Grim Investment Picture for 2011
Category: Investing
Facebook Gets Half-Billion from Goldman Sachs, Boosting Value / Public Offer Pressure
Facebook, the popular social networking site, has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor
in a deal that values the company at $50 billion, according to people involved in the transaction.
The deal makes Facebook now worth more than companies like eBay, Yahoo and Time Warner.
The stake by Goldman Sachs, considered one of Wall Street’s savviest investors, signals the increasing might of Facebook,
which has already been bearing down on giants like Google.
Investing Often Does Not Come Cheap
When it comes to being successful in investing, several things have to be considered. For instance, if handling trades on your own, you need the right investment service/software, if needing professional assistance you want to hire the most qualified investment manager or financial advisor. In addition, finding the best deals on investment finance is going to play a key role in the level of your success, as well as how quickly that success is achieved.
Google Faces Unwelcome Official EU Antitrust Scrutiny
Europe opened a formal antitrust investigation on Tuesday into accusations that Google had abused its dominance in online search,
exposing the company’s zealously guarded technology to unwelcome scrutiny.
The investigation by the European Commission follows complaints from smaller Web businesses,
which claim that Google downgraded their sites in its search results to weaken potential competitors for advertising.
Oracle Thumps SAP in $3 Billion Court Verdict
A clash of technology titans and two of the most powerful executives in Silicon Valley ended just before Thanksgiving
with a $1.3 billion federal jury award against SAP for stealing software from Oracle to try to woo away customers.
The award, the largest ever for copyright infringement, comes as big technology companies, including Apple, Google and Motorola,
Types of Private Investment Opportunities
Private investment opportunities come in all shapes and sizes so for investors, the choice comes down to the amount of money available to invest, the amount of time available to trade, the type of investment most interested in, the level of risk willing to take, the deals currently being offered, etc. If you want to start investing and are most interested in private investment opportunities, considering these factors will help to get you started in the right direction.
Investment Trusts as Tax Havens
In the world of investments, there are many things to consider and ways of protecting the investment. In this article, we want to address one of these tax havens being in the form of investment trusts. In standard terms, a tax haven includes countries or territories where certain types of taxes can be levied but at an extremely low rate, or perhaps not rate at all. Obviously, enjoying investments with little to no tax is appealing to corporate investors, as well as individual investors. With the reduction or elimination of taxes associated with a tax haven, competiti
Investment Calculators and Projecting Returns
The goal of investing is always the same regardless of the type of investment or the amount of money invested – high return on investment. When the right investments are made, you could make significant money but when the wrong investments are made, the opposite would be true. Of course, market fluctuations play an important role in how well an investment would do and some types of investments are naturally riskier than others are. No matter what, the key to being successful as an investor is to use certain tools and resources available.
Best Investment Advice: Trust Your Instincts
When you get involved in the world of investing, one of the first things you will discover is that people seem to come out of the woodwork to offer advice. Friends, family members, coworkers, neighbors, professional financial advice, and investment managers will all have an opinion. While most people have good intentions and chances are good that some of the advice would prove helpful, the most important investment advice is to trust your own instinct.
MailChimp launches $1,000,000 USD API Integration Fund
MailChimp has launched a fund which will invest back into the programming community, potentially create a lot of goodwill and publicity for them, and benefit their product directly with yet more features. In turn this should make it even more useful for their ever growing list of members.
