on the tried and tested visual envelope budget method, Mvelopes helps you manage your finances and track where all your money is going. Mvelopes works with common Web browsers so it’s ...
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Freshtopia.net - The Great Tomato Caper
We’re going green in a fresh way this episode! Tanja has a longstanding obsession with sun-dried heirloom tomatoes, and she’s finally taking action! Barb Finnin, Freshtopia.net’s resident Master Composter and garden guru shows us how to plant tomatoes, and dishes the dirt on soil health. Welcome to the first installment ...
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LunchMeet: Event Discovery with Attendio
I dropped by the San Francisco offices of Attendio, an events discovery and recommendation service. I sat down with Attendio’s CEO, Gerardo Capiel, and CTO, Eric Hansen, to get the scoop on how they differ from other online event calendar services. Attendio goes beyond seeing just what events your ...
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How to Survive the Escalation of Market Data in Financial Services
Market data services in today’s global financial services institutions can prove to be an ever- escalating issue that can have a severe bottom-line impact. If market data services are not carefully planned for and service levels drop, it can cost a financial services firm dearly.
In this podcast, Farid Moussavi, managing ...
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High Demand for Low Power
Low power is becoming more and more popular in the design community, pushing designers to become more and more creative. Neil Hand of Cadence gives us a look at the technical considerations and hurdles, and a glance at what Cadence is doing to meet the needs of the marketplace.
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Testing out Intel's new 45 nanometer processors
Kelin Kuhn is the 45 nanometer device group manager. She runs one of Intel’s most important test labs where Intel figures out what needs improvement. Intel’s profitability rests on her shoulders because if a fab isn’t yielding enough good chips per wafer, Intel will make a lot less money. ...
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Analysis of the Sun/Intel Agreement
Jean Bozman is research vice president of the enterprise computing group at IDC. In this podcast, recorded at the St. Regis hotel in San Francisco, she shares her thoughts on the just-announced Sun/Intel strategic alliance.
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Host: Paul Lancour - PodTech
Guest: Jean Bozman – IDC
Paul Lancour ...
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Peacomm Trojan Outbreak
A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on the recent Trojan.Peacomm trojan horse. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand the threat this malicious code poses to your systems and offers solutions to prevent initial infection and the spread of this new trojan horse.
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Intel's 45 Nanometer Process: 300 Transistors on a Red Blood Cell
You might think Moore’s Law comes with an ancillary set of steps on how to adhere to it. The Law essentially says that technology develops so swiftly that chip engineers can pack twice as many transistors on a piece of silicon every two years. Performance jumps dramatically but the business ...
Edwards Campaign: Big Easy Come, Big Easy Go
People go to New Orleans to make memories that will last. So it turns out that’s at least one thing Robert and Maryam have in common with Senator Edwards.
It isn’t surprising that Edwards would choose the city to kick things off for his presidential bid. His work as director ...
Edwards Campaign: PodTech's Picking Up the Tab
People are justifiably curious who’s paying for Robert’s trip — journalists are usually free to write critically, at least in part, because they aren’t also being fed by the candidate they’re covering. It’s no different this time, as Robert pointed out to readers this evening. PodTech’s picking up ...
Clona Lisa
The Hewlett-Packard investigation moves into the courthouse, Google gives geeks the ability to search code and announces a plan to aid literacy programs worldwide, Starbucks and iTunes ink a deal to share some space, George Lucas drops a few hints about some upcoming projects, and the very first copy of ...
The Kamla Bhatt Show: <em>What do VC's want in India?</em>
What do VC’s want in India? What kinds of companies are VCs looking to fund in India? India is an emerging market for all kinds of services, and one of the biggest opportunities is in the telecom and mobile space. Since the start of 2006 a handful of start-ups in the telecom and mobile space have received investments of about $10 million each. Every month since March 2006 over 4 million new mobile subscribers are being added in India.
New PodTech India Contributor: Kamla Bhatt
About Kamla Bhatt:
After a decade working in various IT companies in Silicon Valley, California, Kamla Bhatt turned to her true passion: radio. She started broadcasting on the Internet in July 2005 and became India’s first podcaster with her News About India and Talk News India shows. In March 2006 she launched her new radio show called The Kamla Bhatt Show focused on the Indian diaspora.
Dr. King would have been a Podcaster
Since PodTech is expanding from its core audio podcasting expertise to include text and video blogging, I thought I would explore some of the differences of the three communication forms in a series of blog posts.
I originally stumbled across Professor Walter Ong’s work while studying language acquisition at Santa ...
Massive Growth of the Blogosphere Continues
Dave Sifry the founder of Technorati the authority of the blogosphere released his ussual “State of the Blogosphere”. Great work by Dave and his team in getting these stats out. The conversation will continue no doubt on the TechMeme
Dave says “Today, the blogosphere is doubling ...
PodTech News: Steve Jobs Podcast of Keynote Speech at MacWorld
Steve Jobs Keynote at MacWorld. PodTech News on the scene records Steve Jobs as he highlights the Macworld’s newest and brightest unveilings. In his normal command of the audience he unveiled many new initiatives. Most impressive were the Intel relationship and new MacBook Pro. Here is ...
PodTech Needs Help: WebDevelopment, Editors, and Videoblogging Positions
PodTech.net site and my InfoTalk podcast has been growing like crazy, and we are adding more podcasters. PodTech is looking for creative and motivated developers to implement a new site that I’m working on. Plus any editors for the new podcasters and producers that are joining the PodTech ...
Paul Saffo Institute For The Future with Rich Seidner Hosting
Guest Host Rich Seidner interviews Paul Saffo at the Innovation Summit.
Podcast sponsored by Nextpage.com
Support our sponsor NextPage.com - download their new viral “Digital Thread” technology to manage document chaos. Sign up for free, try it, then buy itSound bites from Paul ...
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