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• Cisco Doing Servers a Symptom of the Times

  BNET - 2009-01-22

  The news that Cisco will push into the server market might seem like a big surprise -- and a big departure from its traditional base of networking equipment. But if you think about the direction computing is moving, it's not really surprising, and probably only one of a number of...

  Tags: Server, Cisco Systems Inc., Computing, Upshot, Erik Sherman

• Investors Liked What They Saw in Simcere's Q3 Report

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-06

  ChinaBio Today submits: Simcere Pharmaceutical Group SCR released very positive unaudited financial results for its third quarter. At the same time, the company said it would begin a $50 million share buyback. At the end of the quarter, Simcere reported cash and short-term investments of 831 million RMB ($122.4...

  Tags: Shareholder, Pharmaceutical Company, Buyback, Investor, Seeking Alpha, Simcere, ChinaBio Today, Upshot, IPO, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, China

• The Pricing Spread End Game.

  - 2008-02-01

  Maker/taker spreads have collapsed. While exchanges and ECNs have pushed their rebates higher over the past several months to attract limit-order traders, their liquidity-taker charges hit a Securities and Exchange Commission-imposed ceiling for access fees at 30 cents per 100 shares. The...

  Tags: FINANCE, game, Investment, liquidity, MARKETING, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pricing, revenue, security, upshot

• The Pricing Spread End Game

  - 2008-02-01

  Maker/taker spreads have collapsed. While exchanges and ECNs have pushed their rebates higher over the past several months to attract limit-order traders, their liquidity-taker charges hit a Securities and Exchange Commission-imposed ceiling for access fees at 30 cents per 100 shares. The upshot is that spreads have decreased...

  Tags: FINANCE, game, Investment, liquidity, MARKETING, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Pricing, upshot

• Some taxpayers stand to face delays

  - 2008-01-18

  THE LEGISLATIVE FIX that Congress made to keep the alternative minimum tax from spreading to millions of middle- and upper-income taxpayers is expected to create delays in processing returns and refunds for more than three million early filers who claim certain tax credits. The upshot is that...

  Tags: FINANCE, Internal Revenue Service, Taxes, upshot

• Don't Fit In at Work? Feel Trapped?

  - 2007-10-11

  UpShot Career Services UpShot today announced the first nationwide career coaching solution for job seekers. CEO and Head Coach Dr. Reginald Morris started UpShot to give the average job seeker an affordable way to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. A study released this month from the International Coach...

  Tags: UpShot

• Uganda: Dammed if you do, damned if you don't

  - 2007-10-01

  The green light has finally been given to a controversial multi-million dollar hydro-electric dam project on the River Nile. But, Stuart Price asks, will it be the silver bullet to Uganda's stifling power shortages, or will it leave the country precariously exposed to the consequences of climate change? ...

  Tags: FINANCE, Uganda, upshot, World Bank

• Direct Upshot of Limited Oil Supply Revives Stalled Projects, Driving the Heat Exchangers Market

  - 2007-09-26

  LONDON -- The Iraq war in 2003 constrained oil supply, escalating oil prices. This scarcity prompted the initiation of many projects related to gas to liquid GTL, liquified natural gas LNG and ethylene crackers plants, which were on hold for many years. As a direct consequence, the demand for heat...

  Tags: UpShot

• The problem of the imperial presidency

  - 2007-09-22

  The Philadelphia Constitution may be dead, (1) but the basic problems which troubled the Framers--e.g., preserving the rule of law, preventing oppressive government--are still relevant, albeit in the new and different context. For instance, by way of introduction to what follows, the marked changes in relative powers of the branches...

  Tags: Bush, essay, Government, president, SOFTWARE, U.S. Congress, upshot

• Spirits, markets get a lift

  - 2007-09-19

  WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve's unanimous decision to slash a key interest rate Tuesday is a dramatic statement that the central bank will do whatever it takes to prevent turmoil in the financial markets and a steep downturn in the housing sector from pulling the country into recession. ...

  Tags: bank, Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, financial, inflation, upshot