From Today’s WSJ: Timing is Everything for Private Equity Firms

Having bought up $1.9 trillion of companies from 2005 to 2007, yet for sellers, the doors are barred. The mergers-and-acquisition markets have shut, as potential buyers wait for asset prices…

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REI Sold a New Model for the Future of Retail and Healthcare Followed

Retail stores such sporting goods business REI began switching e-commerce in the late 1990s.  By 2008 Fast Company reported that "Retail is moving toward capital-E environments.”  REI President and CEO…

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FDA Unveils Database of Drug Side Effects, Procedural Changes

It could be argued that the pharmaceutical and medical products industry—with its high-value, high-regulation product lines—could have the most at stake for achieving operational excellence. Regulatory requirements have risen for…

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Microsoft & Yahoo Stalled but not Over – News Corp Enters the Fray: What it Means for Software, Advertising, & Innovation

With Yahoo shares down nearly 50%, Microsoft decided to prove the rumors true and make an unsolicited offer for Yahoo. The incredible $45 billion offer for Yahoo was designed to…

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DEMO 08 – The Power of the Individual – Personal Scheduling

Palm Desert - Enterprise scheduling company Time Trade demoed their new application TimeDriver today at Chris Shipley's DEMO 08 conference. TimeDriver is a new kind of sales tool that lets…

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Fed Cuts Rates by Quarter Point, Some ETFs up 12%, 70% on Year. Is it all in the Software?

After a quarter-point reduction in the federal funds discount rate, stocks closed lower. Before today, financial stocks rose on the expectation of decisive Fed action to resolve the credit-market crisis.…

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Housing downturn indicates opportunities in Default, REO

While loan originations are down and subprime lenders and those that invested in the loans they orignated are feeling pressure, there are opportunities in the troubled mortgage market.Hedge funds are…

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