Category Archives: Finance

Earning Analyst and Financial Media coverage

Just came across an interesting article stating the expected, the number of analysts that cover newspaper stocks is on a rapid decline:

“The trend is clear: the U.S. newspaper business is in bad shape and getting worse as readers and advertising dollars flee to the Internet and other new forms of media. But the void in [...]

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Valuation of companies - A communications perspective

Valuation - “The process of determining the current worth of an asset or company. There are many techniques that can be used to determine value, some are subjective and others are objective.”

Communication - “Communication is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods. Communication requires that all parties understand a common language [...]

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Global Innovation Index launched by S&P and BusinessWeek

Today the S&P/BusinessWeek have launched a Global Innovation Index to let investors track the performance and participate in the growth of “leading edge, innovative public companies.”
The 25 companies within the index are the winners of the BusinessWeek/Boston Consulting Group Most Innovative Companies Rankings
Methodology
-Based on a senior management survey about innovation and was distributed electronically to [...]

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Dealipedia - “Lets build the best business wiki ever”

Launched on 5 Feb 2008, is a new business wiki, Dealipedia. Dealipedia is aiming to streamline and organise all the information that is released about global business deals. If focuses on providing succinct content, company names, transaction details and $ amounts without the noise of company press releases.
Founder Michael Robertson said, “I’d like to share [...]

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Innovation and Investment

Interesting read here from Strategy & Business: Resilience Report

The Innovation Value Chain

Ideation (ideas,concepts) –> Project Selection (linkages, governance, valuation methodologies) –> Development (resource allocation, time to market planning) –> Commercialisation (Mktg, consumer segmentation, profiling, tracking)

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