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US Morning Report: US markets down for fifth day in a row, the Deal Valley and JP Morgan hopes intact

In European trading first, Germany was a tad up even as the resurgent British and French bond markets could not keep equities up. While France has joined the elite 3 in the Eurozone again as safety zones, we are riooting

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Private Equity, Social Media, US

Sallie Krawcheck is still batting for the banks being too complex.. | Banking Insight

Sallie Krawcheck erstwhile Merill Lynch and thence Bank of America CEO candidate makes an example of the JP Morgan management team, ” ..these are not the bozos over here, who do not know what they are doing, these are a

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, US

The Deal Economy(Pt. II): College Basket Ball, Dodd Frank, Smaller IPOs, more POPs and junk sales

Indonesia gets a large bank deal as Temasek gets an offer to sell 68% stake in Bank Danamon to Singapore based DBS and on the other side US states run a mega million jackpot that is the only rival to

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Posted in Dealbook, Mergers etc

The Retail Lifestyle Champions: An iPad3 for the post PC revolution?

The new Apple Tv for $99 from next week, iTunes further up in the Cloud carrying your music everywhere for you and the PC sales scruncher from IPad continuing the revolution with the new edition of the iPad being revealed

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Posted in Financial Markets, Retail Lifestyle

For Zynga makes just $490,000 from Cityville everyday | Social Insight

Zynga got a first taste of digital exprctations being lost aka ‘Twitterzone’ for all of us as investors rejected its $ half-a-billion loss on stock based compensation expenses as a sign of what it could never get. Social media company

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Posted in Financial Markets

LinkedIn results cement road to Facebook.. | Social Insight

The Facebook IPO around the corner has done wonders for many digital media scrips, even as Amazon gets down to setting up physical bookstores after 16 years ruling the World Wide Web economy. The pop in Zynga on the same

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Posted in Financial Markets

The Thank you Economy: In a world where a new Tablet invention is common and Facebook bothers us no more | Executive Insight

See larger image The Thank You Economy (Hardcover) By (author) Gary Vaynerchuk Believe it, you  and if you are a minor, your parents are only bothered about when you are not on Facebook than about your times being spent on

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Posted in Amitonomics, Retail Lifestyle

An IPO for Twitter? | Advantage Dealbook

Spurned social media mavens at Twitter, whose original promoters moved on leaving innovator Dick Costolo with the truant baby, are ready for a surprise riding on their political zanyness at the height of the Middle East revolution earlier this year. 

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Posted in Banking, Financial Markets, Global, Private Equity, Retail Lifestyle, Social Media

Zynga debuts this week as $ZNGA (Tomorrow)

Updated Wednesday (Pricing today/tomorrow) , trading: Thursday The current revenues for the period till September for Zynga are a high $828 mln even as more than half of it is from the cash of 2009 and 2010 realised in virtual

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Posted in Dealbook, Financial Markets, Retail Lifestyle, Social Media

Accumulating Linked In and Amazon | The new fundamentals

While many have been long term investors in Amazon from the time of the first mistimed digital boom in 2000 to this years fracas with Web 2.0, Linked In again raised hopes along with Facebook as Group on and Zynga

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Posted in Financial Markets, Private Equity, Retail Lifestyle, Social Media