Chaouki Bekrar (center) and Vupen's team of hackers at the Pwn2Own hackathon in Vancouver in March. (Photo credit: Ryan Naraine) This story appears in the April 9th issue of Forbes magazine. At a Google-run competition in ­Vancouver last month, the search giant’s famously secure Chrome Web browser fell to hackers twice. Both [...]

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 14:08

Midas (MDS) announced that tire company TBC would buy the company for $11.50 per share, or about $310 million in cash. TBC would also assume $137 million in debt and pension liabilities. The price represents a 28% premium over Monday's closing prices. Shares of Midas are sharply higher in [...]

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 18:38

The company wants to return excess capital to its shareholders, but its plan for $2 billion in stock repurchases and a dividend increase from $0.74 per share to $1.10 per share was rejected by the Fed.

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 21:14

The viral seems to have a close cousin in the almost true. Two recent sensational stories, Mike Daisey's monologue about working conditions at the Chinese factories that make Apple products, and the KONY 2012 video, both owe some of their potency, it turns out, to fabrications and simplifications of the truth.

pubblicato il: 19/03/2012 - 06:21

Worries about slowing growth in China intensified on Thursday after a disappointing purchasing manager index report.  What businesses in the country still look promising for investors? To find out, I sat down earlier this week at a Starbuck’s on swank Nanjing West Road here in Shanghai with JP Gan. JP is a managing [...]

pubblicato il: 25/03/2012 - 05:23

The next Great Recession is in the making.  The money supply trends say so.  And it is looking more and more like this next Greater Recession is going to be one for the ages... The money supply, as measured by THE CONTRAIAN TAKE's broad (and preferred) TMS2 metric (TMS for True [...]

pubblicato il: 17/03/2012 - 19:23

Natural gas production is booming, but prices for the stuff aren’t, which is problematic for investors who paid up for driller stocks last year. But it’s great news for fertilizer companies that put it into the ground rather than suck it out. And those companies are offering shares at sale [...]

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 20:10

  Image by Getty Images via @daylife By Andrew Kulha, Bleacher Report The New York Knicks need to do everything they can to get former Utah Jazz head man Jerry Sloan to coach their team now that Mike D'Antoni has resigned. It makes sense. He's a terrific coach, and there's a rumor floating out there that suggests [...]

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 01:08

VideoAccording to Mike O’Brien, president of ArenaNet and executive producer of NCsoft’s Guild Wars 2, not much has changed in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) genre. Despite the continued success of Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft and Electronic Arts’ recent success with BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic, [...]

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 17:40

Google (GOOG) and its sideways share price hasn’t been a very gratifying investment in recent years, and its prospects just ahead are inciting more selling than buying. But Google remains a must-have share for any long-term portfolio. And while its share price now is no grand bargain, this buying opportunity [...]

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:03