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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Baseline Magazine Update
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Housing Legislation a Help but No Magic Wand
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Policy-makers and economists see the government sponsored enterprises as crucial to keeping the housing market open for business since they own or have guaranteed almost half of the $12 trillion in U.S. mortgage debt outstanding, but don't expect a fast recovery.
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Washington's plan to rescue the housing market may help shore up the U.S. economy as it copes with the worst slump in the housing market since the Great Depression, but don't look for a swift recovery. Investor confidence has been bolstered by the government's recent propos... 
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Substantial Financial Reforms Needed: NY Fed
Thursday, July 24, 2008
The use of government backstops such as central bank liquidity tools and other emergency powers requires stronger oversight to limit the moral hazard that they create by encouraging riskier behavior among institutions, suggests a New York Federal Reserve official.
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It is critical for policy-makers to help the financial system adjust during a difficult time, but substantial regulatory reforms are needed to make institutions and markets more resilient, a top Federal Reserve official said on Thursday. Federal Reserve Bank of New York P...
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Many U.S. CEOs Say Weak Dollar Hurts Business
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Four out of 10 U.S. CEOs believe the weak dollar hurts business.
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four out of 10 U.S. chief executives believe the weak dollar has had a negative impact on business, according to a survey released on Wednesday. The survey of 250 chief executives by accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP showed that 39 percent of executives felt the weaker dol...
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Boeing Profit Falls on Military, Civil Delays
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Is it the energy-affected economy or the multiple project delays that are hurting Boeing's stock price?
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) reported a greater-than-expected 19 percent drop in quarterly profit on Wednesday as it took a charge on a delayed military plane contract and suffered knock-on effects of its troubled 787 Dreamliner program. The world's...
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Crowd-Sourcing the Electric Car
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Taking its cue from the open-source movement in technology--the approach that collective wisdom is better than one designed by a closed group--eCars Now! is a group in Finland looking to shake up the automobile industry from the grassroots.
- HELSINKI (Reuters) - After the wikipedia, the wikicar. quot;eCars - Now! quot; is a Finnish Internet community seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-...
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Thinking Ahead: Preparing Next-Generation Leaders
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
We may all be in full batten down the hatches mode today, given the gathering economic storm clouds, but will we let the urgent drive out the important?
- Economies ebb and flow, and weather systems, like marketplaces, are always chaotic. However, if we stay fixated on them, we can forget that the ship needs a good captain and good officers, in fair weather or foul–particularly in foul weather–and they must be identified and trained. We neglect, at o...
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Fannie, Freddie Bailout May Have $25 Billion Tag
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
A Bush-administration plan top help bailout suffering mortgage backers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is being closely examined by Congressional budget analysts and economists. Will taxpayers end up fitting the bill for the crisis?
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional budget analysts on Tuesday put a $25 billion cost estimate on a Bush administration plan to bolster mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but raised questions about a key assumption underlying the plan. The Congressional Budget Office said the ...
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Disaster Recovery: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
After years of progress in disaster recovery and business continuity, advances are beginning to unravel in planning, communication and will. Is your company's risk management plan in line with the best practices in disaster recovery?
- To withstand a disaster and the resulting disruption, businesses must be able to depend on the cooperation of their employees. That presumption is the fundamental belief behind a well-thought-out business-continuity plan, which, in theory, should not only account for the recovery of IT systems, but ...
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How to Watch Data Leaving Intelligently
Monday, July 21, 2008
By searching data going out through your firewalls, a data monitoring appliance builds a searchable index that shows IT managers what kinds of unstructured, sensitive data are being sent out. Two companies are using the technology to help avoid customer data loss, thwart rogue-employee activity and stay in better compliance.
- It's hard enough to protect sensitive data within a large corporation when that data is well defined and easy to locate. Think customers' credit card numbers, Social Security numbers and other customer data, or internal documents like human resources files on employees, tax and other finance documen...
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Credit Seen Drying Up for Small Business
Monday, July 21, 2008
Access to credit is very difficult for small business these days.
- CHICAGO (Reuters) - As losses mount at American banks and the pain of the credit crisis spreads from housing and finance to the broader economy, many small companies complain it is increasingly difficult to obtain loans. Tighter credit could not only help to push the United States into recessio...
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Yahoo and Icahn settle, Microsoft Deal Seen Adrift
Monday, July 21, 2008
Ichan and two of his nominees will sit on Yahoo's board, whicb many believe is a compromise and could stop the continued public talking about any Microsoft deal in the short term.
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc will appoint activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its board, settling a proxy battle and making an immediate transaction with Microsoft Corp less likely. The settlement, announced on Monday, came just 11 days before Yahoo's August 1 annual share...
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Investors Eye Health of Apple's Steve Jobs: Report
Monday, July 21, 2008
Is Steve Jobs suffering from pancreatic cancer or what Apple officials are calling a common bug ?
- BANGALORE (Reuters) - Industry and investor concerns about the health of Apple Inc's (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) Chief Executive Steve Jobs have not dimmed more than a month after he appeared dramatically thinner at the firm's annual developers' conference, The New York Post sa...
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Tech Firms Offer Investors a Mixed Snapshot
Friday, July 18, 2008
What the Wall Street analysts have to say about the big boys of technology-- Google, IBM and Microsoft-- after the latest earnings reports.
- SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc, IBM and Microsoft Corp reported quarterly results on Thursday, giving investors a mixed snapshot of the health of the technology sector amid a slowing global economy. Google posted a 35 percent rise in quarterly net profit but missed Wall Street's consensus...
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10 Free Log Management Tools
Friday, July 18, 2008
Turn mountains of log data and analysis into actionable information with these ten free applications that every IT manager should know about.
- When it comes to systems management, network management and fortifying the security of IT infrastructures, most administrators would agree that the easiest way to become a miracle maker is to have the right automated tools at ones fingertips, with none perhaps as important as log management and anal...
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AMD Posts Quarterly Loss, Names New CEO
Friday, July 18, 2008
AMD's troubles continue with another higher-than-expected quarterly loss reported, but they did replace Hector Ruiz with a new CEO, Dirk Meyer.
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) posted a wider-than-expected quarterly loss and named a new chief executive on Thursday, as the chipmaker struggled to regain market share from Intel Corp (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)....
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