The private capital markets are in an intriguing position. The economy is sluggish after last year’s sub-prime mess and major buyout firms have not seen a lot of action. That was expected. But the middle markets have only dropped off slightly. In this podcast John Morris, assistant managing editor at The Deal, speaks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about what makes the middle markets different.
These and other issues are the subject of the upcoming Private Capital Symposium 2008, hosted by The Deal (May 14 in New York City). The one-day conference will cover issues such as where opportunities exist in a struggling economy, how financing has changed, why the middle markets are okay, and what is happening with sovereign wealth funds. Keynote speakers include Tony James of The Blackstone Group and legendary investment-banker Ken Moelis.
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 ...
Charles Ditkoff is managing director and co-head of the global healthcare services group with Banc of America Securities. In this podcast, from the Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium hosted by The Deal in New York City, Ditkoff speaks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the state of I.T. in ...
Deals in healthcare M&A have soared over the past two years, continuing to attract capital and drive activity in the sector. Industry insiders are monitoring the current pace of healthcare M&A deals and developing an outlook for 2008. On Wednesday, The Deal hosts a one-day symposium with attendees such as ...
During the awards dinner, Intel Chairman Craig Barrett joked, after seeing the quality of work from the high school finalists in the the Intel Science Talent Search 2008, that he felt like burning his Ph.D. dissertation. But the depth of research practiced by the finalists is astonishing. The winner ...
The Intel Science Talent Search ends each year with 40 finalists gathering in Washington D.C. at the National Academy of Sciences in conjunction with the Society for Science and the Public. The finalists presented their projects on Sunday March 9th and Monday the 10th in a public exhibit. In this ...
Recently, NPD Group reported that Apple’s iTunes store moved into the number two spot in 2007 for music retail sales in the U.S. (Wal-Mart remained at number one.) Selling music has been tough — ever since the RIAA took on Napster and Grokster, less downloaded music is being ...
The Intel Science Talent Search culminates in Washington, D.C. this weekend. The high school science projects cover areas like engineering, math, physics, medicine and health, environmental science, zoology, and others. The research these students have engaged in is astonishing. Many projects will result in innovations, inventions, new treatments, ...
Some of the future leaders in science and research in the U.S. will be recognized next week at the Intel Science Talent Search, where the search for the best high school scientists and their projects will convene in Washington, D.C. In this podcast PodTech’s Jason Lopez speaks with two ...
Now that GDC 2008 is behind us, and the reviews are really rolling in, PodTech takes a wide look at the gaming industry, with IDC gaming analyst Billy Pidgeon.
Gaming’s future likely includes more attention from the courts, as it continues to gain in mass popularity and ...
What would your response be to this scenario: you’re watching television and you forget that it’s being distributed to you on the Internet. Who won? TV or the Web? James McQuivey covers television and media technologies for Forrester Research. He spoke with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the current state of ...
Last October, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook, suddenly placing Facebook’s value at a lofty $15 billion. Now, we see that revenues for 2007 came to around $150 million, while expenses still leave the company with a negative cash flow that could be as high as $150 million next ...
PodTech’s Jason Lopez and Kevin Edwards roamed the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show floor where it seems Apple rules–in certain product categories–without even being there. In this 18 minute podcast Kevin and Jason check out a few of the many products made for iPods/iPhones and talk about Apple at CES ...
If anyone is in a position to say something about emerging technologies to bring us entertainment, we couldn’t have done any better than to get Shelly Palmer’s comments. His resume is too long for this post but knowing that he’s managing director of Advanced Media Ventures Group and president of ...
Intel’s Mooly Eden has spent his career helping to design what goes inside the computer. He says that these days what the computer looks like on the outside is just as important. In this podcast from the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show he talks about the demand of users to be ...
The Internet has been a technology that users go to, on their towers and now on their laptops. Intel made microprocessors that were the brains in the machines that enabled access to the Web. In the future, people will need an Internet that anticipates their needs. Intel says its vision ...
Nigerians are optimistic that basic technologies like mobile telephony and the Internet can change their country and their lives. As knowledge becomes power in emerging countries, people are making these technologies their own. In Nigeria, local companies are offering IT services to the developing market. One has even launched a ...
There’s a revolution afoot in the computer industry that’s not so sci-fi. It’s more in line with the notion of “heavy lifting” and “blocking and tackling.” Corporate networks are benefiting from software at the chip level below the operating system. Intel has been providing the software building blocks for greater ...
Broadband connectivity is crucial for emerging communities and markets. Until recently, many governments turned a deaf ear to the calls for infrastructure in many of the world’s poorest cities and in rural areas where outreach was almost non-existent. But the urgency has been made clearer as communities, technology companies and ...
Nigeria is a country in need of fast solutions and perhaps the fastest solution is needed in healthcare. Conferencing technologies, which many in the developed world yawn at, are critical to making telemedicine work. But there’s more to deploying it than setting up cameras and laptops, otherwise companies like Intel–which ...
With Intel vPro Technology, the enterprise has a measurable way to improve IT efficiency and cut costs significantly. Enterprises that deploy Intel vPro technology-based PCs as part of a comprehensive PC refresh program can expect to reduce hardware complexity and the expenditures associated with that complexity. Wipro conducted a survey ...
Intel’s Josh Hilliker, who manages the company’s online vPro Expert Center, says he wants to know of other IT pros who are the proest of pros. So, Intel is staging a video contest which Josh will put on the website. The winner could pull the wrappings off a new Intel ...
Nigeria’s education system is one of the targets of the UN’s Millenium Development Goals. Some of those goals are to reduce infant mortality, combat AIDS, malaria & other diseases, and of course improve education worldwide. The millennium goal for education is to ensure, by 2015, that all boys and girls ...
M&A deals in energy, real estate, and health care are some examples of sectors that still show lots opportunity, with some caution. Jason Lopez spoke with experts in each of these sectors at The Deal’s “M&A Outlook 2008.” In this podcast you’ll hear about the nuances of the markets and ...
Cross border investments have helped keep deal flow robust through 2007, despite the credit crisis. Private equity investors are looking for good deals across the board and companies are beginning to find smaller firms in other parts of the world that complement their product offerings. In this podcast, PodTech’s Jason ...
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