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Yahoo! Is! For! Sale!: Why Banks Should Care

Celent Banking

It was only in December when management shared the stunning news that Yahoo! The announcement in December came on the heels of a nearly 12-month project aimed at spinning its 15% interest (worth $30 billion) in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, to its shareholders, a transaction that has been abandoned over tax concerns.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

To you, manage your interest rate risk. By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. So, to summarize my lessons learned from every crisis in the last 35 years: - Manage your interest rate risk; - Meteoric rises are often accompanied by gravitational falls.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014. Price: $7.9B. Price: $2.6B.

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House of Blockchain

Tomorrow's Transactions

I told the assembled throng ( from the STFC ) that I was there to lobby parliament to have THE BLOCKCHAIN accepted as a religion, like Scientology, and to have all associated tax breaks and other privileges. The first card was issued back in 2002 and by October 2006 there were a million cards in circulation.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

CB Insights

He mocks himself for making mistakes, and sings the praises of Berkshire’s army of CEO-managers. Management. Each manager, in other words, would receive a portion of the company’s profits less the amount that they spent, in terms of capital, to generate those profits — a reminder to all that capital was not without costs.

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

He positioned himself on both sides of the Groupon deal through various privately-owned investment vehicles and management roles. Ziv Aviram, his co-founder, studied industrial engineering and management and was known for leading Israeli retail companies. Kramlich and NEA saw this when they flew over to China for due diligence in 2002.

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