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9 April 2010 View Comments

China Bank Moves Toward Huge IPO

China Bank Moves Toward Huge IPO

知情人士透露,中国农业银行已要求21家投资银行提交针对其首次公开募股(IPO)计划的建议书,从而朝着世界最大规模IPO之一更近了一步。农行IPO融资规模可能将达到200多亿美元。
农行在2008年进行了重组,当时被普遍视为朝着上市的方向迈出的第一步。农行要求投行提交建议书,第一次显示出中国政府推动农行上市的意愿。知情人士说,他们未被告知农行何时上市,但在上海和香港的上市都有可能在今年进行。 农行官员没有回复请求置评的电话。

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9 April 2010 View Comments

P&G’s Lafley Joins Private-Equity Firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

P&G’s Lafley Joins Private-Equity Firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice

宝洁前CEO雷富礼投奔私募 P&G’s Lafley Joins Private-Equity Firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
洁公司(Procter & Gamble Co.)前首席执行长雷富礼(A.G. Lafley)已经找到新工作。

宝洁公司前首席执行长雷富礼
宝洁是世界上最大的消费品企业。雷富礼在宝洁工作了33年后,已于今年二月份退休。他将在私募股权投资公司Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Inc.担任新职,成为“特别合伙人”,为该公司及其旗下公司就产品创新、全球扩张等管理问题提供咨询。
雷富礼现年62岁,因在宝洁的多宗并购交易而闻名。他说,我想和我真正喜欢的人一起做我真正喜欢做的事;在宝洁33年的职业生涯中,我做的是创造和改造企业,我觉得私募所做的正是这种事。
对于Clayton Dubilier来讲,请进雷富礼是一个很大的人事变动。该公司位于纽约,是私募中的先锋,在汽车租赁公司赫兹(Hertz Corp.)和商业清洁公司庄臣泰华施(Diversey Inc.)等公司中持有股份。Clayton Dubilier是最早标榜运营实力的收购型私募基金之一,它招进了一批明星CEO,比如通用电气(General Electric Co.)前CEO韦尔奇(John F. Welch Jr.),以及保险公司好事达(Allstate Corp.)前CEO李迪(Edward Liddy)。李迪还曾被政府指派担任保险公司美国国际集团(American International Group)的CEO。

9 April 2010 View Comments

Economic Climate Just Right for Brand Alley

Economic Climate Just Right for Brand Alley

Sven Lung is one of the beneficiaries of the current economic environment. Last February the French businessman launched Brand Alley, an online retailer that sells last season’s stock for leading brands at discounts ranging between 50pc and 70pc.
The site, which attracts more than 25,000 visitors every day, stocks 130 brands, from designer Balenciaga to French [...]

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Video Presentation at Google I/O Developers Conference

Everyone talks about Google and its search methodologies and even its home page design. But whatever you know about Google, if that is not enough then go thru the below attached 60 minutes video presentation by “Marissa Mayer” – Vice President of Search Product.
Mayer was the first female engineer hired at Google and one of [...]

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SixthSense technology: Pranav Mistry on TED.com

TED India Conference held in Infosys Campus, Mysore between 4 – 7’th Nov 2009. There were lot many sessions over here on different subjects. One of them was on 6’th Sense Technology mixing physical world with digital world taken by Pranav Mistry – a well known MIT engineer. He talked about the technology he developed [...]

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Free VPN Services List for US, UK, China, Germany Sites

Free VPN Services List for US, UK, China, Germany Sites

VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a way of secure and reliable communication between some restricted sites and remote users. This is applicable for companies operating in different geographical locations with loads of employees working from home, different offices etc. In that case, employees may use VPN tunnel to access their company’s website or portal to [...]

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Printfriendly: Print Selected Part of Webpage

If you want to get a print copy of only text part of a webpage or without any particular image then you can try Printfriendly web application. Sometimes we need a print copy of a page but because of different ads or huge images running on that page, we ignore getting a print copy idea. [...]

8 April 2010 View Comments

Create CD/DVD cover – Video Tutorial

We use to transfer lot many data thru CDs and DVDs. We carry movies, songs, pictures and other type of media files as well thru these medium. If you are in hurry to send an important CD or DVD to your friend and you don’t have a proper cover or case for that then you [...]